Four days with the husband home, that’s how you get stuff done. Hope everyone had a fun 4th! Ours was pretty good. I’m almost over the stinging disappointment of Oak Park’s ridiculously bad parade. I’ve acclimated to the no more floats thing but no bands?! no shriners? no classic cars? no twirlers? Even the cool librarian book cart drill team were absent. sigh. But marching band withdrawal aside, we did manage to have a productive weekend and that always makes … More
Author: hillary
splash of color
Some vacation day. Forecast is for severe scattered thunderstorms so guess instead of a trip to the zoo as planned we’ll have to stay inside and work on project find a spot for all this stuff which Oscar will be thrilled to learn includes stowing half his toys away in the basement. Happy 4th kid!
Other suckiness as a result of incliment weather is no light to take pictures of all our fun garage sale finds. Instead here’s a photo … More
WIP Friday
Here’s my line up of new bunnies waiting for tails, faces and dresses. I’m really excited about this batch! I have so many great fabrics picked out for their outfits. It’s good to have a fun activity lined up for the long nights in store for us this weekend, listening to things explode.
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looking back looking forward
Glad to hear the pattern booklets are landing safely and I can’t wait to see your creations. More booklets have been reordered…and more thank you cards and more mailers. whew! The business of business, there’s a lot of it huh. Tim is very excited that people actually like these things and is eager to get going on the next set of patterns. I’m working on it dear. I’ve successfully recreated the butterfly and now the turtle.
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Alicia Bunny it is
I just put the finishing touch, a first place ribbon, on the latest big footed bunny. She’s what they call a horse girl. Coincidentally, a fellow equestrian is talking shop today so fittingly this bunny shall be named Alicia Bunny.
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Daddy’s Day
Happy Father’s Day! Hope all you dads out there are as happy as this one here, playing with his new garage sale find, an old 1950s Pachinko game.
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crazy doll lady
Yep that’s me. Or it is soon going to be. We went to this amazing crazy estate sale on Friday that was baby doll madness! I think this woman must have been the old Grandma in the neighborhood who has an open invitation for all the kids to come over to play with a stockpile of outdated toys. When we first walked into the backyard and saw the boxes and boxes and boxes of dolls I about had a heart … More
