Crafter-Whatever-Afternoon

{Mom~knitting, Cassie~reverse applique, Heidi~organizing photos}

My living room and kitchen were full of all kinds of productive fun this past Saturday.

{Preethie~sewing, Amy~frame decorating~she seemed to never be inside
when my camera was out}

{Me~hand sewing and failing at trying to act like I don't know the photo

is being taken}

{Audrey~covering school books for Amanda}

{Amanda~covering books}

{Heidi~organizing photos, Mariska~hair clips, June~organizing photos}

Not pictured...Susan~sorting memorbilia for her college Freshman

Sweet little Aisy

Em and Em

{Amanda and Kinga~knitting}

Flowers from a dear friend

My project

100 years ago, women of all ages gathered to share a meal, quilt, and

enjoy companionship. This felt so much like that...

You might recognize this from a few days ago...it just wasn't working for me.

It didn't seem quite done.

Yep...now it's done.

I cannot wait to get started on this!!

One-year-old fun

Em and I got to babysit this sweet little one year old today.

It's always been amazing to me how much kids change in the first two years.

Just the other day, he was taking a step or two.

Today he cruised all the way across the living room.

Pretty soon, his momma will be chasing after him as he takes off running!

Emma looks so much older to me just since she started school in August!

This cracked Emma up.

Trevor scooted on his bum backwards towards Emma and

then flopped against her.

Emma got out the way...

So he did it again.

What a little character!

Touchdown?

A quiet evening at home

With Scouts starting up tomorrow, our evenings are going to start to get a bit busy.

We spent Monday night at home...enjoying our time together.

Emma is enrolled in a three-year music course. At the end of the three

years, she'll be able to play piano at an intermediate level, compose music and understand

music theory. She has class once a week and homework. She loves to

practice the tone bells, and we've all memorized the CD of songs.

Bob and Ryan started a game of Talisman. This was a game that

belonged to Bob's brother when he was a kid. The last time we were in La Grande with him, he gave the game to Ryan and his cousin. They share custody of it...trading it each time we

see him.

Em and I worked on a little Fall project.

Three nested wooden pumpkins (Craft Warehouse), scrapbooking paper, paint,

a little modge podge, dark brown ink pad and some sandpaper...

Em worked with beads while I painted
on the stinky modge podge.

Distressing the edges with a sanding block,

then running a light brown and dark brown ink pad along the edges.

I stole a few of her beads...and all done!

Alphabet Soup

Three or four years ago, Bob had a box wrapped up for me for Christmas.

For once, I had absolutely no idea what it was.

Even when I opened it, I wasn't sure what it was.

Somehow (how did this happen?!), he found out about a new

scrapbooking tool before I did.

This was when the Cricut first came out...since then there have been several upgrades.

But I love the one I have.

This past week, I spent some time in Ryan's classroom.

His teacher does not like to do crafts.

She had me working on some signs for her room.

The kids had made up their own classroom rules; she gave me

a printed off piece of paper and asked if I'd adhere it to construction paper.

I said that I would, of course, do that for her.

But that I would really like to take it home to work on...maybe use a few scrapbooking tools?

My version of alphabet soup...a little on the dry side.

Laying it all out

If you have a Cricut and use either the 1", 1.25" or 1.5" options for cutting out items,

especially letters, I highly recommend spending less than $10 on a Xyron

create~a~sticker. These tiny letters are impossible to apply glue stick or

any other kind of adhesive without making a mess. This is super simple to use and lasts forever.

I bought this the same year I got the Cricut and just now, after this project, need

to buy a refill.

All done.

Yep...she's a fan of the blue and orange!

Rock Garden Hike

Max and Amanda called us Sunday afternoon to see if we wanted to go up to

Table Rock and hike the Rock Garden Trail.

We ran into Nelson and Preethie after parking...I love her bike!

Em and Preethie are good buddies...

Emma and Aunt Amanda looking out over

the City of Trees.

When you're up this high, you can see how it got it's name.

Bob, Max and Ryan

That's Downtown on the right of the photo.

Ryan was kind enough to left and hold up this boulder

so we could have shady place to rest.

Max and Amanda