Travel Swap

We received this great yo-yo ball that K loves.
These are homemade motion sickness drops. I always get carsick so I'll probably be testing them out on our next road trip.
This awesome book came with a little wooden man that gets go on many adventures though out the book. This one was made by one of my friends!
Here are one of the pages of the book.
I could hardly get this felt play mat away from K to photograph it. It also came in a little pouch.

I received my items from the travel swap. I had made Gnome homes with changes of outfits. We received some great things. Not pictured are some homemade stickers that K ran off with. :) I'm taking a little swap break so I can make a few things for K's birthday. Hopefully I can get some pictures up soon of what I've been working on.

Estate Sale find

Crocheted flowers
This is in the middle of the tapestry
Well shoot I thought I could flip these photos in this program and there is some bug in my photo program that is preventing me from flipping this. UGH. Sorry. :( Anyway the tapestry shows the four seasons.
Crocheted flowers and an embroidered little cloth.

K and I were garage saleing (which he loves to do) when I came upon these gems. This woman had so many hand crocheted and hand embroidered things that it was hard to chose what to bring home. The sale was coming to an end so they were practically giving everything away. The giant seasonal tapestry is not totally finished which I'm actually excited about. I think it will be fun to add to her work.

Lemon Balm

I planted tons of herbs this year and now that they are going crazy I need to figure out what to do with them. Right now my lemon balm is out of control. I found this great reciepe that calls for half apple juice, half lemonade, crushed lemon balm, and crushed mint. It made the most wonderful drink! We also made lime frozen yogurt which was probably the best frozen yogurt I've made since we've gotten the ice cream maker. All that was in it was lime, sugar, and yogurt.

Anyone have any ideas on what to use all this lemon balm for?

Father's day

I know. I'm a little late. We spent our father's day at Detroit's Modern Art Museum. They had an awesome family day including making sun prints, making terrariums, and raw food tasting.

Later we headed to the woods so we could float boats again. We also had a great time at the local park sliding down the turf on cardboard. :)

Sailing our boats

Today K and I went down to a local playground that has a trail and creek running through the back of it. We found a nice spot along the creek and sailed our two little boats. The rainbow one is from a swap and the blue one is from a garage sale. We tied yarn onto the backs and watched them float down the creek. K loved pulling his boat out and throwing it back into the water.

scented playdough

K and I made scented playdough. The yellow is tangerine. The red is pepermint. The green is eucalyptus. The blue is rosemary. K had a great time playing with them while I made dinner. I used the recipe from the busy kids book.

Herbal Swap

I hosted the Herbal Swap yesterday. It went really well and we had so many great creations! I received so many fun things including soap, milk bath, bath salts, hot/cold pad, hand sanatizer, and lots more. We made it potluck style and the kids ran in and out of the house while we traded our goods. :)