7/15

WHAT?!?

More than 2 months have passed, and NOTHING?

Well, not really...for some reason having the 5 kids home all day and the push to get the house done have squashed a couple projects and documentation on a few more.

And soups have been sporadic at best, although I've been making a lot of breads and served a fantastic rosemary potato soup and bread last week.

what does all this mean?!

nothing.

This is a gift for my niece Char-Char's 2nd birthday. It is a fairy costume that went with a set of silks and a wand. It seriously made me want to start dressing up on a regular basis.

5/6 #39

pansies are the sassy bitches of springtime. they really do have that look, i guess because of the facial features and that they stand up all in-your-face. alice in wonderland was so right.

i planted a rainbow flower garden and container, and 2 fiber hanging baskets, in addition to onions, garlic, potato, my herb garden, and a bunch of poppies and zinnias that i started from seeds. those pics don't look great, but i can't wait to see how they will look in a month ; )

i'm doing the veggie garden this weekend. oh, to have a vegetable garden after 2 summers without one!! i can't express how wonderful it is, spring is my new fall.

life is simply a miracle.
SOUP OF THE WEEK: cream of vegetable that no one else ate. for shame.

4/29 #38

this is a mural that tom and i made saturday on the wall of the girl's lunchroom. their school supports a sister school in Kenya, so this was a tribute to their retiring principal who began the program 8 years ago.

it starts about 6 feet off the ground, and is pretty huge on the wall. i really liked doing a collaborative project with tom, while someone watched the kids onsite. i really disliked being on a very tall ladder. the lion looks a little testy, but 12 hrs is about our limit for wall-painting fun. it is covered by some sheets, and we get to rip them off on thurs for the surprise. (surprise: to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness) haha!

the kids have to make it through 4 lunches pretending they don't know anything.

SOUP OF THE WEEK: orange carrot

4/22 #37

earth day!!
i am trying to pitch 1/3 of the stuff in each room (not really earth-day-friendly, and donate, not throw out) before we are ready to move up into our addition, and while cleaning i came across the dilema of this wooden 'lazy susan' from IKEA. it needed a sanding to remove the jelly fingerprints and stray marker doodles.
keep...donate...keep...donate...
KEEP!
i painted a Tree of Life theme on it. i just put the clear coat on today. it is really fun to spin.
SOUP OF THE WEEK: an awesome potato leek soup. i think it might be the best one i've made so far.

4/15 #36

this is a project for gabi, she knows what it is, but i haven't finished yet. i started it and then haven't worked on it this week...coming soon!
SOUP OF THE WEEK: chicken coconut

4/8 #35

this is a needle felted monkey for isadora. i couldn't stand to crochet another goofy animal...sydney is a ballerina monkey who cares so very much for other people. that is just how isadora is, and some of us (all of us?) should appreciate it instead of saying "don't let things upset you so much!"

SOUP OF THE WEEK: kielbasa bean

4/1 #34

a daisy for a lilly...

AKA, the worst of 34 things so far. we were on a family trip at IKEA sat., and lillian found the cutest guinea pig stuffed animal. we should've just let her buy it, but instead i told her i'd make one. there are many ways to make a cute stuffed animal...but between the colors, wrong texture and working under the stressful conditions of a 6 yr old slave driver, it looks like a joke.

however, she cannot put Daisy down. i wish i had time and roving to felt her one, it would be awesome...but now i have orders to fill the envious arms of her sisters, more dreaded ugly animals to come.

the best things about daisy are that she has lavender and rose petals inside, so she smells nice on her neck, and that lillian claims to have found her out in the country, "looking for an owner".

she said "at the next show-and-tell, EVERYONE will know that you made this, mom."

great.

SOUP OF THE WEEK: MUSHROOM BUTTERNUT in the amazing, borrowed, Vita-Mix.