Fall

Thanks to my amazingly not so great digital camera here is a picture of my apple pie that was amazing! This is our last weekend before school starts. I'm ready for the change to come about though. I really love fall. I loved it even more when we lived in New Mexico. The pictures of the munchkins are from when we lived down there. I really love being able to wear cordorouy pants and long sleeve t's. I love making apple pie, soup and fresh bread for dinner. I love watching the leaves change colors.

As much as I love having my little miss home with me, I like having her in school routine. Even though the official end of summer isn't until a few weeks away, I always say goodbye to it the first day of school. So, goodbye summer, and Fall I welcome you with open arms!

Something to post

Right now I have lots of things that I'm working on, but nothing that I can show yet. Baby gifts, Christmas presents and birthday treats. I really want to try and post every day this week as part of getting back into our school routine. School starts next Monday, Ugh! I've really enjoyed having my daughter home and the care free lazy days that we had. All the traveling, the days at the pool, the projects, the not having to go anywhere if we didn't want to. I guess all good things really do have to end at some point! Here for your viewing pleasure is a set of Rapunzel felt finger puppets I made not too long ago fora friends birthday. In our house we love finger puppets, especially the Folkmanis ones. I think last count we had 47.

Moms tiles

Here is a picture of the tiles that my Mom just finished making in pottery class. She's always been one of those amazing women who just seems to pick up on crafty stuff and know how to do it, whatever "it" is, right away. I think these are amazing and I am continually inspired by her!

Finger puppet

This is my newest knitted project, a finger puppet. She's being sent as a thank you gift to an extremely special person.
I love knitted projects that only take a couple of hours to whip up. She was fun to make. I've never had to increase stitches before and I was able to figure it out. I'm always excited when I can do things by following a diagram. That's always been difficult for me. The eyes look like google eyes in the picture, but they're actually small bits of felt. It's "sew" hard sewing such itty bitty pieces of felt. It just falls apart when you stick the needle through.
For those of you waiting for your amazing buttons to come to you, I'm still waiting on a couple of people to send theirs in...you know who you are! I promise it's worth the wait, these are amazing!!

Embroidery

This is a little mini quilt I made for one of my my best pals for her birthday, hopefully she's received it by now and this isn't ruining the surprise for her;) This is my first embroidered piece. It was so much fun coloring with string! I loved doing the satin stitch and seeing it all come together. By the way if you're doing the embroidered buttons swap, please get those in!

Live, Laugh,Grow

So, where have you been you might ask? These three munchkins keep me busy. They aren't allowed to be bored over the summer, so apparently that means they need to be entertained. That's ok though, I love this time of year. Even though I'm not finishing the projects I'd like to accomplish, I'm really enjoying spending time with my kids!
I was able to accomplish something this week that I wanted to do. Here is the other skirt I made to raffle off during the classes I'm teaching at church. This one is to demonstrate the freezer paper stencil. It says Live Laugh and Grow. It's size 12 months.
I swear freezer paper stencils are one of the coolest things ever. I always feel so delighted when I figure out how to do something and then complete it!
This was the other big thing I did today. A candy gram. My BFF in Idaho makes these a lot. I had not seen one since high school when girls made them to ask boys to Sadies, but they really are so much fun to do! My Brownie troop had a swim party and bbq today.We had one Mom volunteer to help out. I wanted her to know how much we appreciated her, so I made this. I think there's a lot more of these in our future.....teacher appreciation, visiting teaching, birthdays, just because, teachers.........

Mind Meanderings

I've just returned home from being on vacation for a week. It's always so hard to return home. We spent the week in South Dakota going up to get the kids. We were able to watch the fireworks at Mt Rushmore, catch fish, play in the woods, run through the sprinklers, march in the 4th of July parade, do nothing and eat lots of yummy food. Now we're home. Now there's laundry, phone calls to make, shopping to do, and preparations for the next big trip in a week and a half. Needless to say I have nothing crafty to post today, However I have been working on things. Embroidery projects for Mokis school of craft and for the button swap. Freezer paper stencils for the class I'm teaching in August, knitted baby gifts for friends having babies, and travel boxes for 12 hour road trips. Our next trip takes us to my high school reunion. This is a picture of my prom 10 years ago. I really can't believe it's been 10 years! It's so funny how all the stupid high school insecurities are all coming back in preparation for this event, what am I going to wear, how will I do my hair, who am I going to sit by, blah...blah..blah.. I'm always so envious of girls who seem to just be seeping of self confidence. It's something I work on daily. Anyhow, there is much to be done this week, hopefully I'll have some fun pics to post of all the amazing things I hope to accomplish!