Sturgeon Fishing

Sunday we went fishing with Grandpa Dewey and Grandma Sallie on Grandpa's boat. It's a little too boring to take little guys sturgeon fishing. They just weren't digging sitting and waiting for the pole to wiggle. Good thing they were excited to be on the river in a boat!

Camryn and Samson entertained themselves with my camera for a little while. Here's the fishing trip from their perspective. . . .

You can see Camryn's reflection on the fish finder screen.

Samson took this picture of Cam and Grandpa.

Camryn took this one of Julian.


Samson took this one of the pole waiting to wiggle. I actually really like it.

And this little video clip is what it's like to "have a big head & little arms".

Love You Twinkie

Apparently I ruined my son's life today. He wanted to take a sack lunch to school today instead of having school lunch. Fine. He BEGGED me for a twinkie. I said no, you already have a rice krispy treat in there with your sandwich and chips. I packed up his lunch and while he was in the other room I grabbed a twinkie, wrote "love you" on it with a sharpie, threw it in and closed up the bag. Apparently that's where I messed up royally. When I asked him this evening if he noticed his surprise in his lunch he burst out crying and said "Ya, thanks a lot!" and stormed off into the bathroom. I guess "ALL the boys saw it" and were making fun of him. I guess I'll have to be more sneaky if I ever decide to try that again.


How come sweet little boys have to grow up so fast?

Teal Apron

I made this apron last week on the only day I didn't have to go shoot pictures. I haven't done any sewing since our basement flooded and my whole work station was disrupted. Thankfully nothing was ruined, but none of my stuff is where it's supposed to be. I was going to wait until I had it all fixed back up, but I just couldn't. My aunt bought me the pattern for this one. It's called the "church ladies apron". It's reversible. Cute right?

Apron Home

I've been wanting a cool place to hang my aprons in the kitchen. I've had this idea in my head for a long time but couldn't find the particular piece of wood I wanted. Wouldn't you know that while driving to Oakesdale with my sister on a treasure hunt we happened upon some treasure! There is a big old wooden grain storage tower that is being torn down and I found the perfect piece of wood for my project. Actually I was dying because I didn't have a trailer with me or I would have loaded up and used the reclaimed wood for my dining room and family room floor. I've got my sister's people trying to find out who it belongs to so I can get permission to get/buy some of that wood!

Anyway. . .one found piece of cool wood + seven hooks and knobs from Craft Warehouse = one very cool place for my aprons to live.

Cherry/Apple Tree branch lattice

I'm not "green" because it's the cool thing to do right now. What I do that is classified as "green" is because it's practical and that's the kind of girl I am. Practical. Why should I pay for something when I can make it out of something I would otherwise be throwing away? I put good use to my tree trimmings this year and made these two lattices. I'm hoping to grow grape vines up them and cover that ugly metal sheeting that's covering the garage window. I'm also going to try to make a "waddle fence". You can see the beginnings of it there along the border of the flower bed area. I'm at least pleased with the lattice.


We'll see how the fence turns out. . . . .

Embroidered Tattoo?

My sister has a tattoo of a rooster on her shoulder. I thought it would be cool if I stitched it out on a kitchen towel for her. I laid a piece of carbon-like paper for fabric on top of the towel and laid the computer print out of the rooster on top of that and traced over the lines. Then I put the towel into my embroidery hoop and just stitched along the lines that transfered onto the towel. This is the result. . . .




This is her tattoo. . .




I hope she likes it.

Ode to the button-holer:

The first time I ever made button holes was 'free hand'. I just used a tight zig-zag stitch and stitched the basic shape of a button hole. Today I learned how to use my button-holer. (Thank you You-Tube) Comical to all people who have been using this nifty tool for quite awhile, I'm sure, but awesome to me. I must have made 25 or 30 practice button holes with it just to get the feel for it and understand exactly how it worked. It is very cool. To those of you who haven't ever used one, I say go for it. It's ever so much fun and easy to do. The button holes come out soooo much more uniform and stronger too.

I put the button holes in this apron 'free hand'.

I used the button-holer on this dress I made for Camryn.