hey it's december twentyfifth!

happy holidays!

dinner talk

"if my finger tasted like my favorite food... i could bite it off and eat it, then barf it back up later and smoosh it back into the shape of my finger and then bake it so it would be stiff and glue it back on my hand. and then i could do it all over again."

~ sweet d

craft days are good.

  

  

  

the squirrels and i have been reading the new guest posts on katie's blog, written by her super sweet & stylish daughter, hope. last week hope posted a great tutorial for making very pretty headbands, yesterday we gave it a try... (we needed some good mama/kiddo creative time together, life has been too hectic and stressful lately) ...and we had the most fun making headbands (and messes) together!! now we have so many pretty things to wear in our hair. thanks for the tutorial hope, you are awesome!

a lesson in sophisticatedlyness.

by sweet d.

one should always wear a properly trimmed, turquoise mustache.

a photo

sweet d, having a cuddle with her mama at the park.

a photo

sometimes squirrels get sad. always they are cute.

i'm still here...

... and still unpacking. the length of time it is taking us to get settled in has officially become ridiculous. but in our defense it is summertime and there's fun to be had, plus life and busy-ness keeps getting in the way. we'll be settled in someday. here are a few things we have done at our new place this past week:

  

  

{1} i claimed a space in the cupboard for our tea cups & coffee mugs. the hooks are for my most favorite ones. {2&3} the squirrels took a bath in the new claw-foot tub, and they loved it! {4} we built some drawer units for extra storage under my desk. storage is something that our new place is lacking, we're really having to exercise our creativity to find a place for everything. {5&6} we finally graduated from the "ordering pizza every night during the move because there's no possible way to cook and there's no time to leave the house" stage of moving to the "cooking meals in our new tiny but awesome kitchen" stage. 


and here are a few things we've done not at our new place this past week:

  

{1} we ventured down the street to the belmont food carts and ate the world's best french fries (i mean it) at lardo. {2} i rested my exhausted and aching self on a very pretty blanket while the kiddos played at a nearby park. {3&4} we took the squirrels out on a boat for the very first time! they had so much fun, can't wait to do it again.

oh, we also went to movie madness the other day and stayed practically all afternoon. what an amazing place and right down the street from our apartment. not only does it have every single film, television series, music video, documentary, etc. ever made, it's a film history museum full of costumes and props from the movie (not replicas). so awesome.

it's been a pretty good week. i sure do hope the sun comes out to play this weekend!

master procrastinator.

it's a mess around here. big time. we've got packing and new house finding and grocery shopping and laundry to do... but instead we're playing dress up and the squirrels are making me up worthy of a rupaul's drag race runway challenge. we'll get to that other stuff... later.

speaking of messes, i'd bet these kiddos of mine could out mess just about anyone, they're like tiny blonde haired tornados every day, all the time. good thing they're cute and funny.

eggs!

the four of us finally got around to dying some eggs today and they turned out so pretty. 

we only made 4 colors this year, green (spinach leaves), purple (purple cabbage), red (beets), yellow (orange peels & tumeric). these squirrels have a lot of eggs to eat now!

happy easter.

oops, i forgot to mention...

... i finished smelly's birthday knit last sunday.

not in time for her party sad to say, i bit off a little more than i could chew

with her cake and other party preparations.

but it's hers now and she loves it!

here are a few squirmy,

i don't want my photo taken i want to get back to playing dress-up with delaney

photos. better photos and pattern info to come.

  

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i also knit a rug and it's my new most favorite ever rug!

i started with a vintage bed sheet, cut it into a *trillion strips, connected the strips & made a

giant ball of torn fabric "yarn"

  

then i followed this pattern.
it was quick and simple. my only complaint is that i had to take a break after each section
because my wee hands would start to ache and cramp from the weight of the fabric and size of the needles.
all that is forgotten now that i have my most favorite ever rug!

*i'm sure it wasn't actually a trillion strips, but it was a lot!

happy earth day.

farm squirrels.

on tuesday d & e learned how to drive a tractor, talk about a day to remember.

e went first...

then it was d's turn...

then e was ready to go solo... 

look at her go! she was so confident and drove with impressive control.

not to mention style, how many girls do you know who drive tractors in ruby slippers?

we even recorded a little video.