When she first got here, I taught her how to sew the Mendocino sundress, and over the course of our visit, she made 4 of them:
...and of course this one:
The children's bathroom mirror looks like this within 5 minutes of cleaning it. Fabulous.
I got her an identical fly-fishing box to the one I have, for use as an embroidery kit. I got her set up with all of her favorite colors of embroidery floss and a proper sharp needle (she'd been embroidering back in NY with all six strands of floss and using a blunt-tip yarn needle -- perseverance, I tell you!) We cut out these cute little thread bobbins to organized our floss.
Rachel's beautiful finished project (an embroidered pillow -- yet to be stuffed) for a friend back in NY:
These embellishments are from Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection
by Aimee Ray
During our visit there were fun summertime drinks:
Baby Mocktails
Berry Breakfast Smoothies
A whole lot of cooking and baking:
Perusing cookbooks
And swimming as much as possible:
We love you Rachel, and we hope you can come back to visit with us again!
