Fall Nature Table.

Just a small peak at our fall nature table.

Updates

Here's an updated picture of my advent calander. I finally was able to get the felt I wanted to make the pockets. I'm about half way done needle felting the numbers on (not shown). I should be right on track to get this done on time. I hope.

Anyway so I'm sure you have all noticed that I've been pretty absent lately. Well that is because we are expecting another baby! yay! So why would that explain my absence? Well I've had pretty horrible nausea that only gets worse by looking at the computer. I'm 15 weeks now and it has not let up a bit, so I mostly only get on the computer for a quick e-mail update. So my updates will probably be spotty and in big clumps until I can get back on my game. This also means that when I am here to update everything will be quite behind. Anyway I have a few more posts for this clump and then hopefully won't be gone for too long. :)

Lantern Walk

Not the best pictures but we joined some friends again this year in the Martinmas Lantern Walk. It was pretty cold this year and snowing. We walked through a park, sang some songs about light and then heard a story about the sun. The Host then passed out tulip bulbs to be planted. The whole thing ended in a potluck. It was really sweet. Unfortunately one of our lanterns broke. I guess we're going to have to get out the glue, jars, and tissue paper to make a new one. :)

Halloween Post

Its been quite awhile since I've been on here. More on that later. Here are some Halloween pictures from the past month. K decorated his pumpkin with a pumpkin kit. For mine I carved a pirate ship.

While Our pumpkins were waiting to be carved on naughty little squirrel bite a while into one of them for a small feast. We decided to feed him and his siblings by filling it back up with our pumpkin scraps. They seemed to enjoy that.

Wet felting the advent calendar

Laying the lightly needle felted scene on bubble wrap. I then poured warm water and soap on top of it. Next I rolled it up and then rolled it back and forth for about 10 minutes.
Here it is felted, but still soapy.
Rinsed off and starting to dry.
Why these are not flipping beats me. Anyway here is part two of my advent calendar. I have finally felted it so I don't have to worry about K getting ahold of it and pulling it apart. Today I ordered the rest of the felt that I'll need to make the calendar part. I'm going to make 25 little pockets below it and needle felt the numbers on. Might be awhile for my next update as I need to wait for the materials to arrive in the mail.

Little felt mouse

I made this little mouse out of wool felt hoping to tell K the story of the lion and the mouse. It wasn't until I was done though, that I realized we don't actually have a lion. I really thought I had a lion puppet. So for now he is sitting on the nature table till I figure out what to do about a lion. Perhaps I can borrow one from a friend.

Learning to sew

K has been asking to sew for quite awhile now. My mom found this little sewing machine at a garage sale and K loves it! It took us awhile to figure out how to get the thing going (its not the worlds best sewing machine), but now he's asking to sew all the time. I love the way he examines his stitches after sewing. Its really sweet.