Do you have the time to listen to me whine

Okay, not really whining... maybe a little.

I decided to share the fact that I started a blog. I shared it with the world. I "pinned" an image from my previous post! Now, I really feel like I need to keep updating and sharing ... do I really have the time? I could be cleaning, organizing, creating, or better yet, even playing! But I suppose I did start this darn thing for a reason - to help record some of the neat things I make and remember the sweet things my child does.
Today, she said hamburger. Seriously, she said hamburger! She still does not say Mama, but her vocabulary is rapidly increasing every day. I still think she calls me BuBu. I don't know the precise way to write the 'name' with the her pronunciation. Anyhow... everytime she says the BuBu, she's looking at me or asking me for something. Who knows. It does hurt my feelings a little because she says Adi all the time. She loves her little cousin, giving her kisses all the time. Mama doesn't get kisses anymore. She turns her head and laughs at me. It's all about Addison now.

How did I go from complaining about blogging to feeling neglected because my child won't give me kisses? My mind is on overdrive. It's been a long day. I suppose I should turn in for the night.
Thanks for reading. Now, to end with a photo... :)

Madelyn and Addison.
Sweet little cousins.

Dress Shirt - shirt = Dress

I looked at a lot of different tutorials on repurposing shirts to little girl dresses. They all looked so stinking adorable that I had to give it a shot! I mixed ideas from a few different places and this is what I came up with. And of course, I had to make a sweet matching hair bow out of the scraps!

                      

 

  

This was a   woman's size medium button up shirt. I used a dress that fits her to trim it to size, keeping the original collar. I carefully cut of the sleeves and kept them as they were. I stitched up the sides and the bottom then sewed on the original sleeves to the new opening, ruffling at the top so they fit.

 And that's about it. Pretty simple. And when I say "I  sewed", I do mean my seamstress - my mother. 

I do the cutting  and she does the sewing. For now at least.

 I'm getting the hang of it and hopefully will be making sweet dresses on my own soon! 

These are the tutorials I used for inspiration:

http://fabricfloozie.blogspot.com/2009/02/tutorial-womans-shirt-into-toddler.html

http://liliash.blogspot.com/2009/08/phias-party-dress.html