The First Step To Baby Lancaster's Quilt

This past weekend my gal pals Danielle, Chrissy, Susan, and I went on a fun road trip to Moscow, ID.  Our high school friend Nick and his lovely wife Paola are expecting a baby soon; so we brought a little baby shower to them and checked out a jazz festival too.  

On our drive over to Moscow, Susan gave us the idea for a fun craft project: a quilt made by Baby Lancaster's aunties.

The four of us are each going to design a quarter of the quilt... so here is a basic sketch.  We will be choosing the fabric for the backing and the patchwork border next week, so stay tuned!

Happy Quilting. xoxo

tags

My sister made a 3 citrus marmalade for Christmas gifts this year; she asked me to make some paper tags for the jars she was giving to her office mates.  

I never pass up paper craft opportunities, especially when super great materials are provided for me to pick and choose from.   She even had the rivets.  So I came up with a Christmas-y red and creamy white shimmery tag with a cute citrus illustration that reminded me of snowflakes.  

Papercuts

This is what happens when I go through my mail and decide what to recycle or not.

Floral Arrangements in Japan...

Rosehips + Aoki(the green stuff)

Hibiscus pod, Lilly, Chrysanthemum

orchids, chysanthemums

zinnias

My grandmother is a licensed teacher of the Ikenobou style of Ikebana (flower arranging).  These are some of the arrangements I made and she graded as A++ this fall.  I'm sure her grading was not biased... being her cute, sweet granddaughter and all...  ;)

A completed pair!

It may have taken me until the very last day I was in Japan (finishing the thumb on the limousine bus on the way to Narita Airport), but my mittens were completed! And MacAroni got a kabuki tattoo.