Apples, Pears, Paint (& A Swap! but that doesn't really rhyme)

Well, it finally happened late Thursday night. I was able to finish an apron. I just love this fabric by Alexander Henry.

I decided to make this apron a little girly by adding some ribbon to the pockets. The ribbon is from a baby blanket that a friend had knitted for Henry. Once he was able to undo the ribbon from the blanket I stashed it away for a rainy day ... or apron - ha!

I don't think I had mentioned that we finally got our foyer painted ... I love the color - Benjamin Moore - Crimson. It's such a warm and feel good color. We had pained our dinning room Crimson first and liked it so much we decided to paint our foyer the same. So glad we did. It definitely makes us happy. If you care to take a peek at what it looked like before look here. Typical to this house we had two layers of wall paper; one of which had been painted over. Have I ever mentioned that the ceilings are wall paper painted over? That will not a project we will tackle for a really, really, really long time. As Henry would say 'I think we will have to save a gazillion of dollars' for that one. Of coarse he is usually referring to something Spiderman or Backyardigans ... it's all relative, right?

I forgot to mention a little magazine swap that I signed up for that you might be interested in. Lisa from Periwinkle is hosting it and the details are here. And those who have signed up so far are here. It seems like such a neat idea - the deadline to sign up is midnight Sept. 7th. (she's on the other side of the Atlantic so be aware of the time difference). Hope you have a great weekend!