FriYays

Happy Mario day! That’s what my kids have decided today is thanks to Nintendo. Mar.10 can be read as Mario, apparently. Personally, I’m more excited about Pi Day next Tuesday (You know that one, right math nerd friends? 3/14 is Pi day since it is the first numbers of Pi, 3.14). I might make a homemade pie for it! Anyway, here are some highlights from this week:

• I try to get in and volunteer in my younger son’s classroom on Thursdays. Yesterday the 8 and 9 year old girls offered to give me a sparkle kitty face tattoo. I of course said yes, how could you not? Also, it is kind of difficult to take a picture of your dominant hand while in your car.

• This guy had a birthday over the weekend! His teacher sent me this photo first thing on Sunday morning and it totally made my day. He doesn’t look very happy, but I think he’s adorable. He turned 9, which I can hardly believe. It is his last year of single digits!

• I attempted to make a birthday cake for Maverick on Saturday. This is how it came out. Normally baking is totally my thing and I do great with it, but I think I am so used to dumping hardy breads from bread pans and my bread machine bucket that I dumped a little too hard on this one. So, I still owe him a birthday cake. Maybe he will accept a pie on Pi day?

• And I’ll leave you with this lady. I swear every time I look at Juniper she is looking at me like this. This face means that she wants something that I generally can’t figure out, and she will stare at me like this until I get it figured out. Often there is grumble barking involved when I get wrong whatever she wants. She’s very demanding…..

How was your week? Leave me a comment, I would love to hear from you!

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Happy Friday! This week went so quickly! We had a snow day on Tuesday and then my older son had no school Thursday or today. Plus, my younger son’s Birthday is on Sunday, so my older son and I went and dropped cupcakes at school this afternoon. Fun! Since I am back to full pick up and drop off duty with Mr Danger starting his new job, I did not mind having a few less drop offs and picks ups this week! Here are some highlights from the week:

• I like to pick a theme each year to focus on. I probably could have shared this earlier, but this is my theme for this year. I have definitely felt myself making more joy based choices this week. I ordered a little pocket talisman from Soul Mantras and last December and I keep it in my pocket. You can order your own custom talisman here.
• Part of why I haven’t gotten a ton of crafting in this week is I have been reading a lot. I have pulled out all of my Byron Katie books and have been rereading them. I find them so helpful. If you are interested in living more peacefully, I can’t recommend Katie enough. I would suggest starting with her first book, Loving What Is*.

• We got a coupon in the mail from Imperfect Foods so we’ve been trying them out. I ordered these chocolate bars earlier and we ate them this week. Um, yum! They were delicious, I highly recommend them if you see them anywhere. And chocolate and other tasty groceries delivered to my door? I might be able to get into that.
• That book the chocolate is sitting on is one I bought for my bread machine. It was inexpensive and the recipes are all good. I have been slowly working through the first chapter which is all basic breads. I think we only have dark rye bread and a pumpernickel left to try and then I’ll move on to the next chapter, which is spice and herb breads. My favorite part of the book is that it isn’t like all the recipe websites I find on Pinterest that have ads jumping in my face as I try and figure out what ingredients I need!! It is so worth the $6 I paid to save my mental health. You can find the book here*.
• I’ve broken my normal Jack Johnson listening habit in the car and have been listening to Death Cab For Cutie this week. What a flashback to high school! I have been enjoying the essentials playlist on Apple Music.

• I’ll end the week with this crazy puppy. She knocked her little house over and was jumping all around in it. I pulled out my camera just in time to capture her popping out. She will be 2 years old in a month, but she very much is still a crazy puppy!

What were the highlights from your week? I would love if you leave me a comment and let me know!

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I can’t quite believe it is Friday again already. I am not entirely sure where this week has gone! But I dug through my photos and found some fun highlights to share.

I found a cute little tea set for The Darlings and Louie Lovebot decided to try it out. I am going to finish my Rainbow Quilt this weekend and then my next project will be starting to get The Darlings patterns ready to share here on the blog.

In looking for tea sets for The Darlings I came across a cute Etsy shop full of antiques and bought this amazing poodle necklace. It is even cuter in person, I love it so much!

Some of the ladies from the Bellingham Modern Quilt Guild had told me about Fabric Bubb so I put in an order as a “reward” after finishing all of my heart ornaments and tutorials. This unicorn fabric made my day when it arrived this week.

