Those are the sequined balls that my mom and I have been working on for 2 Christmases now. We have a big bowl done and that many more to do.



Here is more of the baby blanket- there is more done and I hope to be done totally tomarrow as the baby shower is Sunday.



Here are the office decoations- they are now hung up at different levels over the table.

Here is the felt advent calender done! It took forever but I think it looks pretty good.

Here are some of the sugar cookies Carly and I made last Saturday- they were so good!

I started the knitted baby blanket but then relized that it was not wide enough so here is where i stopped and pulled it all out.

And here is what i nave redone of it so far- it has double the stiches across so it should be plenty wide

I was pretty productive last night. Here are the napkin holders done- I held them together with black cording and added a few beads I think they look pretty good- I want them to stand on the plates- I'll see how that goes.




I finished the first 5 days of the felt advent calender ornaments- they take about 30 min each- all of the embrodery on each one, and then adding the backs just takes a while.



The Picture below is of the Nativity Scene pattern- I am modifiying
it a little so that it will be a banner and not free standing and I am hoping in future years to add shepherds, 3 kings and an angel- so it will be a whole set but this year it will only be the holy family.



Here is my advent calender that I made on Veterns day- it was supposed to have shriky dink charms inside but they failed me- the holes closed up and they curled and got too small so now I need to modify it to make it something cool again- I am thinking about printing up little things to do and think about and sticking them under each flap.

Well I got a little done on the felt advent calender but the ornaments take a long time so that will be a slow process.

For our Thanksgiving napkins I made these fall leaves to use as napkin holders with a little black cording and a few beads I think they will look really neat.

I worked hard on the felt Advent calendar this weekend- the picture above is what it looked like on Saturday Morning and the below is what was done this morning when I left for work ( the candy cane goes down on the bottom by the lights but its not done yet)


So far it has taken about 24 total hours, and i think i have close to that much more, but its been a lot of fun.

While I was working on it this weekend, my mom was digging around in a drawer in the hallway and found a very cool pattern for a simple nativity scene- they are supposed to be stuffed and be ahnd puppets but I want to make them on to a banner, so another thing to work on this season.

I think I am going to try and turn this in to a crafty
blog- I need a place to write about what I am working on so I figure this would be the place to do it.



I made those paper beads a few weeks ago. I found a paper bead kit at Michaels that is put out by Martha Stewart, I made that kit up but then I made a template and have made many more beads in many differnt colors.

Things done so far this summer:
-Northwoods Inn
Mini Golf- Sally winning by one point

Things to do this summer:



-L.A.Zoo
-Watch a T.V.Show Taping
-Beach Train
-California Science Center
-Natural History Museum
-Junior University
-Griffith Observatory
-Hollywood Bowl July3rd and Aug 10th
-Los Angeles Public Library
-The Drive in
-Bolwing
-The beach
-U pick fruit
-camping?

A sea of oranges and reds- Prospect Park, Redlands CA

I have read the ones in bold

1.The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) I have tried and tried-even the audio version
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) pretty sure i have read everything she has written
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) i tried
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) )
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)my favorite book ever
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) i have tried many times
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Lunch day 3

Okay so again no pic

-very little left over pasta and chicken
-homemade hummus and pitas
-yougurt and granola
-a plum
-6 dove hearts

All while eaten in the back of the office while my boss is trying to calm down a crazy lady

Night day 2

I made dinner for the family so that took up a lot of time- shake and bake chicken, brown butter and garlic pasta, corn, and apples. I think it turned out pretty good.

the frustration came later when i tried to learn how to make a coin purse with a zipper-buttons easy- zippers not so much!

so i gave up, and went to go to bed only to find this:
the kitten had peed on my bed for like the 7th or 8th time in 3 weeks-its driving me crazy, so i remade my bed and its all good now.

Lunch day 2

So no picture becasue i have a headache from no caffine and i was not thinking straight when i ate it but it was:
celery and peanut butter
raspberry yougurt and garnola
honey roasted cashews
and a few dove chocolates

headache is almost gone now thank goodness

Night 1:

Okay so last night wasn't to hard. I was at the Ash Wednesday Service until 6:30, we went grocery shopping, ate dinner, I went to CVS with my mom, made my lunch and then made this wonderful lunch bag

So I decided I needed a lunch bag that would last a little longer then the regular brown paper bag- I have had these fabrics for a while waiting for the right thing to use them for and decided this was it last night. I want to put a whale(when i was little and my mom would make my lunch she had pics she would put on all of our lunch bags- mine was a whale) on it as well but it was late last night and i did not have time. I figured out how to do button holes last night on my machine, it was pretty easy actually.

Lunch Day 1

-Left over chow mien from Panda Express

-left over fried rice from Wongs

Both left from Mondays Chinesse New Year feast

-Puffy Cheetoes

-An apple

turned out it was mushy and i only ate one slice

-a pudding cup (chocolote)

-and 4 thumb print cookies from trader joes raspberry and apricot

-and a tejava

I read the newspaper while eating lunch at it was one of the best lunches i have had in awhile.

Tonight i plan to go to the store and find some lunch type items and make banana bread out of the bananas that are just right for mashing.

So today is Ash Wednesday and for lent I am going to give up:
-watching tv in my room
-and fast food
I am going to use this journal to record how it all goes, i really want to get back into the habit of a journal and i hope this will be a good time to do it. What i am thinking i will put on it are what i do instead of watching tv, what i eat instead of fast food and so on.