Weekend Update,Pagoda style!

Our Hancock Fabrics is going out of business and having a big sale. I grabbed these spectacular prints for future projects at 40 % off!
It is from their own vintage inspired line called "kids at play".
If you click to enlarge(any image)you will see these little sailor babies are actually angels.
I plan on using the top red print for a short dress for Crooked Halo out of this vintage Butterick pattern.
She already has one dress created for her out of this line of fabric. The little children on her dress are having a dress-up teaparty. She finds a grownup irony in sporting this print. I love how she has styled it here with pearls,pink fishnets and yellow docs!
My "Oldest Delight" is quite a storyteller and never has a problem coming home and sharing minute details of her day(please ,dear creator, never let this change!).Just this week,she came home with a riveting tale of Edgar Allen Poe's life story.What amazing fodder his real life was for his writing.
The 4 closest females in his life all met a consumptive doom.Shortly after his father died (after first leaving his family),his beautiful mother was hired by an Ohio theatre to play Juliet,she died before his very eyes in the theatre,never setting foot on the stage. The final female lost to this beautifully gory and romantic desease was his last wife,a 1st cousin ,and only 15 years old.For her he wrote the beautiful poem :Annabelle Lee. My own child ask me if I knew of this poem. "Why ,yes ,was my answer",and I can play you Marrianne Faithfuls version,of it from my Halloween CD mix from Amanda,the next time we're in the car (phew, thanx Amanda!)!I am sharing this anecdote of my little story teller to demonstrate the kismet that takes place in my life. A couple of days later,we recieve a phone call from a well respected local director. My daughter has been recommended to read for a new play called "Sidhe" or she. It is about 3 female generations of Irish storytellers in contemporary America,and the how the grandmother may or may not be Queen of the Fairie.
...and naturally her mother has already played that very role.
It is I ,Titania ,in the flowing diaphanous yellow,with Downtown Dallas as my kingdom.For the audition she must tell a story,wish my baby luck!


In other Fairy child news,I was able to spy on my littlest changeling in dance class. Here she is in motion.
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**********************FFLE ...******************************
**********************STEP !******************************




In news of our pursuit to continue to appeal to my husbands aesthetic AS WELL as my own,we have new dining room chairs!You might remember the old ones, I loved the different colors ,but the Hub had dubbed them "too country" for sometime. I am CRAZY for the neutral replacements,a simple and sleek honey caramel colored leather from Danish Inspirations,bought for a song at their own "closing this store" sale!



Lastly,if you ever wonder how I fuel my busy, darling ,child filled days and hippie-haven ,song filled nights. Heres my secret weapon:
A Choklit' Peaunut Butter Yogurt Shake otherwise known as JDP'S Dinner !!!
The recipe:(less than 350 calories)
A cup of skim milk
A cup of plain yogurt
A heaping tablespoon of Peanut butter
A heaping tablespoon of cocoa powder
2 Splenda packets(don't forget those)
Lots of Ice cubes
Combine ,blend and INDULGE!!!!!
Have a lovely week,I hope to be posting more regular soon!