Spring Cleaning, and a few April projects

I recently read and article in Real Simple magazine about spring cleaning. One of the tasks it told me I needed to do was to clean my light fixtures: dust the fan blades, empty the flies out of the fixtures, and wash them. It said it was especially important if there were allergy sufferers in the home. Well, there are 3 of them in mine. *sigh* So I spent a morning cleaning the light fixtures. This required the services of a ladder. I climbed down the ladder to rinse my rag out, came back and:
Lest you fail to fully appreciate this picture, I feel it important to inform all readers that he had climbed over five feet high. I could not reach him to take him down without climbing up two rungs myself. Hidden hazards of high ceilings, I guess.
Can ALL 18-month-olds climb ladders in the 60 seconds it takes their mothers to rinse a rag? Or is mine just a shining star when it comes to dangerous physical feats which demonstrate a lack of sense?

And since I never did post pictures of the completed turtle quilt for TJ, here it is:


Easter dresses for my sister's girls:


And a reversible sun hat for TJ (we are headed to the beach in May):

This was fun to make because it was so fast and so easy. I spent less than an hour on it, total. Too many of the projects I've done lately have taken days, if not weeks, so this was a nice, rewarding thing to make. And helps keep us all pumped up for beach fun!!! Let the countdown begin!

I also have a whole slew of skirts in various stages of completion, and a couple of quilts. The skirts I'm excited to finish. Warmer weather always makes me want to wear lots of them. Maybe I'll get around to posting them, and maybe you'll just have to see me wearing one. When you ask me where I got a skirt in such fabulous fabric, I'll just smile slyly. The quilts: I admit it was a trifle aggressive to start more than one at a time (they take FOREVER sometimes). I just never can resist the siren call of beautiful fabric. I'm sure more than one woman out there can relate.