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K went to her first convention this summer, Con Kasterborous. She wanted to be Clara in the dress from Journey to the Center of the Tardis. Not an easy dress to find. </div>
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So we decided to make one. First we had to make a new Ducky K, she has changed shape a bit since the last time we made one. Just an old t shirt, some duct tape and PVC Pipe.</div>
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Then we found some red material with a bit of black and white in it. It's not a rayon type fabric like the original, just cotton, but it worked fine. Bob helped keep that material right there on the floor. </div>
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it went together pretty easy. Ducky K II really helped with the fitting. Makes it soooooo much easier. And doesn't fuss when I stick pins in it.</div>
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After we had everything cut out, I stenciled the pattern on the fabric with white acrylic paint. I used a piece of an old thin plastic cutting board and Xacto knife to make a stencil. It went faster than you would think. It's not perfect, but its a good approximation to the pattern.</div>
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K made all her accessories. I tried to find enough old ladies watches, super cheap, drove all over. K went to Michaels, found all the bits and made her own bracelet for under 5 dollars. Perfect.</div>
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And she made herself a History of the Time War book purse. Just a cardboard book box, paint, thin foam and metal foil. It was a big hit.</div>
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Con Kasterborous was AWESOME!!!! We had so much fun! Her clara Costume was a big hit. There were tiny children in the Tardis that went traveling with Clara!</div>
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Mr. Man was her Doctor for the day. So sweet.</div>
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There was an amazing full size remote controlled Dalek!</div>
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K got to go to Dragon Con for the first time too and had a blast! She went with her "Accompanying Doctor" and her friend the Dalek.</div>
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And the Dalek's dad, Akbar. Best costume ever!!! IT"S A TRAP!!!!!</div>
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Can't wait till next year!</div>
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I'm not a huge celebrity follower. Fangirl of Fandoms, yes, absolutely, I need help. But not the actors. They are just people who are as flawed as the characters they play, just in different ways.<br />
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But I am so very impressed with Jennifer Lawrence. She is a mess, but from what I've seen, in a very honest way. In a Hey, this is totally awesome, and I have no idea what I'm saying, and I'm tripping over my dress, but I'm gettin' up and goin' on, cause this is all just awesome,… SQUIRREL!!!!! <br />
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I am sure she will do something just awful very soon, cause she is in an awful business and very, very few can escape unscathed. But I will always remember her now, as this young woman, who is really very admirable.<br />
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pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242464262212399496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739301315605464691.post-59293665472294466382013-07-27T09:47:00.003-07:002013-07-27T09:47:57.222-07:00You're a wizard B!<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">A young friend of ours turned 11 the other day. He found a little something on his front porch when he got home from his water park birthday party. There was a white feather under the letter. There was almost no wind, thank heavens.</span><br />
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He's a huge HP fan, and his mom said he was LOVED the letter, thought the detail was very cool. He suspected I might have had something to do with it, I have made him HP stuff in the past. After he read the whole thing, he ran to his mom and said "Tell Mrs. pj I know it isn't real because,... Albus Dumbledore is dead!" Yup, that's why it isn't real. Funny!<br /><br />He told his mom at bedtime "This is one of my best birthdays ever!" Cool!</div>
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<br />pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242464262212399496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739301315605464691.post-83046540253201550482013-05-08T09:52:00.003-07:002013-05-08T09:55:02.236-07:00From the way back: Bees: The good the bad and the just plain evil.My friend Pren asked about this post and I actually found it. So I thought I'd repost, corrected for spelling and grammar. Oh my. Silly me.<br />
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I just read Pren's harrowing tale of bees and garbage cans and gas pumps and jerk bystanders and I just had to share my life with bees.</div>
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When I was a kid, my folks,... well lets just say they were city people of the earth. Good Neighbors took it just a bit farther than my folks, but it was not all that far off.<br />
