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Year: 2011

  • When Tuesday and I found out Chloe was coming to visit we asked our little play group if we could skip art time and do a tea party instead. In true Amber fashion I got a bit over my head, but we still had fun. I made these cute invites on the Silhouette, trying the print and cut feature for the first time, it really works! Now of the actual tea party you will not see many pictures. It turns out five 2&3 year olds plus three babies is a bit chaotic! (sheet covering up the…

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  • Ready for biggest easiest project ever? I realized after using this blanket again this weekend that I never shared it. I whipped this little puppy up the night before my first Hawaii trip with Tuesday. I had visions of us sitting on the beach, her serenely playing on a blanket while I read a book. But wait! No blanket I had could squeeze into my already packed suitcase. So I took a few of my favorite prints pieced them together for the front. The back was a fun sheet. I put the right sides together, sewed…

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  • Last week Bj had the whole week off as his “staycation” of the summer. Of course if Bj decides to take a week off and stay in Oregon, it rains! Yay! Also he got our sick yuckies which really stunk. So the night before our camping trip (planned months in advance so we could reserve a yurt) we were on the fence about going. We had the lovely forecast of 80% chance of all day rain. With visions of cramped quarters and splish splashy potty runs in my head I was all, “we don’t have to…

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