I just finished the last of my little necklace embroidery projects last night, and now I don’t know what to do with my life anymore……..They have just been such a fun little make! You can find the kits I used on Amazon here* and here*.

And a cute doggo to wrap up the week. She just had the sweetest expression on her face all snuggled up in her blankets with her fluffy hair!

How was your week? What were your favorites that happened? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Happy Friday! We are heading into a 3 day weekend for both of my kiddos and I am very excited to have an extra day off. My boys are in two districts, my oldest has special needs and is in a school that supports him in the neighboring city and district. Of course it is totally great for him to be somewhere he is thriving, but most of the time the two district schedules don’t match so I often have one of the boys home and the other still in school. Like Fridays my oldest is out at noon every week and my youngest has a late start on Mondays at least once a month. Anyway I’m rambling, but I am looking forward to an extra day of downtime for everyone this weekend.

It has been a good week. I am very pleased January is at the end, and I have been working on two different free tutorials to share on the blog here, which has definitely helped my mood all week. Here are my favorites from the week:

I know I mentioned on Wednesday that I went antiquing with my friend Mitzi. We also stopped in a yarn store that had a pet axolotl! I was so excited to see it swimming around! My kids love axolotls but I don’t think I had ever seen one in real life before.

I found little chairs for The Darlings at Michaels! I am so excited about these and can’t wait to start taking photos of bear scenes to share with you!!

I mentioned my tiny half square triangles on Wednesday, but I got this cute little pinwheel quilt top sewn up for The Darlings this week! Those HST’s are 1″ finished, and I am now wanting to sew everything tiny. I am just waiting for the backing fabric to arrive and I need to find or make a little bed for this to go on! And more tiny quilts, obviously!

And finally, we always laugh because our dogs don’t like to touch each other. It is not both of them, the poodle, Coco, (the black one) wants to touch every one and every thing all of the time. Juniper (the white one) is very neurotic, standoffish, and highly anxious and doesn’t want any one or any thing to touch her ever, especially Coco. So we always document it when ever we see them snuggling together and actually touching.

I hope you guys have had a lovely week full or creativity and making! Leave me a comment and let me know your favorites from the week!

Happy Friday the 13th! Wow. I cannot believe how quickly this week has gone and that it is already Friday again. It was a pretty low-key week around here, we’re all still getting used to being back on the school schedule after the winter break. Nothing too exciting, but there have been a few fun things to share.

Ok, so maybe this isn’t a favorite or highlight from the week, but it was certainly surprising. This is our master bath next to the shower door panel. It decided to explode first thing Monday morning. The craziest part is this is right after it happened, but it continued cracking for a good hour after this and all of those cracks just became smaller and smaller pieces. It was pretty wild.

This is my new AirPods case. A certain fluffy black dog who shall remain nameless ate the ears off my last panda AirPod case, so this is the one I replaced it with. I ordered it originally like December 7th, but managed to accidentally order the pro size one. By the time it came and I realized Amazon was super slow on shipping so this just got here this week. But I am delighted with it, especially since it stands up on its own. If you need a panda with a hat and fish bag case for your AirPods, you can find this one here*.

It has been fairly dry here and the static is making Juniper’s hair extra adorable!

That’s all I’ve got for this week. My plans to get sewing in seem to keep getting bumped this week so I am hoping I can get some things done over the three day weekend.

How about you? What were the highlights, or surprising bits like my shower door, from your week?

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Happy Friday! Wow! We’ve made it through the first week of school for 2023! I feel like this year is going quickly and it is only the 6th…. Here are my first favorites for the new year!

• I ran out of a good simple black tea over Christmas break and we certainly couldn’t have that. Especially with the kids home and us all locked inside with a big snow storm. So I ordered some PG Tips from Amazon*. Imagine my delight when the tea showed up in a box covered in Corgis!!!
• I have worked on two different tutorials for you guys this week, which has been so fun! As long as everything goes smoothly (fingers crossed!) I will have the first one posted tomorrow.
• I found this classic rock playlist on Apple Music and it has been what I have been listening to as I have been back running kids around in the car.

