Sweetheart dress

Look at the beautiful quilting job the quilter did. She had made a few suggestions when I sent it to her, but I never expected anything this beautiful. The binding is made, I just need a little help with the trimming and learning how to attach it. Will it be done in time for Christmas? I sure hope so.

And as promised, here is the sweetheart dress that I adapted from the romper Savannah wore on her 2nd birthday.

Ok, so here is the deal with this dress. (Why it took me almost all summer) I decided that it makes more sense to sell my patterns than sell the dresses themselves. I just do not have time to make bundles of dresses for my Etsy shop. So as I was making the dress I was trying to write up the pattern to be home stitcher friendly. The way I cut the pattern, I had no choice but to add a partial placket to the back for buttons, but I wanted it to somehow be elastic so The dress could fit different body shapes. I stewed over this for at least a month because I do not want to add the partial placket in the pattern. Back to the drawing board with that one. But I am able to sell this one, so it should be up soon.

Still having problems with pictures on the macbook, I loaded them all on and sent a few from my phone but it took me hours just to get this far.

No pics, broken laptop.

No pictures this time.
Hi, My toshiba laptop, that I have only had for 4 years just crashed. It's a good thing I just backed it up recently. I have been having problems with it for a while, and seriously I only used it for pictures, blogging and printing for eBay, it was too slow to do anything else with.
Jake and I have been doing research for weeks on what to get next, since we have had such bad luck with PC's, and I need my own iPad for eBay selling but we also need the laptop for watching video's in Maine (no Internet access). He got me a used Macbook, it came in the mail last week, I go to turn it on and "blip" screen shuts off after 4 seconds, turns out it had an issue that was not mentioned in the listing that if it wasn't touched for 4 seconds it would shut down. After a while lot of frustration and not having a computer for over 3 weeks, we returned that one and tried again with a different seller (that other company will be getting a very bad review) My new/used macbook is perfect, we decked it all out in pink accessories. I just did a tutorial on youtube to learn how to use it and haven't gotten to transferring the pictures yet.

I have to get the pictures on here soon because my quilt came back from the quilter! And I finished the sweetheart dress that I have been working on for months now.

Savannah started preschool in September, it has been a lot more difficult and stressful than I had anticipated. I am not dealing with the stress well and my memory has gotten even worse (if that's even possible) I think I'm borderline Alzheimer's. This is literally my first "day off" since September something. I was supposed to go to MOPS today but Nolan is sick (a blessing in disguise) so I get to stay home for a whole day! and don't get me wrong, I'm super stressed because he is sick too, but it is nice not to have to rush out of the house all day.