Fourth of July fun

The party was at our house this year! We are lucky enough to be able to view the City of Redding's fireworks from our own backyard, so after a BBQ and pot luck, everyone (all 26 of us this year!) rolled out to the driveway to watch the big booms... We combined Tony's birthday with the festivities this year and all his cousins from the Bay Area came to join him. The next day we wandered over to Turtle Bay to check out the new Lego exhibit. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any pictures of the cool sculptures, but we have a few from the 'building room' they had set up next door. There are big bins with Legos of all types for you to build your own masterpiece. Very fun!!

All Done!!

It is finished!! The butterflies have made it to their new home! Meagan has been waiting very patiently for me to finish binding it- every morning she'd come into the office/sewing room and ask if it was done yet. This is my first time using rick rack and I love how it turned out.

The butterflies are all hand appliqued with machine embroidery down the middle and for the antenna.