skinny legs & giveaways

I am the happiest girl in the world right now!

For one, the temps yesterday here in RI were somewhere in the upper 80s! Ava, Henry and I sat out in the back basking it up for about an hour before heading out to pick up Ed. It was GLORIOUS!! I credit it to the fact that it was Papa's birthday and since he is the God of all Beachbums (taught me everything I know), the heaven's shone down upon us with an absolutely perfect beach day. Too bad we had to go to school! BAH!

And how can one top such a perfectly beautiful day??? With a sewing success of course!

Robert rode his bike over to our place yesterday afternoon after I called to let him know that his pants were all set. You know that I've been working on my first pair of men's pants and have been insanely nervous about messing them up! It's one thing to whip up a pair for my own little ones but I always freak when I do something for someone else and fear that they'll find out I'm actually a big fraud and have no idea what I'm doing. Luckily, that wasn't the case.




Check it out! They totally fit and look fantastic! I used Burda 7918 and, with the help of some friends over at BurdaStyle, decided to made the size US 38. Robert has to be the skinniest Italian ever to walk the face of the earth and I don't know why I thought they were going to be too small in the hips but they weren't.




Far from it! After he slid them up over his bike shorts I thought maybe they were too big and needed to be taken in. He said he LOVED them and they were perfect! I thought he would fib just to be a good nephew but he said he wouldn't do that. We all know that's a lie though -- he's just not the feeling hurtin' type!

But I take his word and will confirm with Mary later on this morning.

It looks like another beautiful day here in RI and I will spend it running around per usual. Maybe I'll treat myself to a nice bottle of wine and have a glass with dinner. mmm...

Before I go, just want to give you a head's up that I'll be participating in Sew, Mama, Sew's May Giveaway Day next week! Check back here on May 27 as I'll be giving away some little handmade goodies! What fun!