~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~

Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here.  But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some 420 or 30 pages long – a challenging story to reconstruct.  An amazingly satisfying piece of work, but not something many other people are going to care about.

I think I have become a “Pinterest mom.” Not sure I want to admit it, but  – Gin made me start using the thing, and I’ve stored a lot of life “clip art” there.  I’m not much of an idea generator, but I can run with ideas – in fact, the second I see something that speaks to my creative engine, the thing kicks in and I start gathering the raw materials that just might satisfy the vision.

I think I have always wanted to sew for grandkids.  Not on a large scale; more like satisfying the cuteness quotient of my creative imperative.   So when I saw this little Halloween dress someone had made, and pinned it so I’d remember, I determined to make something out of the idea – make it for Andy. Months later, after I’d bought fabric and ruminated on the concept for a while, I went back to the original picture and found that my own version was WAY different.  Surprised me.  So – I made it.  And then I made one for the baby.  And knowing that Scoots would not take being left out gracefully, figured out something for him, too.

And here are the pictures.  I took a lot of them.  Big surprise.