As some of you might have seen in my Flickr stream I finished up a bunch of projects for Nikki & baby Elena. I was worried she might show up this week so I had to get done before she got here. Luckily it looks like we have a little longer to wait before we get to meet Elena. 

Here’s the finished diaper bag, which I had finished before Nik’s shower last month, but now the strap has been shortened to Nikki length [as always click the image for larger versions]

Then I made this matching changing pad. It has 3 pockets for diapers, wipes, creams, hand sanitizer .. rubber gloves .. anything you could possibly need to change a baby. The pad part even attaches by velcro so that you can throw that part in the wash

Here’s a peek at the goodies inside the bag.

I embroidered a couple burp cloths

and a few newborn onsies for Elena

I’m really happy with the way everything came out .. and the tiny onsies .. seriously adorable!!

Yep .. I took the sewing machine to our local repair shop yesterday .. and it worked totally fine. Yeah .. my sewing machine made me look like an idiot in front of the nice sewing machine guy. But hey, at least it works. Yesterday I finished my first apron to put up on etsy (FINALLY), embroidered both Belle & Ella’s future quilts, and finished Belle’s quilt top. I LOVE Belle’s quilt .. it was seriously the easiest one yet, but the colors and theme .. it just looks fantastic put together. I can’t wait to show it off. I’m going to try to finish Ella’s quilt before she stops by on Thursday, I should be able to get it done if I don’t clean tomorrow (this place is disgusting and needs to be scrubbed down badly)

Sean woke me up for the shuttle launch last night .. it was so beautiful. There was a thick layer of clouds, almost like fog but really really high. When the rockets ignited the whole sky turned yellow, almost daylight. It was amazing. It didn’t last long because of the clouds, but I think we could actually see a little more of its path to orbit then everybody at KSC. I was kicking myself the entire time that I hadn’t brought my camera out with me, but to put together my camera, tripod and find my remote switch at 2:20am was just too much to think about. Next time I’ll set my camera up before going to bed. Hopefully there will be a next time Oh! And I happened to put on HDNet after the launch to see their coverage .. they had 5 or 6 HD cameras set up capturing at different angles and different locations .. 2 of which were from a distance with water & marsh between the camera and the shuttle .. seriously beautiful images. I have no idea when or if you’ll be able to see those .. but def. tune into HD Net after the next launch because they have some beautiful shots. Oh heck yeah – http://www.hd.net/ – they’re replaying at 10pm tonight .. hopefully they’ll continue to replay it and you’ll be able to DVR it.

UPDATE – Liz picked StudioElla as her new photography name .. and her site should be up and running soon!

Another successful sewing night! Today I put together what hopefully will be Big Boy’s halloween costume, although it needs alot of altering. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix it and get Little Girl’s costume together tonight or tomorrow. Tuesday I also made my first quilt .. its not complete because I decided I want to add batting that didn’t come with the quilt .. but that’s the only part missing.

I just finished up this diaper bag for Gavyn Eising .. it probably my most advanced project I’ve done yet .. but I think it came out alright It has 2 pockets for diapers and wipes, 2 smaller pockets for your cellphone, a detachable & insulated bottle holder, and 2 zippered pockets (my first time with zippers, yay!) and its all compact and cool enough for even daddy to use.

After finishing the Eising’s bag, I decided to throw something together for Ella since I’m heading down for a visit this afternoon. My machine does embroidery, but before this morning, I could not get it to work right for the life of me. All that changed today though, I apparently was using the wrong needle. Anyway, here’s my personalized, reversible, and fuzzy little bag for Ella Click on the pictures to see bigger versions!