oliphant

an elephant i made for isaac. with some inspiration from the pointy kitty and from homemade by jill, i drew my own pattern. which turned out much better than the sarcastical bear.

except that i really need to buy some proper stuffing instead of old sweatshirts so that the elephant will stay standing

the elephant without ears. i kind of liked him without.

oh and notice the poor neglected quilt in the background? so much for done by february.

baby shoes

my latest addiction. top pair is for baby jael and the bottom is for baby amaylia who has the curliest hair on a little baby i have ever seen.

i love making these. unlike quilts that take over a year or so to complete. these take an hour or so. well sometimes two hours if you have to stop and feed the baby. here's where i got the pattern.

a smocked dress

mallory trying out a dress i made for her. oh the smocking was soo hard. ok not. it was the easiest thing to make. it came already smocked, so all i had to do was hem it, and sew up the back, and attach bias tape. the hardest part for me was sewing straight on the bias tape. should have used ribbon.

she liked prancing around in it. though it is a little big, the shoulders kept falling down, so she rarely wears it anymore. when she gets older, as she likes to say.

oh and don't you love her expression in the last photo?

pointy kitty

a pointy kitty that i actually made for mallory, but isaac ended up with his picture taken with it. mallory will grab it away from him if she sees him with it. but he thinks it is mighty tasty.

it was a fairly straightforward project. i think i need to stuff it more in order to get the kitty to stand. or need to stuff it with proper stuffing. i used old sweatshirts that i had cut up.

Periodic table decor...

I am glad that i am not the only nerd who likes to decorate their house with periodic tables...


and doug was commenting on my duckies in my bathroom :)

here is a periodic table afghan and a periodic table quilt and a periodic table table.

for only $8550, you could own your own periodic coffee table. sweet. now to find out where i hid 9000 dollars.

cute curls, cute dress, and a cute bow

her Aunt Carma made her a bow from ribbons that matched the colors in her dress.

saw this in college...

and lost the link

but i found it again. hurray.




this is a macrophage (white blood cell) chasing Listeria monocytogenes and then eating it. yum.

i never capitalize anything anymore, but i will take the time to properly italicize and capitalize a bacterial name...hmmm...

7 strange facts about me...

this was the result of a tag, but since i didn't know if the people i tagged wanted the whole world to know their blog, i didn't post it here. but since it fit with my "theme" for this blog...the topic gets a double whammy. except that i put them in a different order.

1. i used to have the sun is a mass of incandescent gas on my answering machine
2. in my daughter's nursery, is a huge poster of the periodic table
3. the periodic table actually matches the rest of the decor. and that makes me happy.
4. i like green olives
5. i got a bachelor's in microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry, with a minor in chemistry and to top it all of, i minored in dance as well.
6. i eat chips and salsa for breakfast
7. i stay up way too late blogging

Instant Infant

my friend from college gave me this when doug and i were first married. i found it hilarious.

under where it says the perfect baby, it says:

all of the fun, practically none of the poop
virtually unlimited attention span!
cute as a frigging button
Matches most decors!

Heart Attack!

if by chance you stumbled onto this site wondering what microbes can cause heart attacks, may i suggest this article or if you are wondering about endocarditis, may i suggest this article.

anyway, if you came to this site wondering what we did for valentine's, here you go. I cut up a bunch of hearts and asked mallory who she loved, and i wrote down what she said. then we taped them up on the wall. i tried to "artistically" place them around the room, but mallory kept putting them up in the same spot. thats why there are a few large clumps. if you were wondering who got put down the most, it was uncle tom.