26 August, 2008: Updated diaper case directions to include step-by-step photos.
3 March, 2007: A safer, reversible cotton print sling
13 January, 2007: Updated zippered patch pocket directions
11 January, 2007: Hemming foot tutorial - Hemming feet are an indispensible addition to your sewing machine; find out how to use one!
11 November, 2006: Now hosting Corrine and Tessa's directions on making a sling with "floating" rings
10 November, 2006: Added directions for making a child-sized ring sling; now hosting Beth's "Man Tai" directions.
7 June, 2006: Updated step-by-step sling pleating directions with new photos and technique.
3 June, 2006: Flat wallet with lots of card pockets -- couldn't find a pattern online, so I made my own.
10 March, 2006: New essay in Crafts -- why does it cost so much to buy a WAHM-made carrier?
15 February, 2006: Breastfeeding, formula-feeding, and guilt: Breastfeeding advocates are often accused of trying to make women feel guilty, but is that really the case?
14 January, 2006: Added restaurant high chair cover due to overwhelming requests :)
7 January, 2006: Added a fabric diaper and wipes case (because no one who can sew should ever, ever pay $15 and up for a simple fabric case!!!) -- printable pattern, very easy to sew.
13 November, 2005: Added Sarah's babywearing poncho
7 November, 2005: Added a bag that slides onto the straps of your mei tai -- side-opening zipper means you don't have to rethread it when switching from a front to a back carry. Also added brief directions for making a framed panel on your mei tai.
6 November, 2005: Kids' pictures are now up on Flickr. You will probably need to log in to see them. If you don't already have a Yahoo! ID, you'll need to make one. I am sorry about that part! But uploading pics to Flickr is soooo much easier than the galleries I was trying to maintain here! I upload 1-3x per week, at this point, so check back often.
5 November, 2005: Clarified a few points on the pouch sewing directions.
27 July, 2005: Redid the Crafts index page -- hopefully, it'll be easier to find what you're looking for quickly.
26 July, 2005: Photo-illustrated directions for pouch-style slings
7 June, 2005: Kids' pictures from the end of April, May, and beginning of June
8 May, 2005: Added reversible option to pouch sling directions
3 May, 2005: After many requests, I've added suggestions for making a grocery cart seat cover.
27 April, 2005: At long last, new kids' pictures! From February through April. Sorry I made you wait so long!
20 March, 2005: Added a forum! Talk amongst yourselves.
4 February, 2005: Second method for making a reversible sling -- better for thin fabrics, or where one fabric is much thinner/thicker than the other.
29 January, 2005: Finally, new pictures from December and January... not very many, though. Sorry!
11 December, 2004: New odd search engine hits for November and December
10 December, 2004: Why I switched to Mozilla Firefox, and you should too.
5 December, 2004: Tie-on cloth baby seat for regular dining chairs
13 November, 2004: New kids' pictures in October and November
31 October, 2004: At long last, new kids' pictures from August, September, and October!
22 October, 2004: Polar fleece ring sling directions. New kids' pictures coming soon, I promise!
28 August 2004: New sewing directions: reversible two-layer ring sling; zippered patch pocket; zippered inset pocket
21 August 2004: Easy accessories for umbrella strollers
18 August 2004: Crocheted hip carrier/pouch-style sling
12 August 2004: More new kids' pictures; Weird food we encountered in Chinatown
11 August 2004: Removed Stephen's baby pictures due to bandwidth theft and image abuses by image search users. My apologies to friends and family, but I was no longer feeling safe about having his baby pics out there.
9 August 2004: 330 new kids' pictures in June, July, and August
1 August, 2004: New site design!
10 June, 2004: 293 new kids pictures in April and May
6 April, 2004: 100ish new kids pictures (end of March).
16 March, 2004: 213 new kids pictures -- February and March; revised ABC directions
28 February, 2004: Easy pattern adaptations for sewing maternity wear
27 February, 2004: 73 more kids' pictures; odd search engine hits on my site
26 February, 2004: No-Sew Ring Sling directions
24 February, 2004: Two new patterns -- simple Waldorf-style doll, adding gussets to DIY cloth diapers
21 February, 2004: 92 new kids' pictures
6 February, 2004: 69 new kids' pictures
4 February, 2004: 80-odd new kids' pictures in January and February
29 January, 2004: New baby carrier invented by moi! Ring Wrap (for lack of a better name)
25 January, 2004: 46 new kids' pictures
16 January, 2004: 210 New Stephen and Sophia pictures! Holy cow!
3 January, 2004: New Stephen and Sophia pictures (new organization!)
23 December, 2003: New Sophia pictures; updated Links
10 December, 2003: Black-and-white stimulating mobile -- updated, now with 12 different shapes instead of 4, plus color and color-yourself versions.
6 December, 2003: New Sophia pictures!
30 November, 2003: Lots more Sophia pictures; some for Stephen, too!
23 November, 2003: More Sophia pictures. (New 404: not found pages, too.)
14 November, 2003: Lots of new Sophia pictures -- month one and month two
23 October, 2003: More new Sophia pictures, and a few of Stephen, too!
12 October, 2003: New Sophia and Stephen pictures!
6 October, 2003: Sophia is here! She arrived at 3:30 am on Thursday, 2nd October, 2003. I'll have a birth story up soon. You can find pictures here.
