Summer Update

Wow! Things have been crazy around here. We found a new house and so we are moving. So there has been all sorts of madness surrounding that. We are finding little bits of time here and there to enjoy our summer. For all of you who follow my blog, I am updating with a TON of new pictures. I have no new projects to share as I'm barely keeping up with my two kids and moving, cleaning, laundry, cooking and other daily tasks. So I hope you'll forgive me and enjoy these new pictures.

A friends darling new puppy, Maeby.

Sage, 14 weeks!

Wyatt playing with Sage

Wyatt strawberry picking

Sage enjoying the sun

Hardworking Wyatt

Enjoying a summer evening

Dinner on the deck

My daliahs

Poppy

Beautiful butterfly

King of the Mountain

Taking my girlfriend for a ride

Swimming lessons with Ella

Sage 11 weeks

Wyatt and Maeby

Puppy kisses

Serious bike rider

Garden

Since I had a baby and all this spring, I cut myself a little slack when it came to the garden. But I did manage to plant all the seeds I had leftover from last year. I did have a little help when it came to preparing my beds (thanks Dad!), which made planting much easier. Here are some pictures from the beginning of May:lettuce, carrots and swiss chard kale, kale and more kale bush beans and pole beans elephant garlic and broccoli butternut squash, pink spaghetti squash, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, bush beans and raspberries

Stash-buster Quilt for Sage

Since I made a quilt for Wyatt I figured it was only fair that I make one for Sage too. So a few weeks ago I started sorting through my stash to see what I could come up with for my sweet baby girl. I wanted it to be mostly red and pink and surprisingly (or not so) I had plenty of fabric that fit the bill. So I've been sneaking into my sewing room every spare chance I get to cut some squares for the quilt. And today after I had cut squares from all the fabric I wanted to use and the rest of my family was napping, I laid out all the squares and came up with this: The best part is I didn't have to buy a single piece of fabric. I can't wait to start piecing it together!

Lovely Napkins

I cringe as I see that its been over a month since I've posted on my blog! I swear I've been doing stuff, I just haven't had the time to blog about it. So here I am, updating. I found some lovely Anna Maria Horner fabric that I had forgotten about in my stash that I really wanted to do something with. I wanted to see it all the time so I decided the best thing to make would be some new cloth napkins. Well it turns out that they are so lovely that I haven't had the heart to use them, yet!

Boppy

I've been craving change lately. I'm afraid to do anything drastic, so I've settled on doing some small changes. I've also been craving sewing lately and well, don't have all that much free time. But I did manage to squeeze in about 30 minutes to make a new boppy cover. (for those of you unaware - a boppy is a nursing pillow) Since I spend hours and hours a day with my boppy I needed something new and cheerful to snuggle up with. This did the trick. I found this tutorial here. The old: The new:

Tiny toes and a little knitting

So although I did finish this project 4 weeks after having a baby, I only had about half an inch left to go and to be fair it's really only half finished since I need to make another one. But I couldn't resist posting a picture of Miss Sage and her delicious little toes!

Lately...

Well lately there has been no crafting going on in my world. There has been merely survival. And by survival I mean the bare minimum on my part. Thankfully I have an awesome husband who has been picking up the slack when it comes to all the laundry, cooking and general stuff around the house. So instead of my usual post about something hand-made, I thought I'd just post some pictures of my kiddos, because I did after all make them! The Spring Fair: