Happy Late Mother's day!

Good morning everyone! We sure have been busy around here. My mother in law came to visit and I don't think we have slowed down since we picked her up from the airport. She watched the kiddos Friday night and Stu and I took a little overnight date at a B&B in Weston, MO which I have a hilarious story about...but it is best shared one to one versus over a blog I am going to call my mom and tell her because I am pretty sure it will give her a good laugh...I may share it later when I am hard up for blog fodder. Anyway we also listened to a little Irish type band named 3 Dollar Band. They were great and we had a fabulous time. It has been a very very long time since Stu and I went out with just us. We also went to the City Market down in KC. I found myself in the midst of all the little herb seedlings and had a bunch picked out ready to bring home only to stop myself and ask what in the heck I am doing? I am moving in a couple weeks and I don't have access to the earth anyway up in my tree house apartment. I almost brought a Basset hound home from the pound on Wednesday too....but I figured my man would freak out a bit, we are already planning on a crazy cross country drive to Texas with a van, a truck, 3 kids, 2 cats, 3 plants, and a vacuum. A basset hound may have tipped the scales towards madness. But suffice it to say that we are going to find a dog to add to our tribe when we get settled in Texas.

On Mothers Day Stu roused the boys at about 0500 and they went fishing. Both little guys caught a fish and tossed it back in the lake. They were so excited about their little dawn fishing trip.

When I get some free sewing time I am going to make this quilt. It is from Anna Maria Horner's new book "Handmade Beginnings" I tried so very hard to figure out this pattern before getting the book, but now I see how totally awesome it is and I can't wait to make one. Nope, I don't have a baby in mind to make it for, I just want to make one!

Yesterday Jennifer, Deb and I made a trip to Lawrence, KS so we could visit the most awesome fabric shop ever Sarah's fabric. This is truly a shop you NEED to see in real life. Her web site needs some love, but her shop is out of this world. I think I spent an hour of my morning down on my hands and knees re-discovering Ginger Bliss (One of Any Butler's very first fabric lines) and I found a bolt of Yoshiko Jinzenji, well 3 bolts actually but this was the one print I really wanted about 2 years ago. I only got a tad so I could leave some behind for some other lucky soul. I also got the perfect fabric to finish my teacher bags before the end of the school year. I wish I had the time to make the hand print quilt for the teachers here, but there are too many awesome teachers and I just am strapped for time. Bags will have to do the trick!

So here we are on Thursday night when it was still warm. I am yapping away about something...I hope you all had a great mother's day and I wish you a wonderful week of lovely sewing and crafting!

xo,

Tia

****I am going to speak at the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild on Thursday night! I am so excited to be their guest speaker! Wish me luck....I hope I don't forget what to talk about. I am going to bring a couple treats too.