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A2 Designs is launched!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A2 Designs is live!!!
I'm so excited to finally have a selection of dresses and boys shirts up for sale and you have a chance to grab them at bare bones prices in an auction on Grasshopper Kids Creations Facebook page. Click Here to check it out!
I am slowly getting more designs posted and once the littles are in bed I will be sewing up a storm to get up to date on orders. More cuteness to come!


Amelia's shoes are from Koo Boots. Check out her facebook page, she is crazy talented!



Blessed

Monday, April 23, 2012


I never thought that I would say the words "I want to be a stay at home mom". I have always been very career focused and even after I had Austin I was ready to go back to work. I needed the adult interaction that I had so missed while on leave and I was still recovering from PPD and wasn't in a place where staying at home would have been good for me.

Over the past three years, I have been blessed with so many moments of joy from my little man, even when I was at my wits end with his terrible threes (because ladies let me tell you...the terrible twos are nothing, they are but a walk in the park- a training ground for the volatility and attitude that are coming your way the minute they turn three years old) Austin could still melt my heart with his loving moments. I love watching him love on Amelia, it is beyond sweet when he kisses her cheek or smooths her hair when she crying while telling her "It's okay Melia".  And he gives the absolute best silly kisses.

Amelia melts me with her blue eyes and toothy smile. Her hair constantly looks like she has stuck her finger in an electrical outlet and that makes me smile. I love how she crawls over to me, reaches her arms up and cuddles right into my shoulder when I pick her up. I love watching her bloom into her own little person.

The past year has not been an easy one. We've had a number of deaths in the family and most recently a friend's wife lost her brave battle with breast cancer. She was my age and I am having a particularly hard time coming to terms with the fact that she does not get to be here for her little man and help guide him and shape his future. It doesn't seem fair that she's gone. Not for her husband or for her son.

I am so blessed to have the opportunity to love my littles everyday. I want to hold on and never let go. My hubby and I are able to put a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. We spend our time together as a family and I spend my days devoted to my kids. We're not living the high life but we have enough and even more than our share sometimes. We both work hard to provide our children with those things but I wish I could give them more. I don't mean material things, I mean more of us. It's hard for me to believe that my maternity leave is almost over. And while I am very happy with the child care we have in place (who better to help raise the littles than two incredible mommas who are also two incredible friends) I do wish it could be me.

Someone once said that having children was like having your heart walk around outside your body and it is so true. I think it's more than that but not sure how I could put it into words and not have people think I'm nuts, so for now I will say that I'm blessed and grateful for what I have been given and what I have worked for. If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that life is short and it's never too late to really appreciate your family and friends.

Enjoy the small things because when you look back, they really are the big things in life.




3.5

Saturday, April 14, 2012

My boy is three and a half. He is slowly losing his "baby boy" look and is turning into such a great big boy.



Austin is one great big ball of energy and can go, go, go! He makes everyone laugh with his jokes, songs and dances (You haven't seen anything until you see Austin dancing to "Elmo and I know it"). He is a real charmer!




He is already shaping into a protective and loving big brother. Oz loves on Amelia all the time, and while he is a little rough I'm grateful he wants to be involved and share his time and (some) of his toys with her.



He's already told me that he wants a Lightning McQueen party...I guess I'll have to have a look on Pinterest to see what I can do!





The first dress is done!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

This is the Amelia Swinging Summer Sundress by A2 Designs (aka me with a sketch pad, sewing machine and an addiction to super cute fabrics!)






It is a little big but I wanted it to last all summer. I made the straps and seam binding with fabric remnants to ensure a perfect match. I love how sweet and fresh this dress is for spring and summer. And we just happened to have a hair accessory to match. In my completely partial opinion, I think she looks so adorable!

Watch Grasshopper Kids Creations for the Swinging Summer Collection! Coming as soon as I get three or four more nights at the sewing machine :)


Prayers

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

There has been a lot of loss in our lives over the past year and a half. Tonight I was reminded again how precious life is and how grateful I am to be alive and healthy. One of G's former coworkers (whom we used to drive to work for awhile when we lived in the same neighbourhood) is losing his wife to cancer. They have a baby boy who is not yet two and my heart is breaking for them. I hugged our littles closer tonight at bedtime and we prayed that God will give them more time to be together.

If you are the praying kind would you please add them to your prayers today? Pray for them to find peace, for their time to be filled with love and comfort and, most importantly, for more time.

And while I'm at it, an absolute charmer was born on April 1st, 2012. Noah Alexander was 5 weeks early and is still in the hospital. He is gorgeous and has one amazing mama! I look up to Laura and always have. We are friends from 8th floor Assisi and I am grateful for her friendship. She has taught me so much about myself, about life, about strength, determination and how stubborn tenacity can really payoff.

I wish I could be there and could do something more to help but all I can do is offer my support and ask my wonderful family and friends and random readers of my babblings to send some love to Noah. I know his family will feel it and that it will help them all.


Is he not the most adorable little man? He is already a flirt like his Daddy! We're sending you lots of love little man. You'll be home in no time!




Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 8, 2012


We hope that you have a wonderful Easter.

The Carrot Collection

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

I'm very excited to say that I sold quite a few of the carrot tie shirts! Thanks so much to my friends who snatched them up faster than I could sew them. I can't wait to post pictures of all your little men wearing their shirts from one end of the globe to the other!

 I made Amelia a little top to match her big brother and finally got a few pictures.  Not bad for my first go at a fabric flower, I decided that the shirt needed a little something and whipped that puppy up without looking at any sort of tutorial or instruction.





Amelia's Bunny clip is from Grasshopper Kids Creations. It was hard getting her to smile and sit in one spot today. She was way more interested in exploring her new found freedom then modeling for me.

I went a little crazy at Hawthorne Threads and half of my order has arrived. I can't wait to get sewing and show you the great little designs I've come up with. Honestly I've spent so much time sketching I don't know how I'm going to manage to make it all!


10 Months

Well time is flying! Look who is 10 months old!!!



Amelia can crawl now and she can move! She started the army crawl last Tuesday and by this past weekend she had figured out that if she propels with her toes she moves much faster. This week she has been trying to get her knees into it. Nothing is safe from her reach so I'm baby proofing like mad!

She has so much personality and really is the happiest baby ever! She knows her name, knows I'm mama and G is daddy. She says NANANANANANA when she wants food and does the sign for milk when she wants to nurse.




I guess I sould start party planning. I can't believe that it is only two months and my baby will be 1.

Treasured Friend

Monday, April 2, 2012

Bailey Coleman 1999-2012

I lost a treasured friend today
The little dog who used to lay
His gentle head upon my knee
And shared his silent thoughts with me.

He’ll come no longer to my call
Retrieve no more his favourite ball
A voice far greater than my own
Has called him to His golden throne.

Although my eyes are filled with tears
I thank Him for the happy years
He let him spend down here with me
And for his love and loyalty.

When it is time for me to go
And join him there, this much I know
I shall not fear the transient dark
For he will greet me with a bark.
~Author Unknown

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