a little bit of hand embroidery, a little bit of fabric applique (or not?), all sewn together into a log cabin-ish block to be displayed in a hoop (or made into a pillow, or a mini quilt, a tote, or...well, you can decide). maybe if i stitch up an autumnal scene, cooler weather will follow? one can only hope! so, this little bit of goodness will be in the next regular issue of fat quarterly, available november 9th, along with tons of wonderful projects. i've purchased the first 2 issues (loved them!) and i just downloaded the holiday special issue (which hopefully i can look at tonight after the girls have gone to bed! this will be the first of 5 nights as a single parent. sigh. thank goodness this doesn't happen often. em has already fallen apart twice, and wade hasn't even crossed the la/tx border. double sigh.).
i don't know what happens to time around here. sometimes i feel as though i live in a vortex that accelerates and sucks up time. it's cate's birthday today, our 11th anniversary yesterday (i just re-read last year's anniversary post. i really don't think that i can improve upon it, so i won't even try.), and lily's birthday the day before. i barely got photos taken for their actual birthdays (i finally downloaded the photos from the party and have yet to edit anything), i didn't do a birthday post for each kiddo like i did last year, the grocery store trip didn't happen, and we waved wade off this morning (without too many tears).
on the brighter side of things, mimi + pops were here on friday to take the girls out to eat so that wade and i could go out to dinner for our anniversary, i scored some ridiculous fabric deals at amelia's (sadly for baton rouge, she closed up shop and is headed to washington state) and got to visit with beki while doing so (then i went back to pick up some fabric to send to sarah and of course bought more!), i finally got to put up some halloween decorations, we spent most of yesterday outside, there was an unexpected email and subsequent phone call that hopefully will be the beginning of something wonderful, and wade got to spend this morning with the girls drawing zombie princesses (i did sketch this one out for lily, though).
now that i'm reading this, i can see that the good definitely outweighs the not-so-good; i hope that you can say the same for yourself.
xx
I love the fabrics and colors that you have selected for your project for Quilt Dad. I always love to see what you create. You are so talented.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see what you come up with for FQ - I think I'm in that issue too!! x
ReplyDeleteI am super excited about that fabric and I'm showing the zombie princess to Annika right now. so cute!
ReplyDeleteerica, thank you so much for the compliment!
ReplyDeletelouise, i am more than excited to be in such good company! did you get the holiday issue yet??
sarah, i am so excited for you to get it, too! i would love to see what annika comes up with. in the interest of full disclosure, i sketched her out, and then lily did the rest. wade's drawing fell under cate's colored pencils before it could be saved!
i sure wish that blogger did the threaded comment thing that (is it typepad?) some of the other blogs have.
Oh, my - you do have many things to do at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI know too well how everything works when one is left alone for an amount of days. It takes energy and hard work, but at the same time it brings wonderful moments as well. The hardest part is when the children miss their dad - well, my kids are big now but Emil still misses his dad a lot when he has to go away for several days.
Lots of congratulations to you and your husband, and to all your sweet little birthday girls. :))
I will have to take a look at the magazine you mention. I just found out that it existed the other day! And I will look forward to see your work when November comes.
Take care.. :))
Sometimes is all seems like a blur, a good blur, but a blur nonetheless. Congrats and happy happies all around :)
ReplyDeleteHappy belated Anniversary.
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