It's Back!

Michael found my camera yesterday!!! He was being his usual sweet self and cleaning our bedroom. He picked up our clothes, made the bed, and he pulled all the teddy bears out from under the bed. Judo likes to steal the bears and drag them under the bed to violate them in who knows how many ways. She also likes to steal under garments, and used tissues, and hair rubber bands. While he was rescuing all our "lost" belongings from Judo's lair, he found my camera! It had been drug all the way into the center of the bed!

Now, the last time I saw my camera it was on the kitchen counter. I inspected it this morning and found lots of new scratch marks- I think I know how they got there. There is a very definite snag in the wrist strap, and a few new scratches on the edges. I think Judo found a new heavy silver treasure (my camera) on the kitchen counter a couple weeks ago and started batting at it. Things probably got a little out of hand and the silver treasure ended up on the floor. It probably made some noise, which caught Annie's attention. When Annie came running over to check things out, Judo probably grabbed the wrist strap to make off with the silver treasure before Annie could get her paws on it. I can only guess that Judo started dragging the silver treasure away from Annie and put it in the only safe place a sink-dwelling monkey cat can stash things; under the bed with the violated bears. Once she got it there, I'm sure she was distracted by a stuffed shark toy or maybe an especially tantalizing bra (Judo loves to steal bras), and completely forgot about the heavy silver treasure.

But Michael found it! And my camera and I are reunited!

Pictures to come soon.

Baby Clothes

...And a quilt for Elliot.

Jess and Elliot were in town visiting a couple weeks ago and I decided I should give Elliot something made out his "Bravest Dragon" fabric. I actually bought the fabric last Spring to make his crib set. But, I'm lame and never made his crib set. I figured the least I could do was make him a beach-time jumper set and a little baby quilt. I bought New Look 6687 last year and never got a chance to use it. It's for little girls, but I added a pocket and omitted the ruffles to make it for Elliot. I use some navy blue and light green left over from a box of remnants Jessie's Grandma Mimi gave me. It turned out really cute! This is great pattern. It's one of those "spinning rack" patterns that you don't even have to look up in the book. I love to just grab a couple of those patterns on a whim. They always turn out to be some of my favorites. I'm sure I'll be getting lots of use out of this one.

 

I used mostly Elliot's dragon fabric for his quilt. I used more of the navy and the green from Mimi, and a little yellow check that I had leftover. I always use Warm and Natural for my quilt batting. It's thinner that anything else, and much, much warmer. For baby blankets I just buy the crib and craft size that comes pre-cut in a package. I happened to have some white cotton quilt binding in my stash, so I finished off all the edges of Elliot's quilt with it. The backing is more of his dragon fabric.

It was so nice to spend a little time with Jess and Elliot. Jessie is the best mom ever! And Elliot couldn't be cuter! He is such a happy baby. It's really cool to see Jerry and Gail with their adorable little grand-baby. I love you guys!

I also used New Look 6687 to make a dress for my friend Anar's baby, Ava. I made the dress in pink and white dots with the ruffles. You really can't get more girly.

Ava was just born in December, so I made size small. Hopefully it will fit her for the summer.

 

...and my camera is still missing