monster mash.

brennan's first birthday is coming up quick! since we're pretty sure he's going to grow up thinking his name is 'monster,' we've decided a monster-theme is in order for the party! what better reason to make our own little monsters for the occasion?

a trip to the fabric store (jo-ann's is liquidating the store right next to us)—CHEAP!

making a pattern stemming from these cute little UglyDolls®—FREE!

helping a 5 year old hand-stitch without either party getting frustrated—impressive.

an afternoon sewing and chatting it up with my oldest monster making these goofy little, er, animals? ... priceless.

here is poofy-toofy. poofy, because she has poofy stuff inside her (batting), and toofy because she has funny toofers. she lives in africa (the same place that simba's from. apparently, they're distant cousins), her favorite thing to do is play tag in the backyard (but not the freeze-kind, cause that one's not as fun as the regular kind), and her favorite thing to eat is peanut butter cookies (but only the kind that have the fork-marks in them, because they're the best).

'poofy' has taken over taylor's baby doll bed, kicking her baby to the curb, and was already packed this morning and sitting on her desk wrapped in a blanket, to be taken for 'share day,' tomorrow. i think a kid's sewing machine is in her near-future ...

this crazy little gremlin (who reminds me frighteningly of 'plankton,' from SpongeBob™), is garble-de-gook, referred to lovingly as, 'garble.' he enjoys, bird-watching, people-watching, reading the fine print, and chewing the corners of unsuspecting books. he currently resides in the legal reference section of the spokane valley public library, but is thinking of making a move to non-fiction, to 'mix-it-up' and live a little. his best friend is 'poofy-toofy' and has been since the day they met (yesterday afternoon). although, he thinks poofy is crazy for having moved to africa ... and can't STAND that 'tag' game. (Possibly because of the tiny-legs?)