End of the Year Sews

imashelleyhill
Dec 29, 2021
3 min read

It's the week after Christmas, and I'm not going to kid myself. This is probably the last little blurb I write for the year.

So I'm just gonna show off all the little things I've made.......that I CAN share right now. *wink*

Yeah, they're all Eden, and some cute mashes of patterns, mostly mine.

But just know that soon enough I'll get to share more of my kiddos.

Most of these are Christmas outfits, and she has been wearing them all season.

We've loved every moment of it!

I love.....that at the beginning of the year, I was testing patterns and strike sewing....

....which was always amazing and exciting and so much fun.

...and yet now I have enough patterns released that I can mash them however I want.

Guys.......I hated this year.

I still hate this year.

I'll hate this year ten years from now.

This will always be the year that I was supposed to return to my favorite place in the entire world, and be with some of my best friends I've ever had......and DIDN'T.

This was the year that Eden got through her chronic benign neutropenia, and was STILL told NO, with no reason.

This is the year that she was considered 'too sick' to go to a first world country with excellent medical care....and has not required a single moment of medical care the entire rest of the year.

So what did we do?

I went insane.

On top of continuing our homeschooling adventure, we bought a 100yr old home that needs updates.

It's a gorgeous home, it is. It's completely livable and comfortable.

We completely redid all of the hardwood flooring...a massive project that took us about 3 weeks before we moved in.

After our giant scramble of household goods (what a MESS), we got all of our belongings that DIDN'T go to Japan without us moved in with the help of friends we hadn't even MET yet!

And then....just a day or two later, Greg left for Japan without us.

I spent a while unpacking boxes (I only have a few left!) but also began updating work.

I started with the stair spindles, just because they were fast and easy, and I needed fast and easy because we also started homeschool community the same week.

Ooooh, oh yeah.......Also my second pattern released that week too...

How could I forget that in the middle of crazy, I decided to learn how to draft and write sewing patterns??

I think it's going well. Probably.

I do love to design my own stuff, and Eden is the perfect doll model (even though she can't take a 'normal' picture).

Anyways, the rest of the year was mostly just tons of school, getting the dining room finished (last finishing touch was completed Christmas Eve!), lots of work, lots of feeling sad that all my friends were hanging out without me. You know, normal stuff.

This next year...maybe it'll be better. Hopefully.

Greg will be returning stateside. We have an idea of where he will be coming, and it's closer than California, so yay. (Don't ask, you know I won't tell till it's more official than 'penciled in'.)

Celestes bird collection began laying eggs, so that's cool too.

As I'm writing this, Kevin and Richard are building my master bathroom, getting it prepped for me. I hired them for complete demo, and building/prepping. I will be doing all the the tiling and mudding and painting work. Stuff I know how to do.