What we see and what kids see!!

 

It's about age!!!

Sans Training Wheels

Learning to ride a bike is never easy...

 

...but then you get awesome, & it's TOTALLY easy!

♥

Bicycle

Learning to ride a bike is never easy...

...but then you get awesome, & it's TOTALLY easy!

♥

Very Funny Kids

All-Star Game 2010

Very little makes a parent more proud than seeing their children succeed. Eludius Jr. played his second year of baseball this year and was selected by his peers as one of three representatives from his team to go to the All-Star game.


Nature gave us a hot one. It was a global warming scorcher on the field. Fortunately, there was a bit of an ice-age wind blowing now and then to cool us off. However, we were in the sun most of the time, which to Irish-German-Scottish-English-Americans means plenty of sunscreen.

Despite striking out in his first at-bat, he managed to get 2 singles in his next two at-bats and scored both times. On his second hit he actually got to steal 2nd and 3rd base.


Down 4 runs in the last inning, his team scored 5 runs to go ahead, but the other team managed to score 2 more runs in the bottom of the last inning to win. Despite slumping heads and heavy hearts, parents cheered for the boys and we were all very proud of them. We can't wait until next year!

Felt Hoop Artwork Tutorial

I'm not sure why, but I have a bunch of these embroidery hoops that I've picked up at thrift stores through the years. I am always trying to think of what to do with them. And recently, I thought of this super fun--& easy--artwork that kid's can make in a jiffy!

All you need is felt, an embroidery hoop, scissors & some fabric glue OR a glue gun.

The fun thing about this artwork is that these hoops come in ALL different sizes. And you can find circular or oval-shaped hoops too.

Felt can be purchased in rectangle pieces or sold by the yard. You'll need a large piece of felt to use as the base for building your artwork on. Once the felt is tightly attached in the hoop, trim off the excess to about 1/2" all the way around.

You'll eventually want to fold the felt over & glue the edges to the backside of the hoop. You can do that now or wait until your design is created. It doesn't really matter.

Now the fun can begin! Pull out your felt & craft away!

For smaller artists, cutting felt in random shapes is easiest. You can even arrange them to look like a mosaic.

One of my daughters found pre-cut owl shapes in my felt stash, with sewing machine embroidered details.

For the cherry pie, I attached a cream colored crust with a wavy edge & cut out cherry circles in 3 colors/textures of red.

To attach the decorative pie crust top, I used pinking shears & glued the pieces to each other with a weaving/lattice effect before actually attaching it to the pie.

Make sure little ones DO NOT use a glue gun. Fabric glue also works.

I hung the food inspired artwork in the kitchen. I'm thinking I need another one up there...

For the pizza artwork, the girls had fun picking their own pre-cut toppings & building their own custom pizza.

♥ Nikki