It's Almost March!

I'm sooooo tired of winter. There has been snow on the ground since Christmas. It almost melted all the way, but then it came back. GO. AWAY. PLEASE. Spring, I need you... I want to buy flip-flops. My boots are getting worn out. (One and a half weeks into Lent... doesn't "Lent" mean "spring"? Hmm.)

And while I'm excited that the first week of spring is only 20 days away, it always seems like Kansas is about 3 weeks behind the spring & fall season changes. So I'm holding out for Easter.

Why have I not blogged in so long? I'm lazy. Really, that's just it. I've been keeping up on my reading of everyone else's, just not updating my own. And my New Years resolution to take more pictures? Yeah, about that... batteries are breaking the bank. We've gone through 4 sets since January. 4 sets! That's 16 batteries. All dead. I need to find the rechargeable ones. They're around here somewhere.

I took a little break from scrapbooking to work on costumes for the play, A Man for All Seasons, that the high schoolers from church put on the beginning of February. While I didn't take any pictures from the play (I did the videotaping), my sister did. As soon as I get those from her I'll put them up to brag about my mad costume-making skills. Even though we had 5 months to prepare, I made them all in 2 weeks. Of course, it was the 2 weeks directly before the play. But they got done in the nick of time - the day before the dress rehearsal.

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EDIT: Coincidentally, some of the play pictures just showed up on Facebook.

From left to right, Thomas More, Will Roper, Margaret More, Alice More. I made Roper & Alice's costumes (and yes, they are my brother and sister - Chris & Shannon.) :)

This was the jail scene - I also made Alice's (Shannon's) red and gold dress (on the left.) And while it looks almost the same as the red dress Margaret is wearing in the picture above, it is, in fact, a different dress. Gotta love the crushed velvet fabric - hem-free!

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After the play was over and I could get back to my regularly scheduled hobby, I discovered something - my house is plain. Our walls are painted a flat stark white. Oh, the life of a renter. So in lieu of continuing my diligent work on our family album (that now has THREE pages!), I decided it was time to spruce up the house a little bit. After all, we've only lived here NINE months now! Time for some decorating. (We do have a few things hung up on the wall, but that's it.)

My current project is a quilt for Nate's room - something I've been mulling over for months now. I finally decided to make the leap, and I spent an hour last week browsing JoAnn Fabrics picking out material. Yes, with said child in tow! (Lots of Apple-Strawberry Puffs to keep him occupied.) Every time we go in there he tells me without words how much he hates that store and never wants to go there again. I tell him he's turning into his daddy. I don't understand why men don't enjoy browsing through aisles and aisles of brightly colored fabrics and delicious patterns, and yet they can spent hours in a store that has thousands of computer parts lined up in square boxes that have cryptic names like "USB" and "VGA" and "HDMI." Wouldn't you much rather look at something called "Kate Spain - VERDA in Dewdrop and Budding Pink"?

I've sewn together the top of the quilt, and will be doing the actual quilting this week. It's certainly not perfect, as using a rotary cutter is not as easy as it looks. But, with a little luck, it will turn out super cute, and bring a little color to his white-walled room with white furniture! (And as an added bonus, the blue and green fabric with polka dots I'm using also comes in the same style in PINK! So if this baby is a girl, they can have coordinating quilts, which makes me very happy.)