Don't look now, but there's a monster on your butt OR Do these pants make my butt look monstrous?

I found these cute knitted pants on Printerest.

Please click to follow the link to the talented lady who designed them at KnitHacker

Aren't they cute!! But I'm not much of a knitter. I would still be knitting when my babies were getting ready to go to college. So I decided to try a variation. This is what I came up with.

I purchased the zebra pants at Hobby Lobby and came up with my own design. I wanted something a little more girlie too. I got out the pencil and paper and came up with a new "face".

I really only needed half a face as I folded the fleece to make sure the face ended up symmetrical

I cut the pieces out of fleece.

I started with the mouth. I sewed the teeth to the black, then sewed the black to the red lips.

The eyes started with applying the purple lids to the white circle and then the black dots as well.

I struggled with the eyelashes. I tried using trim, which didn't work...AT ALL. But, I got a new sewing machine out of the fiasco! I ended up using eyelash yarn. Why didn't I think of that in the first place?

I then placed the pieces on the hinny of the pants and carefully sewed them on. Don't look too close, I've never done applique before so I could use a little more practice before anyone gets closer to my work. I used the zig-zag stitch to sew everything.

I don't think my babies will care though.

Do you like??

Christmas Digs

I would love to have a nice Christmas party and invite every one over for Lasagna and a nice glass of wine. We wouldn't all fit! So instead, I'll share some pictures of my decorations this year.

This is the little tree in our living room. This room is small, but we spen a lot of time in there so I wanted to have a tree to enjoy. This tree is decorated with colorful ornaments that we've collected over time. There's lots of decorations that the kids made when they were little too. The best part? That topper! It's the topper that sat on top of all of my childhood Christmas trees! Normally I don't have it lit, but Steve rewired it for me this year.

I love vintage stuff. A lot of the things in this room are from my childhood or from Steve's grandmother Rozzella. I especially like to have those out. She was a practical, honest lady and I wish I could have gotten to know her better.

Onto the kitchen....

The kitchen is all white with pink, blue and green. Very untraditional, but I like it.

The big tree is in the larger living room. This is were we spend most of our time on the big day. You can see it from every other room down stairs too.

This tree is decorated with mostly white, silver and gold.
over the last couple years we've started adding picture frame ornaments. It's fun to see the wedding photos, baby pictures and even a childhood picture of Grampa Ken.

It think that's it....oh, wait....

Too much??

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Baby Alexandria's nursery

So finally getting things calmed down around here and able to do some artsie stuff. We are expecting our first AND second grand babies this spring and summer. My daughter lives close by so she's letting me paint and decorate the nursery. (Sure wish I could do it for both babies.)

The room was painted in bright pink and white stripes when she moved in. Someone worked really hard on it. (I kind of makes me feel bad as I imagine a poor little girl with her freshly painted dream room who can't enjoy it since her parents lost their home.)
Ashley wanted a more gender nuetral theme so we're takin' it outside! We started with white primer....lots of primer!

We then painted the walls blue and added the first layer of grass. Oh, and clouds.

We started the tree this weekend and grampy installed the "sunshine". I'll share pics of that soon. I'm so excited!