Wow! I’m the parent of a 6 month old. When did that happen? This is Kali, working up to, and then giving me her strong opinion of, peas. So far she’s been eating anything I’ve been putting in her mouth, regardless of whether she’s liked the taste. Today was the first time she has stuck to her guns and let me know she didn’t want anything to do with what was in front of her.  Still living up to her reputation of being THE easiest baby that ever there was, she still ate the peas, just cried when I put them in her mouth.

In other news: Kali cut her first tooth today.

Happy 6 month birthday Sweet Pea!

there’s just something about it…maybe the cooling weather, getting back into a normal routine, emerging fall colours, produce at the market. Take your pick.

some good end of summer music (mind the swearing):

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Remarkably, I found a 40’s pattern that matches my measurements really well…I love the look of this era, but I’m afraid that the style doesn’t really suit me, but we’ll see… I bought this pattern a while ago, and haven’t really landed on a fabric that I could see making this in. Then I was out with Lauren picking out her apron fabrics and I can across this:

It appealed to me because of it’s vintage look, but most of all that it was $1.99/m. In fact I was going to use it for something completely different, I had it picked out with this wool tweed:

For a separate project, then realized that they would look really nice together, and it would be in keeping with the 40’s era.

Its fun when things come together nicely.

I’ll let you know how things turn out.

So easy to make, and endless possibilities!

Plus, it’s handy to live where there are large warehouses of quilting cotton to be found in every nearby town.

I made this one for Lauren. I have also made one for Chris’ mom, and I’m working on one for his sister.

I don’t know, maybe it was because I’m feeling like I need to celebrate even though the life event that I am still waiting for (settlement) is still on the horizon and I’m tired of waiting for something to party about. Or maybe subconsciously I knew that it was the close of a very significant decade in my life. The last 10 years have brought the biggest changes  that I have ever experienced and possibly ever will. Its hard to imagine another one that will be as  life changing. If it is, I’d like to know, I think I need to catch up on more sleep in order to pull off another 10 years like that.

To reflect:

• Moved to Waterloo
• Travelled to Morocco, Chile, Colorado, Western Canada,  Cuba, Congo, Germany, Italy, Ecuador.
• Made fantastic new friends.
• Began singing with the GPC
• adopted Autumn
• “slight” altercation with a school bus.
• massive recovery from altercation.
• met and married Chris (yay!)
• mourned the loss of my dad
• probably laughed as much as I cried.

I think I did pretty good, and of course I couldn’t have done it without my God and my incredible family and friends.

(feel free to comment on anything I may have missed, 10 years is a lot to go over, especially after partying it up the night before)

Now for what’s to come…

However, I did manage in these 24 hours to cook a beef wellington dinner, bake short bread, lemon squares, and black and white red velvet cookies with Caroline and Kristin. Then concoct what I assume will be a face melting pot of Chili with Chris containing 7+ kinds of peppers (my hands are still burning from chopping them). I know as it is now simmering in my dutch oven on the stove, that I should be preparing my mouth by lining it with Vaseline, but instead I’ll have a giant glass of milk at the ready. It needs to be used up anyway, because not too long ago I made a trip to the grocery store thinking we were out of milk, only to discover when I got home with it that we had 2/3s of a bag left.

Had to show off my new dress form.

Ok, maybe something similar so I don’t look like a schoolgirl all winter.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Veni+Veni+Emmanuel/3047564

(can’t figure out how to embed these again at the moment…this is one of my favourite Christmas Hymns)

Yep, they’ll have grown out of them by New Years.

Does it look too much like a house coat?