summer visiting

Just saw my godfamily leave after spending 2 nights....... last week my uncle stayed 1 night....... next week friends might stay 3-4 nights.......

Doesn't summer always seem like the season of social events? I've probably been at a dozen events and dinner parties, and yet it goes so fast....... you see people whom you never see any other time of year, and yet it's so hard to absorb.........

I suppose that's the mystery of summer............

Happy Birthday

just wanted to say to my cousin Nora:

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA!!!!!!!

MAY YOU ALWAYS BE AS WONDERFUL TO EVERYONE AS YOU ARE TO ME!

I MISS YOU SO MUCH AND I WANT TO WISH YOU TO HAVE GREAT BIRTHDAYS FOREVER.

I LOVE YOU, ANTONIA

present in 2 meanings

I am making a present at the present time = voila- 2 meanings!!!

• My present is a brown & yellow sunhat for my cousin Nora- colors chosen by her. I will post pics of this when I am finished.
• I have already made a present for her- a origami flower ball that is named something like "cosmuto". This is an amazing technique, very simple and gorgeous. I will post instructions soon.
• Recently finished was 2 projects with Amy Butler fabric- this fabric is very nice, and I definitely recommend it to be used.

• Project 1 was a bag designed by Amy called the birdie sling. I did this bag in a brown cherry-blossom print with a brown and yellow damask print for trim, and a lining of pink and orange damask, which pops nicely.
• Project 2 was a dining layette set I put together using various patterns & Amy Butler fabric for Adam & Jessica Koury who had a wedding celebration recently. It included 2 coasters, napkins, and placemats.

That pretty much sums up my projects recently.

clara therese

Just wanted to link to a really amazing blog- All You Who Hope!

www.allyouwhohope.blogspot.com

Karey is really amazing and I am very honored to soon become a honorary sibling of her new daughter Clara Therese who supposedly looks the way I did as a baby- lucky me!!! I am so glad for her & Ryan who have had wonderful attention from God recently with the arrival of Clara through adoption and now their little boy arriving in a few months!!

This all to me is very similar to the situation our friends were in- I have always seen a similarity between these two families through the fact that we met all of them through the same circumstances (Karey and Ryane coming in to the church together) and now the same chain of events- infertility for Karey and Ryane, very slow adoption processes, and then pregnancy right when their adoptions were confirmed- it's like God wishes to give adopted children the full family experience by giving them close siblings- it's so great!!

I am including a few pics of Karey and/or Clara- they are from January.

Karey in Clara's nursery