It felt more like the beginning of summer than spring this weekend! The weather was glorious and we had a beautiful weekend with family. Jeff’s sister flew in from Boston on Friday so Saturday was spent preparing a nice, early dinner for Jeff’s family. We went to the farmers market in the morning, bought ourselves some succulents for the house (I’ve been wanting more house plants), and did our usual produce shopping. Ellie enjoyed chewing on a potato she snatched from Jeff. Jeff made the most delicious shepherd’s pie for his family, even adding in a few parsnips from our own garden (yay!). We took a dog walk along the beach to end the evening. Sunday we started off with Jeff’s shepherd’s pie for breakfast (we jazzed it up with a fried egg and some avocado) and then we headed off with my folks down to meet Jeff’s folks in Santa Barbara (Jeff’s parents are leaving for a short trip to San Francisco tomorrow and then heading back to Boston on Friday). We stopped off at the Santa Barbara Art Show to see a wonderful quilter and blogging friend, Cory. It was exciting to finally meet someone I had been following for awhile now and she was just so sweet!! Her quilts and quilty things were beautiful and inspiring! I wanted to buy everything she had but this time around walked away with an adorable sewing needle book and an adorable bib for Ellie. Check out her beautiful things here! At the art show, we also bought some long awaited wind chimes. I’ve been wanting some for the front porch since we moved in and Jeff bought himself a handmade beer stein, of course. It was a really lovely weekend. I’m happily exhausted. How was your weekend?
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how neat that you met Cory! We are patiently awaiting mild weather here on the east coast. We enjoy going to craft fairs and browsing around (not to mention buying!). Looks like you had a lovely outing!
It was neat! She is a doll! I hope the weather gets a little warmer for you guys out there! You’ve had a rough winter! Thanks for visiting my space!
LOVE LOVE LOVE All of it! Amelia loves those bells in her kindermusik class. Beautiful weekend for a beautiful family.
thank you Sam! Yes, the bells are a big hit for Ellie. We need to pick up some different types of instruments I think. xoxo!
oh, also, I love your header…so pretty
thank you! I was excited to finally get it up!
Laundry in the morning Saturday, art show also in the afternoon, sold my “Sunshine” painting (yay), Frost Sunday morning, not even spring here yet, breakfast out Sunday morning at our favorite restaurant, hit the co-op for our organic veggies and assorted other items, visited friends in the afternoon who are buying our Mazda CX7, making us a one car family, then home for a simple supper, a bit of tv then also very tired and hit the sack. Nice weekend with mostly sunshine though. Love yours, love you, great pics, Summer.
Sounds like you had a very nice weekend! Congratulations on your sell!!! That’s so neat! We kept thinking at the art show how much better your paintings are! 🙂 Much love to you Gramma!
what a great weekend! super jealous of your weather! we had a couple of horrible nights of very cold of -8C this weekend 😦
Oh my that sounds cold! I am very thankful of our weather here. But, pretty soon everything will be brown here and you will still have beautiful green, green, green! 🙂 Hoping the weather clears up to allow you guys to get outside more! 🙂
wow! what a loooovely weekend! look at all that sunshine and delicious food goodness 🙂 alas, the weekend was so busy with freelance work for me, there wasn’t even time to do a blog post 😦 will live vicariously through the weekends of others, like yours! hee hee!
hoping yours was lovely even with all the work! 🙂
what an amazing weekend! such great photos. ❤
it was a very nice one! Thank you!!
cute, cute, cute!
It was so fun to see you there.
hugs and love,
C.
So glad we could be there! Hugs to you!