July Babywearing Contest and a fun summer afternoon

Have you entered this contest yet? Get out your red, white and blue and start taking pictures! I know some of you have slings that would be great for this, and you can win a pair of BabyLegs! This was our Saturday afternoon activity, and this first picture is my entry:

We are sitting on the steps of the red caboose in the Botanical Gardens in Clemson. We were headed there because it's such a pretty green place with lots of space for Suzi to explore, and when I saw the red caboose I thought, that's perfect! Somewhere there's a newspaper clipping picture of me playing in that same place when I was four. My mom used to take me there to play.

Daddy wears Suzi too!

After a few minutes we decided to take Suzi to the largest grassy field we could think of: Bowman. She walked...

And walked...

And walked.

We walked up to the Military Heritage Plaza and Suzi met the cadet statue.

Did you know those are Colonel Whitley's footprints?

(In case you were interested)

We left and went to Subway. We ordered Suzi a sandwich but she mostly ate strawberry yogurt and drank water. Then she got a second wind.

This makes me proud of Clemson. It is a start!

Poor little squirrel without a tail. I wonder what the story is there! Apparently they are sterilizing squirrels on campus and it makes their tail fur fall out temporarily, but this little guy is like a bobtail squirrel! This was as close as I could get for a picture; he was giving me the stink eye.

This is what we ended up with by the time we pulled into our driveway...

Good night!

BabyLegs Sew Golden Contest!

(And now for a completely shameless advertisement for work, which does, in fact, interest me personally so I don't feel bad putting it on here:)

From June 1 - July 15, 2008, BabyLegs is holding a contest. Specially marked "Sew Golden" packages of BabyLegs will be randomly stuffed with prizes. The grand prize is a fabulous trip to the home of BabyLegs in Seattle, Washington! In addition to the grand prize, ten companies including Moby Wrap and See Kai Run will be giving out goodies! Read all about this exciting contest here.

We don't know what awesome prizes may be lying beneath the wrappers of our BabyLegs at Jennie G's, but we do know some customers will win a buy-one-get-one-free pair! Jennie G's is also holding a little drawing of its own. One lucky customer will win a Sky Gift Set! This adorable set of three is pictured above.

Here's how you can enter to win:

You'll get one entry for every pair of BabyLegs you purchase during the contest period. You can also earn entries by helping to spread the word! Mention Jennie G's and the Sew Golden contest in your blog for two entries, or email this info to five of your friends (in the area, please) for one entry! (Limit of five total entries for the emailing option.) Do just one or all three--it's up to you. If you blog about it, email me the post link or leave the link in the comments. For emails, please CC a copy of the forward to me (jenny.harmon@anmedhealth.org). This contest is only open to customers in the brick-and-mortar Jennie G's Boutique of Anderson. But don't worry! If you're out of town here's a list of other participating retailers (some of them e-tailers).

Good luck!

Excellent day for sewing

Today I did a lot of sewing, mostly on little Christmas gifts. My mom taught me how and eventually I'll post pictures and tell more about them, but not now. There are people getting them for Christmas who may be reading. I also worked on Suzi's quilt. The quilt has been a long and sometimes tedious process but I've enjoyed it, except for mitering the corners on the binding. The fabric is so thick in the corners that I'm having trouble getting it folded in correctly, and I'm not even sure I'm doing that right! The book I'm using simply said "fold the fabric in to make mitered corners." (Wow, thanks a bunch!) So if anybody has tips for me, I'd love to hear them. The corner I've already attempted to finish wouldn't fold into a 90 degree angle, so it came out puckered and won't lay flat. If I do the others and they end up better, I'll probably rip that one out and do it over. I always keep a seam ripper handy because I have to use it every 15 minutes! Hopefully Suzi won't hold uneven corners against me as this is my first real quilt. I'm hoping to finish it in a couple of days and I'll post pictures then!

Here are our latest pictures of Suzi. She's sporting her adorable BabyLegs in red and white stripes, which I think are my favorites so far. She has about ten pairs but these are perfect for Christmas! She went to our local Hallmark store with her grandparents wearing these and one of the ladies told her she looked like an ornament! Ha ha! She kind of does.