Pillows and a Poem

Finished a sewing project tonight after hubby went out to hear a friend's band and the kids were asleep:

It's the Semi-Simple Pillows from Bend the Rules Sewing. These were fun and fairly easy to do.

My girl had taken to the old pillows with red permanent marker one afternoon, so this project was a necessary one. Which was okay, because I was tired of the old pillows anyhow. So thanks, Smoochie! (For fabrics I used ones found at the thrift store, and some brown corduroy from JoAnn.)

I picked up this little booklet at the coffee shop the other weekend. It's a collection of poems from the Laurel Poetry Collective featuring local writers. Here's one by Deborah Keenan, a favorite:

She Loves All Twenty-Six

The alphabet rules, wears its crown

Of glory. She gets fourteen lines,

Fourteen letters? She thinks so, in honor

Of form and feeling, fidelity, ferocity.

A for Aisling, for Aaron.

B for Brendan, for brothers, for beauty.

C for Cordelia,

J for Joe,

M for Molly, for music, for moon,

S for Sarah, for summer, for sun,

for Stephen, my love.

Then Ocean, then Trees, then Friends,

Add Love, add Horizon, add River.

Add L for letters, and N for need them all.