Goings On

A trip to the Cape for Family Weekend had me return with a trunk full of fabric.  Literally - the whole trunk stuffed.  Unfortunately it smelled of moth balls and smoke.  Ugh.  It took days to get the smell out of the car.  I brought the majority of it to Swanson's fabric (they couldn't sell it because of the scent, but they could give it away).  I kept a tiny bag of it - maybe a 10th of the overall haul.  It took me a whole evening to iron the stash.  I will likely keep 13 yards of it, the other eight I may not keep - which will go to Swanson's, of course!

 

I've been playing with my scraps.  Wavy strings will become a new dance bag (I'm still working out the design).  My black and white strings will become center strips for a crumb quilt.  Turns out I need a lot more crumbs to fill that one out, so it will have to go on the back burner until I generate more crumbs.

I bought some zinnia seeds this spring called Dahlia Flowered Zinnia.  Cool!  the picture in the front made them look so big.  Well - the have the same shape as the picture, but look at their size!  

The garden has been growing like crazy from all the heat and rain we've gotten lately.  Even Voledemort is having a hard time eating all the petunia and marigold blooms.  (Someone harvested a bunch of my tomatoes, though.)

 

I was rather dismayed to find my kitchen sink was sprouting!  I pointed it out to Rob and he laughed - it was a bunch of spilled chia seeds that had clung to the edge.  I was impressed that they started sprouting so quickly.  Chia pet, anyone?  LOL 

Jitterbug and I worked on puzzles yesterday morning.  And he loudly demanded breakfast, which was a first!