Yay! I can show you the baby stuff I made last week now that the adorable mother-to-be has seen it. Embellishing onesies with fabric applique? SO cute and fun.
And because I’m an outfit kind of girl, I made two wee onesie & trouser sets for various adventures like surfing and sailing.
If you like to sew and know any small people (or people having them), get yourself some baby patterns and go nuts, it is seriously so much fun and so satisfying to make wee tiny things! Plus you don’t need to commit to huge amounts of fabric, and you can use favorite scraps for appliques. There was also an arts and crafts portion of the shower (a hostess after my own heart!) where everyone made sweet wooden picture frames and onesies embellished with fabric paint-pens. An extra pack of slightly larger onesies escaped decoration somehow, so I got ahold of them for further onesie madness chez belle epoque. Hooray!
I always enjoy L.A., even though almost all of my trips have been super short (hardly ever more than 2 nights). Typically I am with nice people who drive me around and take me places so I don’t stress out about the traffic and figuring out where I’m going. For this trip, Camilla printed out a very efficient and excellent list of places to visit and how to get there (she’s awesome), so I got to trail along with her and look at pretty things. I’ll let her write about the highlights as far as shops were concerned, since she did all of the research.
One thing I will recommend, though, is going for Persian food at Shaherzad. Oh my gosh, it was AMAZING. The mother-to-be had been telling us about this restaurant for years, and it lived up to every mouth-watering word. Yum.
Before I get back to work, I want to say how thrilled I am to see how you guys are using the tutorials! If you’ve made something and haven’t posted it to the Flickr group yet, please do. Thank you, and GREAT job, to Rebecca, Laura, Carmen and Joyce, who have shared their creations over there- they are very inspiring.