The decision is made!

We finally know where my baby boy will go to school in the fall. After our trip to NYC over spring break, we have decided he will go to Pratt Institute to pursue a degree in Communications Design, focussing on illustration.
I think he is very excited, although, like me, you might never know it, because we are not always very expressive with our excitement.
I am very excited for him, but of course, I am also nervous and am already missing him sometimes, even though he is still here.
Onward in life we go!

Spring Break

Well, this year we will not have our normal spring break together as a family. Since Richard's trip home from Africa got delayed by two days, he will work Monday and Tuesday Richard is taking two girls to the beach for half the week and I get to go with Zachary to NYC to visit Pratt so we can try to make a decision about college.

Major decision making time here.

Baby Boy's new quilt

Look at this new quilt I made for my baby boy. It is a queen size so that he can use it in his first apartment or house, after college. No, he does not get to take it to college with him next year. The shop gets to keep it for awhile first as a sample and then I get to keep it for baby boy, until he is responsible enough to take care of it.
The story behind the quilt is, that one day I decided that
I wanted to try to figure out what to do with Brandon Mably's Burlesque Brocade in grey. I started pulling fabrics out to see about making a sample with them. A wonderful mix of Kaffe and Brandon's fabrics came together with one Jay McCarroll print thrown in.
Then as I was picking out the fabrics, Clare opened a new box of Denyse Schmidt patterns. I just loved this pattern and decided it would be perfect with the fabric I had just picked and it would make a great quilt for my son. He loves brown, ochre, orange, rust, and grey. One of my favorite shot cottons, Ginger, was the perfect setting fabric for all these earthy colors. The colors are a little off in the photo because the lime you see is actually a mustardy yellow color and the Rosette that looks a little purple in the pic is actually a lovely brown color.

I had so much fun making this quilt top and my friend Shannon, Pieceful Kwilter, did a great job quilting it with her topo meander pattern.

You can get a bundle of the print fabrics at the shop and can pick your own solid to go with them.

VCU visit

We drove to Richmond this weekend to visit Virginia Commonwealth this weekend. Here Zachary is during lunch in the cafeteria.
We had a very full day hearing about the school, taking a tour, visiting with the Communications Arts department, looking through art classrooms and eating in the dining hall.
We then went exploring around the Carytown, Fan and Shockoe districts and had some yummy sushi for dinner.
It was a long, but fun weekend!
Zachary likes it a lot, too!

VCU

We are on our way to Richmond Va to go to a College open house tomorrow.

Snow Day

Ok, the snow came today. No snow day from school because the snow did not come in until after lunch, but baby boy already had the day off for winter break and baby girl got to play outside in the snow at school.

They are both at friends  tonight and hubby and I are having a quiet night watching the olympics.

Baby boy actually drove home and then off again in the snow, which we let him do because he has his nice all wheel drive Subaru station wagon to drive around in. He did not slide out of our steep drive way like I did an hour before him. We did tell him he cannot drive again tonight or tomorrow until we see what things are like tomorrow so he will be sleeping away tonight.

We miss them when they are gone, but have to get used to it because baby boy will go away to college in just 6 more months. AGH!

Life took over

OK, so I have not blogged in forever because I was trying
to work on the shop blog during a whole Dolly Dresses
blogging event that Taffy got me involved in when
we were at market in October.

We had a very busy fall season at the shop which is unsusal for us. It is ususally slow in the fall and busier in the winter. We'll see what these next few months are like.

I also had a very busy personal life this past fall helping my baby boy work on his college applications and get his portfolio together for them. He filled out five applications and has received two acceptances so far. Yeah!!!

Now next weekend we will drive up to Richmond, Virginia to visit one of the colleges, Virginia Commonwealth. Richmond supposedly just had 11 inches of snow this past weekend, is expecting a little more on Wednesday and then it is supposed to snow Saturday and Sunday. We might be crazy to go but, you know....

I'll let you know how it goes.