Mini Vacation

I'm finishing up the last bit of packing tonight before I hit the open road tomorrow morning. The kids and I (and the dog) are headed to Boise, ID for several days. I am not looking forward to 8 hours and 1 minute - according to map quest - in the car with all those munchkins. They get downright crabby! We have iPods, a Nintendo DS, and several books to try to keep them from being bored to death for as long as possible. One thing I can't wait for though? Sunshine. I dug out my shorts and tank tops, shook the dust off of them, and packed them in my super cutsie suitcase.

I have not seen the sun in, oh, 9 months or something ridiculous like that. I know everyone in the rest of the country says they'd love to trade weather with Seattle right now because they are all having a heat wave. Well, I'm sure that grey skies, rain, and 60 degrees sounds lovely when it is a sweltering 104. However, when all you ever see are grey skies and rain? Not so lovely. I'm looking forward to finally soaking up some rays (responsibly, of course. Lots of sunblock) and splashing around in the pool with all my kiddos.

These are pictures from our trip last year. I'll have a ton more to share when we get back. Happy summer!

Selina

WIP Wednesday

I totally spaced posting last week! I think getting used to always posting something on one certain day might take awhile for me to get used to.

I haven't started any new projects (well, maybe just one) but I have gotten much closer to finishing my WIP's I showed you 2 weeks ago! I'm actually pretty proud of myself for getting so much done. I'm not usually quite so productive.

I finished quilting the camping quilt. It just needs binding and then she'll be ready to hit the road with me! I can picture myself curled up in it around a campfire sipping a cocktail :)

And remember the pile of Plume fabrics from my last post? That pile is now this:

Also, I made a wall hanging with the Bliss hexies I was working on. It needs to be quilted and bound, but it's getting there. Originally I was going to arrange the small hexagons into a big hexagon and that was going to be my wall hanging. But when I put it on the background fabric the shape reminded me of a tree. I just happened to have some fabric left from the camping quilt that looked like bark. So I cut a tree trunk shape out of that and now I have a hexie tree!

I didn't make my blocks last week for the Farmer's Wife QAL, so today I made two. They are my favorite so far. These are numbers 11 (Broken Dishes) and 12 (Broken Sugar Bowl).

The one new project I started was a jelly roll race quilt. I've had this jelly roll for ages. The line is called Shangri-la by 3 Sisters. I had no idea what I was going to do with it until I saw THIS blog post from my friend Amanda. I loved it, and knew instantly that I wanted to make one. The top took all of about 2 hours to complete and I'm really happy with the result.

Now it goes into the WIP pile because I have to purchase a backing fabric and it needs to be quilted! Also, I might put some borders on it to make it a little bigger.

I hope everyone is enjoying their Wednesday. As always, if you head on over to the Freshly Pieced blog HERE, you can see all the other blogs that are linked up this week. I just popped in and there are a bunch! Go check it out!

Selina