Day 7-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

This is my artwork for today, the beginning of a five day post. I decided to make a wool hooked pillow, about 20 inches square. Today's home is the design for the pillow. On each of the next four days I will hook one house. (That's the plan anyway, we'll see how long it takes me to hook one house!)

Day 5 and 6-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day Five-I watched my grandchildren over the weekend and Sunday night realized I hadn't done my house for the day. I actually tried to make house shaped pancakes for my granddaughters but it was a failure. So I tried to make a house shaped toast snack. Here's the result.

Day Six-Okay, 10:00 p.m. again. Out came the silverware. I'm having fun even though some of these are 5 minute jobs!

CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

A couple of weeks ago I went to Barnes and Noble and found a book titled A Daily Creativity Journal-Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life by Noah Scalin. I decided I needed something to do so I bought the book and decided that starting June 1 I would design and make a house everyday thus my theme: Creating a Home a Day. I've always loved making a home so thought this theme would be fitting. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to make a different home everyday but I can't sleep at night for thinking of ideas. Anyway, I started and so far am on schedule. The houses above are pieced but not quilted. I framed them for a gift for my cousin Carolyn. The four houses sewn together finish at 5 inches by 7 inches so those pieces are tiny!







House #2 is made from an empty Cheerios box. Carolyn and her sister Linda came over for Carolyn's birthday and we all got involved in my house a day project.














Mine, Carolyn's and Linda's houses

Houses Day 3-I like to draw on envelopes and then when I write to my grandkids I send my letters in my illustrated envelopes. The "flying houses" are address and return address spaces obviously.

When I went to photograph my envelopes for day 3 I realized that with the flap open an envelope looks like a house. So for day 4 an envelope house! (My photography is bad-I guess I am going to have to get better but I typed the word roof for the roof, window for the windows, etc.)

Christmas, continued.

After going to John and Kim's we headed home, took and nap and then opened more presents at our house with Kim and Rigg and Peyton.
Peyton loves her blanket from Great Grandma Call.

Peyton loves to dress up with accessories from her dress-up box that her creative mom, Kim Murray made.

Christmas 2010

We started our Christmas at John and Kim's. We woke up at 5:30 a.m. so we could drive to Idaho Falls to watch their kids open presents. We were delayed because we had to scrape ice off the windshield of our car. It was super cold. We had to use my blow dryer to speed things up!

Lillee loves the quilt great-grandma Call gave her.
Lillee and Mom open another blanket.

After we opened presents at John and Kim's we went to Kim's parents to watch the kids open more presents!

Before we opened presents at Kim and John's.

Jared and Veronica Get Married

Our son Jared married Veronica on October 9, 2010 in Casa Grande, Arizona.

The cutest flower girl ever!

Jordan and Veronica share a moment before the wedding.

Summer's Almost Gone!

Summers where we live are short and this year we had an especially short one. Here are some things I managed to do this summer:

My husband and I took two of our grandkids to the nature park to feed the ducks. The ducks weren't at all shy. When they saw us coming with food they started waddling in our direction! By the time we crossed the parking lot to the lawn the ducks and geese were ready and waiting!

I played with my grandkids. One of Chaylee's favorite things is playing with playdough. Here she is making ropes. Allan refuses to call them snakes since he is not fond of snakes. He was bit by a diamondback rattlesnake. Lillee is waiting with a book. Being read to is one of her favorite things.

I made 30 Christmas stockings for soldiers in the armed forces. My friend Louise was working on the project with the women's club and I volunteered to help her out.

I made this dress for Chaylee for her third birthday. I had enough fabric leftover to make Lillee a matching one. (It's a Pink Fig pattern.)