there's poop everywhere!

So, today I got a reply via email about my cloth diaper ad I have posted on Kijiji... (which I might take down) I sold some of them which I used with 'baby number one' a few weeks ago. I got them for free so ended up with 100 percent of a profit from the deal (that's the extent of my math skills, teachers lie when they say you need math to be a success... look at me!! *smiles while sitting in a sweatshirt with kid stickiness on it*)

... anyway... I feel guilty about being the cause of so much waste. When it comes right down to it, I don't feel good about the 6-10 diapers which end up on my front porch (to gross out the company and the mailman) then into the garbage and into the landfill to sit there and not even decompose at all 'till my kids are...ohh... out of primary school at the very least. That makes me feel bad. Not to mention the risk that a seagull may actually see some corn in one of them and choke and die on the tab from one of my child's diapers, which I'm sure is probably possible, I don't know but only because the seagull is the silent victim left to perish alone with no witnesses... except other birds, and last time I checked, birds can't talk (I think there was a line, and I just crossed it when I mentioned the corn. Sorry if that was gross..) So, after having sold six of my best cloth diapers three weeks ago... that's always how it works, eh? I decided to do some research and ended up making one today, with not much thought or planning involved... there I was sewing one. huh? I think it's even nicer than the ones I sold anyway, so heh!

It was a whole bunch (like a butt-load) of fun to make and only took an hour or so... I was smart and made my own pattern before I added the elastics. So, incase it works really well I can reproduce it like mad. I looked at some pictures of patterns on the internet and 'eyeballed' it... then cut. Seems to be working for me, sooo why stop, eh!? If it ain't broke, don't fix it! I decided to use a diaper pin to fasten it because I have nothing else in the house (snaps, velcro, ect...) and found this pin that my Nana gave me that used to fasten Yours Truly's diapers almost twenty eight years ago... it's not an antique pin yet, just slightly retro. More leaning toward the slightliest side of slightly.....


So, I've been pondering being a little 'greener' lately... at church we're going through a series of sermons on how our physical health affects our spiritual health. Taking care of our planet too is important because it's how we are showing God that we are greatful for everything He has given us and sooo... taking care of it. If we want to breathe clean air and not choke on diaper tabs like the poor seagull and so on... I want to try to tread lightly on this ground until God calls me into glory and maybe teach my kids to do the same. I'm not totally hardcore about it yet though. I will NOT use a cloth diaper at night or when I'm out for a long while... (not on me but on my kids, I mean...) been there done that, not me... (once again, speaking of the children. I actually cannot remember the last time I had a diaper on)

I made this shirt out of Dan's old shirts last night. The picture doesn't really do it justice. It's actually quite cute.

Apparently I like to sew this week.

Two years, eh?

So, it's been two... count 'em, 2 years, since I've blogged. Wow. I think I stopped because there wasn't much to blog about. Sooo... I seem to have been doing some things lately on the more creative side and figure that I should blog about that instead of posting pictures of what I do on Facebook a million times a week.

For the record, just for the record not that I'm opening some kind of store... yet, I enjoy doing this kind of stuff... like lots, it makes me happy. If there's anything you think you want to have that I've made then it's probably for sale... or can be re-created somehow for you. That's the thing about making stuff, you're house will be full of it quickly if you don't find some way to out-source it.

I saw these slings for sale at a baby show last year and really wanted one but was thinking... "poo! I'm not paing 80 bucks for a piece of fabric to tie my baby to me with!" Well, with enough research on YouTube on how to tie them (and a LOT of practice in the mirror) and discount fabric bins at Len's Mill store this can be accomplished for WAY cheaper (like, way!). I'm really happy with this tie on wrap carrier (help me name it please), it's comfortable and seems to distribute the weight of the baby more evenly than other popular and expensive baby carriers which just plain hurt to wear. I had made a pouch sling when Silas was a baby and it just killed my back. He was big though, I haven't tried it with Eva yet. I don't have pictures of how the wrap looks from a distance but it's comfortable and Eva likes to kick her legs and sing as we walk... (i think she thinks she's walking!) So far I've only found the right kind of fabric is this baby poop yellow colour, I hope I can come across some blue or funky patterns soon.

Another thing I'm looking forward to doing is making new shirts out of old ones... hmm. Doing a new thing with an old thing? I'm onto a whole other theological topic now. Back on track... I suppose it's a fairly thrifty, green?? thing to do. A lot of Dan's shirts have cool pictures on them but, over time, the armpits get scared and run away from the rest of the shirt. I'm going to make some cool 'new' things out of them this week.. I hope. I made this shirt out of one of my old ones yesterday. I think it would suit someone shorter than me a lot better. Dan's grandma gave me some of her fabric scraps (thanks!) and I threw this together as I was playing with my new serger...

So this picture here on the right... I'm, first of all, posing like Napoleon Dynamite or something, "Take my picture real quick!" also, for those of you who harrass me for having kids and still finding time to do this kind of stuff... take a look at the mess behind me, that should give you some kind of satifaction... or drop by unnannounced, that will also satisfy you (like when I have to move the laundry off the couch so you can sit), also note that I'm having a fairly good hair day! (it's 'cause I got to wash AND dry it! Which is now a luxury that takes place maybe twice a week...)

Sometimes we need to do things that make us happy. I'm not saying that we should live in utter decay and squalor with sticky kids... ew! sticky kids! *gags*... I'm just saying that it's important, especially for those who have little children who may or may not be making them a little crazier every moment, (disclaimer: if you're really crazy, you should see a doctor) Anyway, it's important to do what you love and to take time to pray and take time to worship and to ask God to show you what He has created you to do and to willingly, and obediently walk in God's favour and watch in awe as His plan for your life is reavealed... Day by day...

I'm just sayin' that's more important than clean socks...