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ppers and ribbon because of the smiley face it s perfect and i love it big enough to hold everything but not unwieldy it can clip onto my belt loop preferred or onto the adjustable strap i made for it plan b for my belt loop less low rise maternity pants no i m not pregnant low rise maternity pants are comfy and stylish and although i wasn t actually trying because trying seemed like a giant hassle that probably wouldn t work right anyway the pattern actually does match pretty nicely on the front woot email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by jessie at thursday october 16 2014 filed under crafting fandom no comments 29 june 2014 sherlock wallpaper skirt hello there i ve been tremendously absent haven t i well i finally made a thing i started watching bbc s sherlock last fall and we finished up season 2 a couple weeks i guess before the new season premiered on january 1 and uh then i got on tumblr and then i watched season 3 and uh let s just say almost all my free time in the last 6 months has been taken up by watching reading about or thinking about bbc sherlock oh and also occasionally crafting about it fandom crafting has always been my favorite i get very inspired and it helps me deal with my overwhelming feelings of love and devotion i ve got 1960s batman themed jewelry that you ve never seen it can get quite serious so i saw a photo of a lady at a sherlock fan con wearing a skirt that looks vaguely like the one i m about to show you and i was like omg this is what i need i must have it and oh yeah spoonflower exists and i can get fabric printed with pretty much any pattern i can imagine bless ta da it s lined the waistband is made of part of an old t shirt i had i didn t use a pattern i hate patterns i measured based off another skirt i have and then did some very sketchy geometry that i then had to amend once i had the fabric all laid out because i d done some of it wrong that s pretty much how i roll when crafting you may have noticed it s got yellow graffiti like the wall in 221b except i did sh jw instead of a smiley face because those two idiots are in love and they re going to grow old together and be happy forever cough i m quite proud of myself email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by jessie at sunday june 29 2014 filed under clothing crafting fandom no comments 11 october 2013 book sale purchase as a snapshot of my life part 2 i wrote this other blog post three three years ago after attending the annual library book sale in my other town in it i talk about how my pile of books had changed in the 8 years between the first time i attended the sale and the time i attended the sale as the mother of a 1 5 year old well now i have a 4 5 year old and the pile has changed yet again three of those books up there are for me to read there are only three mostly because my tastes have become niche you can check out my amazon book wish list to see the kind of stuff i m looking for and why those might not just materialize at a book sale the rest are for the young lady of the house i was going for some solid reference type books that she can browse through over and over and mo willems of course always mo willems she can read the elephant and piggie books by herself so yeah the days are long but the years are short as they say a list of this year s books because these are some great finds look them up for your own kiddos if you take a mouse to school the magic school bus kicks up a storm hold on to your kids curly girl eat this book what i believe i am invited to a party there is a bird on your head the pop up house of inventions if you give a pig a pancake first human body encyclopedia shout out to cousin liesl for mentioning this series on facebook piece part portion the dangerous book for boys edwina the dinosaur who didn t know she was extinct gods goddesses and monsters atlas of africa the question is have i read the books i bought three years ago of the 15 books in the pile in the first post i read or tried to read eight nine four three are still in my to read pile and i ve gotten rid of three of them i think two of them became two of my favorites the teenager liberation handbook and flipped i list book reviews as public notes on my facebook page so please check them out i love to hear what other people think about books email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by jessie at friday october 11 2013 filed under deep thoughts reading thrifting no comments 10 august 2013 eating real food during a move over the last 7 or so years i ve gone from eating pretty much whatever whenever to being a lot more mindful and informed about my food choices the title of the post refers to real food which has kind of a lot of different definitions depending on where you go around the internet but for my family eating real food means making most food from scratch using whole grains trying to choose the lesser evil on the rare occasions that we eat out and avoiding the most obviously egregious ingredients corn syrup msg artificial coloring artificial sweeteners unfermented soy and most vegetable oils when cooking we only use olive oil coconut oil or butter i personally avoid caffeine milk ice cream and large loads of processed sugar due to their effects on my health this is all just fyi so you ll know what i m aiming for during the highly stressful and kitchenless time of packing up and moving cross country this is the third time i ve moved cross country by car in three years so i m just going to tell you what i ve done before the move first of all we pack up the kitchen almost last about a month before the move date i take inventory of all the food i want to use up before the move and i make a month long dinner menu to try to use up as much as possible and avoid buying extra normally i make a dinner menu at the beginning of each week i fill the last week or so up with frozen dinners i start stocking up a couple months before by freezing sufficient leftover portions of our dinners this is easy for me to do at the moment as i only have to feed two adults and a 4 year old other families might need to do some dedicated freeze cooking or make double portions some nights with frozen dinners planned for the last week i can pack up the kitchen without worrying about cooking at the same time the last day or two before we leave we ll eat dinner out or pick up something to go things i leave out of packing up the kitchen and bring in the car my deep skillet and lid large plastic serving spoon paring knife wire cheese slicer small plastic cutting board toaster hot pot scrub brush and dish soap those allow me to heat up the frozen dinners on the stove and also make sandwiches breakfast tea etc i can also hard boil any leftover eggs before we leave while we normally do not use paper towels paper napkins paper plates plastic cutlery or disposable cups we use all of these things liberally during our moves with no guilt i start using these when we start eating the frozen dinners then around the beginning of the last week before the move everything in the kitchen is washed and ready to be packed up during the move during the drive to our new home the last two years we had 5 days of driving we make two meals a day and snacks from what we ve brought with us and eat out for the third meal whether it s lunch or dinner depends on the day s driving schedule here is what i typically