Hi Friends,
I haven't been here in forever but it feels like a covid19 quarantine diary is something future me and my people might be interested in so here I am.
Yesterday I made two pleated face masks with sewn in filters for my mom and dad. Today was spent in the spiraling confusion/conviction that I had not made the BEST possible masks. Hours were then spent researching what the best diy face mask is. I watched eight billion youtube videos and read a few hundred articles discussing everything from filters, to washing, to donating, to fabric selection and then I sat at my sewing machine with a dull headache and sipped diet coke.
Eventually I made a mask. Then I made Marc try it on. Then I made him listen while I explained the reasoning behind all of my decisions concerning fabric and filters, washing, donating and ALL THE THINGS. I complained extensively about all the conflicting information out there. I noted a few improvements I could make to the fit so I went back to my machine and made prototype 3.
Marc tried it on and we agreed it is pretty good.
In an effort to save myself from a repeat of today I cut out a bunch of fabric for that pattern so I will have to sew those masks tomorrow. Now I'm sitting in bed looking at more face mask videos and questioning everything.
It occurs to me that this might be the lamest post I have ever written. Forgive me. This was an impulse write. Tomorrow will be better.
Love,
Shelley
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Mini Pismo Beach Vacation
Monday, June 12, 2017
Hi friend. So glad you stopped by. It's been awhile and I've missed you. Back in April my family took a tiny road trip to Pismo Beach and I want to tell you about it and share some photos because sharing is good and also because the older I get the more miserable my long term memory gets. If I don't record what happened I'm likely to forget. Am I the only one?
We actually decided to take this trip at the last minute and since I didn't have a lot of time to research and plan we hired a travel planner to help us. You guys! It was the best decision ever! I'm including a link to the planner we used, Get Globetrotting, because her prices are super amazing and she came up for stuff for us to do that we totally would have missed on our own.
We started out driving down the gorgeous California coast to our Bed and Breakfast in the tiny town of Arroyo Grande.
Bah! Do you remember those days when you were a teenager and your friends seemed so important and your family was just always there? I can remember coming home from college being so excited to see my friends and my parents being like, "Wait! WE'VE missed you..."
Anywho. We went to a fun restaurant.
And then the next day we went to Morro Bay. The weather was a bit cool and overcast, but it was perfect for beach combing, and boy was that beach ready to be combed! There were hundreds of sea stars washed up on the sand, and the most interesting rocks we'd ever seen. It was treasure hunting at it's finest.
Crazy right?!?!
And the slices of cake were like a whole cake. We could barely make a dent in them.
We spent the rest of the day wandering the shops at Pismo Beach and playing games back at our inn.
Jonathan arrived that night and the next day we got up early to ride dune buggies. This was a suggestion from our travel planner; I wouldn't have thought of it myself.
Waiting for our ride out to the dunes. |
This both scared me and made me laugh. Ellie was really the only one who would stay still long enough for me to get a good photo.
After the buggies we spent some time poking around the beautiful San Luis Obispo Mission. It was established in 1772.
It was amazingly beautiful! The acoustics in the chapel were so good, and the kids must have been on a choir field trip because they were very talented and we felt like we were being blessed with a little sacred experience to get to hear them in a place where so many have come to worship for so long. I took a little video for you
All of it was almost obscenely extravagant, but man it was fun house to spy inside! I was maybe a little obsessed with the indoor swimming pool. Or a lot obsessed. It's just so sparkly!
Who wouldn't want to swim there! I'm adding it to my bucket list right now, filed under "nearly impossible but it's worth dreaming."
Let's end with a video of their floppy goodness.
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