Stripes (and straps)

A crocheted rug I made for the bathroom floor. Love how it turned out, so colorful it makes me happy just seeing it. Since I am NOT a morning person, every little thing I can do to make mornings happier is a good thing. All cotton and super absorbant. Next one I make will be double-thick though, with two strands held together throughout.

I have had a few requests for the camera straps and think I will be doing those. If you're interested, let me know. These will be sleeves that slide over your existing strap, so I think $20 is a fairer price, since the others you can buy come with the strap as well (hence their higher price.) I figure if someone needs a strap sleeve, they must already have the camera and thus, the strap. Can someone with a Canon strap measure it's length and width and let me know. I only have Nikon and want to make sure I get it right for both cameras. Thanks!

Quilted camera strap

Love how this turned out! Only took 3 tries, LOL, 'cuz I can have some stupid girl moments, but I perservered. Even put in an elastic-topped cell phone pocket because, with 3 daughters, imy cell is pretty much a lifeline to what's going on - and the elastic keeps it from slipping out without making it hard to get out when I want to. Shade made me promise to tell you the source of the elastic. I wanted to finish so badly (this being the third try and all) and I didn't have any elastic on hand, so I scavenged a pair of Indiana's outgrown underwear and cut the elastic from the waistband. Shade thinks it's hilarious and disgusting and all I could say was "I cut it from the waistband, not like the crotch or anything." So its even a recycled kinda project. I've had a few requests for these, so if I start to make them, I promise to use only new, non-underwear, elastic!

April '08 wrap-up

If I get nothing else done (concerning scrapbook), I still feel OK if I get my monthly wrap up done. I am so looking forward to a couple years down the road when I have these all together in one album. I love things in their abreviated forms: lists and bulleted items and synopsises (synopsi?) and condensed versions and monthly wrap-ups. Give it to me short and sweet, I got stuff to do!

Rockers/I/Question/Often

A couple recent layouts I've uploaded to Flickr.

1. Rockers of my world, 2. I wish, 3. Question: How do you fill up a hard drive?, 4. Often imitated never duplicated

Regional Champs

Yep, they won the whole thing. Which wasn't even "the goal". The goal was to win against U17 Splash so they would get the bid to go to Nationals in Dallas this summer. They did that, so yep, we're going to National$ in Dalla$$ :)

Then they did something else amazing. In the Regional competion for the 18 year olds, they won the whole thing, thus being the first ever younger team (17's) to win an older teams (18's) Regional competition. So they are now the Evergreen Region No. 1 team for both 18s AND 17s :) How can you not be excited about that?

On the road again

Headed East, AGAIN, this weekend for volleyball. Long, straight-as-an-arrow drive from Wenatchee to Spokane. I always seem to hit it in the couple hours before sunset when God's(?) hand lays a golden wash and intensity across the land that whispers a little "not as boring as you thought, eh?" Not sure how I feel about this particular tourney, if I'm being HONEST. If they win, there will be more $$travel$$ at a time when I am $$traveled$$ out. I think I'm ready for the season to wrap-up, but when I'm there, and they're playing and pulling together and never giving up, you can't help but cheer them on. Wish us luck, in whatever form that may be.

Be big

Carsey has a personality a mile wide and I love that about her. And not that this has happened (yet) but I know that at some point "society/life/other people" will try to get her to tone it down. I just wanted to remind her to resist that at all costs. Be you, Carsey, be big.

If we were sticks

I was commissioned to create a set of stick figure people for Nestlings, who does all sorts of wonderfulness, including vinyl cutting. If you're so inclined to sport your family on the back of your rig (or anywhere else for that matter), check them out. Lots of choices for looks and pets and even a horse (a horse!) And no, I don't get a commission, LOL, I just think they turned out cute so thought I'd show 'em off.

Sunshine in a bag

Here is that last of the yellow. Love this one so much I had to keep it myself instead of put it up for sale. It makes me happy, which is all you can ask for, right?

Front and back are different, appliqued with yellow strip scraps on a very light beige heavy cotton. Sunny and fun for Spring!

Bags

A few recent bags. I am in love with the lemon yellow right now. I have one more to photograph, which used the last of my yellow, so a few new colors should be showing up soon.

1. Quilted lunch bag, 2. Large quilted ditty bag, 3. Quilted wallet / wristlet, 4. Strip quilted makeup case

grass eater

nine again

Head on over to Teresa McFayden's blog for some fun "To be 9 again" declarations. Loved taking a little thought time to remember what it FELT like, to really remember. My post to her blog: This is one of the bestest posts I've read in a long time from all over blogland! I don't think I can remember 9....oh wait, figuring out the year helped, 1976, of course the bicentennial, so now...yes, my green denim watermelon bellbottom jeans. I should get to where those every single day. Which leads to the green faux fur coat. Hate it. Don't want to wear it ever again. Let's go to grandma's house more often. Either one, both are great and fun and awesome adventures. But at Grandma Shirley's house, more ice cream from the downstairs "extra" freezer and no more cream soda. ever. ewww. Sandwiches and chips though, bring it on! ANd Lagoon roller coasters till my legs are wobbly.

fifteen

These awesome teen pics are not from me. They are by Carsey's best friend. She has a Flickr stream, http://www.flickr.com/photos/25102068@N08/, and goes by tolhousecookies. Quite the teen photog herself! I love seeing her images because she captures the teen Carsey and not the daughter Carsey, if you know what I mean. Anyway, Happy birthday baby, love you to the moon and I am SO PROUD of you. Who you are as well as who you're becoming.

Wrap-ups

To say the end of this winter and beginning of spring has been crazy, busy, hectic and overwhelming is an understatement. Just realized I never did February, so here it is, and since I was on a roll I did March as well (it's almost over!) Bring on summer, our lazy, hazy time of slowing down and regenerating.

Waking up

A few of my favorite shots in the last couple weeks. Loving the weather getting a bit warmer and the earth waking up from winter.


1. golf tees in carpet pad, 2. showoff, 3. 126/365, 3/21/08, 4. Verge of 15, 5. Grass eater, 6. Colorado Crossroads 2008, 7. Denver, 8. 79/365, 2/3/08, 9. 77/365, 2/1/08