after waffling about my next quilt, i decided to crack open a fat quarter of tula pink prince charming fabric and make the super popular swoon quilt. after being told of a flickr quilt-along for fellow swoon makers, i hopped on board. i made the first block yesterday: some things: 1. i decided to make […]
meeting max
Over the weekend, the lid kids and I loaded up and rode to Raleigh to meet max. As expected, he was cute and tiny and wrinkly and very much a brand new baby. He liked his quilt: Sarah’s parents stopped in to see us all and met Anna for the first time. We strolled down […]
max’s quilt.
my high school bff, sarahpowers, was supposed to have a baby boy on january 8th. my plan WAS to take a little post-christmas breather, then gear up to knock out a quilt for mr. max. however, in all of the christmas excitement, he decided to get born. so, in the wee hours of december 26th, […]
chillin’ (no really – it’s cold) at the playground.
it’s been a pretty mild winter so far and we’ve been able to go to the park a few times. it’s nice when the kids get their energy all out. but usually anna just wants to swing the whole time. and isaac wants to sit around and tell me stories about super mario brothers. at […]
christmas. belated.
a long time ago, it was christmas. and i took some pictures. with my phone. and i kept thinking that once i sat down to sync up my phone, i would get the pics and a glorious blog post would follow. then, i didn’t sync my phone. and the pictures got shoved further and further […]
2012.
hours away from 2012. i’ve been contemplating resolutions. goals. changes. whatever. here goes. 1. less facebook. (and twitter.) way way less. i’ve been thinking about ways to accomplish this, because i do love that i’ve gotten in touch with long lost friends and it’s a great way to keep up with far away friends and […]
a handmade christmas gift for ME.
i have been busy craft-craft-crafting away this christmas season. i made a zillion ornaments for friends. i sewed something up for every member of derek’s family. i gave my mom and derek’s mom a quilt. and i even managed to squeeze in a tree skirt (which, i guess technically was for me since the rest […]
anna, parks, friends.
the weather has been pretty mild here in the carolinas this almost-winter… we’ve been out to the park twice in the last week. i didn’t get many pics of the kids at the first park. mostly because it’s got a ginormous two story play structure that my kids seem to have very little fear of, […]
christmas tree assembly.
my mom and grunkle frankles were here for thanksgiving and black friday. while we kept it pretty low key on the biggest shopping day of the year, we still went out to pick out a tree, all the way to downtown lewisville. woo. anyhow, we did a little time lapse video. [youtube_sc url=yLoRfNr60Cs width=560]