My weekend

This past weekend I needed to do some work around the house.

My dad built these two planters for my new herb gardens.

The first thing I needed to do was screw on the finials and prime them.

Aren't my drop clothes so classy? 

I had to repaint my front door the same day so I used that paint for my planters.

It took two coats of black paint to cover them.

I used garden webbing inside the planters so the water could go through and the soil would stay inside.

I trimmed the extra webbing off and filled them up with soil!

I decided to branch out on more herbs this year. I love going to Pike, if only my yard looked like their displays.

Right now I am leaving them on my front porch, I really like them!

This guy is full of basil, rosemary, and mint.

This one has chives, parsley, and oregano.

While at Pike I also picked up some pretty little flowers for my front porch.

I also had my sister-in-laws baby shower to go to this past weekend.

Mom and I drove down to Macon for the shower.

My mom made the baby girl an amazing vintage inspired quilt.

So sweet!

Mom hand embroidered all the pictures in the white squares.

 I also tried out my new popsicle maker!

I will be making many more popsicles this summer.

These were strawberry banana and so refreshing!

Baby Quilt!

This is the second baby quilt I have made for a friend.

The colors of her nursery are grey and yellow.  

She is having a sweet little boy.

I knew I wanted the quilt to match the nursery but it was a challenge at first to find enough fabrics that would coordinate.  Luckily, JoAnn had packages of 5x5 squares and a roll of strips in various patterns and colors of grey, white, yellow, and black.

Normally my favorite part of making a quilt is to pick out the fabrics, this time I was thankful they had packages of the colors I needed.

It also made putting the quilt together much easier because they were pre-cut.

I went with a pretty simple quilt pattern with stripes and circles. 

Boy quilts are so much harder! I am always drawn to the flowers and ruffles of little girl things.

I used the packages of fabrics from JoAnn and added some coordinating fabrics from my scraps.

Scraps are the best!

I appliqued the circles on my machine.

Here is the finished quilt!

I took the quilt to the quilt lady that machine quilted it with this pattern.

I love how it turned out! I went with a grey thread so it would show up and display the pattern.

This is the label and backing fabric.

I loved planning and putting this quilt together (with my mom's help of course) for my sweet friend.

It has been such a joy to watch her through this special time in her life.  I CANNOT wait to meet this precious boy that has been prayed for, he is going to be so loved.