Retro dress

Baby girl's dress from a vintage Butterick pattern

I made this dress for Bunny today. The pattern is a vintage from the 60's (maybe 70's?).

1. it was a lot of work for a very generic looking dress. it wasn't suppose to be, it was suppose to look cool and retro! next time i'll pick a cooler fabric.
2. it reminds me of "little orphan annie"
3. corduroy was a good choice, it's a very forgiving fabric since you can't really see the stitches all that well.
4. the sleeve was the most challenging, but fun part.
5. learned that my sewing machine can do ruffles, I wish i knew that before i ordered the ruffler foot.
6. not sure if Bunny will fit in it, measurement seems ok, but the zipper doesn't allow enough space to move around and that's even after I bought an inch bigger zipper than the recommended.
7. definitely can not wear this out in public.

StoryCorps

If you don't become verklemmt listening to storycorps, then you are dead inside.

Danny & Annie

Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, remember their life together—from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer. This remarkable couple personifies the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of every day people if we take the time to listen. Originally an animation in two parts, here you'll see a special version that combines both parts of their story.

Kimchee takes bath

Puppy: (observing the bowl of water put aside for his kimchee) water for kimchee?
Daddy: yes, it's for colin's kimchee.
Puppy: ohhhh, kimchee take bath?

Lost my sheep

Puppy: i lost my sheep.
Me : you lost your sheep?
Puppy: i can't find it.
Me: you can't find it?
Puppy: no, it's not here.

I like Oklahoma. I like the song... Is there Nebraska? Kansas?

Puppy's song du jour: Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma"




Puppy: I like Oklahoma. I like the song... Is there Nebraska? Kansas?

-ing

Puppy: I'm baseball-ing. (says Colin as he gives me the thumbs up)


Granted he's playing golf, not baseball, I'm amused that he knows to add "ing" to a noun to make it a verb.

mond?

Puppy: i'm going to go shopping wif mond.

me: mond? mommy?
Puppy: mond.
me: you are going shopping with mommy?
Puppy: mond. like "umma".

Date night

Date night. Mommy with Puppy and Daddy with Bunny. I told Bunny to order the most expensive thing on the menu.