Spontaneous Generation

i accept

i've been wanting to do the kids clothes week challenge for a long time, but i've never signed up because it seemed so unrealistic - an hour a day, every day for a week?  now with klaus in school, the boys are getting to bed earlier (in theory - but last night, in practice!), so i should have more time alone to do focused work.  i mean, i can knit or sew for an hour any night, but depending on what's going on with them, i might spend very little of that hour accomplishing anything.

i don't know what i'll make.  klaus certainly needs pants, and i had already planned to make each of them a hat this fall.  maybe that is enough to begin with.  if i have time, i would love to make them each a raglan-sleeve hoodie.  that's wishful thinking - oh but maybe it's not!  it *could* happen.

nosebleed

this is klaus's new plant, sherlock holmes.

it's a yarrow, also called nosebleed, because it can both induce and stop them.  why would anyone want to induce a nosebleed?  to relieve a headache.  so now klaus wants to learn all about medicinal plants.  i love how one random little thing can turn into so much for a little boy.

killer art

my child is so freaking awesome.

a simple white wallet for a ninja

yeah, didn't you know?  ninjas need wallets.  white wallets.

klaus asked me to make this for one of his friends at preschool.  it was a fun, quick little project.  i didn't realize how much i would enjoy making exactly what someone else told me to do, rather than coming up with the concept on my own.

it's just white cotton twill, two rectangle sewn together.  i folded one edge up to make the pockets, then top-stitched all around the edges and at thirds along the length to divide the pockets and make it not floppy.  oh, i tucked the elastic loop into the seam at the beginning of the process, and sewed that button on at the very end.  klaus added these lego ninja cards.

i like it!  hey, i think i might need a new wallet . . .

collecting

  
this little thrift-store bucket has been so very handy for all kinds of collecting.

bookmaking

klaus has been doing a lot of bookmaking.  this is the cover of pirateology*

and my favorite spread from the book (which also included a dragon, and pirate ship, and miscellaneous symbols):

*replicating this book, which he does not have but has looked at many times.  the whole series is really cool, and he does have several, but some of them are a little grown-up for him.

klaus has also made many montserologies, a lephrechaunology, egyptology, oceanology, and has summer plans for treeology and robberology.

pre-mother's day stuff

i stole these pictures of my mom, from my mom.  on the left, sharon and ricky.  on the right, sharon and esther (her maternal grandmother).

picture frame, target by way of thrift store.  the white mat has a round opening for a cd and a square opening for the album art, so i covered that with black (scrapbook) paper, which the photos are taped onto. 

i have a ton more photos of my family, past and present, that i want to frame and hang on mother's day.

weird wip: monster house

i saw a tutorial once on making dollhouses from foam core.  i can't find that exact one, but this is the same basic idea.

a long time in the thrifting

i've been looking for a pencil cup for a good month.  i feel like this one is doing the trick.

86'd

i had a super-happy-super-sad experience today!  i discovered a new thrift store on the corner of 1st & 1st west, called, apparently, "thrift store" (and/or "for rent").  i had just picked out an amazing set of wooden-handled silverware, when another customer walked into the store and the clerk said, "hey, can you come back later this afternoon? because i'm going to close for lunch now."

really, old guy?  you're so hungry that you can't keep your store open for ten more minutes to let me ransack this fresh meat?  because i'm hungry too, you know.  hungry for thrift.  i don't have the luxury of coming back in 45 minutes.

i'll have to go tomorrow and pray my lunch doesn't coincide with his lunch.