Danish Festival Weekend

Friday, they always have free kids events.



This year, Sarah couldn't get enough of the inflatable slide!





















Emily went down once with the help of one of the workers.















This was the first year that Sarah wanted to go in the bouncing clown. Obviously, they had a ball!










In the craft area, the girls are working on making coffee filter butterflies.











Another view of the work on the butterflies.













Sarah with her finished butterfly.



















Now we are making crowns.












Emily with her finished crown.













Sarah with her finished crown.















Here is the whole crew on Saturday for the parade.










The girls watching the parade.

"Silverware Reenacting"

Sarah and Emily are all ready for the "Silverware Reenactment" (as Sarah calls it) It is Sarah's first season in her "big girl" dress. She really likes her new necklace.

Here we are at the event

This is a close up of their doll's faces.

Two More Soakers!

I finally got the brown wrap soaker finished!!

(This also shows that she DOES wear shirts! I usually just take them off for the picture so that you can see the soaker better!!)

I decided to fasten it with buttons and elastic loops.

I think that this one might be a little too big!

And here Emily is wearing the latest creation using the rainbow yarn I Kool-Aid dyed. (see post called I'm a Dyeing Fanatic! to see what the yarn looked like when I finished dyeing it)

She didn't like how tall it was and pushed it below her belly button!

Here's the front,

and the back

First Garden Produce!

Here are the girls with our first tomato and 2 peppers from the garden!

And here are the first cucumbers that we picked!

I'm a Dyeing Fanatic!

Sarah said that Emily should have a green soaker, so we set out to dye some yarn green!






Here is the yarn all ready for dyeing.
















Here is the dye for "Yarn 4"















The yarn is in the dye ready to go.













The girls are checking out the yarn.

















Here is "Yarn 4" all finished.













I wanted to try to do a multi-colored yarn next, so I decided to do one with all the colors of the rainbow. I had a hard time finding blue Kool-Aid, but then someone pointed me to Flavor-Aid from Sav-A-Lot. My project was saved!

I needed to wind the yarn around something bigger than normal in order to be able to get all the colors of the rainbow, so I used an upside down laundry basket.

I tied the yarn into a flower with 6 "petals"--one for each of the colors.







I decided to start with the Primary colors since I couldn't get all 6 "petals" in the jars at once.


I used one package of Kool-Aid per color/jar.

Next, I put every other "petal" of the flower into the dye and set it in the sun.

This is the 2nd group of colors being dyed. Emily thought it was pretty.







Here is "Yarn 5" after it is all done. I called it my "Hippy Yarn". The green, blue & yellow took 1 ½ hours, the orange took 2 hours, the purple almost 3 hours, and the red was in for 3 hours and I took it out because I needed to bring it somewhere else to finish the other three colors. There was still a lot of red in the jar, but the intensity of the red matched the other colors, so I decided to not put it back in.











Here are both yarns all balled up. The multi-colored one looks like an Easter egg now!

I need to catch up!!

I have gotten behind on updating my blog, so I will work on doing that today!!

My Garden is getting so big!!

Taken on July 12, the corn is now taller than Sarah!














We have a few baby pumpkins!! Yeah!













Here are some baby watermelons!