Owl Banner

I saw this super duper cute owl banner as a link on Jennifer's blog and was like - ooooooh I have to try that! I used courderoy instead of tweed, and while I was looking through my button stash decided to add some colorful ones for the eyes on a couple of them. I LOVE the way it turned out! I cut out enough cord to make two since my good friend Jan is loving owls at the moment! So, today I took the day off work since the doctors are out of town and I visited my mom this past weekend. After updating my blog-a-roo I am going to be sewing, sewing, sewing! Okay, I realize this nut chopper pic is totally random! I bought it a few months ago and finally had the chance to use it last weekend! My Mom always had a nut chopper similar to this one while I was growing up and I remember that was my job when I was helping her bake :)

The visit with my mom was totally great, very relaxing. We went through some fabric stashes since I am working on my first quilt and she could barely stand her excitement!!!! And frankly I lucked out, because she has an amazing stash! tons of vintage fabric, lots of beautiful prints, every kind of fabric imaginable really. So, my car is still packed up with boxes and bags of FABRIC! I also got to look through her super secret stash of vintage buttons!

She also gave me a fold up hammock that I will be setting up! I've been looking forward to chilling out in that all summer. The thing is my car does not have air conditioning and so the drive down to Chico is absolutely miserable in 100+ degree weather, as it was last Friday when I drove down. Yuck. It was certainly worth it to see my Mom and also best friend Jeannette. I had a narrow window of time to deliver the scrapbook and knitted cloths to her, I made it just in time! I must have looked a fright unfortunately since I had just driven into town! The cloths I had actually started before Christmas, with the intention of mailing them for Christmas, but that didn't quite work the way I had planned it :)