Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Busy Weekend

Its been a busy weekend.  Laura Beth was here to attend a baby shower, and Mason and Nick came along.  Mason is still fascinated by a camera--he took pictures with grandma's help.  


Laura Beth wearing a Target sack

Nick covering up with blanket
 I don't think his parents were quite ready for portraits!

And then grandma showed him how to take a self portrait---





Mason took LOTS of pictures--of the ceiling, the floor--I think the phrase--"point and shoot" describes his style.   


I did manage a few shots--


 

 





The weekend went by too quickly.   


I planned to work on my blue/white blocks after they left.  But the new blue and white fabrics were left in the camper--again!  I decided to make sample blocks with some scraps---








 
The blocks are to be blue and white--and a star pattern.   The first one is okay, I think the color values are not like the pattern.  And the second block is nice--but there are a gadzillion pieces.  59?  60?  Whew!  They both squared up nicely--perfect 12.5".  

Today Ken is planting beans.  This picture is for Lee---


I head back to Yankton tomorrow.  If anyone has seen South Dakota in the news--I volunteer above a Corps of Engineers dam.   The dams will not "break".  I personally am high above the river.   


No goals--its going to be busy.  I hope for odd bits of time to sew.  


What's it like at your house??  Are you sewing?  Vacationing?  




5 comments:

katie z. said...

I'm glad you mentioned being high above the river. My mom has heard me talk about you, and she said a few days ago, "Your friend near the dam, is she going to be okay? " I tried to tell her you were assuredly safe, but she wasn't convinced!

Henrietta said...

Time to put the dam picture up in the header.
I love both the blocks. Lee was relieved to see beans going into the ground.

Mary-Kay said...

Aren't you glad you have a digital camera so you can delete all those "floor" shots? Your grandson is a cutie.

MightyMom said...

he looks like you in that last pic!

MightyMom said...

oh and I like the first one best

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