June 15, 2019 by arletelouise - 0 comments

Merge on Saturday

Inside, drafting the “little black dress”:
Outside:
Arranging the long narrow trapezoid pieces of vinyl flooring – except they go on the (white) wrong side of the circle skirt, not on the black side.
The circles were cut from a carpet square. It was decided additional triangles of vinyl flooring were needed to fill in the gaps.

June 14, 2019 by arletelouise - 0 comments

Merge on Friday

IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Northern California is presenting the 9th annual MERGE 2019 Fashion Show. FIT FOR FUTURE! Thirteen design teams will use commercial interior products donated by sponsors to create wearable, futuristic fashions. Proceeds from the event go toward student scholarships. Thais’ company, LPAS, is competing and I was asked to participate. Yay! We met at Marcie and Michael’s house on Friday to figure out how to create Marcie’s design idea.
The beginning of a circle skirt using two kinds of vinyl fabric. There wasn’t enough of one fabric so the pieces had to be patched together.
Marcie has an amazing sewing/craft room with tons of storage. I could have written an entire blog post about this room, but I leave you with just one picture:
When there isn’t enough room on the clothesline:

June 9, 2019 by arletelouise - 0 comments

Swimming on Sunday

Carson practicing what he’s learning at swim class:
Practicing another skill – how to get out of a pool. Hand, hand, elbow, elbow, climb, knee, knee:

June 8, 2019 by arletelouise - 0 comments

Bike rides

It’s been too hot to ride lately, but on Friday the high was in the low 80s so I invited the Four Seasons Westshore bicycle-interest group on a couple of rides that I’ve done before. It was windy and rather chilly at 8 am for the first ride. My neighbor Lorraine rode the 4-mile Public art ride #1:
The second ride came next: 6-mile Public art ride #2. My next door neighbor Colleen came on this ride.
On Saturday morning, Helen arrived at 8 am for a 7-mile ride to the Natomas Farmers Market. A 20-mph north wind was blowing – ugh – the tailwind part of our ride was quite nice, but the headwind part was a challenge.

The fresh spring peas were worth it!

June 5, 2019 by arletelouise - 0 comments

Sophia, Avery & Carson

Sophia and Avery have a full schedule: summer school and various camps. Lenin plots it out on a spreadsheet. The programs usually end at noon, so we have long afternoons with swimming

and cooking. Avery wanted to make the pinwheel cookies. I got all the ingredients out and asked Avery what parts he wanted to help with. As it turned out, he only wanted to put the food coloring into the dough, help cut the slices (because he wanted to eat the uneven raw dough ends) and put the sticks in. Hurray! I got to take my time and roll the rectangle into a perfect 4 x 8-inch rectangle.

Meanwhile Sophia researched online then created and practiced:

Later, Carson used a huge pool noodle to try to hit the pitch I tossed to him. He was occasionally overwhelmed by the pool noodle.