More books and a project

 Kids are back in school after mid-winter break long weekend- and this year to hopefully get them healthy after the sicknesses that are ravaging through town.  So Tuesday I was back reading to the first graders.

Kids all think the magic of life happens when they are grown up.  If they would only relish their little lives now!  These two stories are about wanting to be big, grown up, and stubbornly proving it.

I LOVE Bob Graham's books.  Oh, my.  I remember standing in front of him at an autograph table blubbering through tears because in the book he was autographing, Let's Get a Pup!, he drew the dog that looked exactly like our dog who we had just sent to heaven.  I know the poor guy thought I was a crazy lady but I wasn't over what we did to our Polly.

Anyway, April and Esme are tooth fairies and just got a call (on their cell phone) from Daniel's grandma that he lost his first tooth and she specifically asked for April and Esme to come take it.  Mom and Dad, of course, think April and Esme are too young at 6 and 7 years old.  But they beg to prove they can do big things.  Graham's illustrations are a treasure and studying the details is both wonderful and hilarious. You really have to look at every inch of the page to marvel at his detail.

Regina thinks she's big enough to go hunting on her own, even though mom told her to stay home till she gets back. Of course she doesn't and encounters her own challenges.  

Do you take photos of your projects in progress?  I try to.  I've always relied on a camera to see what I can't see because cameras DO see what we can't.  Maybe I should have tried that with those basket pillows, come to think of it.  

Anyway, I've had these ladies laying on the dining room table for a couple of weeks and am now trying to decide if they should float 

or sit on the bottom of the background, next to where a border will be.  I kept changing the layout and finally took the photo.  Seeing it this way I'm thinking next to the border otherwise they look like they are floating with no anchor. At least that's for this trip around the table. 

Progress on Elizabeth's Baltimore Album - all 20 squares are quilted and half of one border side. Had to let my needle pushing finger rest for a couple of days but the border will go well. First time I've done this but I've got three needles going at the same time on the border.