2. We took an impromptu trip to Durham, NC this weekend, we went to see the Alabama game. I was looking at the schedule and looked at stubhub to see what ticket prices were and realized it was probably the only Alabama game where we could afford tickets. =)
3. It was Dash's first game, and even though my Auburn heart is crying a little, he looked awfully cute.
4. While John and Dash were at the game, Kate and I walked through the Sarah P. Duke Memorial gardens. They were so beautiful. I'm jealous all the Duke students get to lounge around in these gardens when they aren't in class. We found this huge butterfly on some Lantana and stopped to take a pic.
5. Duke's campus is gorgeous, all the buildings are huge and gothic and beautiful. I was looking for the chapel and saw this big pretty building and thought "is this it?" but I didn't want to ask anyone and look like an idiot. Then I turned the corner and saw this sucker...
And realized that no, that wasn't it. This chapel is huge!! There was a wedding there when we were there (right smack dab in the middle of the Alabama game, you know the groom didn't pick the date). What a lucky bride.
6. Dash and I got my mom a hummingbird feeder for Mother's Day. She subscribes to Birds and Blooms and in there they suggested putting a red ribbon on each feeder, and that the birds would just come up to it while you were holding it. Can you believe that? I couldn't either.
How cool.
7. Here's a video, too, it reminds me of dance with the hummingbirds or something. =)
8. I tried my hand at Applique the other day, I was impressed with how easy it was. I was SUPER intimidated. I found a website though that walks you through it step by step (same site that showed me how to quilt) and thought it didn't look that bad. Here's my finished quilt square, one of my online friends has been diagnosed with cancer and all of the girls are putting a quilt together for her. She has four daughters, all blond beauties, so I came up with this design.
9. Seriously, that was easy. I drew out my pattern on some double sided fusing, temporarily stuck it to the fabric and cut it out, then stuck it to the base fabric and ironed it on and that made it a permanent bond. The sewing is just to keep the edges from fraying, but those suckers are stuck on there when you sew. Then it was just a matter of following the lines, which was hard around the curves but I used the manual dial a lot and turned it every few stitches and it worked really well. Then I just embroidered the faces on.
10. I have a four pillow designs from Don't Look Now, that's next on the agenda for Kate. And here's the tutorial on how to do the applique, I know a bunch of ya'll are crafty. =)
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