Merry Christmas!!

This Christmas, hubby decorated our big tree and didn't even put out any of his superhero decorations!  I guess that's appropriate since we have a little boy now? 

We did decide that we should look for a small tree that JD can decorate with the superhero ornaments for next year.  Luckily, I saw that Hobby Lobby was having a 66% off sale on Christmas trees so hubby went by on Christmas Eve and got JD this tree below which hubby went ahead and decorated with his superhero ornaments!

We weren't sure if we wanted to get Santa pictures this year since he's so young and has no clue who or what Santa is.  We happen to run across one that didn't seem to require us standing in line for 4 hours, so we said 'why not?'  Santa looks awesome, doesn't he?

Lastly, JD has been wearing every holiday outfit he has for a few days now.  Below is a quite notably cute one.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

New Hobby - Sewing

During my maternity leave, I rediscovered sewing.  When I had time to do this, I have no idea.  I think I really just got my interest back into and spent time (and money) buying lots of fabric.  I don't remember what age I was when my mom taught me how to do basic (very basic) sewing.  I remember sewing a little pair of (green?) shorts for my younger sisters.  They wore it... like once!  I bought my first sewing machine when I was like 23years old when most people my age were blowing $100 on  booze on a Friday night!

Recently, my hubby wanted to do something nice for his partner teacher and the student teacher.  I suggested cute tote bags.  If anyone knows me well, they know I love bags of all kinds.  Now I can try to make my own bags!  So I made my first 2 official tote bags.  There a ton of free patterns out on the internet.  I used this pattern to make mine:
http://www.danamadeit.com/2012/07/tutorial-reversible-lined-color-blocked-tote.html

The only difference was that I did some extra securing of the handles since I wanted my tote bags to be able to carry things like laptops.

Here are pictures of the 2 tote bags I made.  They are reversible, but I didn't take a picture of the inside of it.  =/

I forgot to mention that I have gone back to work since my last post over a month ago!  Needless to say, I have even less time now!