After a rough end to January, February is off to the rather blazing start. It’s already four days from Valentine’s Day.  

And the good news is: I’ve accomplished so much lately.

My sweatshirt quilt is almost finished.  Just a couple more dedicated hours and it’s set to be done. Backing and trim and that’s all she wrote. 

Since I can’t decide on a backing, I went ahead and pieced together a blanket for Audie.  It has about 18″ of trim left and it’s done.  I ended up cutting five different sweatshirt scraps into 4″ pieces and pieced them together in a checked pattern.  I bought some cheap flannel for the backing and some satin baby blanket trim.  He’s already trying to use it while it’s folded on the love seat.

While I was laying out the backing, both of our cats decided to sprawl out on it.  Looks like I have a couple more blankets to make before I toss out my sweatshirt scraps.

I’ve been a little distracted lately from my own crafting stuff.  The Mister’s best friend (his best man at our wedding) and his wife just welcomed a new baby girl to their family!  Since the Mister wants to wait until we get back to the mainland (28 more months!) for kids, I have baby fever like no other–especially since my best friend (and maid of honor at our wedding) also just welcomed a baby girl at the end of November. So to quell that desire, I lived vicariously and put together a flat rate box of things for the family.  I checked out our huge local swap meet (it goes around the entire perimeter of Aloha Stadium in Honolulu) and picked up some Hawaiian touristy things–kukui nut leis, kona coffee, macadamia nuts, a stuffed sea turtle, kids board books, and of course a cheesy Hawaii t-shirt and onesie for their girls. I even bought a flower lei for their dog. 

This box brought me back to the Mister’s deployment days.  I sent him a themed box every month he was gone (and usually more in between).  For the baby box, I covered the inside of the box with baby print gift wrap so it was more like a present. I miss sending care packages.  It gives me something to plan and the excitement of putting it together doesn’t get old.  I’ve often thought of setting up an Etsy shop or something specializing in themed care packages for all people/occasions, but….that’s tricky with postage.  It’s a bigger project for another day!

In other news…..

Audie has graduated from needing puppy boosters!  He has finally been given the clear to go to the dog park, beach, and walk around more than just our yard.  I’m so thrilled.  We went on our first walk tonight since the vet told us we had to stay home (there’s been a Parvo outbreak where we live and we didn’t want to take any chances).  He’s gotten SO big too. A whopping 21lbs now. He was ecstatic to go tonight.  He had the attention span of a goldfish though. So many new smells since we went out last. He wagged his tail and trotted the entire time. Great news for him. And I get to get out too!

So things are progressing fairly well. Excited to see where the rest of the month takes us.

Until next time!

Cheers,

 

-A. xoxo