Entertainment Naturally

Nothing beats nature in the entertainment department. It is fascinating.

J. is taping the Life series on the Discovery channel for us right now and the girls cannot get enough of it. Alright. I can’t get enough of it either,  I love watching it with them. Besides seeing animals in their environment the cinematography is unbelievably amazing. It is simply gorgeous.

Now for the past two days I have been infatuated with another sort of movie. The live cam of Molly the Barn Owl. Have you seen her? And now she has owlets, too! I’ve been checking in on her all day. I showed Addie and EJ this morning and they were kind of fascinated, too.

I figured Gracie would be all over it, so afterschool I introduced her to Molly, too. But I made the mistake of showing her while she was having her snack.

“Um, Mama? What is that owl doing?”
“Uh…I think she is having a little snack, too. But I don’t think it is banana chocolate chip bread. It looks like it might be a mouse, maybe?”
“YUCK! That is disgusting! I can’t watch this.”

Ha – perhaps she was not as enamored as I thought she would be.  I emailed the link to Em’s teacher this afternoon and she and her son got to see one of the owls hatch this evening. I’m so bummed, I wanted to see that! It was probably during the only hour today that I didn’t check in on them.

Go check ’em out, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. They are slightly addictive.

Crafty Tuesday

Hi my crafty peeps! Hope you have all had a great week. I have photographic proof of the kitchen painting. (And the reason I had nothing for CT last week!)

I finally like the color, after I went back and got “Pecanwood.” It seems the “Dusty Linen” was barely any different from the color of the trim and shutters. Now…maybe someone wants to talk me out of painting my cabinets? They would look so good with a fresh coat of “Dusty Linen” on them.

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In other crafty news, Emma turned her diorama in yesterday. Hallelujah. I am proud of her, even if she was very insistent on doing it “her way.” All her design and her creation. She definitely knew what she wanted and is good at being bossy. “No Mama, I think that the seaweed should look like this…”

Needless to say, Daddy ended up helping her assemble the final product. It turned out very cool.

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I was so excited to have a few hours to sew over the weekend and am working on putting my idea for those vintage aprons into motion. But it didn’t get far enough into motion that I can show it yet. Next week for sure.

I did finally finish a birthday gift for my best friend’s little guy. When Jen posted the tutorial for the art purses I was totally psyched. I have been looking for something that I can make for boys…it seems they don’t like vintage pillowcase dresses and such.

So I adapted the art purse into a little art book of sorts for our little guy. I obviously took the purse handles off and just put a little velcro closure instead.

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I should have made it just a little bit bigger so my Mad Libs book would fit, but overall I was happy with how it turned out.

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I have the fabric for two little girly purses cut out as well. Maybe if they have little art purses to take to church they will stop drawing all over my announcements and scrounging through my purse for pens? I think they might make good Easter gifts. I’ll try to get them done this week, too. And also I have about five different projects for a 7th birthday tea party coming up. Doesn’t 7 seem SO much older than 6??

Do you have any good crafty stuff to share today?