Patriarch

Sometime's photos can speak louder than words which is why I'm not going to say much about these photos. This is my 92 year old grandpa Gus playing cards at my 2 yr old nephew's birthday party.

Budding Artist

If I can keep him from eating the color crayons, Jacob LOVES to color!
Here is a little photo montage of one of his latest artistic endeavors. The one of him crying was after I yanked the color crayon out of his mouth (notice all of the blue crayon on his teeth? ick!) You can click on the collage to see a larger version.

Old Pillows, New Pillows

New Pillows (Bottom) Quite a few months ago I took my first trip to Crafty Planet in NE Minneapolis with Sarah and got the BEST fabric with the intention of making some cute pillow covers. Then it took me a few weeks to get over to Ikea to get some pillows to make covers for! Next step, sew pillow cases. Easier said than done since I had no sewing machine at the time. FINALLY I got around to spending some time with Karen who was a huge help. In her pregnancy monkey brain state of mind she attempted to help me figure out my "pattern". Through some happy accidents, I ended up with the borders on the pillows. We like to call it Karen-dupity (serendipity + pregnancy stupidity) I then took another week or so to hand sew them into the cases. And here they are!

Shortly after, I was given a sewing machine from my mother-in-law Cathy (THANKS!)
I have a feeling there will be more projects i the future once photo shoots slow down and work gets done. Hmmmm...could be a long time.

Old Pillow (Top) The old pillow was made by Jim's grandmother and also handed down to me in Cathy's attempt to clean out her basement in preparation for remodeling. I just LOVE it!