W e have a new member of our family. This little girl is the gift that keeps on giving. I can't get enough of her! Just when I think she can't get any cuter.....she gets even cuter. We named her Pippa. We call her "Pip Squeak" because she is so tiny. She only weighs 5 lbs, full grown! The kids adore her. She loves to be held like a baby. She is so precious!
S till playing catch up on my blog. November 15, 2011, was National Bundt Day and if you haven't heard of The Food Librarian, you simply must check out her blog.
Here is Mary's round-up of all of us who made a bundt on National Bundt Day. I made a lemon bundt. Delish! Mary sent me a new button for my apron. It is my second year making a bundt for NBD. I'm starting a collection of sorts of bundt pans. The Monkey Bread bundt recipe (see image below), has been my family's favorite. I have made the Snickerdoodle bundt that was pretty popular with my kids too (see Mary's blog for both recipes).
My friend just finished her basement and she has a new, beautiful kitchen. I decided to embroider some towels for her as a birthday gift. I had purchased the iron-on images some time ago.
I've decided that iron-on transfers are the only way to go. There are some adorable embroidery patterns out there but most all of them require you to use those ink transfer sheets. No matter how hard I press, I CANNOT get the image to transfer over well enough for me to see the image. I end up making some of it up as I go and it isn't pretty. Yup, I'm sold on the iron-ons!
I have long ignored my blog. I don't know where time went! I'm going to try to be a more regular poster.
So much has happened since my last post. Some family birthdays have passed. A Christmas has gone by. MiniMe is mid-way through first grade. Where should I begin? How about a little craft love.
I finished this quilt as a Christmas gift for my in-laws. It has a lot of Joel Dewberry fabrics. After completing a hexagon quilt, this one seemed SO easy. I wish I had been more careful in taking pictures. We were trying to get the package to the post office so I took what pictures I could take quickly. I love the colors.
I had one of the best Fourths ever. It was all about family and it was just.....well.....nice. I woke up and went for a run and this beautiful sight was in the sky.
We went to Snooze for breakfast and I ordered some yummy red velvet pancakes with cream cheese icing. I wish I had taken a picture but I was much too anxious to eat them! MiniB sure liked them though!
After breakfast we walked around Old Town Fort Collins. I love the piano project going on in Old Town. There are random pianos placed all over town and there is a note on them asking that you just cover them if it starts to rain (there is a tarp nearby). What a great idea!
The kids were so excited to get their faces painted. Aren't they cute?
We ended the day with more family fun. I made a delicious apple pie and failed again to take a picture. What can I say? I'm all about eating the food and not stoping to capture it! Ha ha. I wish I could say we watched some fireworks but the kids were zonked and were asleep by 8:00pm. We could hear them though! It's the first 4th of July I didn't actually see one firework but it was one of my favorite ones nonetheless.
MiniB LOVES robots. I saw some tin can robots on Pinterest and thought it would be a really fun craft for the kids. I think the robots were featured in Family Fun magazine too but I didn't see them there. I love that magazine!
We used a lot of misc. stuff from our junk drawer (i.e., spools, magnets, paper clips, google eyes, sponge) and got creative. I love this robot with earrings:
The kids are using the cans to hold their pencils. They totally loved this activity. It was fun and easy--two things that I completely need right now.
I received a gift certificate to KnitPicks for my birthday. I've been wanting Cookie A's book, knit. sock. love. for some time now. As soon as I received my certificate, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it! It arrived this week along with this yummy sock yarn and some new sock needles. I can't wait to get started. But I'm still working on this project so my socks will have to wait....