Wedding! Wedding! Wedding!

There's nothing like how a wedding tends to take over everything in its vicinity, and it's not even your wedding. This weekend has been all "Wedding! Wedding! Wedding!", and I did not even attend the said wedding of one of my partner's cousins--they were doing a child-free wedding, which is their right, but my jetlagged children are already in a strange place at a strange time zone with all kinds of strangers, and I was not comfortable also having them babysat by a stranger for 10+ hours while I hung out up a mountain at a winery with my partner but, let's be honest, mostly just more strangers.

So while everyone else went to this wedding, I stayed back with the kids, in a strange home with not many toys, no car, the kids upset because they want Daddy, from 3:30 pm until everyone got home after midnight. I am so grumpy about it that I can barely stand myself, ahem, so you can image how pleasant I was to my partner, who woke up with an absolutely raging hangover and therefore did not immediately leap into active parenting to make up for his audacity of Going Out And Having A Good Time.

I'm not even going to do the thing where I tell you that normally I'm super fun and not at all usually a bitter bitch to my partner and everyone else around me. Honestly, I don't really think I'm that fun, and I'm pretty bitchy in general.

Anywho.... Boy, I went to some great garage sales on Saturday! I don't know if they just have more awesome stuff in California than they do elsewhere, or if, since garage sales aren't as popular here, they don't get picked over like they do elsewhere, but man, did I score!

A Nightmare Before Christmas shirt for a T-shirt quilt:

Lots of rubber stamps, and a white ink pad! How much do I love the sun stamps, and the Christmas tree? I love them a lot.

I don't actually do screen printing, but I did order some stuff from Dharma Trading Company for freezer paper T-shirt fabric stenciling (It will be waiting for me when I get home--whee!!!), and this would work for that? Elsewise, it's just awesome:

I was so excited to spy these little wooden embroidery hoops, because I've recently read about stretching great fabric in them and hanging them on the wall as art. Dinosaurs are possibly going in here:

Matching embroidered pillowcases for pillowcase dresses:

Dinosaur temporary tattoos! The sweeties warmed the cockles of my heart by both insisting that their tattoos be placed on their left ankles, "just like Momma." If only my tattoo was awesome like a dinosaur:

A quilted pillowcase, 20"x26". It has a commercial tag, but it still looks hand-quilted to me. Sweatshop?

And an awesome pair of red Converse sneaks for the big kid for next summer, and this great book called From the prairie: A child's memories, which has patterns for cloth dolls and, get this, clothes for the cloth dolls. Righteous.

The kids were invited to the rehearsal dinner, and they were, of course, charming and well-behaved. I, of course, was a joyless and bitter bitch who ate and drank everything I could reach--gotta get my money's worth, you know, since I'm not going to the wedding. Did I mention that my children aren't invited?

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