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. :)

It's been a while....

First some updates:

Christmas dress that I made (well, actually, just the pinafore) for Seed.   The plan was to be able to remove the pointsettia after the holidays, and add a tulip, but in making some hasty adjustments on Christmas Eve, the neck hole is small, and will not last much longer. 

Christmas Hats

monkey, frog, and lamb!

This is a felted wool cozy that I had made for my beverage bottle ...

Sunshine had liked it, and seeing as she broke her glass-lined Thermos, I had the perfect project for stocking stuffers!

But I know how fashion conscious  teenage girls can be, so I made one to match each of her winter jackets!

Finally, today's WIP......

another pinafore ... notice a much larger neck hole this time!

New Years!!

New years was different for us this year. My sister was over, and we stayed home. it was more like a family night, but till midnight. We played Wii and made a gingerbread sleigh.

With the gingerbread, that was a fun time. In the end, I started to eat the icing right from the tube. CasualCrafter went ahead and cut a bigger hole. I wasn't expecting it to be much bigger, but i was wrong. It was more like the whole top! Of course i didn't eat all of it, I only had a lick out of a mouth full. Our gingerbread sleigh only lasted enough for two pictures, and then it disappeared into a black hole, called the stomach.

Wii was more simple. It started with a few races on Mario Kart, and turned into a game of bowling.

As midnight came, we watched the ball drop and a couple of fireworks on Farmville,and that ended our night. It had gone by so fast! It had all been fun and games until people got sleepy.

HATTIE

Hattie was a very cool snowman. The weather was just beautiful, but when we were done, we were freezing because we stayed out too long.

I didn't know how to make snowballs. Something AMAZING happened! My sister showed me how to roll them, and that's how you make snowballs. But I wish it was summer.

My sister kept confusing me, 'cause she said there was a green button, and I didn't know there was, but then I saw the green button and I knew there was.

I wish there was a ladder for me so I could stand tall and put the hat on. But there was no such thing as a ladder to go out in the winter, but it would be cool if there was a ladder to go outside in the winter.

I had fun building the snowman, but my sister kept confusing me. Then my dad came home, and he missed the snowman, and that was just funny.

The End.

And that was the story of my snowman!