The machine is still humming…

This afternoon we were all so amped on imaginative play that we decided to set up a sushi bar in the boy’s room. With remnants I’ve been sewing salmon sashimi, tuna sushi and seaweed salad. It was so entirely diverting that we might go thrifting tomorrow for more kitchen accessories and vintage fabrics. Ford also mentioned wanting his own tea set and glasses for bubble tea and a sushi cutting board with a picture of a glass of bubble tea on top. And he wants bubble tea. I think the green tea variety.

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Driving to playdate this morning with the restless boys in the back and Sake Monkey buckled into the seat between them, I realized the satisfying feeling of control that a stuffed doll offers. No matter what scenario you place them in, they remain quiet, trusting and happy.
For the past hour I’ve been drawing silhouettes for stuffed dolls. I began with a human-type but it quickly morphed into a starfish-person. Go figure. Add starfish-person notions to the thrift store list for tomorrow.

Sake Monkey

My sewing machine needed a jumpstart so I jumped onto the July Month of Softies bandwagon in the nick of time and created a sock monkey (this month’s theme) out of a pair of Damon’s old boot socks. Guess what? He doesn’t smell funny. Chas thinks he’s charming and likes to snuggle with the toy already. When he is older he might think this is amusing. Why would his mother make a toy out of used men’s socks? Really, there isn’t enough Oxy-Clean and bleach in the world…but look how cute this is:

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Want to see all of July’s pedal primates?