for our upcoming trip to disneyland (for my mom’s birthday), i made mia a disneyland outfit i embellished the hoodie with ears and a bow and sewed the skirt. i also made her a tee shirt for underneath, done with my very first applique. A little rough, but not bad for a first time:

i’m totally proud

and my model was happy to oblige a photo. she’s really getting to the point where she loves dress up, so whenever she wears this, she meows and tells everyone she’s a cat. i made the mistake of putting the ears on first and then the earflaps, so they’re a little bit off, but she doesn’t seem to mind i think next time i really want to make a calico cat… or maybe a tabby. that would be super cute.

let’s start with my birthday since that’s the beginning of the month. we decided to go to an amusement park that’s geared mostly toward toddlers and the pre-school set, so that mia could have fun at my bday too we had a blast! it was so much fun hanging out with two of my favorite people in the world… couldn’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. i even won a birthday care bear in the games area! woo hoo!

halloweeness was rampant around our place it’s my favorite holiday; possibly because it’s so close to my birthday, possibly because there are crazy costumes involved… this year it was fun because it was the first real trick or treating outing for mia (before she just kinda went along but this time she outlasted even the bigger kids we went trick or treating with!) she was a fairy and i made her costume myself. here’s a little gallery of our weeks leading up to and including halloween:

ohh and i’m lame this year and never dressed up party pooper!