A fun craft

Another homeschool Mom passed me the idea for these easy peasy little flower fairies. The online tutorial is here http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/flower-friends-667264/ (sigh, now why can't I make that link hide under the word"here" so that you just click on the word like other times!? Me and technology...but I digress...)
One of the really neat things about this craft is that it is super adaptable, to anything you want to make and whatever materials you have avaliable. I had a link to a blog with a bunch of fotos of different versions which, of course, I lost. And have wasted the last half hour trying to find, to no avail...but anyho, she had winter angles with feather wings, babies, starwars characters, black spiderman, princesses, acorn boys,...all kinds of stuff just based on this general idea.
I had all the materials on hand for our little people except something for the head, none of the stores with in walking distance had any wooden beads, so I got a couple small styrafoam balls for about five cents a piece and pierced them with an awl. They worked great!

And best of all, my kids enjoyed helping make them and now are having a blast playing with them. Making something inexpensive, cute, usable and fun makes me all shades of happy! ;o)

Hurricane DJ

What? Haven't heard about that storm on the news? Well I have the exclusive.
She may not be walking yet, but that has far more to do with her liking the extra privilges that come with being carried than with lack of motor skills. She is almost a year now and what a kiddo! Her whole being vibrates with life, joy and vitality. Current favorite activites include, eating, CLIMBING (Yikers! Yes, that hippo rolls!), torturing sibblings, eating, snacking between meals on blue tissue paper, potted plant soil, crumbs under the table, small pebbles and anything else mom didn't get to on time, getting into cupboards, getting into the bathroom waste can, getting into the bathroom in general, trying for the toilet (but so far, mom is faster), eating, immitating words she hears, trying to copy everything she sees her sibblings do, tasting or tearing anything she can get her hands on, clapping, dancing and MOVING, screeching...and did I mention that this girl LOVES her food?!

DJ, you fill our life with a lot of fun and you always keep us on our toes. I can't imagine my life without you. I am so glad that you are a part of our family!!!