Remember Ollie, the head sitting octopus? Well as of yesterday you can make your own version of Ollie. Yep that’s right. YOUR OWN OCTOPUS!

You can order Alice’s octopus stuffie pattern here!! Yay! YAY! YAY!!

Go get it! Make a little octopus to join your family.

When I saw the word polar for Illustration Friday this week, I couldn’t get the idea of a dancing polar bear in a pink tutu out of my head. But as I was drawing him I decided I liked him just like this, without a silly pink tutu.

On the weekend I bought some markers for Isabelle. And we opened them up and had a blast scribbling well on…everything! Gotta love washable markers!

I was asking Shanna where she got twill tape from and she kindly sent them to me!! But not only did she send me the twill tape, she sent me all these cute clothing patterns too!! This one is my favorite.

It’s my favorite because of the tummy showing top. I was saying to Shanna (well not really saying because we were emailing but it’s easier to say saying because…oh whatever…back to what I was saying) that every time I look at that pattern, I laugh maniacally. Because I imagine Isabelle’s belly showing. I can’t wait to make that. Bwaaa haa haa!! Thank you so much Shanna!!

And on a completely different subject and because I know how much Olinda likes seeing pictures of Isabelle, and isn’t interested in craftiness or non Isabelle related posts, here is Isabelle in a little car of her own. I told Alan to go out and buy her a little car after she fell back and hit her head trying to play with one of those tiny walker rider toys.

It’s so cute watching her “drive” around like in the video. Then I made the mistake of putting in the little parent pushing stick. After that she wanted me to push push push her around. No more self powered “driving” at all. So much easier to grab mama’s hand and drag her to the car. Then get in making sure feet do not touch the floor and then if that’s not enough to make mama understand that it’s a mama powered car now…make little whining noises.

I have just discovered that something is wrong with my email. I could receive them but what I didn’t know was that they weren’t going out even though my email program said sent. Wait, that’s not accurate. They do get sent. It just takes a long ass time. I did some test emails and they took a day to get to me. A DAY! I could mail a letter faster! And then how do I know if they all got sent and not just some?

Have you not received an email from me? What a silly question. How would you know if I sent you an email? Or have I not replied?

Sucks. I don’t know how long it’s been broken.