• I got a bread machine for Christmas*! I pulled it out last week and have been playing around with it. I have made several good loaves from the cookbook that came with it, plus yogurt (that I still need to work on) and strawberry jam. How wonderful is it to get up way too early before the sun is up for school to the smell of freshly baked bread that cooked overnight. Yummo!

• And, a lot of the week has looked like this, covered in a small dog and a small very shaggy dog. My back is still grumpy with me so I have been spending a lot of time sitting on the couch and reading or doing some hand work like knitting or some stitching. I will share more on that soon!

How about you guys? How has your first week of 2023 been? What projects are you working on? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Happy Friday friends! How has your week been? Are you feeling the hustle and bustle of the season yet?

It has been a good week. I am so enjoying working on the Darlings, and there have been some fun other things to share with you as well.

• I have been playing around with this 5 minute a day artisan bread recipe that was recommended by friend. One loaf I made this week accidentally rose and then baked into a heart shape. How fun is that?!
• I love Louise Hay and I have been reading just couple pages a day in this book* which has put me in a good mood every day. It is amazing how much your thoughts shape how your day goes!

• We had the smallest dog (under 8lbs) at Thanksgiving and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law had the largest (130lbs). Mr Danger snapped this adorable shot of the two of them side by side and I love it.
• I have been knitting a lot again with the Darlings and though I have collected many needles over the years, these Chiaogoo Lace ones* remain my favorites. I have ordered a couple missing sizes over the last couple weeks to fill in some holes in my collection!

• It snowed here a little bit this week, which always makes me happy. Juniper sat at our back door and watched it snow for a good 30 minutes. It was so sweet, I had to capture the moment!

Alright friends, that’s all I’ve got this week! What were your favorites this week? I would love for you to leave me a comment and let me know!

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Happy Friday friends! Wow. Whattaweek. It was already bonkers when I posted Wednesday, and yesterday I went to volunteer in my youngest son’s classroom and within 3 minutes of being there I watched him happily running on break with his friends and then trip and slide his face across the concrete. There was lots of blood and so many tears and he is home from school today since his face swelled up so much his right eye is swollen shut. Holy moly!

That being said, I still have a couple favorites from this bananas week.

• I have been doing more handwork type projects recently (did you see the little stuffie face on my Wednesday post?) and needed a containment system for outside of my office that is easy to keep away from kids and dogs and also take with me. So when I saw some beautiful Ghana artist made baskets I knew one would work perfectly and even found a pink one! It is working exactly how I wanted and I love it so much.

• This Peasant Bread recipe is my favorite from all of the bread recipes I’ve been trying recently! I 1.5 times the recipe as noted and bake it in loaf pans and have been making all of our bread. I also have baked them in the pyrex as described, and I just made a batch to do in muffins tins to take as rolls for Thanksgiving (I’m practicing before next week!) Today I saw the focaccia bread version and I think I am going to try it this weekend.
• I’ve been watching the old Little House On The Prairie series on Prime and enjoying it so much! I had never watched it before and I am loving the 1960’s take on the 1870’s and watching it in 2022, so fun!

• And finally, a rather grumpy, extra fluffy dog picture for you!

That’s all I’ve got this week! I am sure hoping next week is a little less crazy and I am looking forward to the 4 day weekend for Thanksgiving. What are your favorites this week? I would love if you share with me in the comments below.

Wow guys, how is it already Friday again?! This week has just zoomed by around here. Are you ready for my favorites from the week?

• I did an online grocery order and got a big bag of flour because I have been baking so much and making our bread. How delightfully surprised was I when I found a FABRIC bag of flour in my trunk when I got home. I definitely will be making something out of that once I get through the many pounds of flour!!
• I watched this documentary on Amazon Prime Video today and loved it! But, as an author and craft book hoarder that makes sense…
• This week I have had this soundtrack on repeat.
• I went to the neighboring town Lynden to go to the fabric shop there earlier this week and stopped by the Lynden Dutch Bakery. I found some raisin buns that I got for the kids for breakfast and they devoured them and asked for more. I searched and found this recipe that I am going to try next week once I get to the store and get raisins.

• And I leave you with cute dogs snuggling on a Halloween quilt!

I guess I didn’t take as many photos during the week to share today as I have been. I have been working hard on the king quilt top I have talked about, and it feels like the week just flew by. I hope to have the top done and share pictures of it here soon! How has your week been? Leave me a comment and let me know your favorites things from the week!