Ta-daaa! (photo-heavy, which I kind of like)

So starting in reverse order of projects actually accomplished (silly, I know), my brother-in-law's baby is currently in the process of being born! Right now! Very exciting! Unfortunately, this is the baby for whom I've been knitting that blanket forever, and still haven't finished it, but I guess I have a little extra motivation to kick it in to knitting-gear and get it done.

Also, I have started a quilt. Actually, I've gotten a fair amount accomplished (not considering the actual quilting which will have to soon take place). I don't have any backing for it, so it's on hold.
My friend and I finally got together for some sewing, but only finished our aprons, and never got around to the hats. However, soon. Here's Bugaboo helping me with some cooking. We made Salted Caramels from this recipe here, and so I did most of the cooking (it being up on the stove) and he enjoyed a snack in his new apron.

We have finally broken dirt in the ol' garden, planting peas and some onions. I'm weathering my tomatoes so they can go in next week too. I'm getting excited, but I think I'll miss the lush forest growing on my windowsill. Perhaps a herb garden, something which greatly intimidates me, will have to be in order.

And lastly before I get to my fancy-schmancy BIG news, I made up some Mother's Day cards! We normally give our Moms and Grandmoms a call, but I was feeling we could do a little better than that, so here they are! They've all been sent out and I hope they get there (the other side of the country) on time. Well, we're normally late, so no one would mind, or be surprised, if they are a little bit belated. As you can see, some are more audacious and some are quite muted, but I figured that would suit my Mom, Mother in-laws and all our grammies respectively.

And of course we had to include a picture or two in each!

And now, are you ready? I finished my shirt! For the Spring Top Sewalong 2011! Done! Well, no, I need one more button, but if it comes down to the grind, I have one that's not quite the right shade of yellow. Maybe I can go hunting tonight...

Well, it's a glorious glamorous day, and my little Bugaboo needs to be woken up from his nap. I'll have the official super fancy posed-to-the-max shot of my shirt later, so I look forward to posting it too!

Tadaaa!

Peeky Peek - Work in Progress

After a wonderful Easter break with visitors and fun and great food, I'm super excited to get back into my many little projects on the go. The garden is still barren, but the windowsill is lush and flourishing so transplanting will soon be in our future.

(These are my tomatoes taking a bit of a bath in the sink after I moved them into bigger pots). Plans are in the making for some Chef-Bugaboo attire, maybe to be sewn up this weekend. And Grammy so wonderfully included a roll of quilt batting in with Bugaboo's Easter package, so I have schemes involving a lap quilt and a cheater baby quilt. Exciting stuff!

But first and most importantly, I bring you this:

Can you tell what it is? I was finally able to start on my plans for the Spring Top Sewalong put on by the amazing crafty mind behind Made by Rae! I only have a week left (having withheld the urge to dabble while our guests were here), so here I go! I don't want to say too much, but it's light grey and yellow and will hopefully fit around my big-momma belly (I've noticeably grown in the past week alone, so I'm going to be making this big).

So it's going to be work work work (also can be read as 'fun fun fun'), and so I'm off!