Farm Living and Fabric

It was Spring Break this past week. The boys did Art Camp Mon-Wed then we headed to “the farm” to visit my parents for a few days. My kids are in heaven on the farm! I think they would live outside (sleep too) if we lived down there. This was my grandparent’s farm and my parents built a house there in like 1992. It’s peaceful and beautiful with wide open spaces, cows, horses, fishing and lots of relaxing! Lots of mooing too! Oh, and don’t forget armadillo catching, bike and golf cart riding. Every boys dream and Mallory loved it too!

Here is my mom, aka “Granmommy”. Granmommy always has a full supply of snacks, drinks, tic tacs and cough drops.

Priceless entertainment = a cooler of ice! Mallory & G spent I-don’t-know-how-much-time playing with the ice. They filled up the back of the tricycle, transported ice from one cup to the next, fed the dog ice and basically had ice all over the driveway. Luckily it just melts!

Mallory went through THIS cooler of ice on Thursday AND Friday. We may have to install an ice machine in our next house.

Did I mention fishing? Browder caught all the fish (and somehow I got no pics of him?) but G had to kiss this one before we threw him back. All yuck factor must go out the window on the farm. There’s no need in fighting it.

More priceless entertainment = crickets.

Again, not yuck! He can wash his hands and take a bath! He can wash his hands and take a bath! He can wash his hands and take a bath! Oh, yes, that is what I kept telling myself…

Lastly this is my parents precious lab Keystone! If we HAD to have another dog, I’d take him! He’s a big ole lazy sweet dog and my kids adore him! He & Sissy bonded over ice.

A trip to the farm means a trip to Singer Sewing Center (Enterprise, AL)! I “ran in” Thursday when we went to town and left with these! Loving the colors!! The top left is not really orange, but more of a coral color. So pretty!!!! I like coral for spring. Love the zig zag stripe too and the floral fabrics – all GREAT (and different) colors!

Because you can never have too many polka dots…. I used the Michael Miller zig zag stripe in green for a new Applique Cafe Snake design so I picked up this hot pink too. A pink snake sure would be cute! I was going to TRY to drive over to TJ’s Fabrics in Opp but couldn’t make it happen with our farm schedule.

The weather is beautiful here ~ mid to high 80’s I believe. House news: we had someone look for a 2nd time last week. Evidently they are military, living in an apartment, are going to “do something” soon and our house is #1. We’ve heard that a few times before so we’re not getting our hopes up. Nonetheless, I think I’m cutting off customer orders for a while. My current count is: 40. We have a trip or two coming up so my goal is to have all that done by the time we leave. I will reassess the situation in a month or so after our vacation and depending on the house. I have SO LITTLE TIME lately and would hate to have stacks of clothes waiting to applique, sell our house and have to return them! Email me with any questions ~ rosemarygulledge@gmail.com!