It's been a busy month here in Sara World. We signed a contract to build a new house (yay!), which means we have to put our current home on the market (not so yay). Honestly, it's all been a pain in the arse and I haven't had much time for hobbies, much less time to blog about my nonexistent hobbies.

I have, however, finished a couple projects I'm excited about; All baby stuff. (Man, I have a lot of preggo friends right now!)

First up is a super cute quilt for my friend Alissa's baby (yet to be formally named). I whipped this up with a Hunky Dory charm pack and am in love with the final result (and am amazed that I didn't majorly screw anything up this time).

Unfortunately, I didn't get a good photo of the finished product (that's what happens when you stay up 'til 1am the night before the shower finishing the binding). I need to see if Alissa will take a picture for me. I did, however, get a picture of the pizza from our surprise shower lunch - yummy, yummy, yummy:

I also made a set of burp cloths for two other dear friends of mine; Karina is having a boy and Dawn i having a girl. You know I love me some black and white:

And for baby boy, this is from the All Star collection by Riley Blake. I do love me some Riley Blake:

I also came down to the wire on finishing these, quite literally:

And for the first time since I started sewing again seriously, I started a project for *gasp* me! (Assuming you don't count the guest room quilts). I've had this gorgeous My Mind's Eye fabric sitting around (told you I love me some Riley Blake) and decided it would make a gorgeous makeup bag. They're all pinned and ready to sew. I couldn't decide which patterns I wanted on the inside or the outside... so I'm making two.

I may use both or I may put one up on Etsy to try and make a little extra dough. I could sure use a little extra dough right about now. My machine has me beating my head up against the wall, and I think it's about time for an upgrade.

Happy Monday, everyone!

Soooo... this is my first post. I never know how to start these things; Am I supposed to get all gushy and welcome you to my blog? Or tell you an alluring but blatant lie that by coming back again your hair will grow in thicker and chocolate cake will never make you fat?

Meh - none of them quite fit me. I'll just give you a little run-down of me and then we can skip this first-date shifting of the feet and where-am-I-supposed-to-put-my-hands-in-the-movie-theater routine.

Hi! My name is Sara.

I'm married to my high school sweetheart: he held my hand when we were 14 and the rest is history. We have two a-freaking-dorable children: Drew is nearly 4 and Livi just turned a year old. Though they're nearly perfect in every way, they quite regularly drive me to drink cheap wine and blare Stevie Ray Vaughn and/or Miles Davis after I put them to bed.

I'm a web designer on hiatus from designing web sites to stay at home full time with my monsters angels. I had my own business for nearly 10 years, but (surprise!) having two kids is a full-time job in itself, and I found myself drinking just a little too much cheap wine and blaring Linkin Park a little more often than SRV or Miles. So I quit my job. OK, so we should probably make that an active verb: Quitting is probably the more accurate description. When you own a business, "two weeks notice" is a sick, cruel joke.

I like Jazz. I love my Spurs. I love fonts and all things beautiful. My style is clean and modern and I have a great weakness for black and white and lime green. My husband hates lime green, but we still manage to make our marriage work in spite of his flawed taste.

I love to sew. My Grandma and Great-Grandma taught me to sew when I was a wee little thing, and while I've never really been good at it, it's always been a hobby that brings me comfort. My Great-Grandma had a Bernina that I would sew on while spending summers at her house. Oooohhhh, how I didn't realize then the glory my 8 year old hands beheld at the time.

I sew quilts. That is just weird to say. I still have a hard time saying "I quilt." First of all, it sounds a lot like "I quit," which, we all know I'm less than stellar at (see above). Second of all, it just feels so... well, like a granny hobby. And I love, love, love my Grandma, but you get my drift. But there are so many quilters out there reinventing the trade; taking a classic art form and modernizing it for our generation. And I dig that. And the clean lines that quilting lends itself to totally fits in with my point of view as a designer (to reference the fabulous Heidi and Tim).

And that about sums it up! I expect that this blog will consist of mostly my sewing escapades (cue Janet Jackson and 8th grade memories), but will probably bleed into some cooking, decorating, and other things I do to keep myself sane whilst taking care of the short people all day.