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We lived in the suburbs, not the city, so it was OK to cover almost every inch of yard with garden. And converting the old septic tank to rainwater storage was perfectly sanitary (they had the tank chemically sterilized first.) And digging up flower beds to plant tomatoes was almost as pretty really. And I'm sure the neighbors found the 12 foot pole bean tee pee in the side yard amusing (mainly because in the fall, my mom would help me cover it with blankets and all the neighbor kids would come over and have pow wows and dance and fight to the death(figuratively, not literally, it was so cool!) And raising rabbits was not illegal, and made the veggies grow beautifully. And my mom would go to the co-op and buy huge sacks of flour and rice and beans, and all the neighbors could buy smaller amounts from her. And the tomato canning parties were really fun and her homemade cream of tomato soup was to die for and she shared. And sneak your extra zucchini onto your neighbors porch wasn't just a day, it was a whole season and it was really fun, cause I got to do the sneaking .<br />
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But when they brought home the bee hives,... things got a wee bit tense.<br />
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Now, honey bees are in fact very docile, very calm, very beneficial insects, and unless you bounce a baseball off the side of their hive more than three times in a minute, they really don't want to attack. (Yes, my brother and I did extensive testing on that and lived to tell about it. We are neither of us allergic to bee stings by the way.) I was only ever stung once by our bees (see previous parentheses) and helped my folks work with the hives for years: harvesting honey, marking queens, splitting hives, capturing swarms,... Yes, I have been elbow deep in many a hive and absolutely covered in bees. I was of course wearing protective gear and had my trusty smoker at the ready. Really though, if you smell clean, and don't throw baseballs, you can walk right up to a hive and they just leave you alone. And the honey and the wax are fabulously worth the work. I still have some bees wax from when I was a kid. Smells like summer. *sigh*<br />
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The neighbors were very understandably, not pleased with my folks beekeeping aspirations. At first. But my folks listened and explained and shared honey and then the first swarm took off and my father and I captured it, and set up a hive in our neighbors yard,... and then another, and another, till every house near us had a hive and everyone was beekeeping together and it was really kinda cool. I have very fond memories of those days and although I have no desire to be a suburban beekeeper myself, I would recommend it to those how have the desire, and a good rapport with your neighbors.<br />
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Wild bees are another story. They are just plain evil little stinging machines. Honey bees can only sting once, the stinger takes part of their abdomen with it and they just die. Stinging is not in their best interest, therefore, they really don't unless provoked, i.e., baseball. Ground bees on the other hand, hornets, yellow jackets, wasps, etc, they can sting to their hearts content without even a dull ache, they like it, they are evil. We killed them at every opportunity and still do to this day. Sevin is fabulouss stuff. Use it wisely.<br />
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K is terrified of bees, because she is also not allergic to bee stings. She has never provoked them though (how my mother lived through me is a mystery), all her 6 stings were dumb luck:. Wasps under the porch, ground bees in the yard or in the wall of her playhouse. We keep a can of bee death handy at all times now.<br />
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And like everyone else, I always thought that running and flailing was a bad idea, because with honey bees, it is. So naturally I always told K the same thing. Well, last summer, we were in the Smoky Mountains at this little picnic area that turned out to be beautiful, but one huge ground bee nest. K was being careful and Mr. Man and I were watching, but the bees were everywhere. So she and this boy she had met were playing near this little stream and all of a sudden there were bees everywhere. K takes off like a shot, out distances the poor kid,... who ended up getting stung three times, two in the EAR. She didn't get stung, but felt really bad that he did the right thing and did.</div>
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So now I say, RUN! Run like the wind, but be faster than everyone else, and don't stop till you can't hear buzzing. And, if you're running, why not flail. At least it lets everyone around you know whats going on, so they can run, and flail. Soon the whole thing look like a scene from The Birds, except with hornets.</div>
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OK, am I the last person on the planet to find out there is a RIPTIDE PENCIL!!!!!</div>
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Because you can make Handmade Percy Jackson Valentines with them!!!!</div>
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K and her friends loved these during their Percy Jackson craze, goodness that must have been,... 4 years ago. She heard from one of her friends just last fall that he still had the cheap white pen with the faded sticker on the side. Handmade creativity for the win!</div>
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I used the <a href="http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/vintaj-natural-brass-altered-blanks-694885/">Vintaj Natural brass altered blanks</a>, my ball pein hammer and my table vise for a hammering surface. These blanks are very thin and I found less is more when it comes to the hammer. These need very little hammer action. Though I kinda liked how the blank buckled. I just kinda mashed it with my rubber hammer till it was pleasingly flatish afterwards.<br />
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K was pleased, even wore it to school that day. Though she had to take it off to play her bass at school. The chain is long and kept clanging against the side of the bass. The chain and jump ring are from the Tim Holt Collection. The brass matched very nicely.<br />
