How I Spent Last Week

I would like to tell you I spent my week making this super cute rag quilt. However, that would be a bald-faced lie. I did, however, spend one pleasant evening watching Mansfield Park and The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton while I clipped all the seams (still not sure what I think about the movies, but the quilt is certainly a winner).

If you would like your own quilt, you can see some wonderfully clear instructions at she wears flowers. Or perhaps, you could visit she wears flowers' Etsy shop and ask if you could buy a rag quilt there.

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For those readers who don't know, Auntie K is famous for being interested in and reading LOTS about different hobbies and skills, such as baking, knitting, quilting, running, candymaking, etc. K usually falls down at the application stage, but she enjoys dreaming. Right now, she's dreaming (obviously) about sewing. The dreaming sometimes bleeds into the supplies stage of application. Thus, K just purchased some yummy fabric to make a tunic (here's the accent), T just gifted her the most beautiful fabric ever for a skirt, and K is racking her brain to decide how she could best use this perfectly lovely Alexander Henry for something smashing.

Isn't dreaming fun?

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Anyone who knows or has heard of my youngest niece A (not to be confused with the oldest niece A or the middle niece A (my family likes names that start with A)), should check out this photo at she wears flowers. It's classic A, her personality captured in a single photo.

And, you can read about some really clever, cute project while you're at it!

TMI

To the man boy in the McDonald's line today:

The world really doesn't need or want to see your grey boxer-briefs and skinny thighs through the huge holes in your skinny white jeans. The punk-rocker hair and bracelets aren't my style either, but at least they aren't offensive.

Thanks,

Auntie K





photo: Siegel, Arthur S. (1943). Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Long underwear of a river boatman hanging out on a line. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [LC-USW3-029882-E DLC]. Available from American Memory at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d30057)).

How I Spent My Morning

Better Late than Never

I watched the nephews Friday and Saturday while the rest of the family concentrated on moving-in activities. Despite all the fun we had, including dumping buckets of water on our heads in the backyard, feeding a sippy cup to the ducks at Murfree Spring, playing on several playgrounds and visiting the Patterson Park pool, the only photos I took were in car over the shoulder shots on the way to drop the boys at their new home.

L likes to smile for the camera. Here's one of his more natural grins.

I could have shot off a cannon in front of J and he wouldn't have noticed. Cars had all his attention.