Egg-imals

I've been meaning to post about these for a few weeks. But, Hunter has been so horribly protective if them lately that I have not had a chance to snap a photo. However, this week he was kind enough to display them on the piano for ALL to see. He's SUPER proud of them. So proud that he displayed them at our Ward Talent Night last week.

It all started back at Easter this year. We made animals out of eggs for name placements for our fabulous Easter Dinner. Hunter helped then too. Then I put them away with the Easter stuff after wards. Hunter ran across "the owl" that didn't make it into the box and he took very good care of it: played with it, protected it (from Robyn), gave it a name, slept with it, fed it, etc. Then, he decided he wanted more. So, we spent a Sunday re-creating the mouse, the cat, the pig, etc. We finished up the collection with this guy who was 100% created with Hunter's fabulous imagination.:
Okay, this egg-imal is 1/4 skunk (tail--can't really see it in this picture)), 1/4 dog (ears), 1/4 owl (wings), 1/4 cat (nose). I'm not even sure which animal contributed the smirk or the two feet. What did Hunter name him...X27X

mmm....must be a relative of 626.

Gotta love Hunter's imagination!! It never ceases to amaze me. I have trouble keeping up with it sometimes.

By the way, I DID NOT come up with this Egg-imals idea. Hats off to my favorite magazine FamilyFun for such wonderful ideas!

Foods With Moods

The other day I went out and picked one of my "poor excuse for a pepper" orange peppers. The smallest pepper I've ever seen...

Then, I got to looking at it and I just started to chuckle:
It reminded me of a much-loved book that is read MANY times in our home, even now: How Are You Peeling: Foods with Moods by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers Who wouldn't laugh at these wonderful pictures in this book! If you haven't read this book, check it out!

Made me wonder what MY poor little pepper might be feeling...

AFTER!

Robyn wanted to be in the picture too...and a trooper she has been as we painted, pounded and organized (still doing).

I had to get over the NEED for all my boxes to match in shape and color. Obviously they don't, but I guess I'll be okay with that. If you know me I like things to match and I'm a big fan of squares and rectangles (using circular boxes was a major stretch for me). Maybe I'm finally branching out...

The burgundy square on the wall is a cork board made of 6 12x12 squares. The vase holds my artificial flowers. I think everything else is pretty self explanatory.

There are still a few little things I want to do but we're basically done with this part of the bedroom. Our bedroom is functional but not too decorative right now. When we get it decorated (with pictures, curtains and stuff) we'll take more photos.

I'm just amazed how much clutter we were able to eliminate!

Yeah...now projects won't be so stressful for me.

Before...

See this?My "almost-too-embarrassed-to-admit-it" craft....um--we'll call it...spot. Yes--nothing short of a horrible mess. You're probably asking yourself how in the world I get anything done in this pigsty! I ask myself the very same question. Notice there's not even a chair...and the ribbon nice and stacked on the left of the table...did that just before I took this photo. It WAS a pile of spooled ribbon that had been promptly "unspooled" by my curious toddler. In some cases the spool was completely destroyed. Then it just became a pile of tangled ribbon.

Once upon a time it was nice and organized (yeah--LAST summer right after we bought my table). But, after many hairbows, dresses, bags, etc. it turned into this. The sad thing is, Jaren has to put up with it as well because my craft "spot" is shared space in our master bedroom. So, until I get a handle on this our bedroom will be anything BUT romantic.

I (rather "we") intend to tackle this project this weekend. We bought shelves and various types of nice boxes (again LAST summer) to help me organize my stuff and paint for the room (months ago). But for some odd reason we haven't gotten around to getting it ALL put together. We intend to do it this weekend. I hope that by blogging about it here it might actually get done.

So, here's BEFORE:(can you spot the difference between the two photos?)

Hopefully, next week we'll have AFTER! Wish us luck!!

Beautiful Reminder

Yes, here I go again...blogging about flowers. I can't help it!

At one time I used an oversized--too fat, too tall--flower vase to display my zealous zinnias. Besides the fact that I never really liked the flowers in THAT vase, it always constricted my view out my kitchen window. As a result, I would miss those enchanting glimpses of a gorgeous swallowtail or a buzzing hummingbird. For me, that's just not okay. I needed something smaller--short and fat.

I acquired these short, mini vases at a recent Relief Society Home Decor Swap (such a wonderful idea, by the way). I must say I absolutely love my zinnias so much better now. A big THANK YOU to the sister who gave these away. These zinnias are a wonderful reminder of all the beauty that can still be found in this world. And, everyone knows that we need a bit of that kind of reminding everyday.

Course, now I need my kitchen to match...save that for another blog