T-shirt Masterpiece

After 5 years of dreaming

35 plus t-shirts-

free and bought for

clean and dirty

all with memories

of people, places, times-

and 5 pairs of torn jeans

(some even with paint still attached)

it's done

After almost no measurements involved

and lots of redefining what it means to be square

and some very sloppy hems

it's done

After countless episodes of Psych

and Mythbusters

and even Twin Peaks

multicolored spools of thread

and the left-over spools from other things

it's done

After sewing machine trouble

and confusion and woe

and the thump and the bump

of the hand-me-down Viking 5710

it's done

 

After 100 square inches 

(that's larger than king size)

of cutting

and sewing

and ripping

and tearing

and sewing again

making good use of color

and logo to spare

my t-shirt and jean quilt

is finally done!

(the picture shows both top (with logos) and bottom (solid colors))

it's done!

Fun in the Sun

I know, I know, we haven't posted in a while.

We have been rather busy these hot, hot, hot (HOT!) July days.

Sonic helped throw a graduation party yesterday,

and moves in less than a week!!

I, as befitting my Master Yoda status, have been protecting the children of the world

from drowning.

of course.

And I move in a week and two days

Not that I am counting.

(who me? of course not!)

So, I have some pictures to share with y'all.

My friends are touring Italy for the week so I am looking after their pool and garden.

Sadly yesterday I went to water their garden,

in the seven minutes from my house to theirs,

it started drizzling.

It stopped before I got there... only to realize I had forgotten the keys.

I hopped the fence - delicately! 

(being a lady and all in a Sunday skirt)

only to start watering the garden

and have it start raining on me.

However!

All of this, cucumbers, tomatoes, and zucchini have come from their garden

I want to make pickles with these cucumbers...

And with zucchini not pictured above, 

I made these delights

chocolate zucchini cupcakes

(they have vanilla cream icing to go on top

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

and of course they are gluten-, dairy-, and soy- free!)

My family went to barnes and nobles yesterday....

look at these gems!

A builder's guide to building everything Harry Potter out of legos!

This does not need explaining.

(its a yoda figure with a book of yoda wisdom)

I hope you are having fun in the sun

:)

The South Mountain Frisbee Golf Tournament

Perhaps we have been a little quiet around here.
Perhaps it is summer....
But perhaps Sonic and Yoda have been reunited for a week adventure.
Trust me, we haven't exactly been quiet.

Sunday we tried our hands at frisbee golf at the local course. The course was having a tournament, but the people in the tent told us we could play through. We tried.

First off, we were using normal frisbees instead of disc golf frisbees.
Hence,

Secondly,
we couldn't find hole 6. We spent a good while looking for it and found holes 8 and 9 and a post that might have been 7, before finding hole 6. But then we didn't actually play hole 7 because we couldn't find that after finishing hole 6. We figure the time spent wandering around like idiots makes up for the time we would have spent playing hole 7.

Three,
we were really bad.
I mean, our lowest score during the entire game was a 4.
And we couldn't believe it happened.

Lucky Thirteen ?

However,

we had a lot of fun.

And needless to say, we were winners in the Frisbee golf Tournament.

We even baked an apple pie in celebration.

Yum.

That's good.

HAPPY FOURTH!

Happy Fourth of July from us here at Headquarters!

Summer has been going fairly well here so far as we work our summer jobs as well as try to get together our post-undergrad lives.

I have been gathering items from wine glasses to a toilet bowl scrubber for moving down to Virginia and, as Yoda so kindly puts it, become more "domesticated."

I hope everyone is having a good summer!