Sunday, August 16, 2009
Some Tea & A Hike
We dropped the kids off at Nana & Papa's Saturday morning,
and ventured out for a mommy and daddy day.
We started the day with touring the Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory
and then ventured up the road for a mountain hike.
We explored...
crossed rustic bridges...
discovered beautiful waterfalls...
and 2 miles later reached Lost Lake.
We ended the day feasting on sweet potato fries and yummy burgers at The Counter
and watching New In Town.
What a day!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Another Ordinary Life GIVE AWAY!
Another Ordinary Life is one of the most amazing crafters I know,
AND
she is having a give away!
Go check out her blog for free knitting patterns, a peek at her fabulous jewelry shop on etsy, and your daily dose of inspiration!
Monday, August 10, 2009
It's Here & It's Yellow!
I have been day dreaming about this for a long time
& I need some serious stress relief
time behind my sewing machine with a cold Dr. Pepper
making something just for me
like my first quilt!
It doesn't match anything in my house...
but it makes my heart happy...
Join me for a sew along with Little Bit Funky!
I can't wait to get started!!!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Easy Peasy Pencil Skirt
I fell in love with Anna Marie Horner's Rose Drawing Room fabric, & thought
humm...
I should wear that!
This skirt was so easy that it is probably not even worthy of a blog post...
I kid you not...if you can cut & have access to a sewing machine you could whip this little diddy up in less than 30 minutes.
You just measure your hips since it is the widest part the skirt has to fit over.
Add 5 inches to that measurement. Divide by 2 for the width of your front and back panels.
Measure from your waist to the top of your knee and add about 2 to 3 inches for your height.
Cut a front and back panel.
Place your fabric right sides together. Sew them together. Finish her seams.
Measure, iron, & sew your hem.
Measure a fold down pocket for the elastic.
Sew around the top allowing enough room for the width of your elastic & leaving a hole to thread your elastic through. I folded at 1 1/2 inches for 1 inch elastic. Thread your elastic through with a safety pin. Sew up the hole, & you're done!
Easy, Peasy!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
My Heaven On Earth
It is a is a 50-acre working farm with century-old trees, barns, a silo, outbuildings, and farm animals! It felt like being in Kansas again. It was amazing!
(In my dream life I live on this farm...and wear cowgirl boots everyday...)
AJ fed lots of animals...
but nothing could compete with the tractor tire full of corn...that we had to bride him with chips and a cheese stick to get him out of...
To decrease the trauma of parting with AJ's tire & avoid a lovely public melt down...we let him take a handful of corn as a souvenir...shhh...don't tell the farm animals...
We wandered up and down dirt roads...
relaxed in a porch swing under a shade tree...
climbed on hay and crossed scary board bridges...
(This picture is taken only moments before AJ jumped down from the hay and ran full blast into one of the said boards...clothes lining himself...resulting in a nasty unforeseen blow backwards and a nice goose egg and bloody scrape right smack in the middle of his fore head...great...) Apparently the boards are more dangerous to walk under than across...
After AJ's little run in with the board, we rested with a nice healing picnic. There is nothing like eating bare foot on a quilt under a huge tree, listening to kids laugh and play on near by tire swings. This is my Heaven...Girlfriend liked it too.
Our picnic spot was nestled under the cool shade of several huge trees with tree houses every child dreams of having in their back yard. Shoot...I'm dreaming of having one of these things in my backyard...
We successfully ate lunch, played in the tree houses, splashed in the wading pool, & still had energy for a pony ride!
Yeh Ha!
It was a fabulous family day on a farm!
...
Andy says we can't move there though...something about the commute...
such a realist, he is.
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