When you're trapped inside your house...

If your car is burried, like so:

(This is even AFTER we dug it out.... just a few days later)

Seriously!!! I am so tired of this evil white stuff! It makes my car die and leaves me and my rambunctious 1 1/2 year old at home to fend for ourselves. Although... I have to say that it has forced me to become a little more creative. I got a sewing machine for Christmas and I had NO idea how to use it. I still am not 100% sure I'm using it correctly. I don't have any fabric, pins or even a decent pair of scissors, but that makes it even more exciting! Searching the house for materials or creating something out of nothing (well I guess that's impossible, but you know what I'm saying). So far I've made:

• A tiny quilt (made from a couple of old pillowcases that we had lying around) For Layla's Babies.
• A sundress for Layla's water baby (although Layla prefers this baby naked and as soon as she saw it wearing clothes, she made sure to strip her).
• A quilted purse/bag for Layla or her baby (it's really small)
• A tiny, tiny pillow 
• and.... a shirt for Layla! 

Surprised you there, didn't I? Okay, maybe not, but I certainly surprised myself! Seriously this is a girl who didn't even know what a bobbin was and didn't even realize that thread came from underneath the needle! I was looking through my closet for old clothes that I could use to play with and saw a cute shirt that had a rather large hole at the bottom. I didn't want to part with the shirt being a shirt, so I just miniaturized it. I cut it up and sewed it back together smaller. Ta da! Please realize that this is after a long day of playing... it's a little scrunched from Layla doing her daily flips and handstands. 

Wait... Did you really think she could do those? Nope. But she's working on it.

Oh, and I used a lot of my scrap ribbon to make a few bows. Just out of pure boredom.

I'm not really sure how modest this shirt would look without another one underneath it, but I think it's actually cute enough to wear out in public... assuming that we'll get out in public again someday.