...you are my sunshine

first seedlings

Burgers new crayon pouch

Burger has been a mad man with the crayons lately, drawing lots and lots!( am I just thrilled or what)
I made this crayon pouch off a great tutorial off Nested . My friend babybolt gave me this link over a year ago. I made a few as gifts and altered the pattern to make all sorts of pouches , but burger is finally old enough for his own crayon pouch and he just loves taking all the crayons out. It is not exactly like the tutorial because I just sort of winged it . I got the awesome fabric at the Joannes humongous sale and came home and was just so inspired to just whip it up . I like to think the pouch inspired this Burger masterpiece
I forgot to take a photo of the pouch rolled up so instead... here is a cute burger pic in his chair his Donda gave him!

I dressed you up like a girl when you were little.

I will be able to say that to burger now and here are the photos to prove it. I made little Aleena a jumper dress and Burger had to model it before it was sent. I figured papa would growl but he just said, "you should have put tights on him". It was too late for tights however, the birthday dress was on its way to Cali. I used butternick B4841 and an olive green fat cord with contrasting jelly bean flannel. The buttons were my first real buttons with machined holes.So needless to say the button holes took me almost as long as the jumper( including time worrying about messing up the jumper with wack job button holes). I wish I had added pockets now(all toddlers need pockets ,right?) I also made her this green hat to match.