Another Hat

While K was home last weekend, she worked on a hat for her friend, Beth. Here it is before the lining went in: The fur is so thick and soft!  I could touch it once she had it cut out and I wasn’t really touching the whole animal.  K has found the wonderful fur dealer [...]

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June Jems

What else happened this month? I got NEW sandals from Heather in Brazil!! They are super comfy and great quality South American leather.   She originally planned to bring them to me but at the last minute couldn’t pull off the 6 hour trip each way to get here.  It was just after our big [...]

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K’s Book

For months I’ve been planning and formulating a fabric memory book highlighting just a bit of K’s time in Chicago.  I’ve titled it Opening. I wanted to include a tag book with her story so turned to Phil.  In the last several years, his writing has come to bloom and I thought this would be [...]

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K’s Graduation

K’s graduation from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago took place on May 16, 2009 at the Pritzker Pavillion in Milliennium Park.      The invitations from the school said “rain or shine” and “come prepared” so I had prepared that week by buying ponchos and extra umbrellas.  The forecast that morning was for [...]

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Moving Nightmare

I guess we need to sit in the memories of having had uneventful moves in downtown Chicago with Miss K.   Because this week’s move was a nightmare!!! And so I’m posting all these details about it before getting up the pretty pictures and stories from the kids’ graduations.  ;)  (It is my blog, you [...]

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Award to K!

Miss K annouced through tears of joy on Tuesday (May 5) that she was the 2009 recipient of The Raymond Hudd Millinery Award! Now this poster has been on an end table since K was home back in March.  I didn’t really know what it was for except that K was the model but it wasn’t [...]

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K’s Celebration Day!

Today we celebrate K’s graduation from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago!   She is receiving her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree.   We couldn’t be more proud of her accomplishments.  And mostly for completing her 4 year degree in 3 1/2 years and working at the same time!  :)  She will stay [...]

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Letter of the Day

May I introduce the letter P to you as it participated in my Monday. Preparing pies for the party: 13 crusts Peaches, cranberries, & blueberries marinating with the sugar mix. I forgot finished pie pictures.  You’ll understand.  Apple = 5  Peach Berry = 8 Phil is planting!  After getting 3″ of rain last week, we are [...]

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Our Hatmaker

K has just loved her hat making classes and she has a wonderful teacher!  This semester with Headwear Design II, the students had a place to display their hats for sale in a local gallery.   K submitted 11 hats but I can’t point them out to you in these pictures.   We have heard [...]

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Weekend Visit

K was home for roughly 31 hours this past weekend.  (Then I was gone all day Saturday for a scrapbooking day so that gave us a very short visit!) But both kids were up early Saturday a.m. for a small shopping trip to Forreston for K, the milliner.   ’nuff said. Dad was happy to [...]

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