04.22.15

Play-Doh mornings are good mornings. It's actually surprisingly un-messy, considering. I'd take them playing with Play-Doh over kinetic sand any day. (And then I'll just sit around and play with the kinetic sand myself, because seriously? Have you tried that stuff?) There was plenty of fake food being prepared, and being fake-eaten (none actually ingested though, so we're making progress there.)

I've come down with some sort of throat/head/neck/flu type situation, which seems to be getting progressively worse, not better, but I'm soldiering onward. Dreaming up new DIYs and projects to keep me busy, because I'm an artist at heart and desperately need to be constantly creating. And perfecting my nest is the most fulfilling form of creating there is, for me. I almost can't even begin a painting before I can visualize exactly where it will hang.

I ordered some fabric last night for the quilt I'm going to make! I. am. so. excited youguys. I've been looking for months years for the perfect quilt to drape over our couch in the family room. I wanted something that would be in the background of all of our children's memories, or draped over their blanket forts, huddled beneath on the porch, gathered upon for a picnic. I wanted a serious serious quilt, and was also having tremendous trouble pinning down just what I wanted it to look like. I constantly feel as though I have a split personality when it comes to design. I'm exactly torn between boho/cabin/elemental/tribal and sherbet/pastel/vintage/cottage. Like, I run directly down the middle, and unfortunately the two just don't really mesh well together. So naturally I was having tremendous difficulty finding a quilt, and committing to one specific style over the other for the rest of time. Then I stumbled on the perfect fabric line ever designed. I don't want to give it away, but it perfectly marries the two styles so brilliantly that I absolutely had to have it. And now I have to make a quilt. Which is so so much work, and not really what I originally planned, but in the end the quilt will be so much more meaningful I suppose. I'm excited. I'm like soooo excited.