Hanging my head...

I just viewed my actual blog for the first time in a couple of weeks instead of just going to the post screen, and I realized that I have been lax in responding to comments. Shame on me!! As explanation, may I say that blogger wasn't sending them to my email as it was supposed to for about a week or so? Sorry, guys! I love getting comments and don't want anyone to think I was ignoring them!

After being gone all last week, I have so many blogs to catch up on! I haven't had a chance to just sit down and read b/c I've had kids hovering over me the whole time. Well, that and I've been reading Harry Potter instead...I finished it yesterday afternoon, and it has some real shockers in it! I won't post them here cuz I hate spoilers, but I really didn't see it coming! I'm already looking forward to the 7th book anxiously.

A few posts ago, I mentioned working on making a new outfit for Olivia. What a fiasco! Turns out she is soooo far from wearing a size 7 pattern and this particular one doesn't come any smaller. I thought I'd just cut it down, no big deal, right? Wrong! The top is finished except for final touches and just hangs off her, even after cutting it down by 2 inches. I finally just threw up my hands and said we'd save it until next year.
This is the pattern. I was making the one in the middle. It was going to be so cute -- the top is black across the top with a leopard print swing across the bottom. The capris are stretch khaki with a little bit of glitter in them. A 6-year-old dream, huh?

Ah, well. I did get some other cute patterns that I'm going to make before school starts back. I'll post them as I make them.