Stevens often recalled the Memorial Day weekends that he'd go with his father from their home in Summit, NJ, to the cemetery in Williamstown, NJ, and clean up around the family graves.
Yesterday I drove to DeKalb for my nephew and his wife's baby shower. My sister and her husband and my niece and her husband were there and we were so busy talking at our table (and playing baby shower games) that I didn't take photos of the three-tier cake or the cute "little sprout" cookies. But I did get a picture of C, B, and me with the I Spy quilt!
I also gave them Grandpa Blaine's [my sister's and my dad] sterling silver baby spoon from 1918.
The shower was held in the visitor center, former carriage house, of the Ellwood House Museum. Isaac Ellwood and two associates patented barbed wire. The invention made them, especially Ellwood, enormously wealthy. His granddaughter and her children bequeathed the mansion to the DeKalb Park District in 1964. I went through the exhibits in the carriage house but didn't have time to take the house tour. Next visit!
The Ellwood granddaughters' playhouse. I glimpsed a little quilt on a little bed through the window.
In the studio:
I used the Cricut in the library's makerspace to print letters for the P.E.O. convention display sign. (My home printer has very limited enlargement capability.) At home I traced the letters onto fusible web and and fused them down.
IPS = International Peace Scholarship, awarded to women from other countries enrolled in graduate school at U.S. or Canadian universities. $12,500 that can be renewed a second year.
On the design wall: 21 out of 30 stars. (I see a mispiecing: top row, second from right.)
I binged the final season of Outlander. I cried a little. Oh, Jamie! Oh, Claire! Then I watched the last two episodes of this season of Elspeth. A distraction of silliness. As I type this the theme songs of both shows are mixing themselves up in my head. I think I'd better go out for a long walk today.
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What a neat place for a baby shower! I didn't know about Isaac Ellwood. I hope they love their beautiful baby quilt. The red, black, and white stars are looking good, too!
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