I'm sure it's not news to anyone, but I love finding cute fabric and fun quilts and things to sew. Well, I found a great site, Riley Blake Designs and I love it! Really cute stuff. Anyways, Riley Blake Designs is having a quilting contest! And the prize is a beach cruiser! (my favorite kind of bike)
I have been wanting to do a nice quilt for awhile, I think this might finally get me to do it. Check it out HERE.
PS- I love the dolled up quilt! so cute!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Las Vegas!!!
We just got back from a week long vacation in VEGAS! It was a blast. It was really hot, but we had lots of fun hanging out in the pool, lazy river and walking up and down the strip. We did a ton of walking, and therefore we also drank a ton of water! And now here's lots of pictures. Not all are great because I tried to keep my camera on manual the entire time, so I was able to learn a lot, but it also means not every picture turned out great....
Monday, June 13, 2011
Temple art
It has a been a great summer. I love not having to go to work each day, but I do miss having something to do each day. So lately I have been playing around on photoshop. Here's what I came up with today. I rather like them...
Los Angeles
Rexburg
Denver
Monday, June 6, 2011
Breckenridge, CO
This past weekend we had the opportunity to go to Breckenridge, CO with some of our best Denver friends. We stayed in a great house/ mansion and enjoyed visiting the cute town, seeing some horses, enjoying the hot tub and theater room, playing pool, seeing a fox and of course lots of eating.
the entire group- I set the camera on the timer and made Josh run as fast as he could up lots of stairs and he made it! It was great.
All over main street they had bronze statues. So of course I had to get a picture.
I also had to document everyone that came with us...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
quick question
to all the parents out there...
When you pick your child up from school/ nursery/ primary and you ask "How did my child do today?" Do you want to know the truth or do you want to hear they did fine no matter what?
I have wondered this when parents pick up their kids after school and I wonder with some of them if they really care how they did or if they are just saying something to me to pretend they care. I don't know, do you want to know that your child cried and screamed for 20 minutes during rest time, or punched a kid at recess, or talked back to an adult at lunch, or do you just want me to say it was an okay day or it was a good day?
When you pick your child up from school/ nursery/ primary and you ask "How did my child do today?" Do you want to know the truth or do you want to hear they did fine no matter what?
I have wondered this when parents pick up their kids after school and I wonder with some of them if they really care how they did or if they are just saying something to me to pretend they care. I don't know, do you want to know that your child cried and screamed for 20 minutes during rest time, or punched a kid at recess, or talked back to an adult at lunch, or do you just want me to say it was an okay day or it was a good day?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thoughts on dead things
In the past week I have been ever so lucky enough to be able to have 2 different kind of dead animals in my school classroom. Oh, no, not ones that we found that happened to die while in stuck in the room or anything... two animals that died, and then brought into our class to share and look at and make art projects with.
Fun right?
It started with a dead robin found on the playground. All the kids congregated around it, so my teacher thought it would be a good idea to put in our fridge and look at after snack. I was disgusted by the fact that it was in the same fridge as my lunch, and I didn't know. We ate snack and then out came ziploc bag with the bird... and then out came the bird from the ziploc bag. The kids were encouraged to look at it and touch it. I stayed on the other side of the room and gave the kids 2 large squirts of soap when they were done examining the bird. I was glad when we took the bird up to the fifth grade class so they could check it out. Only they brought it back 10 minutes later, so back in the fridge it went until we could bury it.
I don't like birds when they fly, steal your food, or are dead on my classroom table.
I also don't like geese that stand in front of my door and hiss and chase me. But maybe I'll get into that in another post.
Dead animal #2
In Japan they have a form of art that we called fish prints. You paint on a whole fish and then print it onto paper or fabric. We also used starfish to make prints. I was fine with helping out with this project until I fully understood what it meant. We had to have 2 dead fish in our room all day.... laying out on the table... all day... Fish smell. bad. Fish feel weird. But being a good helper I helped all the kids with their prints. I helped them press the fabric and told them all did a good job and wasn't it so cool. I even did one of my own. But now I have no idea what to do with it. What do you do with a print of a fish on a piece of fabric? I don't really even want to touch the side that the fish may have touched.
21 more days of school.
I'm excited for summer.
Fun right?
It started with a dead robin found on the playground. All the kids congregated around it, so my teacher thought it would be a good idea to put in our fridge and look at after snack. I was disgusted by the fact that it was in the same fridge as my lunch, and I didn't know. We ate snack and then out came ziploc bag with the bird... and then out came the bird from the ziploc bag. The kids were encouraged to look at it and touch it. I stayed on the other side of the room and gave the kids 2 large squirts of soap when they were done examining the bird. I was glad when we took the bird up to the fifth grade class so they could check it out. Only they brought it back 10 minutes later, so back in the fridge it went until we could bury it.
I don't like birds when they fly, steal your food, or are dead on my classroom table.
I also don't like geese that stand in front of my door and hiss and chase me. But maybe I'll get into that in another post.
Dead animal #2
In Japan they have a form of art that we called fish prints. You paint on a whole fish and then print it onto paper or fabric. We also used starfish to make prints. I was fine with helping out with this project until I fully understood what it meant. We had to have 2 dead fish in our room all day.... laying out on the table... all day... Fish smell. bad. Fish feel weird. But being a good helper I helped all the kids with their prints. I helped them press the fabric and told them all did a good job and wasn't it so cool. I even did one of my own. But now I have no idea what to do with it. What do you do with a print of a fish on a piece of fabric? I don't really even want to touch the side that the fish may have touched.
21 more days of school.
I'm excited for summer.
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