Hello Friends!
My friend Jen had posted this on her Facebook page, I have taken her up on her offer and in turn, am offering some crafty goodness your way…So here goes…
I invite you to experiment with me in a pay-it-forward concept. I am offering to make something for the first five (5) people who respond to this note and who agree to do the same for five others. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations so please read carefully:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. Whatcha get is whatcha get.
2. What I create will be just for you, with love.
3. It’ll be done this year (2009).
4. I will not give you any clue what it’s going to be. It may be weird or beautiful. But it will be something real and tangible, not something on the internet.
5. In return, all you need to do is post this text into a note on Facebook or blog of your own and make 5 things for the first 5 to respond to your note.
6. You will need to send me your mailing address so I can get your item to you.
IMPORTANT: This offer is null and void if I do not see you post your own note to pay this forward.
Hiya All! I thought I’d share a few photos of the quilt I made for Sebastians kindergarten class project for the St. Ignatius Auction. The kids painted the main blocks, and I pieced it all together. Sherri of BumbleBee Quilting quilted it. I really love how it turned out, and it brought in $1k for the school! Pretty great, yea? I will also post pics of my “Bunch of Squares” quilt, which is happily laying across our bed as I type this as soon as I can. My mom and sis are requesting some pics of my pregnant belly…and since I am due next month, I best get my mister on top of that stat!
In other crafty news, I am still stash busting my way through all of this yarn here…and am pretty close to finishing my Bartletts sweater. Douglas requested a crewneck, so easy peasy! I have also done quite a bit of sewing for the baby, and am really looking forward to my baby shower this coming Saturday. I never had a baby shower when I was preggers with Sebastian, so this should be fun.
Last weekend, our family took a little walk in Forest Park. One of the best places to go in Portland in my humble opinion. Miles and miles of trails within city limits! Yee-haw! On this particular walk we found out that Sebastian does NOT like mud…in fact, he spent most of the hike holding his pants up a bit (so as to not get too much more mud on them apparently, and hindering him quite a bit in the old balance department, which in turn got him much more muddy as he kept falling into huge puddles!) Unfortunately for him, we were rained and hailed upon quite fiercely. And after about 45 minutes of complaining on his part, we were able to convince him that the MORE mud you had on you the tougher you looked…and he, by far, looked the toughest by the end of our hike. Sebs liked being nominated as the toughest guy in Forest Park, and then preceded to run in the mud downhill…all of the way to our car.
This supa rad video is of a band called Saint Esmerelda. If you watch closely you will see my stepdad playing the guitar (beard + glasses) to a very funky disco version of the classic, “House of the Rising Sun”. Oh yea.
In other news, I have been up to a LOT of crafty stuff, but being the terrible blogger that I am, I have yet to take any pictures of anything! I have been knitting up a storm, on some Railroad Rib Socks with this luscious yarn Casbah, by Handmaiden:
I also finished my (queen sized!) Bunch Of Squares quilt, made a quilt for an auction for Sebastians school out of squares they painted, sewed a “maternity jerkin” from a 1950s pattern I bought a while back, and have been knitting on various baby girl things, as well as sewing up quite a bit for the little lass to be. Just about 9 more weeks until her arrival (give or take) and we are all getting anxious to meet her!
Looking out on the front yard, and going for walks around town…it is FINALLY becoming apparent that Spring is on her way too! In our yard, I have just planted a few sweet pea seeedlings that I started a few weeks back, and all of the bulbs I planted back in the fall are juuuust starting to peek out of the earth. So exciting! Come on Spring!
I am sitting in our cozy cottage, looking out our living room window at the snow covered patches of dirt that pass for our front yard…I am yearning for spring! For green. Flowers to smell, veggie seedlings to sow, a new baby girl to snuggle up to. (I haven’t even told you that we found out we are having a girl yet, huh?) This lovely white stuff is losing its charm for me today. I am ready for the sunshine!
I do realize that it isn’t even February yet. So Ive posted a picture of my St. Sebastian, on his first day of school…dwarfed by our gigantic sunflowers, to get me through the rest of this chilly, snowy, wet, and mushy, January day.
My husband and I, were snowed in and child free this weekend here in lovely Portland, OR. While we were having lunch, he mentioned something about our french bulldog Rodney, looking an awful lot like a puppet he remembered as a kid on a local PSA. I kind of knew what he was talking about…then he hunted down the Charley and Humphrey PSA’s on YouTube, and I was amazed at how quickly I remembered them.
“Gluuuee! I need glue!”
I can’t explain how much I appreciate being married to someone with the same childhood recollections of places, personalities, and random commercials from the SF in the 70’s! (He even knows who doctor Dean Adell is…and Herb Caen!) Anyhoo…I thought I would share with you…a kind of early Christmas present. Hope you enjoy it! (Being an SF native is not required…)
I have been feeling blissful of late, celebrating our first anniversary, knitting, sewing, cooking, and taking care of my pregnant self…so busy that I have been terribly neglectful of this blog. I am hoping that we get some sunshine here in Portland this weekend so that I can take some pics of all of the knitting I’ve finished (finally the Lighthouse Gansey Socks!) and share them with you. Until then, I thought I’d share this…Sister Rosetta Tharpe:
37 weeks and counting…
