The Daddy Monkey and I had tickets to a fancy party for the closing night of our town’s film festival.  Due to several unrelated events involving a volcano, my mother, and the Monkey Children, we were not able to go ahead with our date as planned. But at least we still had a babysitter.  The […]

So what do you do when spring finally arrives to your Florida doorstep, and you want to sing it from the mountaintops? Wear your new yellow tights with your new gray corduroy skirt.  (I think I finished this skirt just in time for it to be too hot to wear it, but I love it […]

Those of you who know me have already seen this skirt about 100 times, because I’ve been practically living in it this summer.  There’s a reason for that.  It is comfortable, the perfect shade of yellow, and it has held up remarkably well. Remember these two skirts?  Well, this was from that batch, and it […]

Here’s a little belt I whipped up on Sunday to wear to a fancy affair I was invited to.  I bought the dress at the Goodwill last month because I loved the 50’s-style cut of it, the color, and the fabric, but it was too baggy in the torso, so I made the belt to […]

Here’s another wrap skirt finished!  I really love it, and I’m wearing it all the time.  Three cheers for homemade summer skirts! I know it’s been said in blogland before, but it is really hard to take a decent picture of yourself wearing a skirt that you made.

I actually finished this skirt in three days!  I wore it on Easter, but I spent the entire day trying not to flash everyone around me.  The overlap on the skirt is only about six inches, which I think it way too short for “flashing protection.”  So it went into the closet, and this past […]

I made The Girl’s Easter dress from some of my leftover thrifted vintage sheet fabric.  This was the second time I used McCall’s pattern 5083 and I’m not so sure I’ll be using it again.  I really like the simple shape of the dress, but the bindings on the neckband and arm holes are impossibly […]

Back before I had kids, I used to dress in cute funky outfits, wear nail polish, and sleep late.  These days I’m lucky if the clothes I’m wearing actually fit, there isn’t dirt under my fingernails, and I get to sleep three hours in a row. I used to sew almost all of my clothes, […]