I have gone crazy for purple lately. Roses are Red Are Violets Blue? is my favorite color book from childhood.


This week I took another sewing class at the Stitch Lab with Beckybluej. I made this purple Half-Circle Wrap Skirt. The fabric is from Jo-Ann Fabrics.


I picked out some new purple glasses and matching nail polish.

I also took a quick trip to check out the glorious new fabric store, The Common Thread. I chose some embroidered, purple daisy ribbon, which I am going to use to edge denim, circle skirts for C and E.

I was looking for something to do inside with the kids. It has been over 100 degrees for more than 40 days here in Austin. My mom saved my Fashion Plates, so I got them out for E and C to play with. This was one of my all-time favorite toys! I was never much of an artist, but I loved to color. I had forgotten about all of the textures on the back of some of the plates. I got the pink set first. You can tell the fashion in the blue set is a little “funkier” and came slightly later. I still want to play with these. What a great low-tech toy. Now if I could just get my hands on the “boy” version, the Mighty Men and Monster Maker. The kids would go crazy for making monsters.

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