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"Make a teenager an necklace and she can wear it till she looses it. Make her the necklace, AND, give her the tools to make the necklace, and she can loose the necklace, make another, loose that one, make a third, make a couple for friends, loose hers again, make a fourth, and so on, and so on,... forever." <br />
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And tiny (5 inch) Nutcrackers in their Marching Band uniform with tiny mellophones for Mello buddies and a drummer one for her boyfriend.</div>
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pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242464262212399496noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739301315605464691.post-45094919189098907162012-11-07T08:14:00.000-08:002012-11-09T07:42:41.902-08:00I am so going to wear this to school!!!!For Halloween, K wanted to be a pirate. A steampunk pirate to be exact. She needed some kind of bodice, so we decided on a leather(ish) laced waist cincher. It took a couple of days, mostly because I had made a basket the day before and my hands were torn up: cuts, scrapes, raw all over. I wasn't being careful and I mangled my hands. Good thing it was black, the blood stains don't show.<br />
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The baby kitties loved it. All swishy and ribbons galore. She exchanged the Fez for a black cap and Quiddich goggles. It was very cool.<br />
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Any who, I will be spending the next few... months uploading the photos, which were not lost, back onto my blog. Please forgive the broken link mess.<br />
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Not really all that upset actually. Should have done this long ago. And the trip down memory lane is rather fun. Lookie what I found<br />
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More to come. Maybe even a plushy blue box!pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242464262212399496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739301315605464691.post-4345153578959199022012-08-28T07:26:00.000-07:002012-08-28T08:14:50.349-07:00Fan Girl + Sock Hop = Awesome! We have started swing dancing. Let me rephrase that. K has started swing dancing, and Mr. Man and I go along to chaperone. We dance a few, but we just aren't in shape, yet. K on the other hand, dances the all night. Well, till about 9:30. She's a beginner, but she's getting the hang of it. And all her friends are beginners too, so they have a great time.<br />
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So, the weekend before school started, the local swing dance society held a back to school Sock Hop. With a costume contest(!!!!!) K wanted a retro 50's dress(!!!!!), we looked at patterns, and even though we started a week ahead, we just didn't have the time. So, she settled on a poodle skirt.<br />
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Now, K is a fan girl and not a girly girl at all, so though she wanted to wear a poodle skirt, she was not interested in some fluffy pink poodle on a pearl leash. Oh no. It had to be something fan related. Her first thought was a dalek skirt, with big yarn pom poms in lines all round and felt strips for the bars. Fabulous idea, too funny, but she decided that would be too obvious. She wanted it to be subtle.<br />
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She just wasn't sure what she wanted, so we picked a burgundy felt for the skirt, a wide black elastic for the waist, some shear black to make a scarf, and she picked out a bunch of felt rectangles, in a variety of colors for the decoration. My job was to make the skirt, which was the easy peasy part. Her job was the decoration.<br />
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She loved it, it was a big hit, and she had a wonderful time. One of the older dancers told her at first, he just thought it was another poodle skirt, but then he looked close, and it was the coolest poodle skirt EVER! We left before the costume contest, but we didn't care.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There were about 20 kittens to choose from, total kitten overload. After an hour and a half, we finally decided on the two that were healthy, happy, not too crazy, and crawled on us and purred. There were others that were absolutely wild, not taking those. We thought we were so smart.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well, they sure fooled us, cause these two are nuts!!!! Climbing, wrestling, chewing, scampering, scratching, fur covered balls of crazy!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Susan is not happy with them. Hisses every time she walks past their door. She has been our almost silent cat. Yeah, not now. She is constantly telling us what idiots we were to bring those two home.</span><br />
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Part of the adoption process at A New Leash on Life, is a home visit. So I thought, why not share. These are our fur babies. Miss. Kitty *sniff* is standing, and Susan is reclining in the Advent Wreath that they fought over all through the Christmas Season. Right after this picture was taken, Miss. Kitty smacked Susan on the head and chased her off. She loved that Advent wreath. *sigh*<br />
