i’m off to massachusetts for a fun weekend of craft fairing, girl nights, and maid-of-honor dress shopping. oh yeah, and there is that (semi) dreaded 5k on saturday morning…
(a ccr woodblock i printed in college)
see you next week!
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friday morning
it’s a rainy friday morning…
we’re cleaning and working on some projects. the kids have a huge fort in the living room and they’re pretending to be ants. wyatt is a working ant, isabelle is a baby ant, and i am mrs. ant.
i’m trying to get a few projects going. sometimes when i have a lot of projects to do, i feel so overwhelmed that i don’t do anything. i’m trying to keep the momentum so i don’t fall into that trap. here’s what i’m doing:
stamping 150 cards with my business information. this is a custom order that needs to be in the mail in less than a week.
i mounted the inside text (“thank you”) to a clear mount. it’s small enough to press by hand, though the front image of the card will still have to go through the press.
i wound a gazillion (okay, only three) bobbins for the sewing machine. i wanted to make a couple old-sweater-owls. i don’t have any plans for where they’ll go, but it seemed like a good way to get off track.
during breakfast i knit a couple rounds on this baby pumpkin hat a friend has asked me to knit. it’s not my favorite project, but i’m not going to pick up any other knitting until this is done. hopefully that will only be another day or two and then i can get on to some other things…
finally, the kids decided it would be a good day to make a pinata. that basically meant they each applied 5 strips of newspaper and then wanted to wash their hands.
i finished it and left it in the basement to dry.
this afternoon, my mother’s helper is coming and i plan to get a lot of crafting done! i should have many wonderful things to show you on monday. have a great weekend!
“dollhouse”
today, when we were rained out of our plans, the kids and i decided to visit the hardware store. more exciting to wyatt than “plain old” craft supplies, he thrives in aisle after aisle of drawers filled with nuts, bolts, nails, screws, hooks and eyes, wire, and so forth. while browsing the endless selection of supplies, we decided on three projects: a ladder, a dollhouse/tree-house and a train.
once home, we raided two great wood sources: cris’s leftovers from all of his man projects and the wood pile. we found pre-finished floor boards, hemlock, pine and maple in his stash and a few small logs in the wood-bin. wyatt got his tool box from the basement, and we were set to build! while we didn’t get to the train today, we did finish a small ladder for dolls, as well as this house. once completed, wyatt decided we should nail down the crane he just built from a thrift store kit. so much better than the dollhouse we bought, and there’s still room to add more to it!
now, back to cleaning and unpacking from our weekend away! more on that later this week…