~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~

Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here.  But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some 420 or 30 pages long – a challenging story to reconstruct.  An amazingly satisfying piece of work, but not something many other people are going to care about.

I think I have become a “Pinterest mom.” Not sure I want to admit it, but  – Gin made me start using the thing, and I’ve stored a lot of life “clip art” there.  I’m not much of an idea generator, but I can run with ideas – in fact, the second I see something that speaks to my creative engine, the thing kicks in and I start gathering the raw materials that just might satisfy the vision.

I think I have always wanted to sew for grandkids.  Not on a large scale; more like satisfying the cuteness quotient of my creative imperative.   So when I saw this little Halloween dress someone had made, and pinned it so I’d remember, I determined to make something out of the idea – make it for Andy. Months later, after I’d bought fabric and ruminated on the concept for a while, I went back to the original picture and found that my own version was WAY different.  Surprised me.  So – I made it.  And then I made one for the baby.  And knowing that Scoots would not take being left out gracefully, figured out something for him, too.

And here are the pictures.  I took a lot of them.  Big surprise.

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Somewhere, someone taught Andy to pose with a hand on her hip, weight thrown to the side. We cannot figure out where this came from.  Gigi is under no such constraint. Scooter’s shirt sports the same pumpkin face but with added spider and bat on the shoulders.

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I love this one.

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I wanted some camera-verite, so I added another shot to my collection of  “Portraits of Cam in motion.”

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This whole black and orange thing was a happy coincidence.  I just showed up with the clothes and announced that we were now going to take PICTURES.

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These two people seem to go together pretty well, non?

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Such a simple little dress, but what a great little girl.

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We end with the pint-sized version.  So feel free to tell me I done good.  Cause I did, didn’t I?  Yes?  I thought so.

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