15 September, 2003: New Stephen pictures (months 39&40) and update
16 July, 2003: More Stephen pictures and update
25 May, 2003: Two months of pictures -- Month 36 and Month 37; new Stephen update
14 May, 2003: Movie cover photoshops featuring Stephen (by David)
19 April, 2003: New Stephen Pictures (March and April)
18 April, 2003: Updated sling directions and added sling sewing FAQ
8 April, 2003: New essay: Is evolutionary theory a worldview?
5 April, 2003: Reorganized the Stephen stuff so he's not in the Baby folder anymore, since he's almost three and there's a new baby coming along.
19 February, 2003: More Stephen pictures (December and January), Stephen update
14 December, 2002: Finally, more Stephen pictures (spanning October through December)
20 October, 2002: Weird search engine hits on my site
12 October 2002: Instructions for sewing a Podeagi (Korean baby carrier)
11 September 2002: Month 28 SGL pictures; some new thoughts on the 9/11 anniversary
24 August 2002: More new SGL pictures... months 27 and 28.
15 August 2002: Finally, new pictures and SGL update! Also, a new look!
7 July 2002: Updates to "sew your own sling" page
29 May 2002: Month 25 pictures
23 May 2002: Stephen update for May; Month 24 Stephen pictures (including birthday photos)
20 May 2002: Month 24 Stephen pictures (birthday photos coming soon!)
23 April 2002: Some pictures of Stephen from the MKB New England F2F
4 April 2002: New Stephen content
2 April 2002: About 70 new Stephen pictures
30 March 2002: Stephen travels the globe and into different dimentions... at least, in my imagination...
26 March 2002: A slew of new Stephen pictures, from Month 22 and Month 23.
24 March 2002: Make nursing t-shirts from regular shirts
20 March 2002: Another small batch of pictures
18 March 2002: More new SGL notes, words, and pictures
28 February 2002: Stephen anecdotes, and a Stephen-to-English dictionary!
27 February 2002: Even more Stephen Pictures
4 February 2002: More Stephen Pictures
31 December 2001: New Stephen pictures -- from Month 19 through the holidays!
19 December 2001: Make your own "Harry Potter" style magic wands
26 November 2001: Stephen's first drawing (sort of)
22 November 2001: New Stephen pictures! Plus a bit about our trip to Washington, DC.
19 October 2001: The Hippie Mama Breastfeeder's Cloth Diaper Bag
30 September 2001: Two months' worth of Stephen pictures (some reeeeeally cute ones!)
19 September 2001: Peace flags (one in colour, one in black and white to colour yourself)
16 September 2001: Open letter to President Bush; What happens next?
20 August 2001: Fluorite crystal ornaments for sale
15 August 2001: Even more Stephen pictures!
11 August 2001: Another sewing project: Making a nursing pillow to fit you
31 July 2001: Sewing project - Breastfeeder's diaper bag/Purse
25 July, 2001: New links
22 July, 2001: Still more Stephen pictures, from a visit by his grandparents and great-grandmother.
8 July, 2001: More new pictures of Stephen -- his first birthday, a few visits to grandparents, and just plain cute photos.
4 May, 2001: Many, many new pictures of Stephen
30 March, 2001: A long email conversation with Eva Marie: Topics range from the non/existence of god, to general philosophy, to evolution vs. creation, and many others.
6 February, 2001: 6 weeks worth of Stephen pictures
3 February, 2001: Baby-Related Crafts (incl. simple sling, black-and-white mobile, and bra conversion)
10 January, 2001: Now that I have moved my site to the UNH Pubpages directory, I have a little less space, so the pictures are more compressed (ie less image quality). However, if you would like a CD of the bitmaps and higher-quality images, send me a note. Or you can send a note to join Shutterfly.com -- you get 25 free prints and we get 10, and you can see high-quality images right there.
14 December, 2000: Tour of our new apartment.
12 December, 2000: We got a new camera, one of our own (we had been using the ooooold one from work). It's a Kodak (like the old one), but has about 3 times the resolution of the old one, and we can take a lot more pictures at once. At the same time, uploading is much easier, the pictures are clearer, and it's just all-around a superior camera. All pictures from December 12 on will be taken with the new camera; see if you can spot the differences!
10 November, 2000: Voted for Nader? Didn't vote at all? An atypically political Jan Rant, following the "election."
22 May, 2000: Stephen Glenn Lewis Andrea was born -- earlier than I had expected -- on 22 May, 2000, at 6:08 am. (Hope it doesn't mean he's going to be a morning person, since neither of his parents are!) Labor began on 20 May, 2000, at 7 am... it was tiring, but not awful, and things didn't really pick up until 2 am on his birthday. The full birth story is here -- it may be a little graphic for the faint-of-heart, in a few details, but it's there if you want to read it. For more on the pregnancy and post-pregnancy plans, check out the new Baby page! Like most first-time parents, we're taking tons of baby pictures, but due to uploading time constraints, we tend to update the page monthly or thereabouts. (Have a baby of your own? Why not try making a high contrast mobile for him or her? Stephen loves his!)
1 February, 2000: We've moved! The previous apartment was just getting too small for us, and was no place to have or raise a baby! (Converted Victorians just don't lend themselves to babyproofing...) So we moved... about a block and a half down the street... to an absolutely beautiful apartment (practically a condo) of which I now have pictures. It is a wonderful place, with all the features we were looking for, and we are very, very pleased that we were able to get it. Having lived there for almost 7 months now, I can honestly say it is a great, happy place, and we are enjoying every day of it. You can see a tour of the new place on the Photographs page, and the old apartment tour is now its own page.