Fly Fly Away

Steps to making your very own butterfly!!!

Supplies: 1 coffee filter, a clothes pin, and a pipe cleaner (cut in half)
Step 1- Flatten the coffee filter and color it.
Step 2- Pinch the center of the coffee filter.

Step 3- Place pinched coffee filter in center of pin.
Step 4- Add pipe cleaner. VIOLA, now you have a butterfly!

We made these in library group and enjoyed it so much that we have made flock of them. ENJOY!

Please stay tuned. We are having technical difficulties...

I have pictures to post today, but I have yet to figure out how to get them properly sized. Kevin wrote some software that automatically does it for me as I load the pics from my camera to the computer, but we have not installed it on the computer yet.

It is all damp and rainy outside, so I am sure we will be doing lots of indoor craft projects today. I went to Sam's Wholesale over the weekend and had oodles of boxes leftover, so we made "robots" out of them. They are pretty funny. The hard part is that I need to convince Mimi that they need to be broken down and recycled at some point.

We have decided to help out the economy with the stimulus package check we will be getting. We are getting a kid's drum set. And we are going to participate in Baby Toolkit's Heifer Project team! What a fabulous idea! Go here and check it out.

Moving forward

I have been absent from the blogging scene for a bit, and now I am BACK! I pulled my blog to private and quit posting because of a comment posted on my last entry. I am aware it is still there, and it will continue to be there. It needs to remain there for Google to investigate.

So, enough about that. And I have missed talking to so many of you. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Working on working together.....

Today at library group Mimi and I were able to work together and make a bunny..er, uh, what is supposed to look like one anyway. I am just so proud we were able to work on it together. She accepted my tips and help here and there and I praised her for doing so well!!
Isn't Bunny lovely?

Ain't that the truth?

Aliens have landed...

Many thanks to our good friends John, Amanda, and Mary who noticed an alien landing in the woods behind their home. They were unable to keep these little guys, so they sent them to us with a little card explaining their predicament!
We will keep them. Thankfully they are nice and don't eat much! :)
By the way, I am so impressed with your crocheting abilities Amanda!

Weekends, Yard sales, Art

Today has been busy! This morning I yard sale shopped. I have one regret...I should have bought this drum set for the kiddos. It was $40, and I wasn't in the mood to spend that on drums. Turns out it was a very expensive nice set, and Kevin and the kids would have loved it...Oh, well. So, I drove back to buy it and the woman selling it at this church had already packed her table up, but I did leave my phone number with a friends of hers....So, maybe she will call....

Oh, PLEASE check out my brother in law's site here. He is so talented, and with much nudging from family and friends he has finally put up a site and is offering his art!

Who is your favorite artist?

Double chins and sweaty kids...

It seems these days this is the best shot of Moe that I can get. He is obsessed with the camera and is always trying to steal it away! Don't you love that double chin? :)
The weather has been amazing here and the kids have been loving it. They get that summer time stink after a couple of hours of outdoor play. It's wonderful.