T-Shirt Quilt

Here is the T-shirt quilt I made with my shirts from training/running for the marathon last year. I had been saving them in hopes that Ammi would make me a quilt, but in the end, I thought I could do one myself and I did. Hers would have looked a lot better, but I am proud of my first try at something this big!

The kids PJs for Christmas

Another sewing project complete :)

Video tour of Nursery

Here is a tour of the nursery...

Photo Tour of the Nursery

Walking into the nursery. The tall dresser is on the left and my rocking chair that I got from my birthday... The crib with the monkey hooks hung from the tall dresser.

The crib and the small dresser. The afghan that Debbie, Mary and Beth made for me hung over the side.

The view of the entire room...

Its small space but we have everything we need in this small space. Now we just need our baby to live in this space. One more week until my due date :)

Keeping Busy

So I found this tutorial about changing T-shirts to Newborn gowns and thought...we don't have any t-shirts left that we could do this with, but I thought they were incredibly cute. Then I thought about how we have no OSU gear for this baby and thought that the local Goodwill would have plenty of OSU shirts that would be perfect for this. So that is exactly what I did. I bought three OSU shirts and a Yankee shirt (because although we have some of those already, you can never have enough Yankee gear). After making the first four gowns, J thought they were so cute that he felt he had to give a shirt to my craft and thus the Goonies gown was made. Enjoy the pics and let me know if you want me to make one for a baby near you...just send me a shirt :)

Oh yea, and I made our little one her Christmas PJ pants. I don't know why the pattern made the pant legs so wide...They will look like a cute skort :)

Best of Columbus as decided by my husband

So after reading This Week Community Newspapers annual top picks for Columbus here, J was very upset. He felt that these choice did not really reflect the best that Columbus had to offer so he decided that he wanted his voice to be heard. Here is what he thought were the best of Columbus' resturants by category (if no runner up is listed, its because J couldn't think of one):

BEST SUSHI: Akai Hana
Runner up: Haiku


BEST BARBECUE: City Barbeque
Runner up:

BEST FINE DINING: it was Roasendales/now G. Michael's
Runner up: Alana's/Deepwood

BEST CASUAL DINING: Press Grill
Runner up: The Rossi

BEST BREAKFAST: Cafe Corner
Runner up: DK Diner

BEST LUNCH: North Market
Runner up: King Ave. Five

BEST STEAK HOUSE: Hyde Park
Runner up: Mitchell's

BEST SEAFOOD: Ocean Club
Runner up: The Fish Guys

BEST NEW RESTAURANT: Dirty Franks
Runner up: Sage Bistro

BEST VEGETARIAN OFFERINGS: Northstar Cafe
Runner up:


BEST TAVERN: Bar Louie in Arena District
Runner up: Grandview Cafe

BEST PIZZA: Adriaticos
Runner up: Marcella's

BEST ITALIAN: Basi Italia
Runner up: Martini

BEST CHINESE: Happy Dragon
Runner up: Hunan Lion

BEST INDIAN: "The Indian Place in the North Market" AKA the only Indian J has had in Columbus
Runner up:


BEST MEXICAN: Cuco's
Runner up: La Michocana

BEST GREEK: Happy Greek
Runner up: Easy Street Cafe

BEST DINER: Starliner Diner
Runner up: Cap City/Tommy's

BEST BAGELS: Block's
Runner up: Tasi when they order from H & H bagel in NY

BEST SALADS: Betty's
Runner up: Northstar

BEST SUBS (SANDWICHES): Barry's in the North Market
Runner up: Katzingers

BEST DESSERTS: Cuco's

runner up: Cafe Corner's breakfast burrito

BEST SOUPS: Old Mohawk
Runner up: Claddah

BEST BURGERS: Thurman Cafe
Runner up: Gahanna Grill

BEST ICE CREAM PARLOR: Jeni's
Runner up: Handels

BEST COFFEE HOUSE: Stauf's
Runner up: Cup o Joe

BEST PATIO: Park Street Patio
Runner up: Basi Italia

BEST HOT DOGS: Dirty Franks
Runner up: Wholly Joe's

BEST WINGS: Rooster's

Runner up: Mac's

Finally what we were looking for

After a drive that took quite awhile, we made it to Oia and had a chance to stroll the streets and shops and we are now sitting and watching the sunset. This is the town we were expecting in greece.