Our Spot: Faster Than the Speed of Light: 13 mo update

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Faster Than the Speed of Light: 13 mo update

SMACK-dab in the middle of blowing kisses!

"It's like the shirt says ladies, heartbreaker."

The boys are very much into super hero's right now. Not a morning goes by without Superman and Batman sweeping through the houuse. It's what they play together for the longest period of time and it is very entertaining to watch, if you have the time. SO Cole is also known as the Silent Destroyer and is quickly becoming Mom's nemesis. Crimes include: ripped books, colored markers on the table, bathroom decor on the floor (which means he's climbing up on top the toilet seat), TP un-rung, Shoe laces missing from shoes, church visual aids sucked to shreads leaving marker all over his mouth and cheeks, bead necklaces broken and scattered, straps broken off decor boxes...etc...etc. I try and catch him in the act and I'm always too late. The funny part is that whenever I find him, he looks up at me with those big blues, laughs and crinkles his nose. Oh! He is SO cute and such a stinker. Anyway I title this blog "Faster than the speed of light" because I cannot catch him in action with the camera AND when I want to catch a smile from this child it is IMPOSSIBLE!!! The above photos are the best he's taken since my Sis-in-law took his 1 yr pics.

1 comment:

Cami said...: Aren't you glad they are so cute. The destruction could be even more frustrating.; February 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM

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Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.