it's a bird! it's a plane!

no, it's the super brothers!!

well, the boys' superhero capes are finished! i started them about 9pm last night and didn't get done until 1:30am due to several mishaps. mainly, the material that i chose. while it's nice and flowy for a cape, it's not nice to sew! it's some sort of polyester (no i didn't look at what it was, i just let the boys pick the colors) and my machine hated it. i mean hated it. it kept pulling and as it sewed my machine was making this clicking/clanging noise. hated it. so while i had originally planned on just using the serger overedge stitch to finish the edges, my machine did not like that idea and i ended up having to use bias tape. thankfully i had 2 unopened packages of a golden yellow, double folded bias tape and it was exactly enough for bubba and pooks cape.

 the design was very simple. i decided that i wanted it to fasten with velcro so that pooks could do ''it all by myself''. well after deciding on velcro i kinda realized that essentially a cape that velcros is a backwards bib. i mean it fastens exactly like bib but because it's a cape, it gets longer and wider and is drastically longer. here they are all laid out and finished.

peanut's cape is different. since i knew he would be growing out of his so quickly, i simply put his together using the leftover material from his brothers thus making his reversible. when he's a bit older (and taller) i'll make him one just like his brothers. he really likes it though. he watches bubba and pooks run, then he pulls on the bottom of his cape and follows. as if to say ''hey, i have one too!!"

as an after thought, i quickly made an eye mask out of some leftover yellow felt. it was a no-sew, three-minute add on that bubba insisted on. you know ''so people can't know that it's me". they ran around for about an hour this morning, rescuing, jumping and bumping into things.

  

 

total cost of the project was $10.66 (for the material). 3 capes for $10 and a few hours work? score! i already had the bias tape, thread, velcro and even the scrap yellow fabric for the tabs. i think it was a success! bubba did tell me that he wants lightning on the back of his, so we'll work on making up an emblem.

all yours for the low low price of...

$10.00?

no, not the cookies but the super cool Wilton cookie cutter set that i purchased yesterday. and when i say cookie cutter set, you have to read between the lines. what i'm really saying is "a huge ass box of 101 cookie cutters for any and every occasion and maybe even some that you will never actually use''. whew! seriously, i bought this little gem at wal-mart for $10 even. i'm not even kidding folks, these are all the cutters:

have you ever been in the middle of making cookies and thought ''damn, where is my fish shaped cookie cutter?". yeah, me neither. but now we could make fish shaped cookies, if we wanted too. or we could use 3 different heart cutters as well as the x and the o, and make a batch of valentines day cookies. a month early. which we did, today. the boys were super excited.

as you can tell by the cookies and the older boys' place-mats, we don't waste anytime moving on to the next holiday. it helps that i ♥ valentine's day. okay, really there isn't a holiday that i don't like and unlike my neighbors who are annoying the crap out of me by still having a scarecrow hanging on their front door we are pretty festive; we even have a valentines day sign on our front door.

and the best part? the cookies were pretty yummy too!

my little superheros

lately bubba and pooks have been obsessed with superheros. they love to have me tie on a blanket on them and they run around the entire house saying things like ''to the wescue'' and ''i save you mommy''. they absolutely love it. and i love it! it's great seeing their imaginations at work, saying things like ''teamwork'' and pretending to save their youngest brother. even watching pooks climb up onto the sofa only to jump off again is cute.

the fact that bubba feels the need to wear his glasses while he's a superhero is adorable (he wears them because he doesn't have a mask, apparently).

wanna know what isn't cute and fun about this whole superhero fetish? tying and retying the blanket every 2.6 seconds per kid. it doesn't matter if i'm cooking dinner, changing pooks...they need it fixed and they need it fixed now!

after searching etsy and finding capes for $20 each (plus shipping) i realized that while $20 isn't bad, for 2 capes we're looking at $40 just so i don't have to re-tie a blanket? i think not.

so folks, it's that time again. much like the aprons and the i-spy bags i'm going to bust out my sewing machine and (as pooks says all the time) just "do it all by myself." i already have it all planned out in my head as to how i'm going to do it and i'm planning on running to jo-ann's tomorrow to get the fabric. i'm thinking either a satin or a polyester satiny type (which might be easier for this amateur to sew).

i'll hopefully have something worthy of sharing in a couple days!

punk juice

actual conversation between myself and bubba yesterday after school.

bubba: i ate all my snack at school today mom!
me: cool, what did you have today?
bubba: um..a banana, cwackers and punk juice. it was super yummy.
me: a banana, crackers and what kind of juice?
bubba: punk juice mom.
me: hmm...what color was it?
bubba: it was red punk juice, just punk juice mom, yike fruit punk juice.
me: oh, you mean fruit punch?
bubba: yeah...fruit punk. it was so super yummy!

i just ♥ that kid!

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