UPDATES...

Well...I guess there are just times that you feel like your priorities shouldn't be blogging on the computer...HA!  I wanted to put a few things in for Journalings (I don't think that is a word.) sake.  So here are a few highlights. 

I am anxious to be able to look at everyones blog...it has been so long, and I hope that I can sit down with something warm in a mug, and catch up with everyone soon.  Hope you are all staying warm! 

RICKETY ENTERTAINMENT CENTER...TO BARBIE HOUSE

 Cory and I worked hard to turn this old entertainment center into a fun Barbie house for Gayle.  She expressed wanting one, and so I figured this would most likely be one of the last couple of years that she would be into it.  She loved it, and we were proud of how it turned out :-)

 I just used scrapbook paper for the walls...I made the bed from a cereal box, pencils and duct tape.  The floors were contact paper from the dollar store...it looked very cool!

This room was mismatched really ...I need to do it over.



The sofas were made out of cereal boxes and a table runner I bought from the dollar store.  

The adirondak chairs were 1.00 at AC Moore...and the table was a plastic glass flipped over with a cocktail plate on top.  I modge podged a wood grain paper underneath...it turned out cool.

 I would have loved to have had something like this growing up...

 Hooray for homemade gifts that don't break the bank!

CHRISTMAS PROJECT...

 No...it wasn't for Elijah...but he was a good model :-)  I bought this pattern through www.dollsanddaydreams  .  I like to make something handmade for Ella every year at Christmastime.  This particular project was super fun.  It is Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.  I made her the matching reversible cape so that she could play too. 

 I was super excited with how it turned out!  I am not a fabulous seamstress, but every now and then a project will just happen to turn out, and then I am so surprised--HA!

 I didn't have the chance to make her basket with cookies in it...but I did get her the book Little Red Riding Hood. 

My favorite of all was the cape...I am in love with pointed hoods.  This was a fun project for sure!

A MEMORABLE MOMENT...

 This past Christmas, I wanted very much to find some gifts that were not your typical "Walmart" gifts...I don't want to be a slave to the store...so I searched around for some cool educational things, and this is one that I found...It is SO cool...I want one myself.  It is pretty much a forensics type skull, and you put clay on it in strips and add the ears..eyes...lips...Isaac was very diligent, and he was kind enough to even let me try a little!

 This particular one is King Tut...I have my eye on Caesar or a gorilla next!

 Did I mention that I want one?

A Valentine Movie Link...Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas 2012!   

IMAN....

 The first day of PA deer season, and his first *ever* deer!  He got a 5 point buck, and has joined the realm of tale tellers :-)  We are very proud of him!

 This is 2 of a zillion photos taken from Isaacs campout at Gettysburg...They had a fabulous time, and I *think* he walked almost 20 miles!  He earned some very cool patches for this particular trip.  I would love to go see the sights myself.  It makes me happy to see him able to experience things like this--scouts is a great thing for him!

FALL PICTURES....

I was able to get a couple of good shots .  Asher was a difficult one...plus he had drawn on his face with marker by accident.

I thought this was a cute one of Eli and Cory.  I was trying to just get one of Cory when Eli jumped in.

Esther took the photo of Cory and I...I think she did quite well!

PIG PILE!

 

MISC. FALL PICTURES...

I really missed out on all the red and orange leaves...but these will do anyhow.  I always have to take a million just to get *one* good one!

These were fun to do...It always makes me happy to capture their smiles.

 

 

STUFF...OCT 2012

There are too few pictures of Cory and I together for my liking. 

This shot made me laugh...the looks on both of their faces are humorous.  HA!

The eyes I always dreamed of...belong to my daughter.  *sigh*...I suppose if they belonged to me ..I wouldn't be able to gaze at them.


Gayle with her flower garden.  Many a bouquet was picked by this little lady.

 

OCTOBER 2012~ MISC...

 I really liked these shots of Asher.  He is such a sweet little guy.  He is growing up far too fast for my liking.

 

He says he is 2nd Class....I always thought he was 1st Class...har har.  Well done Isaac.  He is very proud to have earned the Year Round Camping Award.  He had a good many merit badges earned as well--diligence pays off! 

 

MISC. STUFF..........

I made this blanket for a friend of ours who just had a baby.  I think it turned out really nice.  She had a girl...but I love blue..and lets face it....she will have lots of pink..not so much blue I imagine.  The stitch is a basket weave....so easy!

 

Here are partners in crime...or at the least in a boat.

These are some photos of the new addition to the cottage.  The door used to be right where the start of the opening begins.  Now it is all opened up and you just would not believe the room it affords.  It turned out so nice!!