check out my etsy

seriously. go take a look. i'm in love with my two new mei tais! they're so pretty... so instead of boring you with more "anna maria horner is a genius" speeches, i'll show off my work instead.







and then we're off to go see the opening show of the children's musical which dave did the musical direction and arrangements for and stars and drums in. my husband is pretty amazing. and hot. and all sortsa good things.

delay

no mei tais today. so sorry. i was so close to having them finished, but then joon decided half an hour was long enough of a nap and required my attention. so i won't manage to get the mei tais done before the sun disappears (which is like now and it's 2:45pm) which means no pictures which then means no listings. bleh. i'm not happy.

anyways, by the time most of you get up tomorrow there'll be two new beauties on etsy. promised.

pinks and blues...

are what's keeping me somewhat sane on this otherwise very far from festive thanksgiving day.
and that's pretty weird, because if you know me, you know that i'm so not a pink and blue kinda girl.

anyways, wishing you all a happy turkey day if you're celebrating thanksgiving or just a happy thursday if today is simply a thursday to you.

the pinks and blues are well on their way to becoming two toddler mei tais and should be ready to make their appearance on etsy tomorrow (yes, on crazy black friday).



preview? there ya go.

i blame church

yay! i found yet another thing to blame church for! ;)

growing up as a baptist church pastor's granddaughter did have a few advantages... everyone knew and loved us. or they had to love us, which is probably closer to the truth. anyways, one of our church members was in the textiles industry. i believe he had a fabric business. he always gave us big stacks of little fabric samples to play with. so as a young child i had this kid sized plastic suitcase filled with lots and lots and lots of silky fabric samples in all shades and colors and for years that suitcase full of scraps was my favorite thing to play with. i'd dig my hands in there and swooosh! throw them up in the air and let them rain down on my head. i'd sort them, stack them, tie them, swooosh! them again.... sigh!

why am i telling you this? because i just spent half an hour shaking my booty to old school no doubt and rearranged my neatly folded garden party fat quaters in every way possible, by print, by color, by color in a different way.... it made me think of that suitcase and helped me understand why it is that i'm so obsessed with fabrics.

i took close to one hundred pictures of it all. does that make me a fabric nerd? i need something to hold on to when all these beauties have been cut, turned into pretty things and have lovely new owners. speaking of cutting, that's what i should be doing. cutting those fabrics. seems i'm avoiding having to do that by posting endless rambles on my blog. yes.

so anyways, here are all my pretty new fabrics lined up and there's a shot of the totally non-traditional christmas wreath i made for our front door the other day. i needed to make something random and random it is. oh, and i thought i'd include the view from our bathroom window at sunrise a few days ago. i loooooove snow! at least this year.











and now i'm off to working on mei tais again. finally!!

bleh

it's been a very unproductive weekend.

i'm still waiting for my fabric orders to come in and until then mei tai production is on hold which is very frustrating to me right now. i had just reached such a good flow of productivity and now i'm left to sit here waiting.
i've managed to prepare four sets of straps though, two are even attached to the inner canvas layer already. so i should be getting the next couple of carriers finished unusually quickly.

this has also given me time to think about where i'd like to take my carrier designs next which led to serious consideration of making joontoons slipcovers, podeagis and the possibility of changing one small feature (the hood loops) on the mei tais. i'll most likely do some testing on all those ideas in the next few weeks.

there's been more time for sewing for my family which was nice. joon now has two super soft new pillow covers for the big girl bed she's about to get, dave has a fancy new pillow, joon's neck is finally warm enough because of the ridiculously pretty scarf i made from my last garden party scraps and some comfy fleece and i started working on an upcycled sweater kimono jacket for our new baby. yay, yay, yay!

now here's hoping that i get my fabrics tomorrow because i'm afraid if i don't i'll have too much time to think of more things i want to create.

oh, pics? yes. tomorrow. hopefully.

hokkaido dolls mei tai now on etsy

just a quick lil' note to inform you that i just listed another mei tai on etsy.

more toddler mei tais coming very soon. i promise! ;)


oh, and because she's cute...



joon right after her nap today sporting her fancy new hat that grandma got at the pow wow.

ouch

motrin has issued an apology and is pulling the add from all media as soon as they're able.

but, i think this is a good (or bad) example for how companies with financial gain in mind shape public opinion.

my truth about back pain and babywearing is that i no longer have backaches because i've carried joon every day for more than a year taking advantage of the great baby carriers that are out there. now at seven months pregnant i hardly carry her anymore, but i'm still backpain free! when i was pregnant with her my back was killing me most days.

so maybe that's why motrin ran this add, they've noticed a drop in sales along with an increase of sales in quality baby carriers. ;)