Wyatt's friends are quite obedient little boys. Clean up the room? Sure, we'll just take everything off the floor, out of the toybox, and off the bookcase......and pile it on the bed!
Last minute shopping, making and homemade baking! This will be our first Christmas with 2 children. Bing Crosby is crooning White Christmas, peanut butter mouse cookies are baking and Wyatt is happily painting. Thank you God for sending your Son. We celebrate His birth with joy in our hearts!
I finally feel like making things again! Here is a pretty brown mouse I created for my cousin who is due 1-1/2 weeks before me. She's all dressed for cooler weather b/c I'm betting October is a pretty cold month in Montana. I love the yarn pom pom I made for her hat. I'd never done that before. I was shopping for kitchen curtain fabric and came across this bright floral. I couldn't put it down. The colors really inspired me and I knew it would be just right for a sweet baby girl with a redheaded mother. :o)
Popsicle People. Wyatt loved these! We made them together and he played with them all afternoon. Great craft for a 2 yr old! I am so excited that he knows his colors now and had very definite opinions on hair and clothes colors. All I did was cut out semi decent shapes of clothes and put slits in them so he could slide them on and off. We drew on the faces with a regular old pen........he gave the men and women hairy chests with his scribbles and WaLa! Popsicle people. Featured here, are a baby and his mama.
Baby Tip is born! The proud parents, Pilly and Stuffie Bunny are very excited about their new progeny! If your wondering that they only just met, well..... bunnies do things a little speedier than humans. :o)
My "softie" came! Meet, Becky's Bunny. Isn't she cute? She's made from an old sheet and came with a little bag (in Wyatt's room with him sleeping....don't want to disturb) becky's the one that inspired me to make "Stuffie". Oh, by the way Pilly is really glad Stuffie came. (I think he's in love. Click here for a photo of the action I caught on film. It's getting pretty serious and there may be baby bunnies soon.) It's so sad. Becky's Bunny used to have a little bow around her neck but alas it broke. She's still cute though. You can check out Becky's blog here.
Here are the promised pics from Canton. if you have never been, you have to go! It's like a giant garage sale + antique store+fair all rolled into a gianormous place that takes days to see everything! Wyatt kept getting freebies b/c he was so cute. He got several free toys from the vendors. Check out the bell sitting on my new $3 piano bench. Yep, he won a sweet lady-vendor's heart when he rung her bell, "Oh, he can just keep it! He's so cute!" I don't know why it didn't work for Renee and I? Aren't we cute? :o) Let's see. Got a few fabrics. The woodland fabric is going to become a few quilted blankets I think, bark cloth, maybe this will be a bag?......apron for me to wear in the kitchen and look adorable and floral bark cloth.....
which became Milla the Art Pig. She is my favorite so far. Oh and I found some bright floral oil cloth (pic with piano bench above) to cover my free red"trash chairs". Oil cloth wipes off really well, so I think I'll use them for my art classes.
Can I just say my son is sooo cute! He has this natural curiosity that I love to watch but hate to clean up. 
So you were all right! I guess I wasn't mysterious enough. Meli is a little lamb and she is on her way to her new owner right now. I'm going to miss her! She's made from an old sweatshirt I found thrifting. I have to say it was the ugliest thing I've ever seen, but it makes the sweetest sheep. The fuzzy part is the *outside* of the shirt!
With LOTS of help, of course. Seems to me the only way to get dinner made these days is to have someone across the kitchen island from me - either helping with my dinner plan, or more likely, choosing to work on their own dinner plan. Today, a favorite recipe of Adelaide's.
Needed:
every measuring cup, spoon and wooden spoon in the house
sifter - optional, but strongly desired
an apron - like Mama (or Papa) - (additional clothing optional)
Ingredients:
3 cups dinner-in-progress scraps - carrots, onions, leeks - anything will do
8 cups water - carried - cup by cup - across the kitchen
2 cups mystery pantry food - unidentifiable, forgotten dried beans? Yup.
2 tiny precious drops - something chosen from the fridge door
6 parts - clean up
2 parts - patience
10 parts - laughter
Mix & stir until everything has been added. If the other dinner isn't done yet, um....add more water. At this point, the excitement can usually be transferred to setting the table (seriously), 'showing' the soup to everyone, and then...carrying it very carefully to its ultimate destination outside with much fanfare.
We call it Compost Soup.
