Being with Amber always means adventure, and most of the time, epic adventure. Epic is Amber's middle name. She can make microwaving a burrito epic. It’s just the way she sees things. It’s one of the many reasons I crave spending time with her. This weekend, we decided to hold the first tri-annual (or quarterly – we aren’t sure yet) “crafting weekend”… it’s still up for debate whether we will actually craft at every one of them, but we thought we’d start it off with a bang… a trip to JoAnn Fabrics. We almost didn’t make it out actually. We almost spent our whole weekend in the store, standing over our cart, admiring fabric and dreaming about what it could become with the right amount of stitching and patience. We pulled ourselves away after several pep talks.
We had two main projects: A make-up bag and some placemats. We sewed for about 10 hours, with a short break for pizza dinner. Have a look…
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| We used a pattern from a German woman. |
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This is Amber's bag because it has chutzpah. |
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We now have matching AWESOME place mats! |
We came, we saw, we crafted!
Our other goal was to eat food out of Amber's beautiful garden that Fabi and I helped plant this past May... and, well, we failed miserably.... but we had great burgers at the Big Star Drive In... and pizza delivered by Papa Johns (yummy garlic butter sauce!) Here are the before and after pictures from her garden...
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Before in May |
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After in August |
Impressed? I was. Amber grows a garden in an epic way!
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