Random Silliness And A Dress I Just Don't Love

The move.....

Yes, well. 

How is the move going, you ask.

Well, last Saturday, I cooked our first real,

Mama Made dinner in our new house.

India demanded requested her favorite meal.

And since my baby bird will soon be flying from the nest,

I  agreed and cooked it.

 Oh, and you can see that I did find the 

Christmas china!

So, what is her favorite meal?

Corned Beef and Cabbage with lots of carrots!!!

Have you any concept how well nigh impossible it is

to find corned beef in December????????

Stores laughed at me!

They told me to come back in March! 

But I was not deterred.

Don did not 

whine too much as he drove me to new-to-us store

after new-to-us store looking for a purplish slab of meat.

It was a great dinner and India ate nearly every carrot

over the course of the evening.

Ahnalin decided to make a hat for herself 

out of tin foil, 

and wore it the rest of the evening.

Don loved it!

You see, when we lived in Sonoma County years ago,

there were a few wackos people who

wore tin foil helmets to protect their brains from 

the rays of the aliens who were trying to read their minds.

I am NOT KIDDING here. 

So, now that we are moving back to Sonoma County,

it is particularly hilarious that Ahnalin has joined the 

"Tin foil Helmet Society". 

Rock on baby girl!

( and yes, that is our giant NOT FLAT SCREEN tv in the background, ugly!)

Oh, and did you see the orange chair? 

I am hoping to start on that slipcover this weekend.

This was just too cute for me to pass up.

The living room is starting to look like a living room

and my HRH was enjoying some snuggles

from Ahnalin.

We are still spending the weekdays at my inlaws house

in Nevada County until next week when Ahnalin gets out

of school for the holidays.

So I thought I would show you what we see often here.

My father in law is a physics and math teacher

and he is fascinated by science.

He LOVES it and he is an excellent teacher.

So he is constantly coming up with really cool science

projects for his students.

We get to see them first and they are so cool!

This one was dealing with that glass tube 

and water levels and bell tones.

REALLY COOL!

India just finished up her first semester in college

and was studying for her finals this week.

She decided to to a peel off facial mask while 

she studied and was SO THRILLED

that she managed to peel it all off in one piece!

(I told you this was random!)

And now, on to the dress I really don't like......

So, here is the scoop. 

I got a letter home stating that Ahnalin was to be honored 

again as Student of the Month for her class

as well as a Perfect Attendance award.

And due to the move and packing and customs

and, and, and, and.....

I still had not made her a Christmas dress.

She requested penguins, Santa, long sleeves,

lace and velvet.

She ALSO requested a full skirt, smocking and a big bow.

Well, she got part of the request. 

And I got it done at 3:00 AM this morning.

I had been wanting to try this vintage Vogue Florence Eiseman

pattern for quite some time, and I did not

have a lot of the Santa/penguin fabric in my stash.

So I tried it.

BIG MISTAKE!!

Yes, she would look cute in a burlap sack.

BUT, this dress would look better on a 

child that has a bit more, um, fluff.

And it ended up being so big, it will probably

fit her as a maternity dress in about 20 years.

Classic Ahnalin pose

The individual elements are fine,
and should have made for a better,
more interesting dress.


I made the collar and cuffs out of the dreamiest
chocolate brown velvet,
trimmed in eyelet lace.


Oh, and to those who answered my query on 
Facebook last night,
the answer ended up being 
"To Rickrack" after all.

But all together, I didn't really love it. 

But I got it done and she wore it 
to school today for her assembly.


YAY Ahnalin!
  
We head back up to Santa Rosa today and
get to see the Singing Christmas Tree.

And then Sunday we head back here after church 
for Ahnalin's last week of school.


So much to do.........

Happy Sewing!