New Project

I have doing a different project lately. My reason? Monkeyface is getting her own "big girl bed" so I thought that I would do another one of my many hobbies and make her a quilt. I chose a simple one because I didn't want it to take too long or me to run out of steam before I got it done!! Sometimes I think I suffer from ADD because if something doesn't come together easily and quickly for me, I lose interest and start something else that looks like it might be more fun. The result?? I have a house full of unfinished projects!! Oh, I have lots of finished ones too but I do have quite afew unfinished ones as well. One of my New Year's resolutions, every year, is to finish up some of them!! And I usually do get a couple done before, yes, you guessed it, I lose my focus. Anyway, I digress. Here is the lovely Princess Quilt to go on the Princess's new bed. She has a lovely, freshly painted room with all the things in it that a little princess would need. The other grandma helped out with that too!! She has a little princess deacon's bench with baskets underneath for toys and a princess picture for on the wall!! Her mom bought her princess sheets for her bed too!! She had her first night in her bed on Saturday and apparently did very well. She stayed in bed all night!!




And then I went shopping last week to the LSS and
bought some new MME paper. I know, I know, I am supposed to be
using up my stash but this stuff was sooooo pretty, I couldn't resist! We babysat Monkeyface last week I think it was and Grandpa took her outside to play with her. She was soo cute in her little snowsuit and she just loved being in the snow. Grandpa made alittle hill for her to slide down and she just had so much fun with that! We really should get a toboggan and go onto a real hill with her, I think she would have a blast!! They built some snowmen too and made snow angels but those will be on other layouts!!

Conversation with a toddler

I really don't have much to blog about, there really isn't much going on, but on Sunday I had our little granddaughter here to visit and I am really amazed at how well developed her sense of humor is. Our conversation went sort of like this:

"Bamma, appos?" while she is looking at the grapes on the cupboard. Everything round is either a ball or an apple to her. "No, Amanda, those are grapes" "Bapes" "Yes, grapes, would you like some?" She nods her head. "Mo appos" "Grapes" Now she looks at me, giggles and says "Bappos, tee hee" I think this is one of those moments that should be scrapped and put into her album so I will have to think about that for awhile.
Then later, she was standing on the chair, "Amanda, sit down" "No" "Yes, please" "No" "A-man-da" said by me in a warning voice and then her, in a sing-song voice, "Nan nan da" giggle, giggle. The little shyster!!!
We have such a good time with that little tyke, but man can she tire me out!!! She never walks, always runs and has done a few face plants onto the ground, but has learned to put her arms out and turn her head now!!!
I am still having problems with my ankle and the dr. is still keeping me off work with minimal activity, which I am finding to be abit of a problem because there is so much to do around here. I really try to stay still but I must not be doing well because my ankle and foot still hurt quite abit in the evening and during the night and that is with regular doses of Advil on board. I will have to try harder I guess. Maybe if I go on a vacation where I can't see the work, yeah, maybe that is the answer!!!
We finally have nice weather and I really like being outside, I have cut my garden down drastically this year because i can't be in it, dh planted some potatoes, mostly because he likes them so much. And I didn't really plant any flowers, mostly because of the weather being so cold but also because I am not supposed to be out there!! I put a few petunias in my front bed because it can be seen from the street and I thought it needed something.
Well, must do my 15 minutes of something now and then it will be back to sitting again! Hope everyone enjoys the nice day today.

Outside fun and easter

We don't make a big deal out of the easter bunny at our house but this year he did visit and leave a chair and a bike helmut for our little gd. Grandpa dug out the old trike that we kept and showed her how it worked and then we let her run outside. She hasn't really had the chance to just run freely yet in her short life, if she is put down outside, someone is holding her hand. She had so much fun outside here on Easter sunday. Shrieking and laughing and running. I can see some fun summer days ahead with her!! I am constantly amazed at the new things she learns during the week and then shows to us when she visits. She is just too smart for her own good!!! And she is getting so tall, everything that was safe on the countertop before, now she can stretch and reach the edges and grab it!! So we have to remember to push things back alittle farther now! Not much fear either, she will stand on anything!! She is better with stairs now but still makes me nervous. So that is about all my bragging for today!

Here she is in the back of the truck with her uncle's hat on!! She won't usually leave hats on! This one stayed on for quite along time, I think she forgot about it, she was having so much fun.

Trying out the trike. More practise is in order I think!! But she liked being pushed around by grandpa and below, trying out her new chair. She really liked it, it is just her size!

I did do a fantastic scrap day with the ladies from Just Cre8 on Saturday. I didn't get alot done but then I don't usually. Had a good time visiting and laughing with all of them. I had to leave alittle early but am looking forward to the next time we get together. I have a couple of pages done too but will share them in a different post. I am hoping to read Stacey Julian's Photo Freedom and get my photos organized and ready to scrap in a guilt free manner in the next while. I need all the help I can get!! Soon will be time to get outside and do yardwork. I have so many ideas percolating around for things to do differently this year, I can hardly wait.

Another sketch challenge

Well, I found another website called Sisterhood of Scrap and they have sketches there too. They had one this week that looked pretty easy and kind of fit in with my way of doing pages, so I thought that I would give it a try. So here is my take on their sketchhttp://www.sisterhoodofscrap.blogspot.com/

I did another page too that used some of the wild and colorful paper that I have received in my kits that I get from Scrapdango. As I said before, I have a difficult time doing pages with such vivid and bold colors, not to mention the big prints!! But this one was kind of fun, I suppose because it is of Amanda and her auntie and mommy being silly with her and her new baby bans sunglasses!!

This child already seems to have a great sense of humor and even though she isn't a year old yet, can ham it up for the camera when she wants to!!

Isn't she Cute?

With her little pink nose and pink cheeks, doesn't she just look sooooo very cute? Amanda got to try out her new jacket and hat the other day. I think that pink certainly is her color! I can hardly wait until she sees snow for the first time. She says "wow" quite clearly now whenever she looks at certain things and can imitate a cat's meow too. Do I sound like a proud grandma or what!!!!! I just have to scrapbook this photo but haven't decided on the title yet, any suggestions?

Halloween visitor

We don't get many trick or treaters out here on the acreage, only a few stop by. But this year we had one very special little visitor show up. Here is our little Amanda all dressed up in her penguin costume for her first Halloween. She was so cute! Unfortunately it was getting close to her bedtime and she was alittle tired. Grampa got a couple of smiles out of her though. I didn't catch them with the camera
but they were there!!