Most of the sweet baby booties I made when I was pregnant are no longer in use at my house. Now that Worth can pull himself up he needs grippy-footed soft-soled shoes to keep him from skidding all over our hardwood floors. This one pair does still work, though. Since I'd made this pair to fit a bigger baby, I'd had the foresight to also do something about the slipping issue. It doesn't work perfectly well, but really neither do leather soles, and it's too cold for bare feet. I sewed a felt sole onto the bottom of these booties, then used rubbery puffy fabric paint to paint little paw prints on the bottoms. The paint provides some traction on the floors and keeps Mr. Baby from whacking his head for any reason not related to his own nascent motor skills. These booties stay on with the help of red leather cord laces and are very cutely U of L-y, but unfortunately I did not think to put them on him when he made his first trip to the new stadium last week to see his first basketball game!
The real estate project is progressing nicely. We've taken care of our buyer's inspection repair quests and our seller has responded positively to ours. We're hoping for a Merry Early Christmas closing in about two weeks. In the meantime, *I think* (and I almost hate to jinx this by even blogging about it!) that our buyers are going to allow us to have a key very soon to start moving in some of our things. I'm so excited! I couldn't resist popping in on
Early Bird Thursday today at my favorite thrift shop to see if I could score some goodies for our new digs, and I totally did! A yellow bed skirt for Dorothy's new room, a little knick-knack shelf for our crafty studio, a vintage Christmas tablecloth, a rug for our studio, a mirror to hang over our dress-up box, and this little bell for my vintage Kentucky kitchen. $18 well spent, in my opinion.
Looking ahead, I think Dorothy must have an owl pillow
similar to these in her new vintage-floral bedroom. I'm pretty sure there is a sheet
in that pile just crying out to be an owl pillow. How cute are they?
I must make one of those owls!!!!! :)
ReplyDeletebtw, I'm so happy for you, but I swear if you get into your new house before I get into mine, I will die!!!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteKim, my house went up on the market this time last year!!! I've gone through showings in the last three months of pregnancy, showings with a brand new baby, and showings every single day before the tax credit expired last April. I'm not exactly getting off easy here. :) But I do hope we're both in our new homes ASAP!
ReplyDeleteNada, Brookelynn's bedroom is decorated in owls I'll have to post some pics of it up on FB and maybe I can persuade you into making her a cute Owl pillow as well :)
ReplyDeletedo they do that every Tuesday??? Because I think I need to go while I'm up next week!!! :)
ReplyDeleteMamaChef, It's on Thursdays, but you have to have the VIP card already. (You can get it on any day of the week but Thursday, and it's free, but they won't give you one during the promotion on Thursdays.) BUT, all their stuff is 25% all day every Monday, it's just more crowded in there that day. Safe travels!
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