Making Easter cupcakes before the Easter sprinkles forever disappear. He has a tendency to hide any sprinkles he can find in his back pack or in his room. His dentist probably would frown on this activity since he is due to have three fillings in his top teeth in the beginning of April. I have stalled as long as possible but he is starting to complain about his top teeth. Anesthesia is required and I am pretty freaked out by the whole upcoming process but that is another blog post all together. Fortunately, we decided to add him to our dental insurance this year.
Did I mention we became Legoland members? That is where we have been hanging out a lot lately.

I have learned to make this water pad the last stop of the day.

Yep...we are those people who burn through all of the diapers and back up outfits and leave legoland in our underwear.

A daylight savings bike ride to the Carlsbad campgrounds to visit friends for breakfast.

2010's Easter backpack. It really is egg- shaped but when filled with hot wheels and crumpled up monopoly money it quickly loses shape.

Taking money out of my wallet to put into his backpack for the bike ride. I guess monopoly money is not enough anymore.

Score! I think I like this machine more than my new Pfaff. I found it yesterday at a garage sale. She said it worked fine but why would you part with a Viking machine for $25.00 if it worked. I thought my mom may like to upgrade to a machine from the twentieth century. She has had and exclusively uses her Singer treadle machine ( you know the human powered kind). I played around with this machine and I LOVE IT. Everything works and all of the attachments were included. It even does the alphabet. I do not need three machines. I am not that in love with sewing. The Huskeylock I had to have sits nicely it's bag in the garage begging to be used ( honestly, threading the thing is quite a challenge) . My mom came over to take a look did not seem to interested in upgrading to an electric powered machine. Maybe I should start a sewing circle.

Spring crafting

Wandering around the garden at Quail gardens.
Playing with friends from Petaluma at Cottonwood Creek park

Easter crafts have officially started here. I picked up this bolt of corduroy at a garage sale last Saturday. I am thinking of using some of it for a Easter back pack for Brayden instead of a basket this year. His current back pack is getting pretty tattered on the bottom from all of the heavy traveling it has been doing for the past few months. We really don't leave home without it. I should post a photo of the contents of the back pack. It is pretty funny.

Here is a start of a lap quilt with some of the Batik I wanted to use. I am not crazy about the green but I wanted to use whatever I had in my stash. Since I have not been sewing lately, I wanted a smaller project to quilt before I try and make a big giant queen size quilt. 3 blocks down 15 to go.

Our new addition to our cozy dining room. We have vacated Leaping Lotus and this was one of our leftover pieces. I am not ready to part with it yet ( I have visions of it turning into a cute craft cabinet). Space is a big issue in our house but Tony was nice enough to do some major rearranging of our furniture and made it work. Brayden is having a blast hiding out in the cabinet and stuffing his little treasures in the drawers. Our dining table is now pushed back to the pony wall that adjoins our living room. I like the change but getting out to our back yard is tricky.

It is probably apparent that I am in serious need of a diversion from the mortgage chaos with all of my time consuming craft projects I have started at the same time...I have had a couple of deals go so wrong that should have been easy that it really did a number on me. I have been doing this nine years and thought I had seen it all. They are now funded and in their homes but the road to get there was nothing short a over documentation nightmare.
Enough about that....Enjoy your week.