This is another photo of the surprise I'm working on for the toddler for his birthday. I think it's really too soon in this game to start giving you any clues other than the photos. Remember the other clue...
I spent much of my weekend (when I wasn't being an active mama...) creating. While I never get as much finished as I think I should, it's always good to look back at what I did get done: - A...
The Urban Alphabet book was my first idea for using all the letters we had. It wasn't until I watched the toddler playing with the letters from his room that spell his name that I thought, "Duh! We need...
I know I mentioned the toddler and my hunt for letters earlier here. That book up there is our first finished product. I was super excited about its arrival today; the toddler hardly even noticed, even when I sat...
There's a flurry of projects underway around here. We're hard at work in the yard clearing out weeds and headed for planning some big landscaping projects outback. Our new buddy Mr. Brian is working hard on our front yard...
The toddler has a birthday coming up soon, and I've been hard at work. I firmly believe that celebrations in our family should always include something hand made. We've kept up the tradition of presenting each of the boys...
I came home from a birthday party in Lawrence on Saturday afternoon to this going on outside: And this in the backseat of the truck: We were simply going to stop by and pick up the steamed veggies we were...
Father's Day was rather laid back around here. Oh, we celebrated all right, but we missed church due to a toddler meltdown of epidemic proportions at the exact time at which we needed to leave. So, we came back in...
I noted in this post that we have a lot of kids birthdays coming up and that I needed an easy gift. This is my solution: The Library Tote. It's a 10 by 12 inch lined tote bag with...
After the trouble I had with this block, I was a bit hesitant to start on another diagonal block for the SSS. But I only had the one block on the diagonal so far, and I didn't think the...
I'd love to say that the toddler and I have been working hard on learning, but, truthfully, we've been having so much fun it's hardly work. We've been "working" on the alphabet. We headed out on two walks hunting...
There's something so satisfying about a clean, empty place that this kiddo can't help but make a mess to get one. We've tried put and take toys at our house, but they're not nearly as fun as the kitchen...
We had a giant container of strawberries that I thought was about to go bad, and it was just too hot to stand over the stove making jam in the afternoon. The boys haven't allowed that much morning cooking...
Inside that fabric envelope up there is a wedding album. I've agreed to make an original envelope for each wedding album Hubby delivers. They only take me about two hours a piece, and they're really a lot of fun....
Blogability - noun - The capacity of a topic to be blogged. The toddler went to spend the day with Grandma and Papa today. Papa came to pick him up this morning, and shortly after they left, Grandma called...
And one to go. I finished the lace trim on the first leg of the Unmentionables today! I'm thrilled with how they are turning out! I finally have the lace repeat memorized, and I finished the first leg in...
his very own shovel; he will dig holes. Oh yes, he will dig holes. There's a whole lot of digging going on around here. We've hired someone to do the big dig out front and replace a full size...
I have so many random ideas rolling around in my head; they are like little bugs crawling around. And strangely, one of them is, "It's June? Really?" It's been decidely un-June-like here lately, cloudy, rainy, stormy of the spring...
There is a lot of excitement around here every Monday. The toddler spends much of the day with his ears tuned to the front yard listening intently. You see, Monday is trash day. This week it prompted him to...
A Friday afternoon trip to the park with the boys, their aunt, and their cousin. Saturday at the air show with Grandma, Papa, Hubby's cousin and her family. One very tired baby on the way home. Sunday was spent...
I'm working on another surprise project right now, and I needed a mirror for it. After a few minutes on the phone, it became apparent that having new mirror cut was just way too expensive. In the just under...
That's my boys cooking together. Something they've been doing quite a bit in the last week or so. It's one of the few things the baby will actually sometimes willingly sit down for; he's at the pre-walking stage where...
This is really more of a skirt recipe than a skirt pattern. You'll need to take or know some basic measurements and do a tiny bit of math before you get started, but once you do all that and...
I finished the May block for the SSS today. Yep, in June. I opted to go to bed at 11:30 last night with only one row and the bind off left to knit. I started working on the lace...