Easter week

Wow, what a great week!

First, there was Easter. We celebrated with my mom on Saturday. It was rainy, as it has been for the last 2 weeks straight, so we had an egg hunt inside.

This should be sent to awkwardfamilyphotos.com-

I'm always trying to get a good picture of the 3 of us- but again, we failed. We're all making stupid faces, but this was the best of 5.

We left Saturday afternoon to visit Chris's family. We were there for a few days, and got to spend some time with family. While we were there, we celebrated Granny & Poppy's wedding-

Ok-- side story about the cake- Doug (Poppy) raises chickens. Lots of them. So his daughter (who made the cake) made the bride & groom out of marshmallow chickens. And this girl must have a good sense of humor- just look at the hair on the groom chicken. Then look at the hair on the groom. :)

Thankfully, the weather in E.KY was so much better! We actually got to do an Easter egg hunt outside. Ava had such a good time!

By the way, do you recognize that dress?

Ava got to play with some cousins she didn't even know she had.

We went up on Chris's family's property and got up close and personal with some horses. Seriously, that was the friendliest animal I've ever met. He just followed us around and wanted to be petted (or is it pet?).

The view from atop the mountain was amazing.

Beautiful!!

I hope this week is a little slower. I really want to make something!!

New dresses

Oh, how I love my little girl in a dress!! Isn't she just the cutest thing ever?? The dress is pretty cute too. I used the tutorial from Prudent Baby. This is actually the second of these dresses that I've made, but the other one is having issues- I used the snaps that the pattern called for, but I can't get the snaps on the front of the dress. UGH.

So instead of snaps, I made buttonholes (!) and used some buttons I already had.

Yes, this dress is a little short. No, she had better not even *think* about wearing something this short when she's a teen. You can't tell from these pictures, but I made a really cute little diaper cover out of the paisley fabric to match. That's the whole reason this dress is so short- so that while she's playing, you can see that cute little bum covered in paisley.

I've been thrifting a lot recently. I found a men's shirt that looked like it should have been a little girl's dress all along.

So I bought it, washed it, and started cutting...

and a few short hours later, I had this-

An awesome little shirtdress.

I used crossgrain ribbon for the waistband instead of contrasting fabric, mainly becuase the ribbon matched, and my spare fabric did not. However, I really like the way it turned out. The orange ribbon really pops.

After I had already sewn the placket shut, I decided to swap out the buttons from the plain white ones to these fun blue flowers I got from Chris's Grama's stash.

I am totally in love with this pattern. I think I'll make more.