Life is Beautiful

Motherhood, Sewing, Family

love this article.

~ Etc.

this is the most refreshing article i’ve read.
my favorite part is the end: either make a sincere effort to understand, or keep your snit to yourself.  ο»Ώoh, and also: it’s needing 45 minutes to do what takes others 15.  SO TRUE!
today, i’m just full out exhausted.  i had no time to make the costumes this past weekend because miss little a is pretty sick and we were busy taking care of her + slight procrastination(hehe) and miss A had her halloween performance at her school today which meant she had to wear her costume and i thought about just having her wear one of her many princess dresses she has but then i imagined her face and how sad and disappointed she’ll look in the morning when i tell her i didn’t make the costume so i stayed up from midnight to past 4 a.m making her costume.  and if you haven’t noticed when i’m tired i like to keep my sentences as long as possible without any commas or periods and just say it all out in one breathe.
the end.  (breathe.)

looking for sponsors.

~ Etc.

after church one sunday i wanted to take some pictures with my girls.
the funny thing is when i want my husband in the picture he gives me a fake, lousy smile,
but when i don’t want him in the picture, he’s all into it and jumps in behind me right before
the picture’s being taken, what’s up with that?

anyway…
with the holidays approaching which equals to lots of shopping for presents, i’m currently looking for sponsors for the blog.   i’m looking for any entrepreneurs, businesses, photographers, small business owners, bloggers, artists, youtube channels, etsy shops, fashion blogs, sewing/crafts shops, fabric shops, you get the jist.  rates are very, very reasonable and i’d love to help you get exposure.  for rates and more info, please email me at
sarahmchoi{at}gmail{dot}com
come on, don’t be shy! πŸ˜‰

girl’s camp part two

~ Etc.

day two/last day of camping with my girlfriends
(see day one post here.)
the hike was pretty intense.  many times the trail was only a few feet wide
and they had long chains on the side for you to hold on to.
on our drive back home.
the song girls just wanna have fun came on which called for side ponytails and dancing. πŸ™‚

i love girlfriends.  i don’t think i can be a happy person without them.  i ache for their presence and get withdrawls if i don’t see them for a long time.  do i sound needy or what! πŸ˜€  my girlfriends are the people i admire, respect, and love dearly and they’re more like sisters to me.  they each have qualities i look up to and i think they’re just the bomb!  not to mention they’re my true friends, which are hard to find.
friends come and go but true friends will always stay next to you no matter what.  true friends aren’t jealous of your success or happiness but they genuinely rejoice with you along the way.  and cry with you through the difficult times.  true friends are honest with you and will tell you things they know you don’t want to hear but they tell you what you need to hear.  true friends don’t tear each other down just to be hurtful, or to make themselves feel better but give constructive criticism instead.  true friends aren’t afraid to be themselves because they know their friends will accept them just the way they are.  true friends give back just as much as they receive, emotionally, over time.  true friends you keep for the rest of your life.
i’m so, so grateful i have so many true friends in my life.  here’s to friendships! πŸ™‚

halloween is near!

~ Etc.

i didn’t really care for halloween until i became a mother.  seeing my kids get so excited with the fact that people everywhere will just give you free candy with the magic words “trick or treat” and a chance to get dressed up as a family in costumes,(before they start getting embarrassed by it and become too cool for us)
what’s there not to love?
so it’s naturally become a tradition that i make the family’s costumes each year.  if i find a really good deal on a costume that’d be cheaper than to make then i buy it, but other than that, i try to make it myself.
so would you like to take a stroll with me to the halloween of the past of my family?
on our family’s first halloween, we were the football clan.
(in this picture i was 5 months pregnant with our second child
 even before my first child was a year old.  crazy right?)
our second year we were king triton and his mermaids.
and our third year we were hello kitty and the chococat. 
oh, you know you’ve been outnumbered by the x chromosomes when you wear
a skirt and tights and dress up as a mermaid and a kitty for halloween. πŸ˜‰
so i’ll be spending my weekend sewing.
hope you have a happy weekend!