food, crochet, merriment
We’ve certainly gone to our share of Farmer’s Markets. When you’ve been around, you learn a few things.
If you’ve ever gone to a farmer’s market and smelled the flowers and homemade soap…
and tasted the apples and peaches and thumbed through the old books…
and sampled the 47 different treats that can be made with a pumpkin…
then you also probably also know that the best time to go to a farmer’s market…
is when the trees look exactly….like….this.
Everybody knows that.
Ask around.
This is a much easier recipe than the one in the previous post.
Thanks Natasha!!
This, my dears is our newest little sweetheart–Merrick. He’s the happiest little soul that you’ve ever seen and OH, so much fun to snuggle and kiss.
Do you just adore the matching ties for church?
He is the son of Dane & Kortney and the dearest little grand-baby imaginable.
So glad they are close by so they can share all this happiness with us.
My family is soooo cute! They each came and spent a part of Mother’s Day with me. And I was given the most AWESOME gifts this year.
Among them was a beautiful, HOT PINK Kitchen Aid mixer!! Yes, yes, I know–it’s gorgeous and get this…
It matches my toaster!!!
But here’s a tip. Look closely before you throw any boxes away–
or you might miss one of the best gifts of all.
Before quilt market, April and I hit on a fantastic idea.
Since she would have a booth at the Moda area, why not use that cute baby as a living mannequin–so to speak. We could dress her up in pretty little ruffly things made with the prettiest fabric on the planet. SUCH a good idea!
I scoured the internet and found just the right patterns–four to be exact–for the entire event. That baby would have a new outfit from her mama’s fabric for all three days at the conference and one special dress to wear to the fancy-schmancy black and white formal dinner.
The teensy tiny catch was that I only had 6 days to make the 4 outfits.
The race was on!
1~ The first thing was the easiest. I made the little pants to go with a sweet little red shirt. Sadly, because I made the top last, I don’t have a picture of it.
2~ Next, was this little summer dress. It was autumn weather her in Utah, but it was warmer in Texas, so this outfit would still work.
I was nervous that this one would be too wide for this tiny baby girl so I sewed a tie on the front…
that cinched it up just enough, with a little bow in the back.
Completed.
3~ This sweet flowery top…
with the double tiered, ruffly bloomers. So dang cute!!
4~ And last of all, the “formal” dress for the Black and White dinner.
I finished the last stitch on the last top–the red one–about an hour before taking April and Jacob and the baby to the airport. Yeah, that’s pushing it, I know.
But it worked…
in the nick of time!
Phew!
