Dave and I have been planning our garden for this year. We are scaling down from my sorry attempts last year, and turning most of what the past owners had as a garden into just landscaping and lawn. It is just too shady to grow any veggies. Instead we are building a new tomato garden in a very sunny spot in the upper corner of the yard and planting a few very small beds of things around our asparagus bed. Which is now coming up!! Check out this very hardy stalk

I got a bunch of gift certificates for my birthday for a local quilt store and bought fabric to sew for products and also for a new quilt for the living room since the old one is looking very very tired. Here is the quilt top, trying to get a sense of how it will look in the living room:

Sam likes it! It has a lot of pink in it, hope that is okay with the hubs. But I like it, it's nice and airy. Eventually we will paint the LR a light blue so the quilt will pick up the living room color nicely.

On May 3rd, I'll be participating in the Handmade Market. I'm not doing any craft shows this year except this one. I am THRILLED to have been accepted into this event and can't wait. You can be sure that ALL of my free time between now and then will be spent sewing.