Summer Vacation

Slight Misunderstandings

"Dad, can you get me a water bottle?"

"Why do you want a water buffalo?"

Callapitters are so cute. Caterpillars too.

Paper Beads

These turned out so cool! The young lady who is watching my kids this summer made these. I can't wait to see what she does with them. I especially like the map ones.

Birthday Alligator

I needed a gift for a three year old for this weekend and this is what I came up with. My sister received one of these when she was a kid from my Aunt. I received a hippo from the same pattern set. This pattern has been in the family for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time. Several of my cousins and now their children received stuffed critters from this pattern set. When I went through my mom's sewing stuff, I took this and a few others.

The alligator from my sister's childhood is still around and my daughter loves it. I had bought fabric to make one for her ages ago and never go around to it. My Aunt has given her her one already and I still had all the materials around, so...

ta da! The alligator! He's about three feet long.



I will also be giving her some alligator themed books - "An Extraordinary Egg" and "Wide Mouthed Frog". I hope she likes them!

Summer Beach Reading - Something Different

Whenever I go away for the weekend or on vacation, I like to take magazines. This year, I've picked magazines I've never read before. I can't make myself pay $5 per magazine for something I might not like, so I've left the motorcraft magazines alone...so far. It is fun to read stuff I don't usually read though so who knows, maybe next time I'm at Barnes & Noble I WILL buy the Alpacas magazine (yes, they really did have a magazine there about Alpacas).

Here are some of my June/July magazines:

For spring break, I chose House Beautiful and Yoga Journal so this time, the Yoga Journal really isn't new. I was surprised at how much I liked it though so I'm buying it again. Who knows, maybe someday I'll become more of a yoga enthusiast and develop the ability to make myself into a pretzel while feeling really focused, centered and grounded?