"Bailey, go pick up your toys."

"No. Good-bye Mommy. You're Fired."

I couldn't help but laugh. I have no idea where he heard you're fired. But, he did pick up his toys.

Here is my second article; it's about how I made our family cookbook after being inspired by Bailey's strawberry painting.
"Ceramic Tile Painting" using bisque tiles is also really good too. It is definitely something I'm going to try with my boys.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2009/06/pop-forum-meet-todays-featured-reader-4.html#uslPageReturn

My first article is now listed:

http://www.handmadenews.org/department/index.php?did=20

Enjoy!

This morning, I was hired by Handmadenews as a columnist for their Crafy Kids department. I'll be writing two articles a week.

Pretty Groovy huh?

Yesterday, I finally finished designing a Wizard of Oz cross stitch pattern called, Toto By the Ear. Dorothy, hanging out the window of the cabin holding onto Toto's ear, is trapped inside the tornado. The cabin is tilted and there are sudtle lines that illustrate the winds of the tornado. The illustration came from the annotated Wizard of Oz ( Read more... )

I got a new toy, a custom hand-carver rubber stamp for my etsy store. Now I can make business cards and stamp labels on products.

The stamp was made by sugarskull77. She does fantastic work.

Yesterday, Hilary and I caught a matinee of Star Trek. There are so many things I love about the movie, it is hard to describe.

(SPOILERS)

First of all, the actual character of Captain Kirk has the real possibility of being altered because within the first scene of the movie, Kirk's birth, begins the shift into a new alternate reality where Kirk ( Read more... )

After getting some advice from Jessie about photography, I updated some of my pictures on Etsy. My lack of photography skills, my low-tech camera, plus the help of my scanner was just not cutting it. She suggest that I use natural light, possibly taking the pictures outside on the front steps and use a color colored non-white background.

So today, ( Read more... )

Hilary and I played a game of Manoeuvre the other night.  Mainly, because I wanted to play a wargame I really liked after getting very upset with Panzer Grenadier: Road to Berlin.

The scenario of Panzer that we played had the Germans invading Russia in winter through a mine field, which honestly, was never a good idea.  Because it was winter, my ( Read more... )