pack in the car in a medium sized cooler lunch meat cheese string block and or slices sour cream butter baby carrots cucumber hard boiled eggs bottles of kombucha cod liver oil in a box or other receptacle crispy nuts raisins dried cranberries dried cherries etc bread sometimes bagels crackers chips rice cakes etc chocolate chips salt ranch dressing mix i find this tasty on sandwiches and sad fast food salads apples bananas oranges etc fruit leather larabars etc peanut butter honey a sturdy tupperware type container with the paring knife and cheese slicer for chopping things and assembling sandwiches disposable plates napkins cutlery our regular vitamin supplements then we also have these things which we mostly just take out in the hotel rooms coffee and one of these tea bags travel coffee mugs we eat toast hard boiled eggs tea coffee and fruit for breakfast sandwiches chips and fruit for lunch or dinner after the move this might be the hardest part for me first of all unpack your kitchen almost first i think my mental list goes beds couches some of lucy s toys kitchen one box at a time is best i find put the stuff approximately where you think it will live but it doesn t have to be perfect you can rearrange things later you just want it all out of the boxes so you ll have room to move around and cook then there s the first trip to a strange grocery store plan that for the time of day you have the most energy after you ve eaten and plan for it to take five times as long as it should of course make a list before you go then you ll have to go back two days later for the stuff you forgot to put on your first list then i personally start the long process of building kitchen momentum back up by that i mean getting my freezer stashed with cooked brown rice cooked pinto beans chicken broth etc starting to make homemade bread again starting to put away freezer meals finding a kombucha scoby once you get going it s easy to keep going but staring at an empty freezer at first is so depressing first meal cooked in the new house this time it feels so great to cook again after a week or more of fast food email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by jessie at saturday august 10 2013 filed under food moving no comments 12 july 2013 moving with a toddler or preschooler as i mentioned this summer will be the third summer in a row that our little family has moved across the country as such not only do i have a lot of experience packing but i also have experience mitigating crises of little person moving emotions here are the things that have helped us help lucy as we ve shuffled her around as a 2 year old a 3 year old and this summer as a 4 year old put off packing their stuff put off packing up the majority of your child s toys and clothing until as late as you re comfortable with we do our entire kitchen before we do her toys then make sure their room gets put together almost first when you arrive at your new home have new fun stuff ready especially if there s a long road trip involved these can be simple things like stickers a small doll a notebook and crayons etc obviously you don t want them to take up too much space but they are lifesavers when your kid is going crazy with that horrible mixture of boredom and messed up routine dole them out sparingly carve out a space for them i mean physically make sure there is a space for them to play right up until the move give them their own suitcase for their clothes and their own backpack for the toys they want to bring give them some ownership over their stuff and a little control over the overwhelmingly out of control situation they are in carve out space for their feelings it s hard to manage your own emotions during a move let alone someone else s but toddlers and preschoolers need you to be aware especially during stressful times like moving that when they are acting out it s not personal they re stressed and they need you to help them with that be there to listen ask open ended questions to let them talk about things that have been bothering them or that they ve been wondering or worrying about keep routines as similar as possible to make them feel more secure hug snuggle and tickle often it will be hard but try to carve out time to play with them let them help find ways to let them help with the packing even if it s only having them hand you things to put in a box they can also decorate the moving boxes with stickers and drawings or fetch things from another room this is another good way to give them some control over the situation last year lucy was very insistent that she be able to put something onto the truck so we let her haul one of her little chairs up the ramp and onto the truck work stopped until she was done because it was important to her somewhat related don t pack up things that are important to them while they are asleep or away it will help them to see their things go into the boxes so it s not as if their things have just disappeared say goodbye to things be aware when you are on your last visit to a place you go often a favorite park the library grocery store a friend s house etc let them know beforehand that this will likely be the last visit then say goodbye to the place as you leave sometimes it seems like very young kids won t know the difference but with my own daughter i ve seen how giving her information that i don t expect her to be able to fully process has helped in many situations this started when i decided to start letting her know when i was going to the bathroom when she was around 4 months old rather than just setting her down going and coming back it sounds crazy but it helped her to stay calm since then i ve pretty much operated on the assumption that more heads up and more information about what will happen is always better if your move involves a road trip all the usual road trip advice applies plan for lots of stops pack lots of snacks don t be afraid to use a dvd player to keep them content i ve been adding road trip tips to this pinterest board starting with the busy bags i chronicled on this blog the only other road trip advice i ve got is especially for the very littles they must run around at stops there are many ways to achieve this most notably stop at a fast food place with a playground or stop at a highway rest stop that has a large grassy area you can bring bubbles and have them chase the bubbles one of our favorite ways to get moving at a rest stop is to play olly olly oop which is a game lucy learned from blue s clues basically someone yells olly olly oop physical object then everyone jumps up then runs and touches the object so at a highway rest stop it would go something like olly olly oop trash can olly olly oop that tree olly olly oop picnic table and so on until everyone is out of breath very effective kids who are a little bit older will be able to play tag so i guess this all basically comes down to remembering to remember all of your kid s needs during a move sometimes it seems like all you ll be able to manage is feeding them and making sure they sleep but humans need more if you can anticipate their needs and the whole experience will go more smoothly email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by jessie at friday july 12 2013 filed under baby moving parenting 1 comment 11 july 2013 big post of packing and moving tips i m about to move cross country for the third time in three years so i thought maybe i should actu...