Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New Art

Last weekend, the fam went to a local art festival, and we brought home a few goodies to put on our walls:




I'm lovin' my new rooster friend on the wall in my kitchen! Jonathan's find is below:



It says "The mountains are calling and I must go...". If any of you know my hubband, this is HIM! This could be one of his life quotes. It was painted by a local artist known as "Cap Man". He drives an old truck around town that is covered with bottle caps. Almost every square inch of the truck is taken up by rusted, old bottle caps (people bring him bags of bottle caps). The cap on the bottom of the painting is his famous "signature".

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

For mother's eyes only

I knew I'd need a new breastfeeding cover-up/apron for the coming little one because my last apron (so generously made by a friend) had an irreplaceable broken buckle (unless I cut it and re-sewed it), and I think the boning broke (the part that holds the apron out and stiff so you can check on your hungry baby). I decided I wanted a new one anyways, so I used a pattern that I'd found at a fabric store for $2.50, and here it is!:




I made two little pockets on the inside, mainly for holding breast pads while the baby is nursing (I've had a few of those escape embarrassingly during a feeding!):



It was fun to make something for the expected babe (suitable for a boy or girl, in my opinion), and easier than I expected!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Little House on the Prairie...

My little one has since grown out of her sweet brown bonnet, so I used the same pattern (from Amy Karol- KingPod Patterns) to make her a new one:


So sweet!!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Try Clay

Over a month ago, my friend Kelly and I went to Good Dirt, a pottery place here in Athens which offers classes, camps, and studio time. We went to "Try Clay" night, where we had a few hours to learn the very basics of throwing and centering clay, attempting to shape it into a mug, and painting it. It's much harder than one might imagine, and I ended up with two bowls. One looks like a hamster food bowl (no pics of that one- ha!), but the other one I was pretty happy with:


I inscribed a paraphrase of a favorite verse along the outside-- "The fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" (characteristics I pray for daily!) from Galatians 5:22-23. And yes, that is a luscious vanilla-yogurt covered strawberry sticking out the top of my little "fruit" bowl :)