This time, the real deal.  While the ceramic version is good to look at, you can't eat it. And, bonus, it'll be in season really soon.  Gotta love spring.

It's pretty much the same every day while the clementines are in season.  Have a great Friday!

Barnyard waffles for breakfast

The birthday shirt

Favors for the pool party - my sewing machine has an embroidery unit.

And birthday cake, of course.

Fall is on it's way.

And it's that time again....  Talk Like a Pirate Day.  Arrr, be it a good one, me mateys! 

Consulting the calendar in the morning.

Listening to the radio in the afternoon.

Our mailman has been busy.  Yesterday he brought me a wonderful package from Blair.

It is all so lovely!  I adore the bits of Japanese fabric and the "E" card is already hanging in the studio.  The log cabin sachets are just gorgeous - and they smell divine, too.  Did you notice that one of them is mostly green?  She must know me!  And do you see Blair's little label?  Ack!  It is so cute and positively perfect in every way.  Thank you, friend.  I love it all!

This is our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) allotment!  Hooray!  It made me incredibly happy to find a group we could join this late in the game.  So until the end of October, we will have fresh, local produce.  We ate the cucumbers, the corn and a couple tomatoes last night.  The squash and the peppers will probably make up part of our meal tonight.  I used this website to locate a CSA in our area.  I know Cristina used it, too, and found a CSA on the other side of the country.  Take a look if you are interested.  Tonight I am hitting a small farmers' market in search of local meat.  Wish me luck.

And if this post weren't random enough, there is more.  I read Cassi's blog and decided to join her meme for August.  So beginning tomorrow, for the rest of the month, I will be posting an Encyclopedia of Me.  This summer has flown by and I am hoping by doing this, I can accomplish some things around the house and in the studio, play with the girls, relax and enjoy what is left of summer.  I plan on posting photos, too.  I can't promise that they will have anything to do with the day's topic as I seem to be caught up in photographing food these days.  It's the combination of good afternoon light by my kitchen sink and having food on the brain, I think.

Back tomorrow with the letter "a".

As good as it is to get away for awhile, it is always good to come home.

I started reading this book in Telluride.  I like it.  I enjoy reading someone's actual experience mixed with information instead of just information.  It has given me a lot to think about.

We returned home to an empty refrigerator so a trip to the grocery was first on the to-do list.  (Well, second, really - I had to get a new car battery first.  Nothing fun about coming home to a dead battery for the fifth or sixth time).  I was happy to see some local cucumbers and yummy summer squash.  I'll have some of those, thank you very much.  Asparagus from Peru.  Hmmm....not today.  The organic kiwis looked good, too.  From New Zealand?  OK, maybe not.

Now, for many of you, this may be second nature, but for me, it really isn't.  Now I am thinking about buying produce and meat (if I can find it - any ideas on that, Serena?) that comes from close to home.  I want to support my local economy.  I want to have healthy food around for my family.  I want to make some kind of an effort.  Not to say we won't buy our fair share of California berries or Georgia peaches - I am being realistic, here.  I am thinking before I buy, though.  That has got to be a start.

So for lunch today, I had locally grown, organic heirloom tomato with homegrown basil on a whole grain bagel with a tiny schmear of cream cheese.

Yes please and thank you very much.

I appliqued some flowers on to a maternity t-shirt for my friend.  The flowers came off of an Alexander Henry print leftover from this shirt.

The light is horrible in this photo, but the shirt was given this morning and I didn't have a chance to take another one.  The color is more true in this detail shot.

I find these appliques extremely satisfying.  I like looking at what I already have and trying to use it in some other way.  My friend liked it too.

And just because, here is a photo of a beaten egg.  The girls and I found ourselves alone for dinner the other night so I made pancakes.  I really like the yellow in this picture - something about this shade is making me smile.

Happy Friday!