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raspberry hot chocolate

sock monkies

wild wing

teenage mutant ninja turtles

This Thing We Do

This Thing We Do: Crafts. 

We're a mom and three daughters who spend our free time making crafts. Our Grandma taught us to quilt, craft, bake, sew, garden, and how to feed the cows. Now we spend our free time sewing...and we love it. 

Please enjoy our etsy store! 
Allison, Melissa, Lindsey, and Robin


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mistakes i've made today:

not reapplying the 70 spf on my nose.
cheesy beans and rice burrito from taco bell....that was no BRC.
starting the show Misfits.

let's hope i don't make too many more

g'day mate!

that's right, i'm leaving for australia on thursday! and i'm not ready at all. i still have a huge paper to write and turn in and i haven't begun to pack. what have i been doing all this time? i really have no clue.

CA has been fun. i went to irvine for lindsey and mike's engagement party. so much fun! hung out with great old friends. it was just what i needed. my last few weeks in utah were a little out of control and i-town grounded me a little bit.

i've just been running errands in danville, trying to acquire all the items on my packing list as well as getting things ready for the wedding event in august. got a new computer! (mine broke...womp) got some awesome looking keens sandals (i'm sorry if you are embarrassed to be my friend now...but they are really comfortable) and a bunch of other random things.

i probably won't update my blog again until after i get home. and it may even take longer since i'll be so busy until i get back to provo. so you'll just have to wait for pictures.

australia, new zealand, and fiji or bust!

spring is in the air

which means a lot of new things are happening!

mittens are on hiatus (mostly because i broke my sewing machine...womp).

i bought a few new swimsuits for tanning, night swimming, day swimming, trips to california, scuba certification, and of course....FIJI!

tried to go to the pool on saturday...it was a flop :/

but that didn't stop me and kerilyn from getting sunburned! we just laid out on the grass and then went to a rugby game wearing tanks and short shorts. the best.

and on our way home...we picked up another free kitten! we named her lucy. she was adorable, and very whiny. we introduced to todd and five minutes later, we were on university ave with a free kitten sign. and then we were by cafe rio, and then we finally found lucy a new home after sitting in front of walmart for fifteen minutes. i know...we're crazy.

AND i went to the tulip festival at thanksgiving point this week! carson came down and we made it a date. we used the free tickets my grandma gave me two years ago...good thing they didn't expire! keri and brandon met us there and it was so beautiful and so much fun!

tulips are Carson's second favorite flower.

cute baby geese. i love anything that is a baby.

best picture ever? alli. keri. carson.

the handsome couple. keri and brando.

carson squeezes every tulip he sees. this is not a joke. walking through the tulip festival with him takes two hours. and that's why i love him.

the art of steal

looking for a good documentary? watch the art of steal. all about the barnes collection.

barnes was such a progressive thinker. he put art from all over the world, from different times all on an equal plain. i love the way he set up his collection. in the twenties, he was saying that we're all the same--or rather, we all experience life the same. plus, he shared his collection with the working man and didn't want it corrupted by the high society. its a bummer his ideas were not carried through after he died.

"art isn't something that's separate from life. art is life."

i will have lots of art in my house. my house will be a work of art.