I’m still here, this week has just been really busy :)

I have actually been doing a bit of sewing, but I have been so busy with other things that I haven’t had time to take photos or post about what I am working on. Soon though! I am pretty excited because after trying to figure out how to quilt on my own, I decided to take some quilting classes. I have already finished with the one class (which was 2 nights of learning how to put together quilt blocks) & have some lovely quilt blocks to show from it. So much fun & now I am looking forward to learning about machine quilting and how to attach bindings to quilts.

Also this past week… I spent the day yesterday at this lovely blogger’s home sewing & chatting. She also helped me figure out how in the world to make a 20 inch square log cabin block for the front of my living room pillows. :) Thanks Anina, I had so much fun! Then today I had coffee & good conversation with another lovely blogger. So all in all, a very fun if busy week. :)

In case you were wondering, these photos have nothing at all to do with my week… :)

:beautiful weather (love when that happens):

:painted my studio (photos soon):

:happy that it is a long weekend:

Something about the season’s changing always makes me wish for a new bag. For summer I decided I wanted to change out my pleated linen purse for a tote in colors that remind me of summer.

Do you ever go to the fabric store with a vague idea of what kind of fabric you want & then end up spending way too much time in the fabric shop because you just can’t decide? I actually sat down on the floor among the bolts of fabric so I could picture more clearly which fabrics would work together! I finally picked the 3 fabrics in the post below, because they remind me of the ocean & summer at the beach. (I think the two striped fabrics are Kaffe Fasset and the print is a Joel Dewberry.)

Aurora made sewing this tote so easy that I almost wish I had an excuse to make a few more! Actually I think figuring out how to photograph the tote took me more time than making it :) I still need to get my photography spots figured out in our new place…

Now if only summer would arrive! :)

Okay so it technically isn’t Friday anymore in this part of the world, but close enough. :)

A little work in progress that I started today…

These fabrics make me think of the beach & summertime and will hopefully be a tote bag soon :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Okay so I am still really behind on emails (and I discovered one in my inbox today that is from over a month ago!), but our living room is actually starting to look like a living room. Since the moving company came yesterday to pick up all the empty boxes we had stacked in our living room, I spent a lot of my day today cleaning & rearranging the living room. I think I will definitely share some photos of what it looks like when it is all done, but there is still a little ways to go. Since there is nothing else that exciting going on, I thought I would just share some recent photos that I took at the botanical gardens.

I experimented a little with that photo & added a texture to it… I think I like it, although it is a bit different.

(Click on any photo to see it slightly larger…)

And just because, a photo of Pounce…

And one of Axel (he loves this basket, although he is a bit big for it!)…