I Love Thursday #69
This is our 69th post of things we love for the week. We post these loves each Thursday along with LeeAnna on her blog at Not Afraid of Color. Several additional friends also share on a weekly basis – be sure to check them out. You will surely find something to inspire you.
Love #1
GE TV commercial. There is the cutest commercial for a GE dishwasher. Dad and Baby Girl are eating in the kitchen. Mom walks in and says, Where is your sippy cup? Dad says it’s in the dishwasher still drying. Mom whips it out and hands it to Dad in a flash. Baby Girl has been drinking her milk this whole time out of a glass measuring cup. Sure Dad, good vessel choice for a beverage for a toddler. They never drop anything or throw things on the floor. And more to the point of the commercial, apparently other people take things out of the dishwasher that are not dry! GE has an ‘enhanced dry’ feature on their dishwasher with just the push of a button. Our ‘enhanced dry’ feature is me, and Sue has to hear me complain about it each and every time I unload the dishwasher. Aren’t you sorry you’re missing that?! ~smile~
Love #2
Tracie from Richford Streams. Tracie has been writing a series about “Why I Quilt” in 2019. Her recent post really resonated with me, and I asked her if I could share it on here. You can find her whole post in the link shared, along with her first post in the series. Here is Tracie’s list about “Why Make a Baby Quilt:”
- Making a quilt is a labor of love. Even a fast project like this one takes time that could be spent elsewhere. So, the most important reason to make a quilt is the desire to blanket someone with your love.
- You can probably buy a quilt for less money than it costs to make a quilt from quality materials. However, when you make a quilt, you can customize it, choosing colors and prints that bring delight.
- New moms or grandmas often make a quilt as they anticipate a baby’s arrival. The process of making a quilt helps pass the time spent waiting for Baby with a creative, purposeful activity.
- Newborns generally like to be swaddled in a blanket and cuddled, especially during chilly winter days and nights. Older babies often lie on a blanket to play.
- A baby blanket is small, so it makes a great first quilt project. And a baby doesn’t care if seams don’t match or the quilting stitches are uneven. They simply feel the love of a person holding them or covering them to keep them warm.
This so succinctly summarizes exactly why we quilt. Baby quilts have really been our focus although we have shared the love in many larger sizes. Tracie and both of us hope that this series leads others to give quilting a try!
Love #3
A little Mermaid! My sweet friend, Barbara, of A Snowball’s Chance fame sent along this adorable mermaid sleepsack outfit for Addison back when she was just Baby Girl. We finally got a chance to put Addison in this sweet outfit and take a picture. This deserves it own special shoutout since Addison looks so darn cute in this, doesn’t she? More pictures in the slideshow below (of course!), and many thanks to Barbara. ~smile~
Love #4
Baby hat! Chris from Chris Knits Sews sent along a little knitted hat for Addison. Luckily enough, Addi was over visiting the very next morning so I snapped a cute picture of her in it while grandma was taking her out of her carseat. Model material she wasn’t exactly, but you can see that the hat fits her! What you cannot see or feel is how soft the yarn is. Thank you so much Chris!
Love #5
Photo ops are boundless now that there are two of them. Unfortunately, I cannot show you those pictures right now. Until Bloglovin’ resolves the issue to allow for blocking followers, no more kiddo pictures. It breaks my heart, but safety first. If you haven’t already, maybe if we bombard them with that request it may have more importance. I kept the two pictures above in because they reflect such kind gifts. A certain sweet boy received this box of fun recently. Peekaboo Elmo and Clifford the Red Dog were met with great delight!
Happy Happy Thursday! See you next week with more loves. Our Linky Parties can be found by clicking the link for more quilting fun or in the sidebar of our website – check out what our friends are up to. Like/follow us on our Facebook page and share your likes/loves there. We love to see them. ~smile~
Cute mermaid sleep sack, and the hat looks fabulous. Dishwasher…..Jeff and I used to have I hated where the dishwasher was. The only cabinet that you could put dishes in was directly above the dishwasher. So I did dishes. Jeff would put them away.
that mermaid sleep sack is adorable. quilting became expensive when we stopped using clothing scraps to make a quilt, and when someone realized it was big business and wanted a big profit. My sister lived in Saudi, and when she asked the fabric shop guy if he wondered what they were doing with little bits of fabric he said holding his hands close together, “little children?”
I agree wholeheartedly on the baby quilt post! They are the best things to make. I just need to start using flannel for backings. BAB looks adorable in her outfit and of course, the hat, is too cute on her.
I completely understand why no Dom fix this week. As a matter of fact, that is why I rarely post photos of my grandkids. Hope it gets fixed soon! Love that mermaid outfit!!! and that hat is adorable!! Have a great week!
Thanks for sharing my list! The mermaid sleep sack is adorable on Addison. And I’d wear that hat—beautiful!
The mermaid sack is amazing!!! You could always come and do dishes at my house…all by hand, no dishwasher!! I do let them air dry because it is more sanitary, per my food-handler’s card back in the day!!
That mermaid outfit is fantastic! Bloglovin is just a feed, right? Like any other feed?
Hello Roseanne, I agree with every word of creating a baby quilt or any quilt. I am so glad that you did share. How fantastic and special each and every gift that Addison and Dominic received from friends are! I am delighted that you did get to share them and will miss them. I hope that Bloglovin’ gets issues resolved quickly. Thank you for sharing and have a great day!
The mermaid outfit is darling, and she looks cozy cute in it. 🙂
Mermaids, elmo and Clifford. Such great fun stuff. But no photo of Dominic. Sigh but you are so right….safety first!
That mermaid is sooo cute. I also liked the why we quilt. I wish my late husband could read it, as he always said he did not understand why I would take big pieces of fabric cut them in small pieces and then sew them back up into big pieces.
That mermaid sleepsack is so adorable! And I love the baby quilt list. I love making baby quilts- such a wonderful way to physically pass on the joy I feel for someone. And a fun chance to do something a little different for me! Have a good week!
I worry about posting photos of family also! I had my first delete of a blogger today who also emailed me (I didn’t open it). Please let us know when blogger changes the setup for blocking? I don’t use “heat dry” on my dishwasher because it costs twice the electricity so my dishes are always wet. If I can, I leave the door open to help them dry. Annoying. That baby mermaid outfit is adorable and so is the little cutie inside. I need to make more baby quilts so I can finish more quilts, quicker. Great post. mary
The Little Mermaid outfit is amazing! What fun! I love Elmo and Clifford in their box – I bet the box is a fun toy, too! I’m so sorry about the creepy followers – don’t those people have anything better to do? I’ve noticed I have followers that don’t seem to be real people (and certainly are not quilters!), and it would be nice to be able to block them!
Thank you for sharing the Little Mermaid pictures. She will grow into it in no time! And it breaks my heart that creepy mean people are allowed to continue being creepy and mean. No more pics of these two cuties is so sad. Perhaps I will just need to make the trip to visit them in person! Happy Thursday ladies!
Great gifts for Addison! I too loved the why we quilt post —i’m so bummed no more pictures of Dominic. Happy Thursday!
Thanks for giving Tracie a shout out — she is a great writer, and a good friend. Elmo and Clifford the Big Red Dog sure bring back memories!
What wonderful gifts you received. I am so sad about no more pictures…what could the Bloglovin developers be thinking???
The mermaid outfit is super cute…thanks for sharing! The why we quilt list is a good reminder for me…especially the part about it not having to be perfect [so easy to procrastinate finishing with that one]!