I have to share with you what I “discovered” yesterday.  I’d like to say that this took a lot of forethought and planning and my super-genius mind crafted this all up with perfect intention.  But… not so much.  See, I often troll the knee-high section at Target looking for socks that I can turn in to baby leg warmers.  You’ve seen those Babylegs?  The little legwarmers that babies can wear up to their juicy thighs to keep their legs warm, knees protected, etc and so forth?  I love them but I don’t love the price tag.  I saw a tutorial online for how to sew them yourself and VOILA.  I had a couple made and was pleased with the results.  It’s a simple process that involves cutting off the heel and toes and taking the “foot” part to make a cuff that you sew onto the “leg”.

Well, yesterday while in the process of making up a few of these, I sorta fuxed up one of the cuffs.  Annoyed, I left the cuff off and pulled the bottom of the “leg” tight while running a zigzag stitch along it.  GENIUS.

And you should see how adorable they are when she’s NOT wearing Hello Kitty shippers (shoe+slipper=shipper).  But seriously… COME ON.  How cute are those??  With the lettuce-y edge?  And it took like TWO minutes to do.

I kill me.

Now, if anyone spots any bright rainbow striped knee-high socks, will you think of me?  I’m rather desperate for rainbow baby legwarmers.

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In other news, I’ve been rather productive since yesterday’s post.  The legwarmers weren’t on the list but they should have been because they were definitely on my “to do” pile.  So what have I done so far?

• Craft Blog – well… I installed it.  Does that count?  I put a few plugins on there.  And that’s about it.  I need a design.  And, you know, POSTS.  Will keep you all tuned.
• Last minute customs for mom – I finished one of them!  The very cute and very twee newborn longies!  And I’m 2/3 done with the other, which are adorable small shorts.  These need to be recieved in the mail by her next Wednesday so I have to get these done ASAP so I have enough time to wash and mail them.  But check the longies:

• Finish setting up HC shop – Yeah… no.  Haven’t even touched it.  But I’ve thought about it.  Does that count?
• Post here every day – so far so good!  Hey, it may be a little on the late side but IT STILL COUNTS.
• Post to cloth diaper blog – GULP.
• Organize iPhone – YES!  I did this today while knitting.  I’m so multi-talented.  And now I can fit all my songs on there as well as podcasts, apps and ringtones.  Go me!
• Organize yarn stash – Nope.  Have not even looked at it.  This WILL get done.
• Organize knitting needles – Didn’t do this yet either.  But I looked through the needles my mom gave me last night.  Just need to track them all in Ravelry.  And then I can plan what needles I want to buy (am thinking I want 4-5 more pairs of Addi Turbos).
• Laundry – I’ve done some (diaper laundry), but the rest is still begging for my attentions.
• Dye yarn – Nope.  Still sort of waiting until I get a scale to weigh yarn on so I know how much I’m dealing with.  Believe me, that’s kinda important.
• Find scale – I saw a bunch on eBay but alas, my PayPal tree has run out of leaves.  I need to get cranking on these customs so I can get paid!

Whew.  Okay, it may not seem like I’ve got a lot accomplished.  All I’ve really done today is knit knit knit.  But if I can finish these shorts tonight then I will be able to get a LOT more done off this list.  Go me!

I’m sorry about yesterday’s lame photo post.  We were out and about for a good part of the day, mostly to get away from the house.  The wind was AWFUL the night before and the rain and snow and general gloominess of the day were rather oppressive.  Though I imagine it is preferable to the unseasonable temperatures we’re having otherwise.  Today and tomorrow will be normal but we’re supposed to get into the 50’s this next week and that just ain’t right.

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I think Evie is getting her first cold.  This is a rather unhappy business.  She seems to maybe have a touch of a sore throat and a cough to go with it and her nose has been running clear.  Though she’s been doing so well at sleeping in her crib, last night she was up every 30 minutes to an hour before we went to bed, fussing and sounding generally miserable.  So when we went to bed, we just brought her in with us.  Kile even set up the vaporizer and rubbed her chest with VapoRub (which she LOVED, it totally blissed her out).  And from there, she slept pretty well.  I imagine we might try the vaporizer and VapoRub combo tonight in her own room and see how that works.  Poor thing!

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We’ve been having a good time playing around with the new sewing machine.  Kile has helped me convert a few onesies and add some sleeves to a couple of t-shirts.  He even sewed up a duvet cover for our down comforter using two flat sheets.  I found some super cute knee high socks at Target the other day and we turned them into homemade baby legs.  Today I’m going to try making a fleece soaker from a pattern (it’s something you put over a fitted diaper or prefold to make it waterproof) and I also have a pattern for a simple dress to make Evie, provided I ever get up the guts to try it.  Look at me, being all crafty n’ stuff.

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To all the haters at Walmart who gave me dirty looks when Evie was crying:

You can just eat me.

Love, Me.

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Seriously though.  She was tired and hungry.  I would have been happy to take her to the bathroom and feed her but HUH both bathrooms were closed for cleaning.  Isn’t that against the rules or something?? And I don’t think the haters would have liked it much had I just whipped out my boob there in the middle of the electronics department and fed her in front of everyone.  I guess to these people’s way of thinking, I simply shouldn’t ever leave the house because I have children.  I mean, the NERVE of me bringing my children out into public where people without children have to LOOK at them.  The horror!

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I hate it when I write a post and then forget to finish it and post it so that it’s nearly 6:30 at night and I still don’t have a post up on my blog.  (It happens a lot more often than I’d like to admit, actually.)