Mark is accumulating new skills right and left. Here he is drinking from a cup, all by himself! We don’t trust him to have it on his tray by himself yet but he definitely understands how to use it!
You’ll get the idea in the first few seconds but watch until the end if you want a little “Ellie drinks from a cup” action also! 🙂
I just finished one thing this week – Nik’s T-shirt quilt! I need a helper around to take pictures of the whole thing so I’ll post them in a separate post. But here’s proof of the finished applique!
“Snoozer” and “1520” used to be iron-on letters. Then they disintegrated in the wash the first time I washed the quilt. So I picked off all the old pieces, traced new ones, cut them out of felt and appliqued them on. This whole process only took me nine months.
I’m linking up with “Finish It Up Friday” at Crazy Mom Quilts.
The [Still Just As Long Because I Added Another Project Again] List of WIPs
(as of 1/24/14)
Thanks to everyone for all your great suggestions!! I’m over 50 at this point so this project may actually end up taking me five years to finish. I’ve had grand plans of planning out the entire five years in advance but I think that’s overly ambitious of me (and why it’s taken me so long to get this list posted). So here’s the list of books that I’m going to attempt to tackle over the next five years. I’ll be blogging about each one as I finish it. Feel free to suggest more if you think of them!
My goal is to finish this list by July 2018.
I’m also submitting this list to The Classics Club to join in the community over there!
NA = Newbery Award
NF = nonfiction
P.S. Please let me know if you see any spelling mistakes in titles or authors and I’ll correct them. I tried to double check everything but it’s possible I missed some errors.
We made a mad dash for Trader Joe’s this morning to stock up on peanut butter because who wants to be house bound if you’re out of peanut butter? We also bought arborio rice because what if I want to make risotto (which we are currently addicted to)?
Have fun riding out the storm, East Coasters!
Ellie, showing you the snow, what little of it there is now
I did all the fast, easy projects last week so I don’t have many to cross off the list this week. But I am making progress on finishing up Nik’s quilt. I also fixed the office shades (a couple of the pull strings had come undone). I am also almost done with Mark’s quilt top so I made good progress on that this week. Thanks for helping keep me motivated to get these projects done!
the “2” in progress from last night
I’m linking up with “Finish It Up Friday” at Crazy Mom Quilts.
The [Still Just As Long Because I Added Another Project] List of WIPs
(as of 1/17/14)
If Mark gets to sleep in the doll bed, Ellie should too! 🙂
much better with a blanket! 🙂
It’s definitely a good thing that I decided to publicize my intention to finish my WIP’s! 🙂 This week, I got a bit more work done on Mark’s quilt (although I still need two more blue prints so I’m at a bit of standstill). More importantly, I fixed Mark’s rabbit, finished Ellie’s bird, fixed my tank top, and sewed up the hole in the thumb of our glove hot pad! Hooray! That’s four projects off the list!
I’m linking up with “Finish It Up Friday” at Crazy Mom Quilts.
The [Not-So-Shameful Anymore] List of WIPs (as of 1/10/14)
We had so much fun celebrating Mark’s first birthday last weekend. We made and ate lots of amazingly delicious pizza.
“Where has this delicious food been my whole life?”
Stealing a great idea from my sister, Mark’s first birthday “cake” was actually just a pile of just barely sweetened whipped cream. The rest of us ate the best gingerbread I’ve ever had (with the rest of the whipped cream).
“What is this weird stuff on my fingers?”
saying “ooh” with Mama but still not putting anything in his mouth
He never really did dive in and eat it but with a little help from me, he got a few tastes!
Then, we had the fun of opening presents! Who doesn’t love that?! 🙂
Happy Birthday Mark! We love you!
Hi everyone! I’m planning to join in on the “Classics Club“, which is a challenge to read 50 classic books in 5 years. I’m planning to read one a month so I’ll actually finish in just a little over 4 years. To start, I need to come up with my list of 50 books to read.
I’m planning to reread some of Jane Austen’s books because I’m also [sort-of, not really] participating in the “Motherhood and Jane Austen” online book club. So that’s six books for my first year but I need ideas for more! I’m thinking of reading some of the older Newbery Award winners and some Charles Dickens (any favorites to recommend?). I’ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird (*gasp, I know), I don’t remember Jane Eyre and I know there are more holes in my knowledge/education. I’m also open to non-fiction recommendations, which you would consider to be classic, important knowledge builders.
So…what recommendations can you share with me for must-read classic books? I’ll post my complete list in the next couple weeks! I’ll also be blogging each book as I finish reading it so perhaps some of you might like to read along with me?
(For inspiration, here’s the club’s “Big Book List“. And their definition of “classic” is simply something published more than 25 years ago.)
This morning, when we woke up to single digit temperatures (something like -9 with wind chill), we opened our bedroom blinds and saw…
ice on the windows!!!
I’m home! Hooray! Life is finally normal!
I know, a pitiful accumulation of ice that’s now long gone, any true Alaskan would sneeze at it, but I haven’t seen it in a long time! 🙂
We did have an appointment to go to this morning but other than that, we’ve been holed up inside all day. Because even though if I still lived in Glennallen, today would feel like a heat wave, I’m currently a soft, wimpy East Coast dweller and…baby, it’s cold outside!
Salmon and Souvlaki 