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food for the soul

i spent this past week

in little compton

with my sister

for some much needed girl time

away from it all

and

because we are waldo's...

we never fail to eat well:

seven stars french bread with narragansett creamery ricotta, olive oil, s+p

warm tortillas topped with the farmer's market's freshest

organic yellow + blue sauvignon blanc

pasta salad of local sweet corn, string beans, cherry toms, basil and feta

lobster bay sauvignon blanc

pizza loaded with fresh basil

chilled strawberry soup

charles+charles rose

inbox love

arrived home today

from a few days with my sis

to these

in my inbox.

love.

love love LOVE.

one of my favorite little girls, beatrice

in my lulu bubble

honestly...

is there anything cuter

than a sweet girl

in a romper?!

thanks deb!

xoxo

daily affirmations

summer has kicked my butt thus far...

busy busy busy

(which is good)

but it has left me feeling guilty

for all the unanswered emails, phone calls

half-finished projects

and lack of checking in here.

i have so much to be grateful for right now

starting with being by the seaside

during the heat wave...

so, instead of feeling bad

and letting that keep me out-of-touch

i'm taking a cue from this cutie-pie:

and getting on with it.

(you go girlie!)

VERY happy to be back.

sibling quilts

my sister and i have been compiling lists and projects and fabrics for months now in anticipation of a sewing weekend this summer (more to come on that later)...

at the top of her list are quilts for anya and evan (my niece and nephew).

miss anya is nearly ready to graduate from her crib to a "big girl bed" and luckily meggin scored two mis-matched wooden twin beds at last summer's church bazaar that she plans to paint in high-gloss white for the kids.

they'd rather not re-paint the kid's shared bedroom, so we have been coming up with a color palette for the quilts that can work with the current colors, just "grow it up" a bit...

the current bedroom

the new, expanded color palette

i have had this awesome quilt bookmarked for.ever. and when i passed the link along to my sister as a suggestion, it happened to be the one she had remembered and had been hunting for!

meggin came across this zig zag tutorial that we plan to use (it seems to be the most straight forward)

we are each going to tackle one of the quilts at the same time

yesterday i attacked my stash to see what i could donate to the cause...

we both like the idea of having the one chunk of navy.

and we decided that we would use a blue + white seersucker for the binding... possibly the back for one with a navy + white polka dot binding and vice-versa for the other.

i, personally, think the quilts should be fairly different from each other but work togteher color-wise and share some similar fabrics.

for evan's, i love the idea of doing more blues, with orange and just small bits of turquoise:

for the little lady, i like a softer color palette of the lighter blues, turquoise, greens, with bits of orange and darker blue:

thoughts?

anyone have any zig-zag tutorials that are tried and true?

come one, come all!

hosting a trunk show TONIGHT of catherine's AMAZING goodies

some sarah waldo organics clothing will be available for purchase as well...

hope to see you there!

catch up

clearly i've been a little out of touch...

busy weeks packed with projects

weekends celebrating with friends

impromptu afternoons on the beach

oh! and a heat wave

have kept me away from the computer

back now... and loads to post

so stand by!

xoxo