Every year the Live Oak Brewery here in Austin hosts a birthday party for themselves. I’m pretty sure I have been to every single one since I’ve been living here. I’m pretty sure they were the first local brewery I discovered and I fell in love with their hefeweizen and their seasonal primus and treehugger. Anyhow they generously give out free beer at the event and sausage wraps (yum), and live music. It’s too good to miss, hence why we come every year. I got confetti thrown all over me in the beer line that was kind of funny. It’s a party after all.
So I’m being quite brave this week and showing off my new swimsuit! I am just really loving all the one-piece suits for sale this season. I purchased this one back in February and have been determined to wear it since. I have a couple of times but the swimming just never seemed to happen or it was at night and I couldn’t flaunt my stuff. Kidding! So finally I had a swimming event (at the greenbelt in Austin) and even though it was cloudy I got in the water and it was lovely! I also got to wear my salt water sandals in the water for the first time. Fear not-they retain their cuteness even after being wet and then drying. They may stretch out a tad though so make sure to make allowances for this if you plan to get yours wet. (I am now wishing I had purchased the kids size 2 instead of size 3. Yes this 5 ft cutie has feet to match-women’s size 4.5!
I was thinking the other day how it’s been a loooong time since my sewing machine has been out. A few days after that I was biking home (the weather was lovely) past my favorite spot on campus (I will try and take pictures one of these days). Seriously it’s such a cute spot! Its this flat spot on top of a hill that you can take stairs to get to and if you saw it you would say this is where we picnic. Anyhow the combination of perfect weather and biking by my favorite picnic spot I thought I must have a picnic and soon! And what does one need for a picnic, well that’s easy, a picnic placemat (and the wanting to sew comes full circle). I raced home and pulled out my favorite sewing book, Simple Sewing by Lotta Jansdotter. I have had this book for years and I adore all the of the projects, they are so modern, simple, and easy to sew. I have also wanted to make the picnic placemat for years and finally I was going to do it. This was good timing on my part because the pattern suggests you make 2 at once and I happened to have a friends birthday party that weekend. Perfect! I finished both of them in about 3 hours split between 2 days. Isn’t it great what you can do when you put your mind to it!?
