Weekend project: pajama pants

Isn't it frustrating that you can't find 100% cotton flannel pajamas for kids?
Supposedly the 100% polyester is better because it is flame resistant? So... I bought 100% cotton flannel to sew pajama pants for my daughter.Next time, I'm going to use this tutorial: http://lieslmade.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/pj-shorts-tutorial-with-pattern/

And just make the shorts longer...I love that she shows you how to do a French seam!

And the best thing about this weekend...is my newly baptised Godson in my arms! ♥

5x7 Folded Card

Aren't these just such cute cards? Right now, you can get 5 cards FREE (you just pay for shipping) at:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery

So I designed these, with a photo a friend took of our family at the Old West festival a few months ago...I love how the word "Dream" is written over the top! And when I was done with my order, I saw that there was a link to share it on my blog (when I do that I will get $10 off my next order)!

Dream Sketch 5x7 folded card

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Presidental election coming up...

In November, I hope to vote for the best candidate for president of the United States of America. We all want someone who will help preserve our sweet land of liberty!

So, I'm curious, who are you going to vote for? Who would you like to see in office?

My first quilt...

It's a mini quilt...but could be used as a hotpad I suppose. Why do I always think everything has to have a purpose? It can just be a work of art, right? I am definitely inspired to make another larger quilt.
There's Velvet stepping over it, as I try to snap a photograph. We picked her up yesterday, after having stayed overnight to be spayed. She seems to be back to normal, playing and jumping around. She is now 5 pounds. Shaved belly. And a little incision that is healing up already. We'd gone to the vet last week and it would've cost an additional $150 to have her spayed, but at the UCAN clinic downtown I paid just $35. It really encourages people to spay or neuter their animals when it's affordable.

A little snow...

This morning we awoke to snow...and so took off for French Park a little after 8 o'clock...lucky we homeschool and can do lessons later on! There was no one else out so we let Lusy run free...no leash!!! She loved it. Licked the snow, raced like a wild dog and went into the woods...
Just enough for us to enjoy...to make it really feel like winter.

A few of my favorite homeschool books...

Just 2 that I really want to share with you today: These were given to us with the K12 curriculum for my 5th grader, Hannah. The exercises in these books are very useful, Exercises in English often give sentences that teach you about something, like American history (e.g. Neil Armstrong) that are written incorrectly, where you have to write the correct form of the verb or underline the adjectives. The vocabulary one is nice, because at the beginning of each unit, they give you the words, with their dictionary meaning and an example of it used in a sentence. They are both workbooks, which I'm not fond of in general, but when you need one to help you with basic grammar, these are excellent!

We think of homeschooling on our "own" without a set curriculum...and if we did, these two books are ones that we would purchase!

Extra Yarn, a children's book...

A few days ago we went to a local book shop where the kids made pom poms and then they read aloud this book Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett illustrated by Jon Klassen (I really love the pictures, looks like he rolled paint onto knitted fabric and pressed it on the paper)!They hung up their pom poms on a tree in the bookstore, and some on the trees outside, too. A group of women, who call themselves the Cincinnati Bombshells (they "bomb" the town with their knitted and crocheted colourful beauty...for example, we saw the outdoor statue of Cincinnatus the Roman with leg warmers and a scarf!), came and helped. What an awesome group! They wear blonde wigs, so to remain anonymous. And gave out blonde wigs for the kids to wear. What do you think of Olivia (I thought she was already blonde, but guess she's actually a dirty blonde or light brown hair girl now)?