This weekend was dinner with friends by the beach, farmers markets, spending way too much time trying to get a little one down for naps, walks downtown and walks with the grandparents along the beautiful coast. How was your weekend?
-joining Karen over at Pumpkin Sunrise!
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Eloise: Oh how I love watching you play. You are only just two, so independent play is still very new and in very short spurts. But when you get involved, it’s incredible to watch.
-joining Jodi for the 52 project!
“A single photo. No words. Capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”
– joining Soulemama
I feel like I have so many projects in the works right now. So many ideas and so little time. This last month though, I sent off an Autumn inspired quilt to a friend in Seattle…
Check out the wild pumpkin magically growing from the stump!
I sent off a Where The Wild Things Are Inspired Mat to Alaska.
And I finished a hockey playmat, complete with Kings hockey players for my best friend’s little boy.
I’m working on another farm mat for a friend and then on to some bigger projects, like Jeff’s new quilt (he picked all the fabrics out this weekend).
I also did a little mini swap with a local Mama friend of mine. Ellie is very much into the Boo Hoo Bird and Grumpy Bird books lately. My Mama friend made a set of Grumpy Bird felt characters for her son that turned out so adorable and amazing. I knew I wouldn’t be able to replicate what she did. So we bartered for goods. She made Ellie some incredible felt characters and I made her son a family of peg dolls.
It just so happened to be his birthday too so I made him a little satchel of story stones as well. Which I can’t help but share, because I’m so excited how well they came out. He had a camping birthday party and so I thought making him a set of camping story stones would be perfect. I will be making Ellie a set of story stones to be sure!
Here they are with drawstring bag and with a sealant on top of the watercolor.
We love our Boo Hoo bird and Grumpy bird felt characters!! I hope her son liked his stones and peg family!
Our Labor Day weekend was made up of long car rides to barbeques with cousins, in pools I used to swim in as a child. Steak dinners with the folks. Hot, hot weather for our little beachy town (hence the half-naked child running around with popsicles). Welcoming September with a major tending to the garden. Tomato picking (and eating). Pulling homegrown pumpkins from their vines already. Granola making and lots and lots of play.
-joining Karen over at Pumpkin Sunrise.
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eloise: On this last day of August, you relish in the joy of summer’s end. Naked with a homemade popsicle in hand, you play peekaboo under Gramma’s newest quilt.
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