we spent our first week on the upper peninsula in a little cabin on the au train lake. during that week, on every excursion to and from our cabin, we drove over two bridges that crossed the au train river, which lazily winds from au train lake to lake superior. on one particularly beautiful and […]
fabric
travel day. two capitals, fabric, and an old friend.
after the rock house hike and otherworld, we made many more stops en route to our next accomodations, making this one day (june 12 to be exact) quite long. while still in columbus, we checked another state capitol building off our list. the kids are still such troopers about this. then we made the first […]
happy mothers day to me. </br>camping/hiking edition.
immediately after dropping off my cake donation, i loaded up the outback and rolled off to the mountains for a little solo mother’s day camping and hiking trip. derek gifted me some car camping gear, to see if that’s preferable to tent camping. for this first attempt, he booked me a hipcamp site near brevard, […]
samples and gifts.
sometimes, at the quilt shop, we get a product or pattern that “needs” an example, or a sample, to be constructed for display to the customers. when we received some adorable camping themed panels with one of our collections, i planned to make them up either way, so it worked out that i could make […]
47th birthday chronicles.
i normally wouldn’t have an entire post dedicated to a random birthday, but i did some cool stuff, ate some good food, hung out with fun friends, and well, i didn’t want my november post to have 60 photos, so here we are. first of all. two days before my birthday, six weeks after my […]
a little fall trip to the mountains
we didn’t do a very good job of participating in fall themed activities this year. pumpkin patches and whatnot. but, we did manage to squeeze in a weekend excursion to asheville to get the heck out of winston-salem and see some of the color changing leaves of the mountains. we drove out after school on […]
ithaca and utica pit stops.
as we traveled from the homeland of batavia to our next big desination (the adirondacks), we made two overnight stops, ithaca and utica. both places near and dear to my heart. first up. ithaca. on our way in from batavia, we first stopped in corning to check out the museum of glass. after that, we […]
juney things.
june was a blur. the end of school for all three kids. anna at summer camp. some cakes. lots of work shifts. some sewing. play dates. still the gym. and getting ready to be gone for most of july. here’s what happened, according to the photos i took. (some other stuff probably happened, but i […]
may of twenty twenty three.
may has come and gone, so here’s the monthly update of happenings in lidkid land that don’t require a full blog post. here we go. (warning. this one is all over the place and weird and maybe boring). first of all. derek has continued to work on our deck, when the weather and his time […]
the goldie quilt. (a finished quilt!)
in a previous post, i discussed my recent trend of starting quilt projects but never finishing them. as i was cruising along on the most recent quilt, i got really excited about it, and decided it was high time to break that streak and saw it through to the very end. it all started when […]