Holidays
Happy Spring!!
Just a quick note to let you know I have not forgotten you all.
I thought I would share a few Easter pictures to brighten things up.
Busy little me.
This was a very handmade holiday. Lots of pirate~y hats for various little (and not so little) ones.
Gobble Gobble, Ho Ho Ho!!
As usual, I’m a bit late in posting these pictures. We had a wonderful time visiting family in Beverly for Thanksgiving. So much fun in fact, that I frequently forgot to pick up the camera. Ooops. We stayed with my cousin Christine, who hosted a small Thanksgiving at her apartment. Afterwards Tom, her boyfriend, kicked everybody out of the kitchen so that he could clean it all up. Vada popped in and asked if she could help, and amazingly he said yes. I had to sneak in to take a picture of Vada carefully loading the dishwasher after Tom rinsed off the plates.
Later Tom came into the living room to let us know there was another photo op. Vada was busily scrubbing out all of the pots. She is quite the little helper!
Powerful Powerless Lessons
So it snowed Saturday morning/afternoon. Umm…isn’t it October. Who ever heard of a white Halloween? It was a bit odd. I had already told the girls we would go to the grocery for their Trick or Treating at noon, so we ran out to the car and braved the oddness.
About 3:30, Doug and I were playing with the girls in their room, and the power went out. It soon became clear it was going to stay out for quite a while.
The girls informed Doug that they wanted to “Throw snowballs at Daddy!”, so they all bundled up and out they went. I stayed in and made dinner. Yet another reason I am fond of my gas stove!
Mother’s Day!
We had a very nice Mother’s day. It started out as any Sunday, cleaning and shopping.
Then I was off to play with the Yarrrn Club at InsaniTea!! I worked on cross stitch, as it is something I can do left handed.
At 4pm, when the fiber fun was over, Doug and the girls showed up. We had a little tea party. The Yummy Berry tea that Ingred served up was, well, YUMMY!!!! I had to buy some to bring home. The girls played the little bongo drums and a guitar and danced around between cups. It was a lovely time.
Then the four of us walked around a bit. It was a gorgeous day! Eventually we stopped and had a wonderful outdoor dinner at Raymond’s. They have a wonderful menu with both vegetarian and meat dishes. I have to remember them next time I have veggie guests!
Finally we crossed the street and grabbed some dessert to go from Cupcakes Galore. Kyla got an Elmo cupcake, and Vada got Hello Kitty.
They are my girls, alright. The first thing they did was eat the eyes. Mmmm.
Yummy! Elmo eyeballs.
Easter and other fun!
The text here will be short, one handed typing is no fun.
I couldn’t resist taking this picture one morning just before Easter. The girls were just too adorable.
Here we have the girls the day before Easter. First time painting eggs. I think they are awesome.
Fun Ideas for Hope!
So the next Craft Hope project (#10) has been announced. We are each basically using the Craft Hope book or the past projects as inspiration to do something to make the Holidays brighter for those who need it. I have been thinking for a while that I want to find the nearest shelter for woman and children who are escaping abusive relationships and do something nice for them. So this gives me an excuse! I made a call to my towns child help number and they are going to give me a call back with a place that could use some Holiday love. I have been inspired by a few projects in the book. I don’t really have the money to buy any supplies right now, but I have tons of scrap linen, batting scraps from quilts, and lots o’ stuffing. So I am going to makes some scarves inspired by the patchwork scarf project on page 41. I will also make some cute little soft blocks and balls from Amy Butler’s project on page 73. Lastly I still have a bunch of that cute frog print flannel that I’ve had forever, so I may make some bibs with that.
I have a cute idea for decorating the scarves.
Want a hint?
Some of my Christmas crafts
Back in November I had Doug grab a bin of mine from his mother’s attic. It was full of unfinished Christmas crafts. I pulled some of them out to make ornaments to give along with the many girt bags of banana bread and chai tea mix we had lined up for Christmas. There were a bunch of these little cross-stitch squares and those little round plastic music “boxes” to go with them. I seem to have lost the rest of the kits long ago.
I found some blue fabric and thought “mini pillows”. Not sure where that thought came from, but it did. So I sewed them together with a pretty gold loop on top and an opening in the bottom.
