Little Diva

Yay Olympics! I know, I'm totally nerdy (but wasn't that already a given? Data Analyst + Seamstress = Ultimate Dork) but I get so excited for the Olympics! Opening ceremony tonight - I'm DVR-ing as I write so I can just skim through the commercials. Thank God for modern technology.

I've had a heck of a week. My hurricane of a daughter managed to rip off a good portion of the wallpaper border in her bedroom. There's no fixing that! She dumped the following into the toilet: her toothbrush, my toothbrush and toothpaste, a dirty diaper (ew), my hairspray, and her shoe. I'm trying to simply be grateful that it wasn't a plugged in hairdryer. My other daughter somehow managed to chip her tooth today, and yesterday my oldest son underwent major reconstructive surgery on his face. Yeah...it was one of THOSE weeks. The good news is that my hurricane daughter didn't electrocute herself, my older daughter still has all of her teeth (chips and all) and my oldest son is doing well after his surgery and is healing on both the inside and the outside. The weather has been reasonably good (considering the rest of the country is under snow - even Florida!) and when we did get snow I was actually able to PLOW instead of shovel for once! woo hoo!! Turns out that plowing with the four-wheeler is a total blast and I don't know why I ever let my husband have all the fun! He's sooooo fired!

So...not sure if anybody was paying attention last week, but I promised to debut my newest creation! Here is the When I Grow Up...Diva Edition! I actually dreamed up this outfit over a month ago and it turned out exactly how I wanted it to! It's a sassy halter dress with a pair of double ruffled peddle-pusher pants, matching headbow, and matching purse! I want to say this is part of Nadja's closet for school but I just read the other day that halters are against her school's dress code. BOO! HISS! Oh well, it still rocks and she will get plenty of use out of it nonetheless!





Here's an updated picture of the Riley Peasant Blouse with a pair of Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Pants. I love the pants, but for some reason the name just makes me smile at my attempt at cleverness. Plus, it's probably somewhat appropriate for Valentine's Day, right?



I think most moms sincerely believe that their little girls could be America's Next Top Model (Toddler Edition) but I wouldn't wish that on anybody. My little models HATE taking pictures and the second they see the camera they both burst into tears. The pictures you see are, sadly, the BEST of them, with a lot of bribing, yelling, crying (on my part sometimes) involved. See what I do for you, blog reader? I guess I bring this up so that you'll all have mercy on me when you see a cruddy picture and give me the benefit of the doubt that the clothes really look better in person and on a happy child! I promise!

Here's hoping you all have a Happy Valentine's Day and that each of you are as pampered as you deserve to be!