what's going on...

(embarassing confession: I love the celebrity cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On". You know, the one they made right after 9/11 with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child before Destiny's Child was just Beyonce? *sigh* Don't tell my emo husband, but I have a special place in my heart for 90's pop music.)

Moving on!

I've been busy lately! I've been doing a TON of monogramming locally and getting ready to re-stock my merch in a local shop called The Monkey and the Mermaid - my sewing machine has been going full blast!

I'm super stoked about this next project- I entered an i-spy swap over at fabriKate designs! Have you seen an i-spy quilt? Well, you use fabric squares that have something on them (ice cream, airplanes, whatever) so that when you sit down with your little one, you can play i-spy on the quilt! Genius, right? Check out these 2 from Obsessively Stitching:

So cute, right?!

As you can imagine, getting a bunch of little pieces of fabric is a pain in the rear, so the swaps are a great way to get the fabric you need! You send in 200 squares (20 each of 10 different fabrics) and in a month or so, you get back 200 DIFFERENT squares! Awesome! I just bought my fabric for the swap and I don't want to show it all until I send it to Kate, but here's a sneak peek:

PICKLES!

I LOVE IT!

I'm also trying to figure out what to do with all this mess.

It was a Robert Kauffman jelly roll, but I pulled it all apart and sorted it by color because I felt like they didn't all flow together.

... and now I only like these two stacks:

Wow... it's really obvious that I'm a mom of a boy, huh?

Any ideas on what to do with it?

The last thing I want to show you is sort of a secret.

Well, it's not so much a secret as it it's just not ready yet.

I'm not going to tell you what it is.

All I'm going to say is that it has something to do with the number of followers I have creeping slowly to 100, and something to do with maybe giving one of those followers something really cute.

But that's all I'm saying.