Third Time's the Charm

Some of the patterns for my new tatting book come together fairly easily, others take a little bit of doing! Like the heart--it took 3 tries to get it to where I was happy with putting it in the book!








Here they are with the first attempt on the left, 2nd in the middle.

The finished heart will be my motif for the West Michigan Lace Group's motif exchange this month. It just occurs to me that I did a heart last year, too! Although, I like this year's better!

Quick Craft

The other day, the kids were being cranky and getting on each other's nerves, so I decided to distract them with a craft project. I dug out the washable markers and coffee filters and we made flowers!


Coloring the filters. Will kept pushing his filter aside to color right on the paper I had for bleed through!















Spritz with water to make the colors run














Hang to dry

After they weren't dripping anymore, I laid them on cooling racks to finish drying.

All finished!

Extreme Tatters Round Robin--Round 3

Here is what I made for the last mailing of my Extreme Tatters Round Robin. This one has a beach theme! It is for Camille.


I still haven't received my 2nd or 3rd mailings yet. Hopefully they'll come soon!

Trip to the Mall

We went to the mall on Tuesday to do a few errands. While we were there, we went to "Build A Bear" to make a bear for Andrew. We had gone and made one before Sarah was born and then made ones for Emily & William at home from a kit we got at Sam's Club.

Stuffing him

Warming up his hearts (one from each of the kids)

Giving him a bath.

Dressing him.

Here are the 4 kids' bears. Sarah's is missing his shorts as they were MIA for the picture.

The mall has a play area for kids, so the kids played there for awhile, too.

New Woolies

I have finished up some different wool projects and figured I should share them.

Wonderpants shorts for Andrew. These are little for when he's first born.

Sheepy Sack for bedtimes, so I don't have to get tiny legs into leg holes at 3:00 am!

Sarah asked me to knit some pants for "Tina". These are what I came up with.

Tina modeling her pants!

Sarah and Tina

I figured I should make Emily's doll some pants, too.

Emily's "Tina"

Emily and her doll

Bath Time!

Sleepy Man

Saturday when I went to tell the kids it was nap time, I found William asleep in the chair in the living room!