Catching Up
I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do.
Being sick last week really put a wrench in my well laid plans. I hate being sick. Besides the obvious not-feeling-good part, it just feels like a giant waste of time. I would come home, hit the couch and basically be disabled for the rest of the night. Although I couldn't muster the strength to get up, I would lay there thinking of all the wonderfully productive things I could have been doing.
I think I will do the catching up in reverse, most recent (and fun) first.
This week we went to...
New York!
It was kinda spur of the moment but super fun! It was the kids version of the city,
the Museum of Natural History,which is AMAZING,
Toy Stores,
FAO, and Toys R Us, if you don't like crowds, skip Toys R Us, but FAO is worth the trip,
and candy stores
the M&M store, our youngest's favorite candy,
and a very fun place called Dylan's Candy Bar
(photo from Candy Addict)
in which I found the BEST Australian licorice which is my favorite sweet thing.
We had a Fromer's New York with Kids guide book and I would highly recommend it. It was full of good places to stay,eat, and was generally very helpful. I've put it in my Amazon astore.
For breakfast the last day we went to a little place called Alice's Teacup. A sweet little restaurant on 64th Street. The crepes were wonderful and it rekindled my love of tea. They served everything on mismatched china and there were child sized wings that you could borrow to wear. I was tempted, but I resisted.
A rare photo of me, I'm usually behind the camera. See the wings in the back?
yum.
In the going through the storage unit department, we have been making great strides and have managed to downsize to a smaller unit which saves us money and makes it feel much less overwhelming. One thing I found on this recent go-through was this picnic basket. It is full of sewing things I saved from my grandmother long before I started sewing with vintage materials. I didn't even know I had it. It was like getting a little present from Nana.
yes, that's a penguin.
My Nana was very frugal, she saved everything including the bread bag to keep odds and ends in. See the buttons :)
More catch up...
a fat quarter swap I sent to Portugal...
and finally, I've been loving...
vintage embroidery patterns which you can find at Needle Crafter ...
this mobile which I found going from here to here...
and playing with Flickr tools...
Just for fun...
a random weemee.
phew!
