Ok I know this is a really creepy photo, but let me explain. For my friend�s daughter�s 6th birthday I was going to make her an American Girl outfit. It was awful! Couldn�t find size 2 needles, couldn�t find a pattern with a picture, couldn�t find a good pattern, lost the pattern when my computer crashed, retrieved the pattern, left the present in Indiana for a while, and it went on and on.

After all that, the stupid thing was way to big for Samantha, so my friend, being the genius that she is, didn�t tell her 6-year old that it was for Samantha. It was just a doll�s outfit. So then the little one was apparently happy to have an outfit for her doll.

If I can get my paws on a legitimate American Doll pattern, I will. Although I doubt one exists because any competition with the AG empire is evil, right? That whole thing scares me. All the screaming little girls with braided pigtails outside the store on Michigan Avenue make my uterus curl up and threaten never to produce.

Anyway, the photo looks creepy because the original photo, which is really cute, has the 6-year old�s photo on it and I didn�t want to put her pic up on the internet. So I cropped her out and rotated the picture. I�m sure she was a little baffled about getting a birthday present in October when her stupid birthday was in June. I gave the present with best wishes and apologies.

Okay, enough about my suckyness.