eye candy

You were asking what I thought about Alicia Paulson's Stitched In Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share. If you love reading her blog, then you'll love the book. It's written just like it with explanations on how each project she presents is related to her life. The part I most appreciated was her observation that the ordinary day of our daily living is something to be celebrated and appreciated. During a hard time, it's those days that you long for! Sitting around the table with the family, eating meatloaf and potatoes, hanging out on the couch together... this is what makes us content and happy. I started to see my own life this way. She realized this by her photographs she took for her blog. There's beauty all around us every day!

 
I loved these little crocheted slippers... she doesn't include the pattern for them but I just loved this photo. Then I realized she posted it on her blog also! :)

 
Do you make heart shaped biscuits for dinner on a weeknight? I don't either, but it made me seriously think about it! Alicia's life is all about love and appreciating everything. She is so positive and real, and I think we all could benefit from following her example.

Here's some other things I got in the mail:

 

I saw this pattern and knew this is the style of top for me! The pattern is by fabric designer Lila Tueller, a mom of six children and she is one of those beautiful women who is ageless! (Like Anna Maria Horner!) The pattern is called "Funked Out Peasant Blouse"

 

Here's two books I found at Superbuzzy...

 

The first is full of beautiful smocking! I'm in love with all these designs... like that purse on the cover! And this skirt that has chicken scratch on it too!

I want to make curtains like this for our two kitchen windows... sweet!

 

The other book is full of crocheted amigurumi...

 

I bought a little folklore tape... I couldn't pass it up. Now what shall I do with it?

Finally, a little peek at something I've been doing at night while watching tv...