This whole idea of posting a "work in progress" does not work well for me.  Why?  Because many of my "creations" are spur of the moment, I want it done NOW projects.  This one, for example, I saw a scarf at a thrift shop, brought it home, and decided last night that Seed could use a new dress. 

This dress is actually only half of the scarf, so maybe the "in process" can be what I do with the other half!!!  Matching pants/shorts/skirt, or maybe a bonnet?

(My not-so-willing model -- Yes, she did wear it today!)

Math lesson, or child labor?

Well, I suppose if we were receiving the profit, we would need to examine this further.  Since we are not, we call it a math lesson.  Speedy counts out the pennies, arranges them in rows of 10,  then skip-counts by 10 before rolling (mini-muliplication).  He even enlists Sprout's help to roll! 

 

These are all pennies from their piggy banks. 

When we began, Speedy wanted to donate it all to the church, so they can "send more people to go tell people who don't know Jesus".  He has been donating any change he finds. 

However, he received his first gift-card this Christmas, and we did let him pick and make his own purchase.  He enjoyed that, and now wants to donate half of his change, and save half to buy toys. (I see a nice introduction to division coming!)

Of course, Speedy has NO concept of the value (or lack of) of his money.  Now that he has counted several hundred pennies, he has "lot's of money" to replace laptops when he breaks the screen, or to buy people real Mustangs for their birthdays! LOL

I was making a transformer poster. At the bottom, it shows you who is allowed to look at the top and who is not. First of all, there is the girls, which aren't allowed to look at the top of the poster because girls don't like transformers and fighting. It says that boys are, and boys only are allowed to look at the top because they like transforers and fighting, but some boys don't.















I wrote on my poster that I have transformers at my house, that is the favorite thing in my life. I want it to be the only thing I have. There is nothing on the back, so I wrote a big X to let them know. I wrote all about transformers so that if some boys don't know, they can look at it and learn about the guns and stuff. Well, I accidentally made a mistake: I made Optimus Prime be the smallest one, by mistake, it was supposed to be Bumblebee who was the smallest of the Autobot group, and I had to make Bumblebee be the biggest one because then people would be thinking there was three Autobots, but I only know 2: Bumblebee, the Buggy Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the twins, but I didn't make the twins yet. Maybe I will put them on today. Today I will make them, but when I make them, they willl probably look like the real ones, but I can't usually make the cars that similar, but I know I will today. Today is the day that I will make them finished, but maybe not. But today or tommorow I will go somewhere with only boys and I will show them everything about it, about fighting and transformers, when I am done.
I made this because transformers are my favorite. The End.

Ok, so it's been a while ... not that there has been a shortage of projects, but finding the time to download pictures and post them has been used otherwise.  But I am making it happen tonight, so here goes...

WRITER'S CRAMP?

100 circles in pencil, followed by 100 circles in marker...

Check back next week (or the following week) to find out more ... guesses are welcome!

QUILTS

  the boy's room, if you could say it had a color scheme, would be green and orange, so here is the plan for quilt #1: it is in greens and black , and here is my plan for quilt #2: it will be in oranges and black

LEFTOVER SCRAPS

I guess in an attempted "spring cleaning" of my sewing area, I decided that Seed needed a new dress to wear to Sprout's birthday party....quilting squares from a bed quilt and edging from clear bibs made a very colorful dress!  It was perfect with her grey wool pants with the felted flowers and the checkered crib shoes daddy bought!  [Mommy forgot to take a pic :( ].

Sprout Turns 2!

A Spring Walk to the Park

The weather has been getting warmer, and today we took time out for  a walk to the park.  Seed was the only one who got a free ride! She sported her new sunglasses, but decided it was still best to sleep for the duration of the walk. The see-saw produced a lot of smiles (yes, there has been a fine line between play and praise for Speedy lately) ... but it was the monkey bars that stole their attentions.

Speedy just learnt to hang upside down ... first time ever was on a swinging trapeez bar, believe it or not!  How could this possibly make me nervous?  I enjoyed watching, and snapped up these photos.  I was just thankful that Sprout was uninterested, and wandering around, exploring!

Snowman Fun!!

     I'm not usually the one to want to go out in the winter, but i was so happy the snow was sticky. Finally at the end of the afternoon, Speedy and I went outside to build a snowman. It was loads of fun and I really mean loads (snow can get pretty heavy). It took plenty of strength to move the bottom, and to put the middle in place. That part finally came to a end (Phew........). Now the real fun came, putting the buttons eyes, eyes, nose, and that magical black hat on (sorry to say, but he didn't dance). We were now done, but wait! There are 3 red buttons and 1 each of the other colors. Leroy (or Hattie) looked angry. He was missing a mouth! so there went the red buttons. About a half-hour later, I took plenty of pictures. :)