4.20.2014

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! We had a wonderful Easter Eve painting and decorating easter eggs, hanging with Luca's Auntie Em, meeting her puppy Charlie whom Luca felt both curious and totally terrified of, and eating a delicious homemade lunch and then indulging in snacks upon snacks upon snacks while we died the eggs (I'm still stuffed). We wandered around Emily's gorgeous yard, a botanical garden which feels as though it was ripped right out of a storybook. We stared in awe at a massive beehive that was nestled in a large palm tree and wondered how big the queen must be. I was more focused on how often the fellow bees fly down to linger as I am just about as terrified of bees as Luca was of Charlie. We both survived thankfully unscathed and unstung.

I regress. Luca is officially on the move. He hasn't quite mastered the full hands and knees crawl quite yet but he definitely has down what I like to call "the trench crawl" where he looks like he's crawling through swamp bushes or under barbed wire. And when I say mastered, I mean he's swift, he's got the turbo switch on, no hybrid here.

On a final note: Thank you mother earth for the beautiful weather we've been having! It makes being apart from Encinitas a little more bearable...Not to mention my patience level has rapidly been recovering [Heat=me aggro] and I know with my patience levels evened out the world is simply a better place, just ask my husband. Happy wife, Happy Life.





Luca didn't get to meet the Easter bunny, but Charlie could probably pass as one with all that luscious white fur--and I'm pretty sure had we taken Luca's photo with the easter bunny Luca's facial expression would have been exactly the same as in the photo below...

A joyous and Happy Easter from my family to yours.
 I wish you tons of happiness, candy, and cage-free hardboiled eggs to indulge in.
Who else is ready for day after easter egg salad sandwiches?!
raised hand waving in the air over here!
xx

4.05.2014

Spring is in the air!


As much as I love the cooler weather autumn and winter bring, I can't help but exhale so softly the first day of spring and breath in so deeply the smells of dewey grass and orange blossoms (I'm fortunate I don't have seasonal allergies or this might not feel so good...Condolences go out to all my hypersensitive readers). Although...according to an environmental allergy panel I had done back in October, I am highly allergic to olive trees and cockroaches, yet I'm asymptomatic--unless of course an allergy to cockroaches entails a reaction of screaming and running for your life to jump onto anything that will get your feet off the ground asap, well in that scenario I am highly allergic to cockroaches. 
Wow, I am way off topic now, circling the airport here but coming in for landing. In more relevant news I'd like to share with you that this spring I will be bringing modern quilts for little ones and adults to my shop. I am both excited and terrified seeing as this is entirely new territory for me. My hands have been so busy at the cutting board and I'm hoping it will pay off. With that being said, I will be hosting a give-a-way when my spring line launches in the near future...so stay tuned as to how you can enter! Well, thank you for listening to my ramblings! I'm now off to puree some baby food and get lunch ready for my sweet Lu. Poor thing, I think he is teething for real this time, but we've had so many false alarms, I wouldn't hold your breath...
Ciao! xx