And they lived happily ever after…

I’m nesting… September 2, 2008

Filed under: Baby Three, Breastfeeding, Carmina, ClothBeginnings, Crafty Mama, Erich, Magdalena, Pregnancy, blogging, knitting — suzanne @ 3:53 pm

That would be the reason for the silence on this blog, at least that’s what I’m claiming. I recently had to shut down my business to customs. It was a hard decision, because I have major issues telling people no and I enjoy the knitting. But I realized that time was going much quicker than my fingers. I have this long list of stuff to do for the Little Dude who will be here in 3 weeks (!) and I couldn’t work on all of it, unless I give up something, like sleeping.

So I shut down my store to customs and hope to open it again by Halloween. I woke up one morning with the incredible urge to either knit every yarn I have in my stash, or to sell it. So I sold a BUNCH of stuff and started knitting a bunch of stuff. If you frequent my Flickr account, you probably see how much stuff is coming off of my needles.

I also decided that I needed to work on a homeschooling room. It turned out really nice and Magdalena is very excited about it. I have plans to order the rest of her books for this quarter of her curriculum on the next payday.

We are also excitedly anticipating the local Pork Festival. Magdalena has been talking about going to parades since the festival ended last year. It’s also the last thing on her calendar before her baby brother is scheduled to make his appearance. She’s a very experienced and excited big sister you know.

Carmina is also seems to be understanding that their is a baby in my belly. And I think she gets that he will want to nurse and that she will have to share. Of course, telling her that the baby will nurse, just makes her want to nurse right away.

Anyway, a busy month. Hopefully I’ll get better about posting. And Erich will be posting here and there and will also update when the Dude makes his arrival.

Birthday Beauties

Filed under: Baby Three, Birthdays, ClothBeginnings, Crafty Mama, Erich, knitting — erich @ 9:26 am

Suzanne has been hard at work hand knitting wool pants, hats, and sweaters. Her latest and biggest project was just completed last night, a baby blanket for our up and coming son. Its the first time she’s knitted in blue. I jokingly gave her an approved color list after she came to me with some wild oranges. I told her that if Eddie Bauer didn’t have it in their product line for men, then she wasn’t allowed to let my son wear it. You may have heard that our oldest daughter wanted to buy her brother a pink towel. Suzanne talked her out of it, but despite my forementioned rules I would have allowed it. I guess you could say I value my daughter’s pride over my own. I am looking forward to the birth of our first son and will probably be posting more during and after the delivery, so I wanted to sort of “warm up the crowd” to my presence by posting now and again before the big day.

PS. Suzanne is doing good. She is making t-shirts for all three birthday beauties today.

So why am I still on the couch? January 19, 2008

Filed under: Birthdays, Crafty Mama, Magdalena, Sewing — suzanne @ 9:00 am

It’s 9am on Saturday. Today I have to bake cookies, decorate them, and bake two character cakes with decoration. I also need to finish Magdalena’s doll and sew the doll some clothes. Doll clothes shouldn’t take long, yes? To top it off, I need to run to the store to get shortening for icing and veggie spray so my cakes don’t stick to the pan. But I’m really tired, and it’s *really* cold so I don’t want to go out and I don’t want to take the girls out. I need someone to come sit over here for 10 minutes. I should call my Papa. And I should probably finish up cleaning the house for the big Par-tey tomorrow. **yawn**

Another Busy Month Here at the Castle ;) January 11, 2008

Filed under: Birthdays, ClothBeginnings, Crafty Mama, Sewing, knitting — suzanne @ 10:00 am

As always, I always have a long list of crafty projects. Obviously there is knitting for my little business, but there are other things I like to do. Once in a while I like to actually knit for my family. LOL And I get little urges to do things. Currently I have the urge to sew up diapers, especially some night diapers for Carmina. But I’m running into some roadblocks, a) I can’t find my favorite pattern and b) I don’t have any hemp fabric. I hate ordering that stuff online because I find it to be a PITA to ship. Also coming up I need to sew up the girls Easter dresses. I’m also going to knit little boleros to go with them since Easter is in March so it will most likely be chilly. So I should probably get those going and ready while I have a lull in custom orders. I’m also working on a 16″ limbed waldorf doll for Magdalena’s birthday. I really can’t believe she’ll be FOUR in about a week! Crazy stuff.

Click below to see some pictures of my latest creations.

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Santa Came! December 26, 2007

Filed under: Carmina, Crafty Mama, Magdalena, Sewing — admin @ 3:09 pm

Santa Came!
Originally uploaded by Mommy2StaufferBabies

It was so much fun with the Santa thing this year. Christmas Eve was filled with much anticipation and activity to get ready for Santa! We made snickerdoodles with Grandma Sue and put out reindeer food in front of our house so the reindeer would see our house from the air. We taped Santa’s Magic Key to the door of the house so that he could get in to leave our presents since we had to cap off our chimney this fall. Then we set out milk, cookies, and carrots on our special Santa cookie plate. We got into our brand new Christmas Eve Pajammies and off to bed they went.

In the morning we woke up to this! Both girls were absolutely thrilled, and Magdalena was thoroughly impressed to find Santa’s Magic Key hanging on the tree. (Since he used it to get in then left it on the tree so we could find it.) All together a very fun filled evening!