Today was "family fun night" at one library. One of the guys brought his ukelele and sung bug songs for the kids. Then they made bugs out of plastic wear and pipe cleaners.
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I have found out that I love to do tie dye. It's so much fun, not knowing exactly what the result will look like. Last week, the downtown library had a teen activity--tie dying t-shirts. I managed to convince the lady in charge that I wasn't going to abandon my 7 year old, so she let us come too. (I have realized this summer that most parents view the library activities as 30 minutes to an hour of free babysitting time. I don't.)
Instead of paint, we used rubber bands and sharpies. It was cool. My friend told me about Lowe's' Build n Grow program, so I signed EJ up for it. This past Sunday, the kids built the Pizza Planet car from Toy Story. Since it was a building thing, I stayed home to read/nap and Daddy took EJ.
Ya' gotta love the "no pain, no gain" expression! We went to the downtown library on Monday for some fun crafts. They had free popcorn and lemonade. There were four tables set up. Here EJ is making fossil rubbings. His didn't really turn out well, but I made one that looks nice. We made bead crafts. He made a necklace for his aunt--until he finished, and then he held it out to me and said "Surprise! It's for you!"
In true "me" fashion, I waited until this afternoon to figure out what EJ could do for his daddy tomorrow. Pinterest was my first stop, of course, but I quickly became disillusioned with the many beer and man cave ideas. At the very end, after about three years of scrolling, I came across a daddy questionnaire. I didn't really like the specific questions on it, so I swag bucks searched for others. What I quickly discovered was that "questionnaire" is a word that not many people can spell correctly. Seriously? In this day and age of red squiggly underlines, misspelled words are just not acceptable.
I found this yarn-saving stitch called "Web". It's kinda creepy looking, but I needed a stitch that had more chaining than double-crocheting, because chaining takes less yarn, and I wanted this blanket to turn out as big as I could make it. I had four skeins of this blue/gray. I don't like crocheting with skeins, so as I was starting to wind this yarn into a ball, this happened:
Last year, I thought for a while that one of my military friends would be deployed to the danger zone. Not a fun feeling, for sure. He ended up not going. Then last month I found out another friend was on his way to the Middle East. Again, not a fun feeling. He will be there for 6 months, and I pray for him every day.
That was not random, I promise. My little Einstein Junior's birthday is next week, and his grammy sent him a birthday box. I have rapidly learned that grammys can't send birthday boxes and NOT include some stuff unwrapped to be enjoyed right away. One of the immediate gifts was a helicopter puzzle. There were actually two puzzles, and put together they made two 3-D whirlybirds. I had a bunch of little bits of yarn left over from various projects. Just about every color and variegated you can imagine, I had it, although interestingly, I only had a tiny bit of purple and just a small amount of blue. Green, pink, yellow, and all the shades of white imaginable made up the majority of my stockpile. What was I to do with all these little bits of yarn? None of my balls were big enough to do any kind of project, but I couldn't bear to throw them away! So I scoured the internet and came up with this: crocheting a hexagon blanket. You can see my bucketful of odds and ends, as well as the first 3 rows of a bunch of hexagons. The bag of very tiny odds and ends in the bag in the lower right corner are the pieces that are too short to do the smallest circle. I will probably throw these away.
Ladies' meeting was last night, and I had been asked to bring fruit that was creative. Well, okay...So I brainstormed and this is what I came up with. No pinterest, no google, just my brain. And yes, they were a mild hit. :-)
Recently I bought three new crochet hooks. I had four that belonged in their own little snappy case, then I got three more and lost one, so it didn't close like it should. Then I got three more, and they were much too big to also fit in that case. So I decided I should make my own case. And voila!
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In 2006 I had a stroke, and every day my husband encourages me to use my remaining brain cells to the best of my ability. I love to organize, make crafts, and go on adventures (safe ones). I hope that through my blog posts, you will be encouraged to accept and make the best of challenges God throws at your life. Categories
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