Advent Calendar Finished (Kinda)

The advent calendar is finished (kinda). Next year I plan to add animals, but it is now in working order. I'm really excited to start december first.

K's little foot popped in there.

I know, I'm no artist, but these are the little slips I'm putting in the calendar to represent what we'll be doing that day.

I ended up using a small curtain rod to hang it by. Here is a close up of the pockets. They are each needle felted on wool felt.

Snowy Windowstar

So it hasn't really started snowing here yet, but K has been begging to make a snowflake window star. While I worked on it, K made these great little pink stars using tiny scissors and glue.

Baby Booties

Today is one of my good friend's due dates. She is expecting another little girl. I'm excited that both our children will be really close in age. She lives pretty far away from us, but we still are able to see them a couple of times a year.

I found this great bootie pattern at the store (I think its Macalls). I made up the embroidery, however. I'm excited to get the birth announcement and send along the booties. :)

Thanksgiving Candles

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We had a nice Thanksgiving at my mother's house with my family and also my Mother-in-law's family. It was nice to have everyone together this year. Because food has still been grossing me out, K and I made candles to contribute to dinner. I found the idea in LivingCraft magazine.

First we carved out the middle of two orange halves and a pomegranate. Then we used scissors to make jagged edges. Finally we filled them with melted beeswax.


They looked great on the Thanksgiving table.

Beeswax leaves

K and I collected fall leaves again this year to dip in beeswax. K was able to help a little bit more this year and was in charge of laying out the dipped leaves (1st picture). The last picture is the leaves on the nature table. They turned out great.

Making cookies

Our dyed cookie doughK rolling out the dough with his tiny rolling pin
The cookies before they entered the oven
Unfortunately the colors didn't really hold

I was finally about to find some natural food coloring through a co-op. We decided to make Halloween cookies (I know I'm behind here). We had a great time dying the dough and making the cookies. Unfortunately, the natural dyes baked out as they cooked. Although when you took a bite the inside was still colorful. :)

Carrots!

This is the first year I've ever planted carrots and they turned out beautiful!

I wasn't sure they'd turn out at all as I had a few people tell me they had terrible luck with carrots. Anyway I loved their colors so much I wanted to share.

We ended up cooking them in lentils for dinner.