Aren't bubbles so fun? I mean, it's classic Americana! Although we spill the heck out of them. And now that the heat is pretty much here, we are having fun with all those summery things. This summer will include a pool and I am so excited about that! My parents generously offered to give us a "pool only" membership to a local country club this summer!!!!! I mean, wow! I am so thankful to them. We have already been twice. It is a little stressful to take all(6) the kids myself cause there are no lifeguards. I didn't think this would matter too much because our last town we lived in we had a membership to a local pool, and they had lifeguards. Well I never trusted those lifeguards (teenagers) fully, they were always talkin! So I was always keeping my eye on the kids there and it wasn't too bad. But now I realize that I did trust them a little, and they were a comfort to have around. Here there's no back up and I felt like I had to watch them intently just in case. I even told a nice lady there that if I had to save someone I was going to "throw" the baby to her before I jumped in! She was nice and said that was fine. I guess I'll just pick my designated baby holder every time we go. I don't think I will tell the person that I picked them, they'll just know they "won" whenever I hand them my baby and jump in!
I also wanted to show my latest makery.
I love this pillow. Probably because of the sweet patchwork. I, again, just love those voiles. I loved patching them together to go around the embroidery. And this is the back of the pillow...
More voile, and the two square panels are her dobby dot line. I mean those colors, who does that? That girl is the color queen. This weekend is the big quilt market, so all the cool designers are all getting ready to go. OH how I wish I could go and meet them all and see all the goodies there! What fun. I guess I'll just have to wait til they blog about it all. Then I can blog about it! And the circle goes on...
And I almost forgot, but it's giveaway day at a sewmamasew! Just go to the sewmamasew blog and you have a few days to sign up for tons of giveaways. Generally it's someone's blog that you'll go to, and you just leave a comment. That's it. Now fair warning, as you probably have read before, I have signed up for TONS of giveaways and have yet to win anything...but you never know. Someone has to get picked and it may just be YOU. Then you'll get some awesome handmade goodie, or fabric, or pattern, etc. And it's great that it'll be up for several days. Time to sign up for them all, and we won't tell anyone how much time we spent on the internet to do it! Just kidding, well maybe. So I'm off to try to win, and find sweet crafty shops and places along the way.
Kathleen, you're right, Anna Maria is a color genius. What a cute little pillow. You've inspired me to look up how to do a split stitch. It's one that I'm going to have to try. Have you ever embroidered on a t-shirt? I was thinking of trying in order to save a few of mine that have been felled by tomato sauce or bleach. Do you think it would work? Also, it is a completely different style from Anna Maria, but have you seen the "Alabama Stitch Book" by Natalie Chanin? She has some interesting ideas.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm off to get people to go to bed if I can tear them away from the baseball on TV. :)
Hey annie! I think you could pump out some serious embroidery, even the Natalie Chanin style which is the definition of "serious embroidery!" It was funny cause she was in the April (I think) issue of Southern Living so I read about her there, then she went to visit Anna Maria. Then Joseph was like "jon posted about this girl designer in Alabama..." Yall are always in the know! And I do love her work, it is truly amazing what she does and i would love to have that book. I think she even has some recipes in it too. And she has projects in it that are done on knits, which you probably have already seen.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see what you would do to one of your t-shirts! Then I could copy you! :) The artsycraftybabe blog on my sidebar thing, she made the knit skirt from Natalie's book and blogged about it. It has embroidery and I think she said it was her favorite skirt! And now I'm off to eat a subway at 10pm, is that bad? yes it is!! oh well!
I can sympathize about taking them swimming by yourself you brave girl! When we go, I make everyone except Chelsea wear a life jacket, gives me a little bit more piece of mind even though Nick and Alex can swim I don't worry about them as much and keep a better eye on the little ones. I think taking them swimming by yourself is one of the most challenging things to do with a "crowd" of children.
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