Just EAT it

Wednesday night we had our "Cougar Town" decor inspired workshop.

I've always coveted the letters E A T on Courtney Cox's character's kitchen wall, and after seeing the gorgeous fabric on "Dutch Girl" Jody's website, Col and I thought we'd take a stab at making them ourselves.

On a side note, if you have a sewing project in mind, you really have to check out Dutch Girl Textiles.

Jody has a collection of some really interesting and beautiful fabrics, at really decent (Canadian!) prices to boot.

I haven't been able to find many of her fabrics in shops so it's huge to be able to get them so close to home.

She's also really good at holding babies and making them fall asleep so they don't ruin workshops.

Which is an asset.

But back to the workshop.

With 12.5 workshoppers (see obligatory pregnant girl below) we kind of crammed 'em in like sardines to this one.

It was cozy.

Yeah...that's it.

Cozy.

Thankfully everyone was very easy going and willing to share.

And the end results were pretty stinking adorable.

I even made a set for my house:

Pink's not usually my bag in the kitchen, but this selection of fabric was too pretty to pass up.

A nice little touch of floral for spring too.

Now that we've figured out how to build these letters, I can see myself making them for gifts.

And damned if I'm ever going to pay to spell out "Clementine".

Now I can make the letters myself and save a bundle.

Or at least the "C".

After that workshop I figure it's about 45 mins to an hour of labour per letter.

Fortunately after long evenings at workshops I have this to come home to.

My little RMT in training...

And a smiling boy.

He smiled for the first time this weekend.

Boy was I wrong in thinking he couldn't get any cuter.

Poor little sucker wrapped in his girly blanket.

Waste not want not.

Am I right? Or am I right?

Em