The calm before the storm...

That is what this weekend feels like to me. As the school year comes to an end we find the next few weeks and weekends are scheduled back to back and overlapped with activities. Music recitals, band concerts, dance recital, church activities, orchestra concerts, and school programs keep us busy and a little crazy. But it is fun and exciting to think that summer will soon be here.

So this weekend really is relaxing and the weather this year is cooperating nicely. My husband finished work on our blue stone patio area and I worked on the window boxes and my hypertufa troughs. I haven't put in the tomatoes yet but I did dig up most of the tarragon that was invading my herb garden. I stuck a small tarragon plant in a pot dug into the garden hoping to contain it a bit.

Work wise I have been very busy making up my little bird sets.

Exercise and allocating some time for myself.

Life is getting so busy with all the kids activities and my custom order schedule. Sometimes it so difficult to find time to relax when I have so much work I need to get finished. And sewing and needle felt work is not an active sport so my level of exercise has dwindled. I'm just going to have to set aside time to walk or garden because health-wise this is not good. So with the nicer weather I am promising to get out and walk and do some yard work.

I haven't had time to look much on the Etsy treasuries but someone sent me a nice note to let me know I was in one. I think these are so pretty.

I love May!

Everything is so green and vibrant! It makes me smile just to walk outside and see the flowers and the sudden greening of the gardens.

This weekend was a quiet one. The rain kept us indoors and my husband was taking it easy due to the emergency room visit for chest pains earlier in the week. I actually did a lot of crafting and then on my birthday spent many hours working on a fabric bird cake topper. With so many custom orders lined up its difficult to find time to do so and on my birthday I figured I was entitled to a little free time to make something on my own. I have several orders for fabric bird pairs coming up and I wanted to see if I could dress up my birds in wedding attire. I really think the eyes are so important on the birds and if the groom was to wear black his eyes would be lost in the fabric. So I added a little white "cheek" on each bird and positioned the eyes and beak a little lower than my typical birds. Its so funny how eye and beak placement change the look of the birds so much and yet they all are pretty appealing. On the base I used some pretty leaf motif craft paper by Martha Stewart from Michaels. I was also excited to use some coordinating tape (also Martha Stewart). I went with the green flower accents and added black glitter to the grooms hat as well.



I am hoping for at least one nice day this weekend for our may day celebration with our maypole. In the rain of last weekend no one was interested. My youngest is reminding me to do this soon.

These are my latest pairs of custom birds to be going off soon...