Fanciful Chaos: Summer is officially over...

The people I spent most of my short summer with...

My dearest friend Lora. I don't know why but we have fairly few picture of us together even though we've been very close friends for well over 12 years. My theory is that we are both the non-photogenic type. So over the summer, I made sure that we took as many pictures together as we can when got together. This one is of our weekend get away to Vegas.

My two sisters that I rarely get to see. For someone who has two sisters close in age (we are all one year apart, me being the oldest), I do wish we were a lot closer and shared more interests and bonding time together.

Best ice cream sandwich in town

Camping at Isabella Lake, hiking in the Sequoia forest.

Getting back into art & craft

live freely...

hand made card - sending love your way

hand made note cards - remember when...

hand made note cards - love is a journey...

Cool. Calm. Collected.

I knew I was going to miss everything about summer, so when I went to Seal Beach, I made sure to stop by the local shops by the boardwalk and picked up a few seastars and shells. I didn't want them sitting around on the shelves... since I needed something above the headboard... I made a seaside garland.

Summer room project finally done. I got a bookshelf into the room for all my books. And made a giant resting pillow for reading in the winter when I just want to cozy up in bed with a good book. I wish I had a sewing machine because stitching that pillow by hand was not so fun. But I love the result, totally digging the blue stripes.