Our Spot: At least get out of First Gear!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

At least get out of First Gear!

When pregnant, I never feel the speed and energy I do while not expecting (not surprising). So I'm finally starting to feel better and it's like getting out of driving in only first gear for three months and FINALLY moving into second which brings with it relief and hope that I'll beable to pick up more speed at least for the next trimester. Here is my attempt at bringing everyone up to speed with our goings on... in reverse order of course since I'm not about to fiddle around with rearranging all the pics I've uploaded. Next time, cause I'm sure there'll be one I'll upload better. :)

Snow has finally arrived and Cole loves dawning his suit... for about ten minutes.

Gage made the cute hat and scarf at his primary activity.

Photo shoot with Lans' sister Kim. It's so nice to her talent in the family. THANKS KIM!

Making "Thankful Trees" with Gigi and Grandpa! ON Thanksgiving

Good pic of mom

Geocaching for hidden treasure....where is it?

Amy with Gage and Grant keeping warm in the back of the Durango. Seven months from this picture there is no way I'm squeezing in the back seat.

AWW someone stole the cache, the crook!

Baking cookies with good buddy Megan! Before Thanks giving

3 comments:

kg said...: Don't know how I missed this post! Nice update, fun pictures, like you're new banner :) :); December 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Wendy said...: Those pictures of Megan and Gage made me giggle. Maybe we'll have him over to play early next week.; December 19, 2008 at 2:07 PM
jenny.hawkes said...: Glad you are feeling better. I absolutely LOVE the pictures Kim took of ya'll! Beautiful family!! We'll root for a girl for you, but your boys are so cute...; December 19, 2008 at 9:39 PM

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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.