Making it Up As I Go

I’m starting an etsy store.

More info to come soon.

It’s been a busy week!

Monday: Bounce-A-Rama!

Tuesday: The beach

Wednesday: Picking veggies and walking the “beam” at Papa’s

Today: Went to the pool, had cousins over to visit, and finished this for my lame best friend who is moving to stupid somewhere other than here. (It’s not her birthday, but I made one of these for my girls and knew she’d want one for her kids too. And now I like this one better than the other one I made. )

And, at some point during the week: Tiny impersonated a rock star

What’s going on with you?

Some projects I’ve finished lately:

I made this for my mommy for her birthday.  Seeing as she’s taught this book for I don’t know how many years in her class, it seemed fitting.

Here’s the back:

A patchwork picnic blanket. It has squares for everyone in the family- skull and crossbones for B, Cars for Z, doggies for Tiny, swirlies for me. I love the fabric on the back- keeps the patchwork theme with none of the work!

And it has a strap so that it  rolls up into a nice, easy to carry package:

I’ve been meaning to make a blanket for myself for quite a while now, but just kept putting it off for various reasons. But I finally buckled down, got out some of my favorite fabrics, and sewed them all together. The result is a light, cuddly blanket that I LOVE.

We planted some new plants too:

I still have about 4 projects that I need to get finished, but it’s felt great to get these done. Now I’m off to get to work on another of them!

Tiny is sitting at the table eating her blueberry yogurt by dipping a Tuscan Herb cracker into it. Hey, whatever floats your boat. She is wearing a “rella” (translation: dress, so named because Cinderella wears a dress). She has worn a “rella” every day for the last week. If she’d had her way, it would have been the actual Cinderella costume, but that costume is too big and she trips in it constantly unless I bustle it up.

So “rella”s it is. The dress she’s wearing today is a striped polo dress – it makes her look like a little Margot Tenenbaum, minus the eyeliner.

If I had my druthers she’d wear striped polo dresses every day. Both girls would. Alas, there aren’t that many striped polo dresses to be found.

Z has dressed herself in an oversized Cars t-shirt and blue comfy pants. She and Tiny are now playing out on the porch, admiring her flowers.

I admire them too. Except for the dying grass. I don’t admire that. What you can’t see, on the left hand side of the picture, is a gigantic, towering Chinese cabbage plant, overflowing with yellow flowers. It’s really pretty.

I’m still wearing pajamas, but that will change soon. We may have a little friend coming over to play today, so I should get myself and my house whipped into company shape.

Later today I’ll finish up working on a project I’m really enjoying- one that’s just for me. ME! I found a bunch of gorgeous 1920s themed papers, and wanted to do something with them, but really I just wanted to LOOK at them. So I’m making a themed spinner.

It’s getting close to finished, but still needs work. It’s got me all inspired though, and combined with paintings like this from the exhibit we saw at the museum yesterday,  it has me wanting to pull out my couple years old murder mystery novel manuscript (set in the 1920s) and take another look at it. We’ll have to see about that.

Huh. I thought I had more to say, but apparently I don’t. I’m going to go get ready for my day.

What’s going on with you at this moment?

Some new creations, and some new camera filters.

Our good friends are having twins, and these are the blankets I made for them. (Finally– I’ve been “working” on them for months now.) Z picked out the fabric, the blanket on the left has jungle animals and stripeys, and the other has monkeys and bananas. I thought that was very clever. They’re both backed with that super soft plush stuff… what’s it called? I cannot remember for the life of me.  (Hilary E., I know you know.)

Anyway, just thought I’d share.

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The bag with orange is mine, with the red is for my sister. I’m so in love with that paisley boho fabric that I’m kind of wishing I just made the whole bag out of it. I’m going to have to assess how much I have left.  I mean seriously, look at this:

I want to cover my whole house in it.

My next project? Sleep.

2 more to go. Expect an update soon.