do you hear what i hear?

said the night wind to the little lamb. do you see what i see?

christmas is in the air! last night, julia (my new roommate! welcome to dc, julia!) and i put up the christmas tree! it's but 1 foot shorter than me. however, we used the hallway mini table as a tree stand so that bunkins could not get to it. so, in the end, the tree towers over me like most trees do. the base of the tree was rather sketchy-looking because we couldn't get the stump to reach the bottom of its metal foot. instead of a tree skirt, julia cleverly used an old cloth christmas present bag that i had to wrap around the base of the tree! it looks like santa brought us a christmas tree in his sack of presents!!! i still crack up whenever i walk by the tree. hehehe even though we only have 4 ornaments on it so far, the tree does have a cute glass angel as a tree topper. i snagged it from my fav dollar store next to h mart, the korean store i frequent. growing up, our trees at home always were topped by angels who my mom believed would protect us. this little angel is a little risque- her dress is transparent! gasp!

here's one of our 4 ornaments: it's the birdie ornament i made for julia and marcus, her bf. so i lied earlier when i said that the birdies post would be next because i still haven't finished my last batch of them... so i'm going to wait until then (hopefully tonight!) before i take pics of the whole set.i finished the first of my christmas presents last night. mommy has the most ridiculous flannel pj sets from hong kong, so a while back she asked me to make her a summery pair. i found this really pretty raspberry and light blue striped thin cotton cloth from g street fabrics in the clearance section (!!!), and using the pj bottoms pattern from the weekend sewing book, i conjured up these:

the shirt was actually this $1.99 target sequined christmas tree tshirt that i found from a discount store in ct during thanksgiving break. the material was nice and the fit was femininely trim, so i snagged 3 to make summery pj tops. i ripped off the sequins and cut off the embroidery that was the tree stump and made a little faux button placket to cover up the residual glue from the sequins. the extra bold raspberry stripe was actually this ribbon that i found at home that mommy had bought in a big packet of ribbons. it was just what i needed for a background so that the buttons stood out more and were not lost in the light blue of the cloth. mommy tends to forget her belongings all over the house, so i made a kangaroo pocket to store her goods. and for the collar, i made my own bias tape from the leftover fabric. i hear there's this little tool that helps you fold bias tape easily. it looks quite like a seam ripper. everyone keep your eyes out for it for me, because it would make my life so much easier. bias tape is such a pain to make on your own. and for the bottoms, even though there was an elastic, i wanted to add a drawstring just in case the pants didn't fit mommy quite right. so, i made my own drawstring from leftover fabric and used the raspberry ribbon to cover up the seams. i love how well the ribbon goes with the fabric!as mentioned earlier, mommy gets my blog updates in her email, so i'm sure you're all wondering how i could be posting this! i was so thrilled with the results of the project that i temporarily took her off the email list just so i could make this blog post! yes, call me a dork, but i know you're wishing you had a pair of these pjs!