Shelling peas.
Cleaning veggies. Love love love the Chiogga beets coming out of the garden right now!
Making basil, although pine nuts and parmesan in the Cuisinart can hardly be considered 'quiet'!
We recently foraged up at UBC for delicious salmonberries that easily found their way into muffins. A trip to the U-Pick was also quite fruitful... sorry, couldn't help myself.
A few days ago, I was given a used pair of True Religion jeans with a very pretty applique of Lady Godiva splashed across the bum. I tried on the short-rise, flare-cut jeans and decided that they were best suited for a tall, leggy girl with protruding hipbones - the rise was too low for this mama-of-two and the flare cut made me look stumpier than ever. I can't STAND having to readjust waistbands just so my bum fits, or having to constantly pull my shirt down to cover what my jeans don't! But I just couldn't say NO to Lady G, so I had to get creative...
I decided to try one of the numerous 'Jeans into Skirt' tutorials on the web. I didn't find one of them particularly awesome and I think I probably followed about 25% of the instructions. Since the jeans had such cool stitching details and colours, I opted to recycle some of the original thread from the legs and preserve as much of the hem as I could - I know, a little anal. Carmen helped me roll the thread onto spools, and I fed the embroidery thread into my sewing machine quite painstakingly! After all, they WERE True Religion jeans... the fact that I even cut into them is almost sacrilege! I kept the unfinished hem to complement the rough-edged details (and also because I got tired of salvaging thread!) and I think the best part is that the unicorn part of the applique, Carmen's favourite part, no longer looks like it's trying to crawl up my butt crack!
Here's what I got...
Fun for summer, and great with a sweater, tights and boots in winter!
Our trip out to Valdes was nothing short of spectacular - in fact, upon our arrival, we reconfigured our summer plans a bit to include an extra visit during the sunny months and then a few trips later on this year. Aside from a ridiculously comfortable and spacious cabin-mansion, the visit felt so effortless with the girls. A safe sandy beach to play on. A cool loft for the girls to spread out their toys and colouring books, or build blanket forts around their sleeping spaces. And we ate well! Fresh veggies picked just before we left, oysters that we picked up off the beach and ate on the half-shell, wine and cheese after the girls went to bed... ah, luxury!
