When Carrie and I arrived in NYC, we had been traveling all day and still had to ride the airtrain to the subway and then ride into the city. (BTW, having never ridden on the subway, I didn’t understand the importance of holding on and went flying the first time the train took off.) When we finally made it into the city we found our way to a Starbucks. I was starving and feeling kind of weird from my motion sickness Rx and I found an amazing little pack of protein rich foods. It was like the best meal I’d ever eaten and I still think about my life-saving little snack at that NYC Starbucks.

A mini whole wheat bagel
cheese
a hard boiled egg
a small pack of peanut butter
apples and grapes

This week I’m all about recreating this little combo for my lunches at work. This is my last “regular” work week at the store and then we’re on summer hours. I’m ready for that, fo sho.

It’s that time again for iced coffee. Last year I was loving me some
cold-brewed coffee which is supposed to be lower in acidity. I think it’s just dern yummy. mmmmm….

(I apologize in advance for the low-quality, cell phone photos.)

Today I finished sewing the Birdie Sling. This is an Amy Butler pattern and I used Amy Butler fabric from Tangle. This was my first, ever sewing project that used an actual pattern, so I’m super proud of myself for figuring this one out. I’ve discovered how much I love and rely on my 1/4″ sewing foot so I’m going to see if there is any chance I can order a 1/2″ and 3/8″ foot too. Someday maybe my lines will be straight!

Sunday I ditched church and instead sewed Eden this little smocked dress. The recipe is in the new book, Weekend Sewing. It is such an amazing book, I want to sew at least half of what’s in there! I was amazed at how easy smocking is. All you do is use elastic thread in the bobbin (this should be hand wound without stretching) and regular thread on top and sew lines across the fabric. After the fabric is sprayed generously with water the smocking sucks right up. 3/4 yard of fabric and about an hour = I foresee several of these in Eden’s summer wardrobe. I might even try making one for myself!

Last weekend I finished reupholstering my garage sale treasures. Here they are in their new home @ Tangle.

This week Amy and I scored some sewing supplies and a vintage-y punch bowl for me, back issues of Everyday Food and a new baby toy for Amy. We also have some old windows that we have to bust out of casings. These will be used for decoration we think.

I have a feeling that our husbands are going to grow to hate our garage saleing days…

Eden drew this yesterday.

Maybe I should talk to Jim about letting the kids watch YouTube?

Friday I went yard sale-ing with my friend Amy. I scored a few great finds: some pom glasses for ten cents each, some little cute glass juice glasses for the kids and this chair and bench that I’m going to redo for Tangle.

I’m going to use some of Amy Butler’s Midwest Modern fabric to recover the cushions because the Belle and Lotus lines are discontinued. (I nearly cried when I found this out. But I suppose that’s just life… on to Bigger and Better.)

So I’ve made it nearly a month without a word. Not much to say still but I thought I’d catch you up with some photos.

We spent some time outdoors whenever the weather decided to cooperate with us.

I finished my quilt.

I attended a tea party with some of my girls.

Tangle has been totally crazy. We just got in the Amy Butler bags.

And Jim has been playing shows several times a week.

Will life ever return to normal? Not sure anymore what normal is, but I’ll be happy with a bit slower.

Just wanted to let those of you who live in town know that we’re offering some free mini photo shoots with Catherine Mayer at Tangle next month. All the info is on the Tangle Blog.

* im blogging via my cell so pardon the lack of punctuation/capitalization.
our living room remodel is basically finished but im waiting to post pictures until i get my fabric in for my curtains. Needless to say i really, really love it. It’s amazing how much easier it is to keep a space clean that you love. (speaking of which, i havent forgotten the requests Ive gotten for my cleaning schedule. im just waiting to post it when i actually stick to it.)
* joelene has been getting me into some trouble by sending me all kinds of links to fabric to drool over. Im already plotting ways to talk christina into ordering another line for tangle.
*Ok enough of this, blogging via cell is tortuous.

Menu – week of March 16

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Monday: linguine with turkey sausage and peppers
Tuesday: super loaded baked potatoes and garden salad
Wednesday: braised chicken with rice
Thursday: balsamic skirt steak with polenta
Friday: bbq beef sandwiches with coleslaw
Saturday: lentil curry (Jim will be gone)
Sunday: lemon roasted chicken