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!

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!

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!

Halloween 2003

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(Dan was working)

Halloween 2004
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Sarah is Pooh and I am Piglet (which I designed the pattern for)

















Halloween 2005
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Raggedy Ann and Andy

Halloween 2006

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The girls are cows and Dan & I are the farmers.

Halloween 2007

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Dan is a farmer again. The girls are ducks and I am an egg (I was 8 months pregnant!)

Side view to show the duck better!

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I designed the duck and egg costumes.

Halloween 2008

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Ghostbuster theme!

Halloween Portrait

Here is the latest picture of all the kids together.

Buddies

Another shot of Andrew (2 months) with Peter (3½ months). I'm sure there will be LOTS of these types of shots coming in the future!

Andrew checking out what Mommy is doing.

I laid Andrew on our bed and William crawled up next to him and pulled the blanket up over them.

The quilt over them is one I made as a teenager using fabrics from my childhood.

Pastor Appreciation

October is "Pastor Appreciation Month". We decided to recognize Pastor yesterday.

Sarah and Emily giving them the pictures that they drew.

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This doesn't have anything to do with Pastor Appreciation (except that it was at church yesterday)

William fell asleep under the picnic table in the nursery!

Close up.

Sickie Sarah

Our family has been fighting the "cruds". Sarah seems to be having the hardest time shaking it. It may be because she's in school now and that in itself tires her out.




Here is Sarah after she crawled up onto the couch and fell asleep.
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She seems to be better now, finally!

It is Autumn!

Just so you weren't confused with yesterday's post and think we were having really sunny and warm weather, here is a picture of our house and the Fall decorations! (of course it doesn't show how cold it is! Colder than normal even.)

Dragonfly

These are a couple pictures Dan took of a dragonfly that was flying around at our family reunion this summer that I never posted!

Puppets

Our church wanted to get some puppets for the Youth Group to use for skits. They would cost about $40 each, so we decided that I could sew them for cheaper. I had a pattern, but I changed it quite a bit to make it the way I wanted!

This is the puppet that I sewed as an example of what they would look like.

This puppet has felt eyes.

Side view without hair!

All finished, showing the inside of the mouth.

3/4 view

We named this one Bella.

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Close up.

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My mom and I (and the kids) went to buy the fabric for the puppets 2 days before Andrew was born. We couldn't find what we were looking for and it took quite a while to figure out something that would work. We ended up buying fabric to make 6 puppets. There will be a girl and a boy in 3 different skin tones- light, medium, and dark.

Here is the light-skinned boy. I have the girl mostly done, but needed to put it aside to work on costumes and etc for October!

"Bill" has plastic eyes.

In use.

"Bella" is a reporter and "Bill" is Moses. (The beard is just pinned on)

The kids watching the skit.

Olympian Shirts

For the last couple of months, my mom and I have been working on getting shirts ready for "Membership Night" for Olympians at church. Once the kids complete the requirements for being a member, they get a t-shirt with the name of our church and a patch with their group name on it. I did the names and Mom did the patches.


The leaders have blue shirts and the kids have red. My mom is the nursery leader, so we decided to give them a group name, also. The green shirt is hers and the yellow are the nursery aged kids.



We did 13 blue, 10 red, 1 green, and 3 yellow shirts (so far) It took about 20 minutes to do the name embroidery (if we didn't have problems, and we had LOTS!) and an hour for Mom to hand sew on each patch (the iron on stuff didn't stick for long!)










Close up of shirts. My girls have red shirts and the boys have yellow shirts.













Sarah getting her shirt.





















Emily getting her shirt.