Babies legs are just about the cutest things ever. They are so rolly polly and just adorable. What better way to cover them up that with some baby leggings! Baby Legs is a company that makes these cute leggings but I (along with many other mothers out there) found that you can make them really cheaply.
What you need:
A pair of ladies knee socks in a cute pattern
Scissors
Thats it.
(I do this the easy way, there are other ways that involve sewing but seeing as I am not as talented on a sewing machine as my mother, this way works fine.)
All you need to do it take the sock and cut above the foot portion of the sock and you are finished. The bottom end rolls up a bit (as you can see on the one above because Hailey has already been wearing them) and doesn’t fray at all.
I found really cheap socks a pack of 2 for $5 and bought 2 different packs. So I paid $10 for 4 pairs and buying them it costs around $18. We do have 1 pair of real Baby Legs that Hailey received as a gift and I think they stay up a bit better, than the homemade ones but there’s not really a huge difference.
Hailey update:
She’s getting really great at sleeping- averaging about 6 hours a night-from 10-4 than she wakes up for a feed and goes back down from about 4:40-7. I feel a lot more rested now- still a bit sleepy during the day but it’s so much nicer than before. She still loves to nap during the day, but started doing this weird wake up and scream after 20 min, I’d have to go in and rock her back to sleep and would sleep for a bit longer. Her 6 week growth spurt was horrible. A few days full of crying and eating constantly (I felt like my shirt was off all day long), and now that we are over the growth spurt I feel like we can concur anything!
Hailey LOVES bath time, and sleeps really well after them. She’s playing a bit more now, we have a little play mat for her and I bought her a lamaze horse (Trotter the pony) which she loves.
Hailey is 6.5 weeks old. Shes up to 11 lbs 8 oz and is 23 inches long. She’s in the 75-90 percentile for her age.
She’s growing like a weed and having lots of fun!
I spent two days in Toronto last week driving around to random locations to mail things, or meet people for lunch and I didn’t get lost once. I even directed Micaela around, and she has lived in TO for almost a year (she would be lost without me, friends). When I was driving around (and not getting lost) I mentally high-fived myself and called Micaela to exclaim how awesome I was – because I had never even driven around Toronto alone before. It was like Google implanted Google maps into my brain as a magical prototype of human built-in GPS. Well, Google, thank you – being great at navigation really helped me a lot last week.
You want to know what else I am really good at? (No? Shocking. I’m going to tell you anyway). SLEEPING. I love sleeping. I am also really good at it – give me a pillow and a blanket and a hardwood floor and I am golden. Give me a pillow and a blanket and the floor of the busiest dance club in town on a Saturday night and I will snore away.
Since navigation and sleeping are my two best skills, that can only lead to one thing – I should become a professional traveler. A citizen of the world. I will navigate my way around any city or countryside and will sleep on any train, horse-drawn wagon or even the basket of my bicycle.
First up?
Paris. The girls and I went to Paris with our Mom about 10 years ago and I Paris, well, I loved all of France. I would live there in a heartbeat.
Me and the Eiffel tower are like two peas in the pod.
But why would I stop at Earth? I could definitely sleep in a space shuttle, even during take-off.
Me in space.
That is all, my apologies for wasting your time but I drive around a lot for work and these are actually the things I think about while on the road driving from client to client. Sometimes I forget to turn on the radio and then my imagination gets a little weird. And when you are a blogger, you just have to write these things down. You just do.
I love reading fashion blogs (and I know I’m not the only blonde who does!) but I don’t often think to write about my own fashion. I love clothes and dressing up or dressing fun, but my fashion sense is not overly keen or groundbreaking. I like clothes that are comfortable and cute, as well as easy to wear. I love finding unique pieces, and finding clothing at secondhand stores, and especially clothes that are surprising.
I’m hoping to do more of this (especially as springtime arrives) and encouraging my sisters to do it as well!
Sweater: Groggy - from a store in Calgary that is no longer open. //Scarf: Gap // Flower necklace: Forever 21 // Bracelet: Micaela’s dresser // Leggings: Jacob // Boots: Ecco, from another store that is no longer in existence (thanks, economy).
Also, I’m a giant. Okay, I’m 5′10″ but this photo very much accentuates my height.
Messy hair! I kind of like it that way …
A photo that didn’t turn out too well, but I still liked it.
I found some amazeballs boots for Micaela that day and forced her to buy them so I hope she blogs about them soon! (Hint, hint)
Lately I haven’t been loving shopping like I once did. I guess it’s a variety of reasons, for one, I didn’t have a very good job for a while and before that was in school so I didn’t shop much. Now that I’m out of the habit I’m finding it hard. The big reason is probably that there are SO many nice stores here in Toronto that have beautiful clothes in the windows and draw me into them, but once I get inside I realize that a t-shirt costs $150… I can’t do that.
Another bad habit I have is only buying clothes that are on sale. This probably sounds like a good habit, but for me it’s not. I looove finding a really good deal (who doesn’t???) but in my case if something is 50% off I seem to think it’s okay if I like it 50% less than the clothes that aren’t on sale. This leaves me with a closet full of things I only like 50%. Buying clothes that aren’t on sale is really hard for me, but I’m trying.
My last problem is that I’m just plain picky… and that the things I like in stores aren’t always what I actually want to wear in everyday life. I’m drawn to black and white, but when I’m looking in my closet for thing to wear to teach, black dress pants and a white shirt feels so boring. I’m picky when it come to colour though, and am generally not drawn to prints. I just don’t seem to love most things out there right now, but I need some nice clothes for my new big girl job.
Today while wandering around the mall, I decided that there should be one perfect brand for me that would never let me down. One designer who, it feels like, shares the exact same style as me. Their clothes would be girly and flowy with lots of floaty top and dresses, and not overly cheap or expensive. When I needed something new I would just know that this designer wouldn’t let me down and I wouldn’t have to look anywhere else unless I really just felt like going shopping.
Interestingly enough, today in The Bay I found a designer – Rachel Roy,that might fit the bill. I definitely don’t love everything, but the ratio of things I like to don’t like is much higher than in most stores. This shirt feels like it was meant for me – flowy, casual, different colours without having a print:
(I think part of the reason for my frustrated state was that I was rocking messy hair and no makeup with tights and a sweatshirt when everyone else at the mall looked so good.)
I’m looking at the Rachel Roy website now and there’s a bunch that I like:
Now that I’ve looked at everything on the website, lot of it is much more funky/edgy than what I would wear but I looove these especially the second and last photos I posted. I don’t think she’s my perfect designer after all, but these are definitely perfect for me. Although I didn’t realize my first pick was a romper until I’d already posted it. I don’t know if I could do that without feeling like a 5 year old. My legs are pretty long. Maybe?
What’s your approach to shopping? Is there a store or designer that never lets you down or do you like to look at everything?
