a necklace for mallory

one of my goals this last christmas was to make a present for everyone. ha. not doing that again. that is pretty much why i was mia the last couple of months.

this was pretty easy to make, just put a piece of paper on the back of a glass wafer with glue (i used diamond glaze, but i think you could get away with mod podge) and then seal the back with diamond glaze. the pendant bails were rather hard to find, i had to go online to find them. i bought from kristenkrafts.etsy.com-- she had kits, which included the diamond glaze and instructions. lots of fun. i tried the bottle cap magnets, too.

frozen seed pods

 

 

 

noticed these in our front garden this morning. they used to be forget me nots in warmer weather.

such inspiration everywhere, why am i not making a quilt?

check out this quilt.

soon...

little miss mal

debating whether or not to put this on my wall.

apple of my eye

came home to find this waiting for me, courtesy of the hubby. how sweet.

so you can see the i. it wouldn't stay up so you could see it.

knotty dollies

excepting miss mal doesn't like it when i call them naughty. sleep dollies are what we usually call them now. very easy to make, got the pattern from the book, nature babies, which came from my library (once i realized that you could get craft books from the library, there was no stopping me. i requested amy butler's little stitches, the anna maria horner book, and the sock and glove animal book. yeah for taxes.)

in case you couldn't tell from the pictures, all four limbs have knots on the ends.

I yelled at a pickle because I'm NOT crazy.

a word game to pass the time. details here.
that was mallory's. mine was I ran over a fireman because I'm cool like that.

isaac's: I danced with a banana because I'm sexy and I do what I want.
doug's: I danced with my science teacher because that's how I roll.

periodic table

 

picture of miss mal when she was a baby. the periodic table is still up, but now she is in a twin bed. i'll let you know in 20 years if she is a chemistry genius.

oh and this picture was taken with our old film camera. and the film waited around for awhile to be developed. makes me oh so thankful for digital cameras.

a quote for today

My aunt posted this on her blog today.

"I would be most content if my children grew up to
be the kind of people who think decorating consists
mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~Anna Quindlen

i rather enjoyed it.

CHANGE

i voted. but i must say, for two candidates who are saying they are for change, they missed. i mean, how long are we going to be repressed under an ancient system of measurement? i was cooking the other day, and i couldn't remember how many teaspoons were in a tablespoon (3) or how many tablespoons were in a cup (16). when i worked in a lab, i was surprised how easy the metric system was to work with...

anyway, until a candidate supports switching over the metric system, that's when i will put their bumper sticker on my car. or a sign on my lawn.


p.s. here is a great site for easy conversions. but if we had the metric system, you could do it in your head.