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I have SO MUCH to update with that I feel like I need an introduction...

We have been sewing, we have been planning, we have been catching up with friends, we have been generally flitting about.. there is so much new happening right now, that I can't help but feel that September has arrived with a razor's edge to shear off summer and begin clean.

Tomorrow Mat starts his new/old job. He will be running back and forth between there and the school he is leaving for 2 weeks to be sure that both are prepared for the new semester.

Tomorrow Gid begins preschool.

Orders are shipping out. I also have new things planned that will be sewn then sold.

I missed the piggie. I nearly cried when I realized, but it seems there will be other editions, so I'm saved. I need her. The trend in cavity-inducing precious animal dollies is hurting me.

The rest will be in posts stacked on top of this one, but we'll throw in a bit of Buns for good measure...



( More floof, Sea Monkeys and a meme )

How I spent my summer vacation...

This is all in the past few weeks, actually. First, we made the short trip to the Academy of Natural Sciences here in Philadelphia. Dinosaur bones and dead animals! Gid loved it. Also, there is currently a live butterfly exhibit which was beautiful. My full Flickr set is here.

The natural follow up was Walking with Dinosaurs! It was a totally ridiculous and amazing animatronic dinosaur show at the Spectrum. Life-sized animated dinosaurs walked around and ate and fought and lots and lots of little boys screamed in delight. I'm pretty sure I did too. There was a surprising amount of information packed into the show, which was neat. The brachiosauruses were my favorites, Gideon's was the T. Rex.
Pictures!

A video! (The dark bit is me turning to pretzel-filled-mouth Gideon.)

Just this weekend we went fruit picking at a local orchard. We only picked raspberries since Gideon was tiring before the tractor came to bring us to the peach and apple trees, but that gave us plenty of time to visit the chickens and ducks and goats and pick up lots of goodies at the farmers market. We had perfect weather, it wasn't too crowded and was exactly the sort of way I wanted to see summer off.
The rest of those pictures are here.



I daresay we are now officially ready for fall...