Owls from cardboard tubes!
Ellie and I did the Kid Craft over on the Natural Kids Team blog today. We like crafts that use the recycling. Glue is also an attraction.
Ellie might actually need the life jacket today – it’s been raining since yesterday afternoon.
We’re spend-the-night visiting this week. At home, all our windows are broken into little panes. Here, the French doors are backed by enormous pieces of glass.
Just right for washable markers.
I wrote the How To for the Natural Kids Blog today!
Learn to make Birdseed Cakes!
A couple people asked to see Ellie’s felt tea bags.
Sewn up on the machine with ribbon strings and pinked edges.
I put dark brown in the middle so it looks like there is tea inside.
I went ahead and took a few more pictures of my favorites while I had the camera out – a lot of her Teeth Prizes have been play food.
I didn’t “make” these, just painted them. Ellie loves to count them.
Sandwich fixins. The sack in the back has potato chips.
One of the first things I tried.
I’m proud of the tortillas – I put aluminum foil inside to keep them folded!
Now I’m kind of hungry.
With special guest star Ellie Peg as Goldilocks.
I made an expansion pack for her dollhouse. Next is Great Gran and the Big Bad Wolf.
In December (as you know), knitting takes a back seat to lots and lots and lots of other craftiness.
Ellie, Betty and I made wrapping paper while wearing pajamas (we were getting over our second wretched cold).
The vacuum in the background represents my good intentions.
We also made our Annual Limited Edition Christmas Ornaments.
Mamie was a big help.
When Ellie wasn’t looking, I made a family for the dollhouse she is getting for Christmas.
Daddy, Mommy, Ellie and six cats.*
And, while it sometimes takes a back seat, there is always always knitting.
A rooster for the shop and one for a customer.
Speaking of the shop, I did 90% of our Christmas shopping through Etsy this year. Ivey Christmas 2009 has been sponsored by my own shop and my brilliant customers. Because of this, I have developed a certain compulsion to stimulate individual economies. Each handmade Christmas present is not only a unique gift, but it has put a little more jingle in someone else’s pocket and a little more happy in their New Year.
For that, I am awarding myself 10 Do-Gooder Bonus Points.
Current Standings:
Christmas – 15, Emily – 15, Cats – 2 (for helping)
*Ted went to his Forever Home the week after Thanksgiving. His new family is a retired couple who is happy to make him the Center of Attention. Which is the only thing Ted ever wanted.