Fri 23 May 2008
I promise there will be pictures over the weekend. Also pictures of Noah.
Last night, we spent a pleasant evening watching netflixed episodes of My So-Called Life. If there ever was another show that so nailed the cringe-worthy aspects of adolescence, I missed it.
I also spent it frantically sewing felt fried eggs.
You see, I know this amazingly talented group of moms. A few months ago, they all got together and did a big felt food swap. Everyone made a dozen of the same food items, two copies got sold on eBay to benefit our friend Cali, and the rest redistributed back to the group.
This time, Jen persuaded me that I should join. It wasn’t that hard to do — the food looked adorable, Noah has become increasingly interested in playing “cooking,” hand-made felt food won’t have scary lead paint or BPA-laden plastics leaching into him, and for about $10 worth of felt & shipping, he’ll get a whole creative pantry full of food.
The only bad part is that I’m supposed to mail out my set by 5/31. My goal was 2 fried eggs per family, or a total of 24 eggs. But so far, I’ve only made 4. I might change tactics, cut the next 8, and see how long it takes me to get my sewing machine set up tomorrow. However, seeing as I haven’t ever actually used this sewing machine, that may not save much time.
In other exciting news, tonight we’re going to the FIRST EVER home game of the WNBA’s new Atlanta Dream franchise!
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I am also currently Netflixing my way through My So-Called Life–in fact, disc 3 is sitting on top of the DVD player right now. The sad thing is that, even though I was past my own so-called adolescence when it was on tv, I totally identifed with Angela, but now I’m kinda sympathetic to her parents. Yep, feelin’ old.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Now I want to make felt food. Damn you and your craftiness, Liza.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Holy cow. I followed the link, and those are actual stuffed food facsimilies. I thought you were just making colorforms. Yowza. Too cute, but a lot of work. Amazing.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I was picturing two-dimensional as well, and am most impressed. Not that fried eggs are all that three dimensional even in real life, but still — stuffed fried eggs are more impressive than the circle-of-yellow tacked onto oval-of-white I had imagined.