Saturday, February 2, 2013
Gifts for a whole Gang
For Christmas I made Lenara and her friends T-shirts with their Capital Letters. The funny part was the one for the unborn baby of my friend (born by now btw)... Easy and adorable!
Getting ready for Fasching: Räuber Hotzenplotz
Lenara is hearing all about Räuber Hotzenplotz in Kindergarten. So she decided she wanted to dress up as Räuber Hotzenplotz for Fasching (Feb 11th). Thanks to Google I know what he looks like... The challenge is that it needs to go OVER her outdoor Kindergarten outfit, as they are outside for the dress up party as well. Today we took some time to make the outfit... tatataaaaah!
I have to admit, I'm a little bit proud of the hat! It's a knitted hat from the dollar store, stuffed on top of a regular Cowboy Fasching hat... and I made the feather from felt. We will paint her face for Fasching. And she insists on 7 knives and a colt. I told her, if she wanted that, she needed to make those herself... she knows how to carve wood. So she can do it in Kindergarten next week.
Gee, all the princess outfits are staying in the basement this year... :))
Waldorf Table: Winter
Finished today... finally. Our winter scene! The table had been empty ever since Baby Jesus disappeared after Christmas. The current scene is after Elsa Beskow's "Olle's Reise zu König Winter". We love it! Even though spring time will be here soon already...
Die Maus
Lenara's favorite... it's just her humor... the only "TV" (she doesn't know the difference to Youtube yet) we are watching so far... :)
Monday, January 21, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Tis the season
Last week, I felt like I was half smiling and I took a picture of myself and this is it. I look scary mad like I could punch someone in the face. Time to re-evaluate how I'm really feeling and expressing myself. Lately, I dream of dancing and creating music. Maybe I'll start with some large doses of Vitamin D first though so its not dismal expressive dance and music. Ha ha. But I'm happy on the inside. I think my face skin is just droopy and old like a Bassett Hound.
I'm doing things with my hands though, which is good for my soul. I'm making little dolls like this in abundance for the upcoming Christmas party/Winter celebration and the dolls will be gifts for purchase with Pocket Man.
It's a dark picture, but we're getting ready for the Christmas. My dad brought the potted pine from his neck of the woods (Oregon).
The dollies aren't growing much but Olivia is now 38 1/2 inches.
Running around and dancing in garbage bag suspenders (with supervision!) made for good rainy day play.
Our lovely feathery ladies have begun producing! 5 eggs every two days. Last week I was making a cake and in the middle of it I realized I didn't have eggs--I hate that!- and scurried looking for substitutes, which I use quite often. Sour cream? Banana? Applesauce? Then I remembered we have chickens that are actually useful for something now. And lo and behold, they did have two eggs out there for me. Hoorah! I stepped in poop in the coop, but whatevs!
Here's a picture from my phone. Attempting to take more "everyday" pictures that tell about regular parts of the day. This was lunch. (We don't always have cute bread, but we always have soup!)
About 3 miles away is a park always populated by deer & babies this time of year. We've been going at least once a week since October.
I let Olivia stand in the front seat once we get into the park (safety first!) and we brought hot chocolate since its cold here.
This is something I made lately. Actually, just a couple days ago. Ive been trying to think of a way to resolve my conflict: we don't have a place to hang artwork nor do we have an advent calendar. Then all in about 3 minutes it came together. We had chalkboard paint since I thought of a project in Maryland but didn't do it, and Dave had scrap wood in the backyard from the chicken coop. Bam! Two in one! When Decembers over we'll just use it to hang art. I like it.
Tomorrow I'm hosting a book club for the book dickens wrote. A Christmas Carol. You should come. Id love some k&j time! Leave now!
I'm doing things with my hands though, which is good for my soul. I'm making little dolls like this in abundance for the upcoming Christmas party/Winter celebration and the dolls will be gifts for purchase with Pocket Man.
It's a dark picture, but we're getting ready for the Christmas. My dad brought the potted pine from his neck of the woods (Oregon).
The dollies aren't growing much but Olivia is now 38 1/2 inches.
Running around and dancing in garbage bag suspenders (with supervision!) made for good rainy day play.
Our lovely feathery ladies have begun producing! 5 eggs every two days. Last week I was making a cake and in the middle of it I realized I didn't have eggs--I hate that!- and scurried looking for substitutes, which I use quite often. Sour cream? Banana? Applesauce? Then I remembered we have chickens that are actually useful for something now. And lo and behold, they did have two eggs out there for me. Hoorah! I stepped in poop in the coop, but whatevs!
Here's a picture from my phone. Attempting to take more "everyday" pictures that tell about regular parts of the day. This was lunch. (We don't always have cute bread, but we always have soup!)
About 3 miles away is a park always populated by deer & babies this time of year. We've been going at least once a week since October.
I let Olivia stand in the front seat once we get into the park (safety first!) and we brought hot chocolate since its cold here.
This is something I made lately. Actually, just a couple days ago. Ive been trying to think of a way to resolve my conflict: we don't have a place to hang artwork nor do we have an advent calendar. Then all in about 3 minutes it came together. We had chalkboard paint since I thought of a project in Maryland but didn't do it, and Dave had scrap wood in the backyard from the chicken coop. Bam! Two in one! When Decembers over we'll just use it to hang art. I like it.
Tomorrow I'm hosting a book club for the book dickens wrote. A Christmas Carol. You should come. Id love some k&j time! Leave now!
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