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Crafty night!!

Tomorrow night is going to be AWESOME!! Why? It’s my crafty night, when Ransom & Audrey go out for daddy/daughter fun time (to the library, the Children’s Museum, etc.) and I stay home and putter. Now comes the hard part: do I clean (which I should), sew something (I have oh, so many projects I want to do), or sleep (or at least try to when the baby isn’t kicking me)? This may well be my last crafty night for quite a while, so there’s extra pressure to pick right!

Literacy in a variety of forms

First, the requisite cute Audrey anecdote: When we talk about the alphabet, she now says “A B”! Adorable, right?!

I’ve started trying to read more recently, which I will be chronicling at my Goodreads site. One of the first books is Game Change, the book about the 2008 election that received so much attention about a month ago. In addition to learning more about Hillary than I wanted to and laughing anew at Sarah Palin, I got some good vocabulary lessons. “Solipsism”? “Rubicon”? “Sword of Damocles”? Awesome!

Project!

Cheeky Monkey Laundry Bag | Amy Butler

Partially for informative purposes and partially for accountability, I have decided to show you (both of my readers– hi Mom & Dad!) the newest craft project I’m working on. This is a laundry bag from Amy Butler, a fabric designer who is very popular/trendy right now. My mom & I both got the book this came out of within a few weeks of each other (mine was a birthday present from my sister) and we soon decided there were many fun projects to plan. Unfortunately, I just found out that the 2009 Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornaments Edition is out now, so this may have to wait.

(<– Not my photo– this was taken from the book. Hopefully I’ll have my own photo shortly 🙂 )