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We had to let Miss. Kitty go last week. Our sweet fur baby had polycystic kidney disease, not a good thing, not at all. She was never a well kitty, never weighted over 8 pounds, lost weight her whole life. She was only 8 years old, but it was time. She knew she was loved, to the end, purred the whole time. We miss her so. Goodbye my sweet fur baby.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I took K to the local library before she could focus. Before she could stand, I would carry her in and sit her on the floor next to the book bins and she would spent hours flipping through the pages of the picture books. She asked for her first library card before she was two, as soon as she could form the sentence. She was the teeny tiny girl at the story times that would answer questions, and then ask questions, and then want to check out the book afterwards. The wonderful children's librarian, the beautiful and brilliant, Ms. P, who still asks about her every time I see her, always talked to K for as long as K wanted to talk. The library was where she wanted to go the day before school started, and after school everyday she could, and on the day school let out and all summer long.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Her love of all things Harry Potter started at a party at the library, when she wore her Mandrake costume to her first Harry Potter Party. She hadn't even read the first book or seen the movies, but all the little Harry's and Hermione's were so excited over her costume they just had to pull her out of her pot and make her scream with glee. Books, and cookies, and punch, and crafts, and librarians who loved it all. She was hooked for life. Since then she has been Ginny, and Anna Beth, and Hermione, and Luna, and Sarah Jane, and a fairy and Katniss, for parties and dances and story times. My favorite is still the mandrake, all grown up now, in her t shirt and jeans</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A few years ago, she saw older kids volunteering, and asked if she could join them. Ms. J, who had known K for years, looked at her and whispered "How old are you?" When she heard the answer, which was a few years shy of the 14 minimum, she said "This will be our little secret." We've spent the last few summers in the library, she volunteering, me playing with sticks and string, keeping an eye. Good times.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This year, K has been selected to apply for an internship. You have to be 15 or in 10th to 12th grade, but she has been grandfathered in, due to the librarians at two branches wanting her. The librarian at one branch said, she would love to have her, but understands the other branch is closer, and gas is not cheap. The librarian at the closer branch said "She's Mine!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tuesday was K's last day of school. She was home by 12:30 and at the library at 5:50 for volunteer orientation. At 7pm she started volunteering. They dove right in to remodeling the teen room, clearing shelves till 8pm and then she was back the next morning at 7am to start painting. I picked her up at 11am, covered in primer and monster mash green paint and forced her to go to the orthodontist and a piano lesson. She's back again this morning, reloading shelves and assembling new furniture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She was assigned a project before school even finished. The library has created an outdoor reading garden. There is a bridge and a counting path and a little house and an outdoor story time area and... it is just wonderful. They are also making a paver hopscotch game. K was assigned to paint the first block</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As soon as she finished she yelled "Run! Run! It's the Clergy!!!!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As we were driving home yesterday, after she had stopped whinging that she had to leave, she said "Mom, I think I want to be a librarian. Of course they make even less than musicians." I told her to do what makes her happy. She smiled. "Librarian musician!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yup, she'll be happy.</span>pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242464262212399496noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739301315605464691.post-44257015546916423302012-04-18T08:55:00.001-07:002012-04-18T08:55:58.696-07:00Origami = Peace + Tranquility + SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Seriously, origami is the best cure for the blues I have ever found. Why? Because it is frustrating and maddening and incomprehensibly confusing, until that point where you figure out you valleyed instead of mountaining, and then it all comes out perfect and adorable, and it is so cute you just can't help being happy. Kinda like my average day, condensed into 30 minutes, with pretty colored paper.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I made these Bunny Boxes for Easter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftylilthing/6944631832/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ed008c; text-decoration: none;" title="P1130524 by craftylilthing, on Flickr"><img alt="P1130524" height="375" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6944631832_42e01c0ce1.jpg" width="500" /></a></span><br />
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Cute and easy to store. Just fold them up and slip them in an envelope. <a href="http://www.origamispirit.com/2010/08/30/origami-bunny-box-%E2%80%93dont-wait-for-easter-to-fold-it/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ed008c; text-decoration: none;">Instructions to make your own origami bunny box can be found here.</a></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I only make Dutch Babies a couple times a year, they are not health food. But for a birthday or holiday treat, they are unbeatable. You can find the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.thejoykitchen.com/recipe.lasso?recipe=1132" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ed008c; text-decoration: none;">recipe for a plain dutch baby on the Joy of Cooking site.</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I found the Apple Dutch Baby recipe in the latest Family Fun Magazine. I can't find a link to the recipe, but when I do I'll add it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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