the busy girl.

i spent the last couple of weeks binding. it's not my favorite quilting task, but once i get into it, i like to do ALL of the binding. ALL OF IT. so i finished a few quilts that have been lingering in my queue.

look, i can't show you the whole thing. really. the quilts are gifts and one has been sent, and the other one is about to be sent, so i don't want to show them off until they are in their new homes. but there, glimpses.

okay.

i've also been hand-quilting my briar rose log cabin quilt. it is looking so good.

we watched a few movies together, mr poppleton and i, while i quilted. first star trek: into darkness, because come on, it's got benedict cumberbatch (or, as we know him, bentobox lumberjack).

we watched oblivion, which was surprisingly good. i'm not a fan of the lead actor at all, and it would be really awesome if the lead females had been born in the same decade as the male lead (not two decades later!) because, frankly, i am tired of men in action movies being married to 25 year olds for their entire career. but i did enjoy the story and the twist was good. it did sinister very well.

then we watched moonrise kingdom.

you guys.

you guys.

it was incredible.

i have been a wes anderson fan since, as a wee little 18 year old, i caught royal tenenbaums on cable at a friend's house. i was fascinated with it, how the movie itself was like a slow-developing polaroid, how the colors and illustrations and music all formed this seamless whole. i obsessed over that film. i still love it, in fact. i was excited to watch moonrise kingdom but i couldn't find the time for ages. we finally carved out the time last weekend and afterward, we both sat there and just kind of smiled. i can say definitively that my husband enjoyed it and he is the action movie genre's number one fan, so you can rest assured it is something special.

i also finished up grand designs: australia, and i have to say that while i enjoyed it (especially the clovelly house and the darwin house) i was not as invested as with grand designs: uk. i just don't think anyone ever comes close to kevin. he's like my best friend that lives in the television, which is what makes him a successful host!

okay but i don't just watch tv, i promise! this week was also the husband's birthday, so i made brownies, we went out for breakfast at butcher's block (which was amazing), we held hands, we walked, we talked, we looked into each other's eyes, we told jokes. it was nice to connect, just the two of us, knowing that our kids were safely somewhere else and we could just be. i wish we had more time like that. i'm spoiled rotten with love and i hope my husband got a little bit of that good feeling for his special day.

oh. i haven't mentioned this yet, but we have taken our gorgeous puppy back to the breeder's. she (the breeder) is planning on breeding pancakes while our human babies grow up a bit, and by the time she (the puppy) comes back to us, she will be calmer, and our kids will be bigger, and the timing will work out a bit better. i wasn't able to spend as much time with her as i wanted to, and she was feeling it, poor puppy...now she is having the time of her life there and the breeder just loves her. our breeder has renamed pancakes PC which suits me just fine, though i might call her "piecey" as in a piecey quilt!

anyway i am very sad about this,  because i failed to be awesome at looking after a puppy, and because our poor dog was so lonely. but my human babies come first, so my fur baby was getting very sad.

so that's me caught up. exciting things are afoot though - i am still working on a quilt pattern (my first!), designing my second (!!), working on some textile designs (!!!), and next week...we will have a QUILT ALONG! my very first. i'm so excited. more on that later, though - the tiny blonde one is very cranky. i think she needs some lunch!

cheers!

penny xx