What is Old Is New Again!

I love going to a good Flea Market sale, you never know what kind of treasure you will find waiting just for you.  A couple of weeks ago a great local landmark, The Greenmead Historical Park, had their bi-annual flea market sale.  You may remember that we picked up this great piece of furniture last year that has now found a home as a linen cabinet in our dining room.


This year I picked up this like new Radio Flyer red wagon for a steal!  A steal people, only $25, can you believe it, I could not believe my luck.  I had been looking at new wagons the day before and they started at like $80.  I am so glad that we waited and were rewarded for our patience and for a day of tromping around in the mud for our purchases.  


Payton loves his new wagon, he loves to load it up and tug his baby bear around the yard.  And we love that he likes to ride in it all the way to and back from the park.  It's a long walk back home with a tired 33lb baby who who wont go in the stroller and wants to be carried.  Oh our aching backs!  


I can't wait to see what we find next year!

It's A Girl!

We just found out last week and what a surprise, I was almost positive that it was a boy.  And now my thoughts are turning to pink, soft and frilly little lovelies for our new little lovely.

Now that we know the gender we can get started building a closet for the new baby and working on decorating her new room.

I have been doing some online window shopping at my favorite place to buy handmade online (ETSY) and have a few favorites to share with you.

Enjoy!  I know I did :)

This would look great on Baby's wall from Simple Shapes 

Who wouldn't love to cuddle with this little guy from Plants and Animals

Baby will love to snuggle under this frilly blanket from Bare Bebe

Oh ribbons and bows I can't wait this one is from Bella's Bowtique 

And speaking of snuggling doesn't this cocoon from New Baby Photo look so cozy.

All I can say to this is precious and we must have them from Curly Birdie.

This little hat from Ellie Bellie Design is to die for, not to mention the baby, oh my what cuteness!  

Payton's Quilt

Well here it is the start of Mr. Payton's quilt!  

I decided to go with Michael Miller, Haul It and Zology fabric in Citron, that I purchased from the lovely Fabricworm.  I mixed it in with 100% cotton fabrics in chocolate polka dots, black polka dots and black & white gingham from my local JoAnn Fabric store.

Payton loves animals and cars, so I thought this would be a fun fabric collection that will see him thru quite a few years and cold winter nights.  

I am almost done sewing the rows and then it will be time to connect them all together.  I am having nightmares that I wont be able to match all the squares up and that it will look a mess.  But I am going slow and trying to be very careful that all my seams are the same so that does not happen.  

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

While I Was Sleeping

Wow March, April, May where did all those months go!  I have spent all three in a 1st trimester haze of sleepiness, nausea and wonder.  That's right I am happy to say that my little family will be expanding by 2 feet this up-coming November!

So that's why the long silence, I had almost forgotten that 1st trimester tired feeling.  I don't think anything else compares, I only had enough energy to work take care of the family, house and then to bed.

Now that I am a little further along I am starting to finally get my mojo back and am ready to begin tackling some new projects.  I think my sewing machine misses me, it's been a while, sorry old friend.

First up in the way of projects is Payton's quilt.  A while back I posted some fabrics that I was considering and a promise to reveal what I actually chose.  Later this week I will be posting the fabric and where I am so far on the quilt top.  It's been a lot of fun and I am excited to get back to it, it's my 1st quilt and  I would really like to have it done by the end of summer (hopefully sooner).

Maybe if all goes well I can start another one for baby Robbins.  We are also going to be doing lots of painting and house projects as the nesting kicks in and we get the house ready for the new arrival.  So I will be sharing pics of those fun projects as well.

The Etsy shop is still open for business, although I have been seriously neglecting it as well as this blog in my slumber.  I won't have a lot of new things probably til this quilt is further along but I will post as soon as I have some new items.