9 From Easter

Here are my favorite photos from April.


The Palm Sunday Processional.


A and her Easter basket.

L & A waiting to go to Church.


L and her new best friend, the Easter Bunny. She kept following him around.


L and her Easter Basket at the egg hunt.


A on the hunt.


A still hunting.


L near the end.


Back home to play with our bubbles. L & A

Winter Fab Five

Dani started doing a quarterly top 5 of photos of her daughter. I thought this was a great idea. Here are my Fab Five for the winter.

DDL playing dress up.

DDL sleeping

DDA sleeping

DDA posing for the camera. (She asked me to take her photo.)

DH, DDA, and DDL waiting for the dolphin show at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

And a bonus picture.

DDA & DDL in their formal school picture from this year. This photo was taken in that short time period between growth spurts that we have where DDL looks a lot bigger and older than DDA.

Recording Projects

The Stitching Bloggers Question for this month is:

Do you keep records of your finishes? We are so lucky to have so many record-keeping tools at our disposal to record our accomplishments. So if you do, what recording methods do you use? What do you think is important to record when you've finished a design?

When I first started stitching, I had a small yellow spiral-bound notebook into which I recorded information about my projects. Name, designer, who is was for, start date, finish date, and any comments about the project. Since I was mostly stitching with Aida and DMC, I didn't record fabric or thread.

I'm sad to say that I have no idea where that notebook went. It's probably still in the house. It probably didn't get updated once I moved here to DC in 1999. It'd be fun to go back and review the projects I did.

This blog, which I started at the end of 2007, is now the record of my projects. It's incomplete, but it's what I have. I keep the same information as before, plus fabric and thread details.

I would say that I'm a bad archivist, by not keeping a record of my projects, but the job of the archivist is to preserve records, not to create them.