Fabric!

This week I've done some fabric shopping! The first pile is fabric from an unexpected place! It is a pile of tablecloths, curtains, blankets, sheets, and pillow cases. This fabric came from Goodwill - where we stopped to look for some other things. But all of this jumped out into my hands so I had to buy it! LOL! All of it will be transformed into something different. I'm very excited about this!



Then it was off to the fabric store to pick up some fabric, which netted me this pile.



And last but not least, is this one fabric - bought at Joanns. This is my splurge buy. I didn't find this fabric until we were at the cutting counter, where the woman next to me was buying it. When she finished, I asked them to please pass the bolt to me. I loved it from the first moment I saw it. I couldn't pass it by. It has my heart. The other things I will be making, well, they won't be for me and will hopefully leaving the house soon, but this fabric - this fabric is all for me and will be staying with me!



Of course the trick now is to find the time to sit and sew!

Summer Preview

Construction begins:


Games of tag:


Laundry hanging on the line:


Water fights:



Knitting on the front porch:


Picnics:




Tree climbing:


Piggies get freed:



Reading with the kids:


And gorgeous skies ahead:


I've loved getting this summer preview for the last two days! =)

I have a blog?

Really? I mean, you'd really think I had forgotten!

I swear I haven't, but life, along with that pesky thing called "Not enough time in the day" just really seems to get in the way!

I've been up to a fair bit of sewing. I hope to share it with you soon. I've also been digital scrapbooking - again, I hope to share some of it with you soon! I have some knitting going - which again, I hope to share soon (all of this is code for I've been too lazy to take pictures of anything! LOL!)

So here's hoping I can find a bit of balance soon and get back into the habit of posting over here!

Happy Pi Day!

You probably didn't know, but today (March 14) is Pi Day. 3-14 is perfect since pi = 3.14 I'd say!
We celebrated this on Friday by eating some pie with some friends. We enjoyed cherry and apply pie. We also ate some very yummy pasta dinner. My friend was insistent my family brought only hunger to her house - and it's always nice to be treated to a home cooked meal by others, but to celebrate Pi Day and her baking us some pies, I whipped this little apron up for her!



The pocket though, has my favorite part -



(the embroidery was being offered for free at Urban Threads in honor of Pi day! And also they have a lot of really awesome embroidery - both machine and hand - patterns!)

I have enough of the apple fabric that I might have to whip one up for me to have one too!

Anyway, hope you all had a good Pi Day and if you mssed it, I say for sure, eat some pie this week to celebrate! =)

Howdy!

So, umm, yeah, that was a month break I wasn't planning on taking, but alas, life happens. And good thing too, because if ife didn't happen I'd have nothing to come blog about, right?!

Anyway, vacation was fun - we had a blast - I expect to share more about it in the coming weeks. We've also had some more illness going on around here - blech. We've had some warm days (yay!) and so we've been trying to get out to take advantage of them. And of course there is the cleaning, cooking, schooling, twittering, hanging out at The Motherhood, and reading to keep myself busy with these days!

Anyway, going to try to be around here more often. I have lots of ideas swirling around this head of mine and so that should lead to many many things to share with you all - if I can manage to find the time to do it all in of course ;-)