Last month Tina from ilikeseamonsters.com was calling for coloring book pages from artists. So I sent along a black and white version of yeti and seamonster at the beach. It’s for a new site, Yeti Loves Seamonster, which promotes cool handmade goods for kids. They link to member shops, have a blog, and coloring book pages to download. It’s cool! Go check it out.

I have more ideas for coloring book pages. Yetis and seamonsters, what a fun subject!! I think about all sorts of things they can do together. I just wish I could draw what I visualize to my satisfaction. Sometimes I can’t get it the way I like and of course there is always the distraction of Isabelle…

We went to the farmers’ market to buy me some local honey. On our way out we walked by the kettle corn and just had to buy a bag. I…. C.A.N.N.O.T…. S.T.O.P…. E.A.T.I.N.G…. I.T! H.E.L.P!

Trixie is making a 100 good wishes quilt for the baby she will be adopting. She asked for 2 quilt squares so I bought some lovely not $1 a yard fabric. And I had extra fabric left so I thought I’d make her a couple of bibs too. Makes me wonder why I am so stingy with buying fabric for myself…

I used the pattern from Amy Karol’s book, Bend-the-Rules Sewing. I loved making them. They were easy to make. Such a quick and simple project, now I want to make some for Isabelle but she doesn’t use bibs.

And I even tried some handmade tags! Got the idea from disdressed.

Just a quick post to say Isabelle turns two years old today! At midnight this morning I baked two dozen cupcakes because I’m crazy. She only had one.

I couldn’t decide whether or not to make chocolate or yellow cupcakes so made both. Who the hell is going to eat all these cupcakes?!

And her birthday present. Isabelle loves playing with her real stroller so last night we went down to Target, opened up a toy stroller for her, and she happily strolled around the store. It was so cute. She would not let it go, in fact started crying when we took it away to bring it into the car. Maybe she thought she had to leave it at the store?

Ok we’re off to the park now.

I might be scarce around the internets this week and next. Alan is on vacation and we have Isabelle’s birthday party coming up.

We’ve been so busy that we didn’t even realize that we didn’t take our monthly family picture. And yes for the big two year old birthday! Thankfully Trixie asked where it was. I was just going to use this one as our monthly family picture. It’s from Isabelle’s birthday party. But I just realized as I was going through the rest of the monthly pictures that it doesn’t match, vertical vs horizontal. So now being totally nit picky we will be taking our family pictures like usual. And then I thought oh I need to talk about her party too. And what started as a quick post that wouldn’t take up much time is going to be so much more involved…I have 431 pictures to go through. YIKES! Ok so off I go.

Update: A comparison from last year.