Memorial Day

Three cheers for three day weekends! One of my friends came to town to visit and we had a blast doing...not much HA! It was very low key: brunch, dinners out, a movie, the botanical gardens and cocktails on my balcony while eating pizza. It's great to spend a weekend with a friend and just relax.

The Denver Botanic Gardens are beautiful (I promise to post pictures later). With all the rain we have had lately and then a few quick days of sun, everything was in bloom, including a giant section of Lilacs. Lilacs are some of the best smelling flowers ever and I could have sat there smelling them pretty much all day. The only down side to the gardens was that it was a little overcast when we left the house so I didn't have on sunscreen...it's not a bad burn but I defiantly "got sun".

The weather man is calling for 90s by Thursday so it appears that Memorial Day is going to live up to its reputation as the unofficial start to summer. Bring it on!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day!

Bobby Visits

My uncle Bobby was in Colorado for a couple weeks and spent a few nights with me. On his last night in Denver (before his late flight) we took in a Rockies-Mets game. It was a warm night, our seats were great (thanks to our law firm!!!!) and the Rockies won!

Odds and Ends

A few odds and ends...

I finished my elephants, here are the finished products, they now reside with two (in my opinion very lucky) little girls.



Amanda's Bachelorette Party - Vail
A few quick pics from the weekend. Amanda and her bridesmaids - Megan, Sally and Tammara

Let the party begin!

Vail, April 30, yup, last day of April and it was snowing...

Home For Easter

I went home for Easter, it was great to see my family and some of my friends. It was too short of a trip to see everyone (sorry Boston peeps!) but at least I got in some Vermont love.
I got to visit Grandmommy.

I enjoyed some delicious Switchback at PK's


A few "shots" from Easters




And some Easter Art

Where do people find the time?

I have been so bad about blogging because, well, I've been very very busy. I can't believe it's already May, I fell like it should still be March. Luckily today is a rainy day, a true rainy day so my motivation to get to the gym was non-existant so I'm trying to catch up on the blog. Denver's version of a rainy day is really more clouds with a few showers here and there. Last night a storm came in complete with thunder, lightning and pouring rain; if I didn't know better I might think I was in Vermont! It's also been raining ALL day which is good because while the mountains are at 160% of normal snow pack, Denver is beyond dry.

Weekend Wrap-Up

I finished the weekend with a nice long walk around Wash Park, 70* and sunny, everyone was out. There are always lots of dogs at the park and today I saw a few worth noting. Like the one pulling its owner on a skateboard, if you have to run the dog and don't want to run yourself, that's an option. Or the dog with the kite string tied to its collar, because if you're a kid holding that string all afternoon can get tiresome and you have this dog so......I also saw the little dog being "walked" around the park in a bicycle basket a la Toto. Ahhhh, sights at the park.

This weekend I moved out of the ski condo, I've found a home for most of the things that I brought back.

This weekend has been very sewing focused. Last week I made this little guy.

I still have to attach his ears. Yesterday I made a friend for him in the opposite fabric so he's green with polka dot ears. I hope two little kids like these because they took me a lot of time!













Last week these yummy fabrics arrived in the mail.


I bought these to make pillows for Grandmommy. I didn't quite finish but I made three of the four I was planning to make. The first one is an envelope pillow with piping I made of the same fabric of the smaller pillows.




I was hoping to make a bolster pillow out of the blue fabric but I guess that will have to be a future project.
They do look nice on my bed but I'll be bringing them to Grandmommy for hers. She likes pillows more than anyone I know!

Ski Season

Well, my ski season is officially over. I cleaned out the condo today, did some cleaning and came back to Denver to figure out where to put all my ski stuff in my apartment. Grand totals for the season:
Days skiing: 20 (Keystone:11, Breckenridge:5, A-Basin:1, Beaver Creek:1, Vail:2)
Total Vertical Feet: 343,602
Just about time to make the down payment on next year's pass!