If you are wondering why I haven't refilled my Boutique again, this is the reason. I'm still in the midst of the Summer of Whammy, and spending time with the fairy girls.
(Sugarwings is learning to sew, she cut the old straps off her dress and pinned on new pink velvet ones for me to stitch on with the machine)
We've been bubbling too.
This photo is the one that made me redo my curtains. I've spent a lot of time at the dreadful sewing machine this summer.
Same fabrics, plus a few more swatches of old lace, just reconfigured so that the length was better. It's a bunch of odds and ends, some lace is just swaddled up and tied with ribbon, then clipped on with rhinestone shoe clips. This was a save I figured out after seeing that one side was cut way too short.
While fabrics were strewn around the studio during one sewing project, Sugarwings helped herself to some tulle.
I've also been on a cleaning kick, including de-gooping shower drains. I've scrubbed and scoured, I've removed cobwebs, I've goofed off, and I've played dress up. But I haven't added anything to my Boutique, or really made much of anything arty in the studio either.
We explored the cute, little Topeka zoo, where we found an African bush camp set up between the hyenas and lions. No one else was up there on the hill in the tents, nestled into a bamboo forest, so we took our time playing there.
I'd say we had about 359 cups of delicious pretend tea brewed over an open fire. Taking the summer off has been the most fun I've had in years.
Time has been spent in the Fairy Food Forest too. The Fairy House my son built from vines wrapped around the trees is a perfect spot for reading. I used to love to curl up with a good book on lazy summer days when I was a kid. Still do, I think I've read 10-12 books over this summer too.
Too bad that my lady of liesure days are ending. It's back to work. Soon… Any day… Well, in a couple days….
love, love, love! 😀
Be glad you had the time to spend with them. It seems I have seen them growing up so fast just reading your blogs so think of when mine were small and I was too busy to enjoy it, then they are grown and gone. Had the last 2 wks with the great grands and enjoying it. On to Ind. and the cousins.
Enjoy them while they’re small! They grow up way too soon!
My idea of a perfect summer — so much to cherish!
As I send my 5 year old off the kindergarten this fall, I am reminded how precious this time is. So glad you are making it a priority to enjoy these beautiful girls, getting to really know them, and allowing them to build wonderful memories with you! Very sweet, lady…
I don’t think you will regret one minute of the time you spent with your beautiful grandfairies this summer. Sweet memories for all of you! Thank you for sharing some of the special moments.
What lucky little Grand-Girls you have!
To have a *Whammy* who is willing to spend such time with them.
And to give them such magical surroundings, to play in.
And to let them run with their imaginations. Just as she lets herself run, with her delightful imagination.
And revel in the sweetness of summer childhood time.
Lucky little girls!
Lucky *Whammy*! Who is wise enough to know that work will always be there… Later…
Hugs, hugs, hugs,
Tessa~
what a perfect summer. Beautiful fairbabies.