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NOT MUCH

Not much happening around here. The weather has been beautiful and Springy. When the sun comes out our apartment really gets heated up so I've had our patio doors open most of the week and the fresh air is great. This weekend I'm looking forward to buying some herbs and geraniums to plant out on our patio. Yay Spring!

Bea is growing so big her feet are almost as big as mine (and that's saying something!) Claire on the other hand still has cute shoes. Here are her little hiking shoes alongside mine. Cute, cute, cute. And of course my Bea is still a cutie too - she's just getting big feet like her mama. Gosh this is fascinating blogging.

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Here's Claire enjoying the warm breeze. We took a boat across the lake for a little walk in the town where we used to live.

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I'm quilting! Silly to sit covered with a warm quilt going into the summer months but making these stitches calms me. I have five (out of 30) blocks quilted so far.

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Finally I was satisfied with a loaf of bread I baked. I think I was having trouble because the yeast is a bit different here. I've been proofing it for five minutes instead of adding it dry and I think that's the trick. My girls really like fresh bread and butter for an after school snack.

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Here's that mini quilt that led to some secret baby news coming out. Let's blame Aunt Sandy and the comment that she left on my blog (ha). Congratulations Mike and Michelle. 

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The end.

Posted by kathymariechapman on April 13, 2018 at 02:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

A HIKE NEAR SCHINDELLEGI

I like to say Shindellegi. We went for a walk along the Sihl River near this small town. It was warm and Spring was starting to showing off.

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Posted by kathymariechapman on April 07, 2018 at 03:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

DINNER ON OUR PATIO

While our friends and family in the US Midwest seem to be having an April blizzard...

We ate outside on our patio for the first time this Spring. It felt so nice and fresh!

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Posted by kathymariechapman on April 07, 2018 at 03:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

MINIATURE QUILTING

I've been in need of a project to keep my hands busy and my mind occupied. Since I'm still waiting for the batting for my big quilt I decided to do some quilting in miniature.

First I made this little quilt with the scraps from the big quilt. It measures about 15 inches square.

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Then Claire wanted to do some patchwork - she made hers into a tiny pillow.

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And now I've started another - in baby sweet colors - only about 10 inches wide. It's a block called snowball. I might have to make a full size snowball quilt...

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Posted by kathymariechapman on April 01, 2018 at 11:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

HAPPY EASTER

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Posted by kathymariechapman on April 01, 2018 at 04:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

WE WENT TO PORTUGAL

The girls are on their spring break so we took a few days in sunny Portugal. I wanted to spend a nature filled vacation instead of seeing a city this time. We went to the area called Algarve - it's along the very bottom edge of Portugal. We spent our time hiking along beaches and dunes and cliffs and exploring the interesting rock formations. It wasn't warm enough to swim but we took off our shoes and the sand felt great.

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Posted by kathymariechapman on March 31, 2018 at 09:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

QUILT UPDATE

This week I sewed all my blocks together and ordered some batting. I also sewed a row of squares all around the edge. They will wrap around the quilt to make a colorful edge on the back. Brian had a trip to the US so I had some fabric ordered there and Brian just brought it back yesterday. I can't wait to get started on the quilting - of course I still haven't decided what my quilting lines will look like... 

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My backing fabric is designed by Lisa Congdon - an artist from Portland that I just looooove. 

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Posted by kathymariechapman on March 24, 2018 at 09:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Posted by kathymariechapman on March 19, 2018 at 04:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

IN A FOG

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We decided to take one last winter walk this weekend. We went to the same place as I showed in this post, but who would know it. We couldn't see a thing!

Riding on the gondola was erie - all we could see ahead and behind, above and below were the cables disappearing into the fog. As we went for our walk we could hear other people walking and a few skiers but we couldn't see them until they were ten feet in front of us. Our eyes felt tired from trying to focus and make out things in the white. It was very strange.

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Posted by kathymariechapman on March 19, 2018 at 04:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

DEAR BRIAN,

Please do not leave me home alone with the double creme.

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- your jiggly-in-the-middle wife

Posted by kathymariechapman on March 14, 2018 at 02:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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