Normally at this time of year, I'm finishing up my corset for Flyday. I'd have been working on it since around Thanksgiving and would just be adding the final touches. By the way, Flyday is Friday, February 28 this year, and starts at Tujague's at 2 PM if any of you want to go.
This year is the 75th anniversary of Hermes. There's a much talked about exhibit celebrating their Diamond Jubilee at the Presbytere. Checking that out will be the extent of our Mardi Gras festivities this year, and not even during carnival season. Our one-month-old is way too small to be out a parades, and we are way too tired to do a big field trip like that at this point. The exhibit is up through December.
Next year, Mardi Gras might be spent trying a few family friendly day parades. Depending on how that goes, we may try bringing petite bebe to the Bywater Mardi Gras celebration, which is my new favorite way to celebrate the day. Fiance' and I went last year and had a blast. Y'all think I'm creative with costuming - I'm just phoning it in compared to most people down there!
This year is the 75th anniversary of Hermes. There's a much talked about exhibit celebrating their Diamond Jubilee at the Presbytere. Checking that out will be the extent of our Mardi Gras festivities this year, and not even during carnival season. Our one-month-old is way too small to be out a parades, and we are way too tired to do a big field trip like that at this point. The exhibit is up through December.
Next year, Mardi Gras might be spent trying a few family friendly day parades. Depending on how that goes, we may try bringing petite bebe to the Bywater Mardi Gras celebration, which is my new favorite way to celebrate the day. Fiance' and I went last year and had a blast. Y'all think I'm creative with costuming - I'm just phoning it in compared to most people down there!
The other day, when I was walking around the house holding my daughter, she seemed to notice a lithograph hanging on the wall that I'd made in college. It's black and white, which infants pick up on easily, and matted in a black frame. Although we like to think she's a genius, our one-month-old can not yet recognize anything that's going on in the lithograph. I realized, however, that doing art like that seemed to take place in another lifetime. Sure, I'm able to make things for her here and there, but to create what I think of as "fine art" is a thing of the past now, and that's okay.
There's an egg painting class happening in two weeks at the St. Tammany Art Association I'd like to try and attend, sleep/baby schedule depending. Otherwise, I'm working on a felt mobile for baby's room and contemplating onesie embellishments.
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| Random assortment of costumes from the Bywater last year |
