once i’m done with a project, i can’t not post it (at least the picture! the blog posts wait sometimes…) i mean, i’m glad Mia can’t actually read yet, because by then she’d surely know how to work the mouse and be reading my blog for signs of gift-giving. anyhow, i really wanted to get her a bamboletta doll because they’re so beautiful, but really, i shudder to think of the sand boxes this expensive doll would frequent, of the marker experiments done on her precious face, etc. so instead of a bamboletta, i decided to make her a doll myself. i can’t claim the genius of designing this doll (i don’t have the time to design a doll myself at the moment) but i did make it from scratch and i am pretty proud. Her pattern name is mae but i call her may because that’s the month in which my little one was born. i’m hoping that when i’m long gone and she’s an old lady, she will still keep this doll as one that her mama made her.

before school starts, i decided to tackle that shirt for mia… and i was done and the measurements were good and i sewed it twice and it took me all night and everything… and in the morning, i was all excited to try it on her and then…

mommy, take [it] off. no like it. itchy.

WHA? i spent all that time sewing and slaving away at a shirt she will not wear. not for a second. or a millisecond. the kid won’t have any part of it oh well, at least it lives on as a testament that

1. i can make a shirt fit, if not good enough, for a human being.
2. the walmart $2 a yard section is not the bargain i hoped for.
3. i’m stubborn and slightly mean, ’cause i’ll try to make her wear it later in the future… maybe after a cycle in the dryer with fabric softener?