WooHoo! I'm a winner!!!

I was surfing the web, looking at purchasing the newest Studio Tantrum Feliz pattern and I came across this blog. And what to my wonderful eyes did I see? A giveaway! For the Feliz pattern and for Farbenmix Anna pattern!

It's to help celebrate the beginning of Farbenwiki!

So go on, visit Sarah over at the her Jinjur blog, she'll be giving away three more copies of Feliz and Anna on Fridays for the next 3 weeks! All you need to do is leave a comment and you too could be a WINNER!

Farbenmix Olivia turns into a waterproof fleece hoodie

So as the weather is changing here in good ol' Portland, I realized that Mad hardly has any long sleeves.Especially ones that she can wear over a shirt out in the rain.

I was going through my patterns and knew that Olivia works well for a shirt/hoodie with just a knit fabric. (see previous post of Carson wearing his knotted hooded shirt)

I figured why not make one for Mad. I did cut the hat down a bit (about 2" off the top) and rounded the back of the hood, taking off the knots. I also used a long sleeve that I knew I liked the length of. So off I went and took the Olivia pattern 98/104 and chopped the "skirt" portion off and instead of curving the sides, I straightened them out. I also had to cut the neckline larger to fit her head. (did this before sewing on the hood, good thing I checked, I would have hated to have to rip the hood off!)


If I were to do it again, I would make it a size bigger, as the fabric stretches, but not too much and it's kind of tight on her.

Pics to come, need to charge the camera.

eggs and tomatoes

So I don't think I ever mentioned that Tonks (the americauna) started laying eggs. Her eggs are a green color and darken up when they go in the fridge. We've probably gotten a dozen or so eggs from her since she started laying.

Honestly it could be more, I've lost count and we've given some away already.

Well this morning, Luna layed her first egg. It was a peachy color. Very different than Buckbeak, as her's are brown speckled.

I'm excited that all my girls are laying and can't wait to start making more then scrambled eggs with them.

We planted 4 tomato plants this year, 1 beafsteak variety and 3 regulars. One of the regular ones is now over 5 ft tall, closer to 6 feet and the other 2 regulars are around 5 ft tall. The beafsteak is a short guy around 3ft. The tomatoes off of the tallest plant are actually bigger then the beafsteak.
I think because of our wierd summer, most of the tomatoes are still green, but we do get about a dozen tomatoes off the plants a week. And they are still blooming. I think I need to cut the flowers so that I can further along the fruit that is already growing. Anyone know? I really don't want to have a bunch of green tomatoes before fall hits. I've heard that I can cut off the green ones and put them in a bag in a dark place to help ripen them? What about fruit flies? what if I forget where they're at? Okay I'd probably remember where cause there'd be flies everywhere.

Anyways, this morning we are having tomato omlettes with homegrown eggs and tomatoes :)

It's all good.