kcwc: days six and seven

Sunday is drawing to a close, marking the end of Kids Clothes Week Challenge.  While I didn't complete everything I had in mind, it was definitely fun to challenge myself to complete the projects.  I discovered some new blogs and loved seeing what others were stitching up for their kids.

I worked like crazy today to finish the Oliver + S Sketchbook Shirt.  I came so close!  It still needs buttonholes and buttons.  I don't have enough buttons so they will have to wait until I can make a trip to the fabric market next weekend.  Between you and me, I have a terrible history of putting on buttons -- in fact, that shirt I made for Chris many moons ago still doesn't have buttons.  It came to China in Chris's suitcase and is currently hanging in my sewing room -- now with three buttons on it.  Of course, if I procrastinate like that with this shirt, Dag will outgrow it. 

(A certain someone was too busy playing a game to model the shirt but he did agree to point to it.)

I swore, about halfway into this shirt, that I would never, ever sew another button-up shirt again.  Now that it's over, I think I'll probably do another one.  It wasn't that bad -- just a bit tedious at certain moments.

On the living-in-China front, this weekend I saw a rat running down the street (he seemed really big to me but he's the only rat I've ever seen).  Fortunately, I was on a bus; otherwise, there would have been a lot of screaming.  I found little bugs in my flour which was a bummer because I was about to make cookies.  We dumped all the flour out (sadly, a huge bag -- and I'm pretty sure it came home from the store with the bugs because most of it was stored immediately in a plastic tub, with a little bit in a Ziploc and both supplies had the aforementioned critters).  So, I walked to the local grocery store to get new flour.  They had a half-dozen different kinds of flour, none of which were marked in English.  I called Chris and asked him to look up and then describe the Chinese characters for "wheat flour."  Much ridiculousness ensued and I ended up buying two different bags.  We still aren't sure what kind of flour they are.  I did make cookies today and they were fine but a little different from last week's batch.  On my way home from the grocery store, I gave a British woman directions somewhere which felt pretty awesome.  I suppose I should admit that I got lost going to the same grocery store just two days ago.  Whatever.  It still felt good to be able to tell someone something about the neighborhood. 

Anyway, Chris just headed out for some Chinese take-out and I need to grade a few papers.  Hope you all had a great weekend!  Thanks to Meg for hosting Kids Clothes Week Challenge!