Blossoms and Blessings

Monday, November 2, 2009

I Sewed a Sling

I had seen a pattern for a sling that I thought would be easy to make and to use, but I never got around to making it. I had 2 coordinating fabrics that I didn't think I'd use for anything because they were kind of bizare prints, BUT I misplaced them! So I just decided to just pick out a different fabric! It only took about 1/2 an hour once I just sat down and did it!

My sling is reversible (both sides are the same)

I'm glad I can sew, because the lady who posted the pattern sells reversible slings for $63.

Closer view

With Andrew laying down.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Can You Tell Me How to Get to....

Sesame Street??!!

Here is the whole gang:

William as Big Bird

Emily as Cookie Monster

Andrew as Twiddlebug

Sarah as Elmo

We went trick or treating downtown with my mom and sister.

It was raining!

Getting candy

Another cute picture of Andrew

Sarah's school had a Fall Harvest Night

Carving a pumpkin

Mommy did most of the work!

My shirt really does look like a pumpkin lit up!

All finished

Here is our friendly pumpkin!

They had games in the classrooms.

You can't really see it in this little picture, but Sarah's teacher has the pumpkin I tatted pinned to her shirt.

If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see a glimpse of orange on her shirt!

matching numbers

Trick or Treating at Wal-Mart

Candy!!

Family shot at the costume party

Dan is "A guy named Murray"- an 'extra' in a scene from Sesame Street. "A green anything puppet dressed in a button up shirt and glasses"

I am Praire Dawn based on this picture:

Big Bird playing

Andrew and Peter in their costumes.

Peter is Frank the Pug from Men in Black

After the party, we went trick or treating "Uptown". This is what Sarah called trick or treating in Rachel's neighborhood!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Photo-Op's

This is a collection of pictures I've taken over the last few days that I thought were cute:

Emily with Grandpa and their kitties.

The cat playing with the mouse!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Mission Accomplished

Sarah's school has a rule that they may not have snacks with more than 6 g of sugar in them so I decided that I would tat each student a pumpkin or a bat for their Halloween party. I started by making 2 bats, but didn't have a size thread that I really wanted to use. So I switched to pumpkins. The pattern that I had written (and will be in my new book) was made using split rings. It was taking quite awhile to get a pumpkin done, so I designed a new pattern! (So now there will be 2 pumpkin patterns in the new book!)

Split ring pumpkin (I did 2 of these)

Pumpkin using chains (I did 25 of these)

I decided to attach the pumpkins to a bookmark to make it easier to handle.

I put the pumpkins in little zippy baggies and attached the bags to the bookmarks with double sided tape. (so they could take the pumpkins out if they wanted)

All finished!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloweens Past

With it being the time for the annual costume party my brother and sister and I have been having for 9 years, I decided to show pictures of our costumes for past Halloweens. The first year, I was Tigger, the next I was Snow White. The 3rd, I was a pirate. I have pictures of them somewhere, but we didn't have a digital camera, so I'm not sure where they are!

Okay, I got a picture of me as a pirate!