These beautiful fabrics are from Bolt, which recently moved and expanded. They have such a good selection of fabrics and trims I got a little nutty. I am so lucky to have such wonderful local indie fabric stores in Portland.
I just saw on my calendar that Feb. 21st was my blog anniversary. I started it in 2005. 14 years? Incedible. And yet not. I feels like a long time ago. I go through my archives sometimes, with the girls. I just did recently with Lydia looking at all the homeschooling projects we have done. And the crafts, etc. We got a huge dumpster last weekend and finally cleaned out the garage and knowing I have documented so many of our learning projects, toys, costumes, and artwork makes it so much easier to send it away when it's creating clutter and chaos in my life. I do need to make a new banner for the blog, I think this one has been up for more than 7 years now. I am on instagram more these days. But sometimes I am not. I haven't really gotten into the stories thing. I am better with the photo and text format. Also, I like to reference what I have documented, so having it go away isn't so useful for me. Years ago I was printing out the blog and binding it in books, but I stopped after year 5? I'd love to keep doing this. I think I could easily get 2 years in a book because the amount of posts decreased as the years went on. But I also look at this project and get tired and think I a was totally bonkers.
