Ugh.. why am I embroidering again?

The nice part of being a second-time-around mom, is that breastfeeding has been fairly easy.  With my twins, I had to pump for the first weeks while my girls were in the NICU and then we hired a lactation consultant to come to our home to help me master the "womanly art of breastfeeding."  Which for moms of twins is code for being topless 20 hours out of the day.  For realsies.  Like, I once was a split second away from answering the door with both of my boobs out.  Trust me that all parties involved would have been horrified!

Anyhoo, all that to say that while I am still sitting on my bum for countless hours each day, the feedings themselves are much easier.  Except now while I am nursing during the day I am also reading "Go Dog Go" to one toddler while giving the other a horsey ride on my legs.  Sometimes.  It is not always as crazy as all that. But c'mon ya'll?  What's the point of having three kids under age 2 if I can't shock people a tiny bit?  And off topic, but one afternoon last week I unhooked my nursing tank top and a pacifier fell out.  It had somehow fallen in and had been hanging out, unnoticed, since the last feeding.  Of course it was instantly snatched up by a happy toddler!  And no, I did not bother to sanitize it!  Duh.  These nursing boobs continue to delight and horrify. 

 In the evenings, when the twins are asleep, Clara likes to feed a lot.  I think she likes to nurse best when it is quiet.  So to keep myself somewhat busy, I have been embroidering while watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (my newest Netflix obsession!).  To be honest, I don't love embroidery.  I think it is something I will love someday whem I am 50 years older than I am now.  Like cross-stitching, I think these needlecrafts are kind of "old lady" crafts.  But I really love the look of vintage-inspired embroidery.  So I made a little something for our living room.

We have lived in this apartment for almost a year and I have very few things hanging on the wall.  I'm not sure why that is.  Last week I decided that if we are going to stay in this COZY place for another year or so then I need to decorate more.  I spend 75% of my cold winter days in the living room, so it seems like a logical starting point.  Enter what I am calling our "happily embroidered family."

 The design for the faces is not my own, it is from a beautiful book called Zakka Style that you can find here.  It is a really wonderful book full of gorgeous projects.  This embroidery design is really for mini-handwarmers which I easily adapted for this simple project.


For my project, I had three circular cork boards from IKEA.  I bought them on a whim a couple of weeks ago because well, that's what happens at IKEA!  Then I simply cut out pieces of circular fabric, embroidered the design and glued them to the boards.  All for under $3!  I feel okay about them.  I'm not in love.  I am somewhat of a lazy embroiderer and have only ever learned to backstitch.  But I kinda dig the rustic look they have.  Next time, if there were going to be a next time, I would have done a better job of hiding my stitches in the back.  You can see them through the white fabric.  But ehh... I'm shrugging my shoulders a bit because I'm really not a perfectionist.  And these mini cork boards are going to be used for pinning up messages and reminders.  So they can be a bit rough. 

This is me!

My sweet husband, Arturo.

 

And our three little loves.

 



My plan is to hang them in a cluster near a family photo.  I meant to hang them up today and snap a picture, but wonder of all wonders, my toddlers took a 3 hour nap!  No way was I messing with that by pounding nails in the wall!  And by the time they woke up, the sun was no longer at its peak.  But I think you can get the idea.  I know that posting amaturish projects to a craft blog is probably not the best way to acquire readers, but that's okay.  Why pretend that I am perfect?  I have limited free time right now, and this is the one craft project that I finished last week and I am okay with that for now.  Maybe you will subscribe to this blog for more stories about boobs, eh?  Or maybe to see more photos of my kid looking like Zoolander?

This is completely unposed by the way.


Regardless, I am glad you are here reading this.  Just trying to stay afloat and enjoy this crazy stage of life!  Writing and sharing on this blog helps.  Here is a peek at what my COZY apartment usually looks like by the afternoon. 

My life is crazy but it is also overflowing with goodness and giggles and an enormous amount of poopy diapers.  So onward I will sew.  Anyone else ever find weird things in their nursing bras?  And please please please tell me that other people let their homes get to this level of crazy?