The Front Porch Swing

[Blooie]

I have a box full of junk for costumes that I keep for the kids to play with. One of my favorite pictures of Katie was when she had to go to school dressed as a decade in the past. I loved this!

 

[Alice28]

Oh my goodness, Katie is just a cutie there! Actually she's a cutie in every picture

. Lol. Costume chests are a blast! One of my grandmas did square dancing and her and my grandpa traveled all over with it. She had tons of skirts and it was always so much fun to dress up in them! We have a lot of hats and costumes that are given to us, or we save from previous years. I rotate them and toys in and out of the playroom for my son and the daycare kids to play with. It's always fun.

 

[Tomtommom]

We had a dress up box as a kid. Loved that stuff! All the kids loved to come play at our house because we had dress up clothes. Ofcourse that was before video games. (Showing my age....

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[perchie.girl]

Oh @Blooie what a great idea great costume too.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

FYI I started a thread for stories and discussion of horses


Regarding the horses in our lives

deb

 

[enola]

I had blue eyes and almost platinum blonde hair with locks as a kid. Now the eyes are brown, and the hair is more of a grayish-brownish-boringish color, and straight.

I also had gorgeous sunbleached blonde locks and beautiful blue eyes until 5th grade or so. Then my hair turned a pretty brownish red going through high school, while my eyes turned hazel. Then my hair turned grey but my eyes stayed hazel. Now it is pretty light brownish red again. Courtesy of Clairol.

My father had the neatest blue eyes with a cool gold starburst around his pupil. My son has the coolest grey eyes. My grandsons have my fathers eyes. My father's genes skipped 2 generations before they showed up in my grandson's eyes. Genetics are very interesting!!

 

[Tomtommom]

My hair would be platinum blonde in the summer when we were outside all day.

 

[Blooie]

Katie finished her quilting yesterday. She decided to machine quilt it instead of quilting by hand. I didn't encourage her one way or the other but my preference would have been hand quilting. I want her to learn to handle a needle and thread, and love the sound and feeling of that needle going through the layers. She did a great job at the machine, though.


The pinning begins....


Quilt all pinned and prepped for the sewing machine.


Concentrating on keeping her stitches "in the ditch".


The quilting is finished. After I took this, we removed all of the pins and got the excess trimmed, Then we got the binding sewn to the front but I forgot to take a picture of her then, doggone it! She will get in a little hand sewing experience when we sew the binding to the back of the quilt and put the label on it. I'm so proud of her!

 

[Alice28]

Wow! Tell Katie that's amazing! I use to sew and embroider when I was younger, but haven't in years. I would like to get a sewing machine and start doing things here and there again.

 

[tntchix]

Yay!

Great work Katie. Next one will be by hand, right?