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A Day at the Beach

May 29, 2008 in Kids, Me by emily | 5 comments

I had a momentary lapse in sanity and decided to take the kids to the beach today. Keep in mind we don’t really live anywhere near the beach.

But, it turned out being a great day with well behaved kids and no major disasters!

Wait for me!

Digging the big hole.

Lunch: Sand and Sweet Potatoes.

The good life.

Where I work

May 22, 2008 in Home, Me by emily | 1 comment

The NCTriangle Street team asked for pictures and some words (that I still need to write!) about where I sew my quilts. If they had seen my room on the day they asked the question they would have retracted quickly since it was a disaster area. It’s clean now but with two little kids it won’t be for long.

This is our bonus room. Starting at the left: my desk, easel and painting supplies, fabric storage bookshelf with embroidery thread, quilting machine and serger on top, comfy chair, kids Lego table and bookshelf with their toys and a TV. I have a curtain rod with rings hanging above the bookshelf. I change the quilt out whenever something sells or I want something fresh up there.

The other side of the room. In the dormer on the left I store my 40 yard rolls of batting (which is almost gone… again!), then my sewing table, ironing board, bookshelves and then back to my desk. Above the ironing board is my typesetting tray with my various threads for piecing and binding.

A close up of my sewing table. I have a large cutting mat with an insane amount of rulers. A small basket of tools and notions plus some small drawers for pins, sewing machine feet, etc. I have a large set of drawers on the other side of the table that stores packing supplies, notions and large quilting thread spools. Since I only use the large quilting machine for quilting, I pull this one off the table and carry the other one over when I need it.

Finished quilts are stored in a closet way high up and out of the reach of small little hands.

Kids and Flowers

May 22, 2008 in Kids, Me by emily | No comments

It was beautiful this morning so we headed out.

And my little photographer in training.

My tiny love.

Mother’s Day

May 11, 2008 in Kids, Me by emily | 2 comments

We spent this morning at a favorite spot of mine.

And had a very nice lunch followed by some fun at the mall with Miss Maeve. The idea was for us to build a bear *together* but that quickly turned into Maeve’s bear.

Meet ‘Eye.’ Yes, Eye. She insisted that she wanted a black bear that was a boy and was named Eye.

He had to have a hat (she wanted the straw hat with a pink bow but I nixed that one since it was supposed to be a boy bear). He also had to have sunglasses like Daddy, a black shirt that matched his fur and black pants to match his black shirt and black shoes to complete the outfit. Oh, and boy undies. Rounding out the ensemble are the roller skates… just like (Curious) George. Everyday she makes a pair of ’skates’ out of paper and then skate/ski poles out of her Tinker Toys and skates around upstairs like George.

So we headed out to pick up a new pair of shoes for her because she needed them and we were there so why not?

Of course Eye had to skate along.

And through Nordies too.

And eventually her arm got tired and I carried him and then he hitched a ride with Liam in the stroller. Throw in some gelato and it was a fantabulous day. Smooches to my babies ’cause I love you to pieces.

Happy Birthday Liam!

April 29, 2008 in Kids, Me by emily | 4 comments

At 5:11 pm on April 29, 2007 Liam Cormac came into this world 4 weeks early.

He has become such a wonderful little boy. Everyday I see his smile and my heart just melts. This morning he and I went to Duke Gardens for some relaxation and pictures. Ok, a LOT of pictures. Here are a couple of my favorites.

This is such a Liam face. I laughed out loud when I saw I had captured it.

I might add pictures later of our little party from tonight. He wasn’t too big on the idea of cake so there might just be a bunch of scrunchy faces spitting out food.

Edited to add a couple more…

Liam on his new quilt reading his new Very Hungry Caterpillar book.