Picture of the Day

Sarah took it upon herself to instigate family scripture study this morning.

Picture of the Day

We went downtown today and rode the carousel, fed the ducks, fed the garbage goat and followed the tracks in the mall. Thank you Auntie Deborah! Catherine and Sarah tried out their running poses with the Bloomsday runner statues.

Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day

This is Walker a little pine beetle that we found on the Jensen's front porch. Sarah quickly crawled into my lap after discovering him, but Cat followed him around and named him and got very upset when Sarah wanted me to squish him. We have a rule that if bugs are living outside where they are supposed to be, we don't squish them, but Sarah is all in favor of breaking this rule. So here is to Walker, who hopefully will never find himself inside the house and under Sarah's shoe.

Trip to Washington

Well, I made it up to Spokane again. We took it a bit slower this time and did two 11 hour days instead of one 14 hour day and and 8 hour day. The girls have wisened up to the drive and were very aware of how long it was taking to drive up from AZ. I have decided that while we are here, I am going to try to do a picture a day. Here is yesterdays. Sarah was playing dress up with her Jensen cousins and turned into this ferocious leopard.

Here it is....finally!

This cabinet was my Grandparents circa 1960? They actually had two, but when they passed away, the oldest granddaughters each got one. My sister decided that she didn't need it anymore when I got married and asked if we wanted it, which I did. It has housed both of my girls' baby items and clothes and more recently was my linen closet. It was time for a change though; when I got asked nicely to vamoose from the theater/craft room, by nice, I mean that he stole the couch from the loft and inserted into the craft room leaving very little room for crafts, I repurposed it to house said craft items. Here are the pics:

Swagger Wagon!

It's Coming, I Promise!

I know that I promised you a reveal soon, but I have been trying to finish. I am doing the final touches tomorrow and will post it in the evening. Thanks for being excited!

Upcoming Project...shhhhh! It's a secret!

There is a project coming, that is a good one! I will post pictures as soon as I am done. Stay tuned.

Cloche

Okay, so all over blogland are people are creating cloches. I really liked the look of them and just hadn't seen one that I liked to buy or found any suitable materials to make one. Today, that all changed. I was headed up to the Ranch Market to get produce and decided to randomly stop at the St. Vincent in AJ. Totally scetch, but well worth it. I then finished out my project with items from my favorite store...Hobby Lobby. Here is a step by step of my cloche project.

This is the before candle holder, which was 1/2 off.


This is the paper mache egg and the mini wreathes 1/2 off too, so whatever 1/6 of $1.77 is and then 1/2 of that. Roughly $.15. Big Smile!


This is the $4 cheese plate and lid I scored from St. V's.


This is the other candle holder from Hobb's that I got for $1 because it was...1/2 off , that's right! With the fabulous moss stuff that I love.


This is what the candle holder looked like after I spray painted it. Love spray paint!


I adore this Krylon Gloss spray paint in Ivory! It sprays on just about anything and has a glossy finish, so it looks like poly without having to poly anything. Plus, it dries in under 10 minutes.


Ta-da! Here is the finished product and I have to say, that I don't like the color the egg turned out and will fix it later, but overall a success!