Garage Sale

Cardboard boxes and Sharpies do not come with spell check.

The Cheesiest

Rob made some good ol' Mac n Cheese for lunch today, and when he pulled the spoon out of the pot, here's what was looking back at us...

To Market, To Market

The downtown farmers market started last week. HOORAY! I love going and buying local, fresh produce. My sister-in-law and I walked down today with her two kids in the stroller. I didn't get much, just some lettuce, beets, a loaf of bread, and some jam. I decided that next time we go, if I'm feeling brave enough I'm going to buy some of the vegetables I've never heard of and give them a try. They have all kinds of things there I've never eaten before. Right now they have mostly leafy greens and root veggies, but I can't wait for the weeks when the fruit comes! They have some great peaches, raspberries, plums, etc. I LOVE fruit! And you can't beat it when it's fresh and local. It's almost like eating it right off the tree! Someday perhaps I'll have a house with a yard and might try my own garden, but for now the wonderful Farmer's Market will have to do!

...gently down the stream...

Yesterday was (that's right, you guessed it) National Learn To Row Day!

Rob and I joined the festivities by going out to the Great Salt Lake marina to learn to row from the Salt Lake Rowing team. This is actually our second time attending this event. We went two years ago as well. For anybody who ever wanted to learn to row, they have this event every year around this time, and it's available all over the country (so long as there is some water nearby and a rowing team in the area!). We had a great time learning to row (again). We just might take lessons to learn even more, but they're kind of pricey, and membership to join the team is expensive too. But the people we talked to who are already on the team love it! And once you take the 3 training courses, you can come to the lake at any time and use the boats. You can even go out by yourself if you like the solitude. I'll bet it's pretty cool to be on the lake while the sun rises or sets and see the mountains and city in the distance.

So anyway, nothing too exciting. Just reporting on yesterday's activities.

Sew Fun

A few of my gal-pals and I met at IKEA yesterday for some yummy Swedish lunch and to get fabric to reupholster an old rocking chair. First of all, did anybody else know that IKEA has fabrics? I mean, not just bedding and curtains and stuff, but actual bolts of fabric that you can purchase by the yard to sew anything you can dream of? Well they do, and after looking at them to help Brittany pick one for her new chair cover, I wanted to purchase a whole bunch and redo our whole condo with new drapes, pillows, bedspread, etc. Their fabrics are so fun and colorful!

After we found the perfect fabrics (the middle one in the stack above and some lime-green accent fabric) we proceeded to recover the chair. I just realized that I don't think we took any "before" pictures, but hopefully my friend will take some "after" photos because I think it turned out pretty darn cute! But that cuteness came at a price; we all worked on it from the time we got back from IKEA (about 1:00 maybe?) until 8:00 at night! It was a crazy insane all-day project! When Brittany's husband came home from work, we were still sewing away! But he was kind enough to stop at Little Caesar’s to get us all a yummy Hot-n-Ready pizza and cheese sticks. Yum! And the kiddos were kind enough to take nice long naps for most of the time, which was very convenient.

JoAnna did most of the work on her handy-dandy sewing machine while Brittany and I did our best to add impossible to work with green fabric that kept fraying all over the place to the buttons (that we later “tufted” onto the cushions), and also hand-sewing the tops of the cushions that the sewing machine had trouble with. So, my friend Brittany now has a new (and much hipper) cover for her rocking chair. Yay for IKEA fabrics and JoAnna’s sewing abilities! It was a fun day. I’m glad I could help out and spend the day hanging with my chicas!