The Other Rainbow

I love contrails. They're sort of like rainbows to me. More like rainbow-lite. By their less frequent nature (and more colorful nature), rainbows are simply more exciting and desirable to see, but still, I just love contrails. Swoosh!  Since we live fairly close to an airport, I get to see contrails often. I usually snap a few pictures with my iPhone as I walk Lois to school. Not related to home, vintage, or crafts, but they do make for pretty pictures. Here are just a few recent favorites (some in our neighborhood and some in the city).

Making Things

Last week I started making some Christmas presents, yay! Every year I tell myself I'm going to make Christmas presents, but I usually start so late that I don't get many done. I have a few things planned out, and I'm trying to keep things simple so that I actually finish them. Up first are some coasters (which I can show you because they're for someone who has her hands full with too many children to be doing any blog reading). I used some Liberty fabric, a newer print called Yoshie. This print comes in hot pink too (I bought some of that to make something for Lois), but I went for the dark charcoal grey for her coasters, and used white linen on the undersides. I should probably top-stitch them to give them more of a finished look, but I'm nervous to do it because I'm still not so great at a straight line. If the top-stitching is sloppy, then the whole thing looks sloppy to me. So I'll give that some more thought.