life, quilting, sewing, Three on Thursday

Three on Thursday: Lately

One
I’ve been desperate to start working on a Girl Scout quilt for my daughter (it’s her first year as a Daisy Scout!), but my sewing machine is not playing along. I attempted to modify some Build A Bear pajamas to fit a dragon’s tail (we may or may not have gone to buy the White Fury the day it came out last week :-)), and the fabric got jammed. I managed to get it free, but since then, the machine won’t sew anything! I’ve tried to troubleshoot myself, but to no avail. My parents, who are also my sewing machine experts, are going to come look at it this afternoon to see if we can get it going. In the meantime, hit me up on my Options post and let me know what you think I should do about the Quilt That Lingers. 🙂

Two
Speaking of Girl Scouts, it feels that most of my life for the past two weeks has been about Girl Scouts. We have been going door-to-door selling cookies, and even hitting up people at our local businesses as we do our errands, and finally my girl has reached her goal! And since I am the troop leader, I have also been registering the girls for upcoming events and preparing for our next meeting. I am tired. 

Three
I have once again turned into a KonMari tornado (this is about the third time this has happened – this time the Netflix show and my desire to make cleaning my house easier got me going), and we donated quite a few things to a local church that has a food pantry and a free shop for those in need. We are off to the library today to donate some books as well. I’m not done yet! 

Joining in with Carole this week – go over to her blog to see who else is participating! Also, my comments work now! 🙂

Girl Scouts, life

Weekend snaps

We had a really lovely weekend. It seems that the weather agreed with the calendar for once, and it truly felt like the beginning of fall – i.e. I could stand to be outside without sweating buckets. 🙂

Saturday was our first Girl Scout outing. I am a new leader for my daughter’s Daisy Troop. As a complete newbie to Girl Scouts (I never did it when I was young), it’s a bit of a learning curve. But I’m *really* enjoying planning all the meetings and scheduling outings. It’s actually fun! I often shy away from a lot of outside commitments (I think there’s a bit of Rebel in me – if you’ve read Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies), but it’s not bothering me at all to already have a bunch of meetings and weekend trips on the schedule. I think it’s because I’m secretly all about covering my daughter in patches, because if I was a Girl Scout (well, I guess technically I am now, but I don’t have a cool Daisy vest), I would want EVERY patch under the sun. Speaking of which, my daughter got her first fun patch this weekend. 

Apple Picking badge
Proud Daisy Scout

Sunday was a gorgeous day, and we went to a local park to take a little walk, and BK also enjoyed some time on the playground equipment. 

the peaceful pond

The sky was a beautiful blue, the sun was out, and the pond was peaceful. 

Lots of birds on the pond

We saw lots of birds while we were on our walk. 

yellow flowers at pond

I loved seeing all the flowers. It was like a last breath of summer. We came home refreshed and feeling full of warm (but not too warm) sunshine. We finished off the night with some s’mores!

s'mores and fire pit
pre-squish 🙂

I bought a little fire pit at Target last year that uses a camping gas tank. I bought it exclusively to use for s’mores. 🙂 We previously had a wood burning fire pit, and we never really wanted to stay out there as long as it took the log to fully burn out. With this, we can stick it on for however long we want to be out – a long time or short – and turn it back off again. I love it. It’s a game changer. And after we finished our s’mores we enjoyed sitting out with the flame on low and listening to the night creatures. It was the perfect end to a lovely weekend! Hope you all had a nice weekend, too!