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friday morning

it’s a rainy friday morning…

we’re cleaning and working on some projects. the kids have a huge fort in the living room and they’re pretending to be ants. wyatt is a working ant, isabelle is a baby ant, and i am mrs. ant.

i’m trying to get a few projects going. sometimes when i have a lot of projects to do, i feel so overwhelmed that i don’t do anything. i’m trying to keep the momentum so i don’t fall into that trap. here’s what i’m doing:

stamping 150 cards with my business information. this is a custom order that needs to be in the mail in less than a week.

i mounted the inside text (“thank you”) to a clear mount. it’s small enough to press by hand, though the front image of the card will still have to go through the press.

i wound a gazillion (okay, only three) bobbins for the sewing machine. i wanted to make a couple old-sweater-owls. i don’t have any plans for where they’ll go, but it seemed like a good way to get off track.

during breakfast i knit a couple rounds on this baby pumpkin hat a friend has asked me to knit. it’s not my favorite project, but i’m not going to pick up any other knitting until this is done. hopefully that will only be another day or two and then i can get on to someĀ other things…

finally, the kids decided it would be a good day to make a pinata. that basically meant they each applied 5 strips of newspaper and then wanted to wash their hands.

i finished it and left it in the basement to dry.

this afternoon, my mother’s helper is coming and i plan to get a lot of crafting done! i should have many wonderful things to show you on monday. have a great weekend!

new to me

there are some new to me things around the house. i’ve held back on this because it originates from a terribly sad fact: a lot of the treasures used to be my grandmothers. it feels a little cheap posting about the good things i discovered while cleaning out her office and craft room. at the same time, i’m happy to have some of her treasures to add to our home and i’m happy to be using some of the supplies that were special enough to her to save. so…

some new sewing treasures.

a pendleton purse. why not?

a tin with some fun supplies inside. usa pottery. vintage mirror. glove forms i’ll use for display at the craft fair. and old feed bag…

many supplies which, when worked together with just a few of my own supplies, made something new and wonderful! (more about that later this week…)

(not having to do with my grandmother) i’m teaching (0r trying to teach) myself to play the guitar. it’s been on the “list” for quite a while, and i’ve finally decided to just jump in. is it sad that after a week, i can only play two chords?

from the infamous (to me) collection of dolls, a pair for mama and a little raggedy anne for belle.

candles and cocoa (the big 100)

(wow! i can’t believe that this is my 100th post! i thought it would feel more monumental, but it’s just another tale of another day. i think i like it that way.)

sometimes an everyday morning calls for somethingĀ more than the normal routines. yes, candles are for winter nights when it gets dark before dinner time. yes, cocoa is for those moments when we’ve just come in from a cold and snowy adventure and need to warm ourselves from the inside out.

but today? today candles and cocoa were part of breakfast.