a color scheme
These are the fabrics I have picked out for my next set of projects. The colors are based on those in this amazing print Kim sent me.
Speaking of colors, I’m loving these too. Tim took this photo at a vintage auto show we happened upon in Indiana. Oscar was very pleased with it. He kept running from car to car and pointing and yelling “CAR!” to anyone who’d listen. He was quite a hit.
Paige
Paige kitty loves school. This Fall she is starting kindergarten and she is over the moon excited about it. So excited in fact, she’s had no time for Summer activities. It’s been pencils and books, letters and numbers all Summer long.
When the rest of the kids are at the swimming pool Paige is playing teacher.
Paige is very pleased it is finally August because that means the first day of school is right around the corner. It also means back-to-school shopping. Paige picked out a new plaid dress, a new backpack and a new pair of shoes. She had some trouble deciding between the orange loafers and the brown t-straps but in the end the mary janes won out.
Finally it was time to head to the store for supplies and then home to pack up her backpack.
Now that she’s all set, shoes are polished, backpack is packed, ribbon tie is tied the only thing left to do is practice waiting for the bus.
five idiosyncrasies
Should be five reasonable excuses for why I cannot for the life of me spell that word. Anyway, thanks Kelly for tagging me. I put Tim to the task of coming up with these because I, of course, think I’m perfectly normal. Actually we both worked on the list together and had a really difficult time. We could think of plenty of pet peeves, phobias, character flaws, but few idiosyncrasies. Here’s what I came up with.
1. I cannot throw a magazine away without going through it and tearing out all the photos and articles and ads I may ever at some point in the future find interesting. This results in a lot of piles of magazines waiting to be "gone through".
2. The moment I get in the car I need not only my window down but Tim’s too. Cross breeze! CB!
3. I never finish a drink. I’m like that kid in that movie.
4. I’m garage sale shy. I always want to go to them and then we pull up, get out of the car and halfway down the driveway I want to turn back. They’re always looking at me so expectantly and I don’t want them to watch me judging their junk. Tim always has to drag me the rest of the way.
5. This one is more my parents’ than mine. Burgers every Saturday night. For forever.
Ok, I’ll pass it along, how about Robin, Siri, Alexia, Jess and Alison. I hope none of you have caught this already.
odd little couple
Today I’m singing the I’m lucky lucky song (and doing the dance). I’ve had some amazing trades in the past and here’s another one. I’ve long admired Jess Hutch‘s amazingly cool, soft, fuzzy knit robots and I swooned over her adorable bug for month of softies. So when I recently discovered her flickr account I added her as a contact right away. That’s where I spotted the photo she posted of her latest little guy. I freaked out! I loved everything about him so much. So I worked up some courage and begged a trade. Jess graciously agreed and I sent her Miss Lilian Bunny and she sent me not only odd fellow, but his pal odd fellow 2. Two! 2! They’re amazing. The knitter in me is so humbled in their presence. They’re beautifully made and their little faces are perfect. We’ve all become fast friends and I’ve agreed to take them on many adventures.
Here they are visiting the 1880s (via the awesome fake oil painting thrift score from last week).
Thank you so much Jess!!
folky bear shoe
And speaking of things folkloric, I’ve finally tagged a quilt in the flickr vintage fabric group. So fun!
a couple of bears
Here are a couple of bears I’ve been working on this week. Debbie sent me all that great Comes Mart stuff and I wanted to send her a softie in return. I asked her bunny, kitty or bear and she chose bear and so I tweaked the bunny doll pattern to make a bear doll. Shorter ears, shorter legs, big nose… they turned out sufficiently bear-like I think. My Mom got in on the action and asked for one for her friend’s new granddaughter so there are two. Cordelia, on the left, is made of corduroy and is for Debbie and Cora, on the right, is brown flannel for baby Alicia.
Cordelia has a wool felt collar and cute pink vintage button (thanks Melissa!). I experimented with making the one-piece dress actually a two piece top and skirt. I’m excited with how it turned out. And she has a little pocket for whatnot.
Cordelia’s shoes. I’m pretty happy with them but what I really want to get is a teeny tiny hole punch so I can punch out little designs in felt. Maybe something like that is a scrapbooking gadget?
Cora’s sporting a little wool felt cameo pin that I tried to embroider a bear profile on. heh heh. Stephanie the answer to your question is because I’m a wacko. She had a big wide spot in the center of her collar to fill and the dress fabric seemed sort of victorian to me and a cameo popped into my head. It’s a pretty wonky cameo and surely this baby will chew it off in a new york minute but it was fun to make.
Cora’s little wool felt victorian button ups that actually button up.
Ok, Oscar’s up from his marathon nap. Off to the baby pool!
