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Happy Mother's Day

Easter 2012 in Photos

Easter Felt Hoops

The last two weeks have passed by too quickly as we try to get everyone in our household well again, but I wanted to share a trio of wool felt Easter projects I made last week- I used wool felt for the base, stretched it inside of a 6 inch embroidery hoop, cut an egg shape from wool felt, embellished them with bits of vintage white trim (except for the pink one- Emma insisted on pink for hers, go figure), and embroidered Happy Easter on each.  Wishing you all a Happy Easter and looking forward to getting back into the swing of things!

Happy Birthday Dave

We feel so very lucky, every day,  that the boy in that first photo grew up, changed majors, came to the University of Oregon, met a nice girl, got married, had a couple of nice kids, and settled down to raise a family here in Eugene.  Happiest of birthdays to you David, we love you.

Thankful...

..For my family, our home, food on the table, our good health, my friends, and for love.  Small blessings that I can't imagine living without.  Just so very thankful this year.

Monday Pumpkin Science Minute

There used to be 2 pumpkins on the deck but thanks to one hungry squirrel this is all that is left of one of them (I guess he didn't like the seeds much, must have needed salt.)So in an attempt to add a little science to our everyday life, every Monday I plan on posting a photo of our pumpkins out in the garden.  Ben and Emma get a kick out of watching various critters eat the pumpkins, as well as watching the carved faces as they decompose.

I know, I know, life does not get much more exciting than this.

Be sure to mark your calendars :)

Happy Halloween

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom.And thanks Ben and Emma, I am so very happy to be able to be your mom.

Bits of Easter, 2011

Easter Egg Project

Back in February Jen Jockisch posted a Letter Monogram project on the American Crafts blog (in her project she made a large letter A on card stock, covered it with buttons and brads, then framed it). After seeing it I knew I wanted to try one (especially since I have an overabundance of buttons, flowers, brads and beads in my craft stash). For my Easter Egg project I used an 8x10 flat canvas stretched onto cardboard, traced a large paper egg, and started punching holes. After filling in most of the egg with brads I then started layering bits and pieces in the bare spots. When I was done I added the velvet letters and punched a hole in the top to hang it with ribbon. This was a fun project, I love that it reminds me of the jewelry trees my neighbor made on green velvet when I was a child. And because I only made a small dent in my embellishment collection I know I'm going to have to try it again for another holiday.