Genesis: 5th Birthday

Our little Genesis is growing up so fast!  I know all parents says that about their children, but everyone says it because it is true.  She is such a sweet and fun little girl; the perfect inbetweener for McKay and Lele.  She and McKay play wonderfully every single day, playing all sorts of games and with all sorts of toys.  Those games and toys are usually a little more 'boy-based' but she always brings the 'female touch' that all males need.  :)  She usually has her mommy and babies, or at the very least plays the little girl/sister that is both tough and needs saving at times (just like her Mom).  She also plays with Avonlea wonderfully.  Whether those 2 need to provide the dancing when music is on, or be the bad guys/gals for McKay to wrestle with, they do it together (Gensie usually needs saved and Lele does the saving).

She is doing great with her school as well.  She finished the 1st reading book we use to teach our kids to read and has moved on into the 2nd.  Below is a video of her prize for completing it. (It's a tradition; We did the same for Mckay)

Genesis birthday is Nov 23rd, but we decided to move her celebration up into Oct this year so that we didn't run into the Thanksgiving/Christmas busyness that always happens.  Besides, has there ever been a child who would NOT want their birthday to come sooner rather than later?

We were lucky enough to have Robyn visit during the very first part of Oct and she bought Genesis some pajamas as part of an early birthday gift.  Gensie LOVES them.  They are purple and blue puppy pajamas, and she has all-the-more reason to pretend to be a dog now.  In fact, she always asks to have her hair in pigtails when she is wearing them, because they are her ears when a dog.  :)  Thanks Grandma Eastin!  (Wish I had a picture, but can't find one)

For her birthday we gave her a Panda family Playmobil set (she loves her Playmobils), mommy and baby stuffed animal snakes and a new bike.

My Latest Project

 This is an antique chair I bought on craigslist March of 2012. I bought it as a project to reupholster when I got around to it. I bought another chair at the same time and have already reupholstered it so that one didn't' take me a full 3 1/2 years. I did the other chair first because it was an easier project. Last February I finally got around to taking this chair apart, and with Quinn's help we put the new fabric on. After we had completed the whole chair except the edging we decided that we should have strengthened the edge by doubling over the fabric and then stapling it.. We had enough fabric to do that but it was so hard to destroy our beautiful new work and tear it all apart, so instead we just put the chair back in the garage for another 6 months so it could haunt me every time I saw it.

Old/Original Fabric

I actually really like the original fabric but it was obviously 100 years old. One of the cushions on the arm was completely gone. The front edge of the seat looked like a cat may have sharpened some claws on it, the cushion on the seat was bent and sinking down into the bottom of the chair. But, that is the beautiful thing about re-finishing a chair you get to fix all those little things and it is so fun to enjoy the finished project.

New fabric after re upholstery

Those lines through the new fabric that look like we didn't stretch it tight enough are just tecture in the fabric. It really is stretched tight.