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The weekend in review:
Cookies were made and consumed. I still use the awesome recipe I copied years ago from my mom's fantastic old handmade cookbook. The jar is pretty crap for cookies, though, because it has no seal and we were forced to eat the lot of them before the ants could get in. I cleaned it out and filled the jar with embroidery yarn, which takes longer to eat.
After a year of winging about not being able to loiter like drunkards on our lanai, I bought patio chairs. Tonight: chairs and grill and meat and booze and cards. ^_^
We finally emptied the last boxes from our big move - the boxes we hadn't gotten around to opening from two moves ago. Inside was a heartbreaking medley of old photos, love letters, tarnished treasures, torn bits of poetry, lecture notes punctuated with doodle commentary, and locks of hair. Need to make archival boxes and squirrel them away where they will be safe and I will never have to see them again.
Gavin's friend came over and they spent the day wielding light sabers, eating the contents of the snack cupboard, and sewing from my scrap jar and button box while I worked on some quilt squares. We snuck out behind the house with a plastic shovel and filled a pot with dirt and worms, poked basil seeds into it, and put it in the sun with water. Big kids are fantastic creatures.
Kind of a perfect afternoon.
2 comments:
Thanks for "following" me!
I love your new patio chairs! Where did you get them? They look part-Adirondack, part-Anthropologie (as if that's a style in itself).
Nice job on the quilt, too. I have been sewing again after a long hiatus. For inspiration, it's nice to see what crafts other people have created. I am still a beginner, but would like to try making a quilt for next winter!
Thanks! The chairs were a lucky find at Ross, that magical trove of goodies that I am always sad to admit I frequent. Will cobble together an anthro-esque home yet.
I don't know when blogger added the "follow" button, but it's very handy for the lazy blog-stalker. Good to be able to peek in on you with more frequency, your sewing makes me want to finish all the ufos in my stash. :)
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