We are in the dog days of summer now! 
But instead, a cat showed up! :) 1 kitten + 3 girls = a lot of fights!So anyway, besides refereeing over the cat, here is what I have been up to...
Three big custom baskets...
A camo rag blanket and taggy for a new baby boy at church...
And my new kitchen curtains at the lightning fast rate of 1/2 a window per week!
I am spending more time in the kitchen, too, since the garden is starting to keep me busy with zucchini and stuff like this...
And my new kitchen curtains at the lightning fast rate of 1/2 a window per week!
I am spending more time in the kitchen, too, since the garden is starting to keep me busy with zucchini and stuff like this...The veggies aren't the only things growing around here. These cute little chicks...
have grown up into these...
The roosters crow now and in another month or two we should start getting those colored eggs!
Check out the Friday sneak peek link-up over here!
TA DA!!!! I started Grace's baby quilt a few weeks before she was born (hence the bright, but neutral colors). I was inspired by Anita's beautiful quilt 
They are both sooooo cute!!!
See that red pinwheel? Those are what I was cutting when I cut my fingertip with the rotary cutter. :( 
I hand quilted this, of course. Just oulined the white triangles in the pinwheels and around the border.
When I saw that the 3D triangles were called prairie points I had to try them. Anything with the word "prairie" just sounds adorable and makes me think of Laura Ingalls!
But frankly, they were a pain. I couldn't get the spacing right and the more I tried to fix them, the worse it got. AND I couldn't hand quilt along this edge (which I thought it needed to keep them in place) so I had to stab stitch one stitch at a time the whole way around. 
But it is still an awesome pattern and I love it!!! 
Well, I am getting more done craftwise anyway. Cleaning and weeding my pretty flowers, not so much...
And I have made a few things for the 
Starting to accomplish a little bit more anyway! I can't wait to see what everyone else is working on. Check out the link-up over 
And I helped my niece make these shirts for a candy-themed fundraiser field hockey game- each player was a different flavor/color. 
Finally! The big reveal!!! This is the old dresser I refinished for my 3yo who loves Strawberry Shortcake. It started out as this:
I bought it at a yard sale a loooooooong time ago and only paid a few dollars for it- I don't remember exactly how much, but I know I paid well under $10. It had some stickers and scratches on the fronts of the drawers and one of the knobs was cracked.
First, I unscrewed all of the knobs and got the palm sander out for the drawers.
I sanded them down and used wood putty on any really big scratches or dings. 
Luckily, right behind me was a piece of luan leftover from our bathroom that was already the exact right width! So I just scroll sawed to cut it to length and make the bottom match up.
But, as I was putting the new side on, I saw that the feet were a little spongy, so I got out the reciprocating saw and starting hacking off the bottom. (Don't upset a pregnant woman when she is trying to nest, or she may go crazy with every power tool she can get her hands on!)
Back to the scroll saw to cut new knobs out of some scrap wood.
Then, I busted out the extremely PINK paint! I got a quart of the darker color and just a sample sized can of the lighter pink. The dresser got a coat of primer and then the dark pink paint...
And the drawers were painted with primer and light pink. Then, when I was feeling artistic, I freehanded some vines and strawberry blossoms on them.
And I did some more on the corners of the top and side.
It was a lot more work than I anticipated, but I think it is "berry" cute! :)
I used Powerade bottles because they are hard, sturdy plastic and made sure they were very clean and dry. Then, as a nice "take-it-easy-end-of-pregnancy" craft with the girls, I dumped out the bucket and let them choose what they wanted to put in them. There are alphabet beads to spell their names, too. I used a funnel to add rice every so often. To make it prettier, we also added a bunch of sequins. When we were done, I hot glued the lids in place (I DO NOT want this to spill!) and made sure I waited until it was cool to give them back.
2 Powerade bottles+little junk+rice= 2 happy girlies! :)
They are so cute! (Er, sometimes anyway!)
It is so nice to be able to sit and swing with Grace in the evenings when it cools off, watching the older girls catching fireflies (or "lightning bugs" as we call them around here.) 
He made the whole thing in 2 days while I was at the hospital- and he had all 4 of the older kids, too! (My 5yo says she made it, too, 'cause she handed him the "nails")