Girlish Things

I have had an amazing time being girly and domestic this past week.  Its hard to fit in time to do this with having a full-time job and busy evening schedules but I absolutely love taking time to myself and enjoying sewing, cooking, gardening, etc.   I've taken some pictures of a few of the fun things I've been enjoying lately so this will be more of a picture blog than anything today:

I got to visit my sister and we took my nieces and nephew out to a You Pick farm and picked blueberries.  My nephew and niece poured their bowls into my bowl and then advised me that I owed them a quarter.  Apparently their parents give them a quarter when they fill up their bowls and consolidate them.  Good thing I had quarters with me!

I ended up with a ton of beautiful blueberries:

I then decided to try out my sewing machine that my mom gave to me for Christmas last year and made my first apron:

And now that I have an apron; I decided to break it in by making some yummy blueberry muffins with the blueberries I picked:

And finally, what better way to top off a week of being girly and domestic than to go to a tea party with some really close friends??  We had some amazingly good food that we all made and devoured.......I mean daintily devoured.  There's nothing like making chicken sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, salmon sandwiches, truffles, cookies, butter tarts, pastries, and chocolates covered strawberries with eight females running around  the kitchen.  So much fun!