These little guys are carved from oranges. The only thing besides oranges that I used was a lentil for the smiling guy’s eye. I got the idea from a neat book called Food Play that has lots of pictures of food carving.
Which orange is your favorite?
***Allison***
A couple weeks ago I had this great idea to put a fairy house in my flower bed. Well, I made the fairy house, it turned out great, and I was happy. Unfortunately, Maggie, our dog, thought that a fairy house would be a good snack, so she ate off the top of the fairy house! 😦 Any suggestions for how to fix that? I can’t find the piece that she broke off, so I can’t just glue the top back on…
Anyway, at least I took some pictures in case of an emergency! (Good thing I did!) They were taken in the evening, so some of them aren’t the best quality, but at least you can see what it generally looked like.
I got all of the plants and moss from around our farm, and the fairy house and bridge are from Hobby Lobby.
One other thing: I might start a series on how to crochet. I am definitely not a professional or anything, but I like to crochet and I wondered if any of you would be interested in learning. You can just say something in the comments if you want me to do the series.
Well, bye for now!
***Allison***
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My dad got my mom this bouquet of tulips for Valentine’s day, and the tulips are gorgeous! Especially in February. Hopefully these pictures will bring some spring into your day!
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Here are some of these pictures after I edited them on my camera:
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Which picture did you like best?
Won’t it be nice when spring comes and there are warm days where you can go outside without a coat on?! Our thermometer says 8 degrees (Fahrenheit) right now!!!!! It’s definitely still winter here!
***Allison***
We went to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Kentucky for a few days with some of our friends, and it was AMAZING! I highly recommend it! There are so many neat things to discover inside the museum, and they have a beautiful outdoor space, and a petting zoo – and not just your ordinary petting zoo!
First you come into a tall hall with Chinese dragons hanging from the ceiling and dragon information and legends along the walls. When you come into the actual museum you see this huge mastodon skeleton and then this habitat with moving dinosaurs and life-like people. Then you can go down this alley or tunnel or something which kind of goes through the museum and shows you lots of different things along the way. There’s a life-like dig-site where you can touch a real dinosaur bone,
and see a dinosaur skeleton!
There were several movie theater stops along the way, and the Garden of Eden which I really liked. (I mean, who knew you could still go see it, right?!).
There’s a cross-section of the Ark with life-like people that talk and move. This is a picture of a fake person that was in the display. I mean, look how real she looks!
There’s a neat room with small models of the Ark and what it could have looked like inside and out. It was really funny because we saw a stinkbug crawling around on the miniature people inside the display case!
Later on the trail we went to this amazing Insectorium that had lots of insects in glass display cases. My finger in some of the pictures shows how big the insects are.
Later on we went outside. There are lots of pretty waterfalls and bridges, and a petting zoo! This petting zoo had a zorse (zebra and horse mixed), a zonkey (can you guess?), wallabies (which we didn’t get to pet – one was too busy eating a Christmas tree that was in the cage!), peacocks, and other animals.
This is definitely not all we saw, but it would take too long to tell you everything! For more information, visit the Creation Museum’s site here.
***Allison***
Two mystery pictures. What could they be? Take a guess, then look at the answers to see if you got it right.
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Mushroom
Cactus
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Where they what you thought?
I hope you had fun!
***Allison***
How was your Christmas? Mine was great! I’m back with a new post after taking a break for Christmas.
You can see my first hidden pictures post here. Now for #2! I will give you some pictures, and you can try to find the hidden pictures within the pictures. If you get stumped, there are answers at the bottom of the post. Have fun!
#1. Can you find a stocking, the letter “b”, a spiky butterfly, and an evergreen tree? (Hey! That even rhymes!)
#2. Can you find Little Red Riding Hood?
#3. This one isn’t exactly hidden, but can you see how this could be a face?
Answers: (Sorry for the sloppy writing – writing freehand on pictures on the computer is hard!)
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Did you find all the hidden pictures? Did you find any that I didn’t?
***Allison***
I have lots of little things to post about, so I thought I’d just post them all together. Here goes!
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Several days ago we saw this GORGEOUS sunset. I seriously think this was the prettiest sunset I have ever seen. The colors were so bright, and the clouds were all swirly.
Isn’t it gorgeous?!
Scents
If you haven’t tried this, you should! Put orange or clementine peels in a small pot. Put some water in the pot, and add some cinnamon and whole cloves. This makes your house smell amazing! 
Surprise!
This is a gross but true story: We got our Christmas tree a couple of days ago, and the kids insisted that we move the furniture so we could put the Christmas tree in its customary spot by the window. Since we moved the couch, we had to sweep all the dust up. My brother was trying to vacuum up a dust bunny, but it wasn’t going too well. You’ll never guess why. Do you give up? Ok: it didn’t sweep up well because it wasn’t dust at all – it was a dead frog!! Yep, a really-truly dead frog. Actually, it was more like a petrified frog chip, it was so dry and hard. Why this is so funny is because that frog was the one that had hopped out of its cage months before, and we never knew what happened to it. We thought maybe the cat got it, but nope! My mom said that maybe the dead frog was what we had been smelling a while ago. Gross!!
Oh, and one other little thing: Complete-the-Set game
This is just a little game I made up that’s fun to play while traveling or waiting for something.
1. Choose one person to be “it” for the first round.
2. The “it” person thinks of a set (primary colors, initials, etc.)
3. “It” tells the other players all but one of the items in that set. (For example, if the set was “primary colors”, the “it” person could say “blue, red, and…”, or “red, yellow, and…”, but they couldn’t say “blue, red, yellow,” because there wouldn’t be any part of the set left to complete!)
4. The other players take turns trying to complete the set.
5. Whoever guesses correctly first gets to be the new “it”.
Have fun!
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Happy Holidays!
***Allison***
My sister Megan and I switched room’s with my younger sister Carmen. We got a bigger room and… we got to decorate it! We might paint the room later, but for now we have flowered wallpaper.
This is my little corner:
Megan and I both made stars to hang near our beds.
I also made this little circle-doodley thing, because I love to doodle. I think I’ve seen something like it on Pinterest, but I didn’t pin it.
I hung my arm-knit scarves on my bed post. They are color coordinated, of course, because I just LOVE it when everything is color coordinated. ☺ And I did pin this to my Pinterest board here. You should seriously make one of these.
A buttoned initial. (I ♥ buttons!)
My dad hung a quilt I made a few years ago over our dresser, and it doubles as a decoration and a bulletin board.
Can you tell what my favorite color is from these pictures?
So, yeah, I’m really enjoying my new room.
***Allison***
YAY! Snow in November! And even 4 inches of snow in November! That was enough snow for a lot of fun. We went sledding, made a snowman (and not just your ordinary snowman), and just played around.
Here is the snowman we made – he is 16 feet around! (And yes, we measured.) We proclaimed him a Thanksgiving snowman because of his, well, stoutness from eating too much Thanksgiving dinner. ☺ His arms are tomato stakes, his nose is a corncob, his eyes are made from oreo halves, and his smile is some smooth stones.
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I also got some neat pictures of snowflakes. I zoomed them in a bunch so you can see the shape of the snowflake better. The snowflakes are all in a clump, but I circled some interesting spots in the pictures so you can see the individual snowflakes better.
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♥Maggie in the snow♥
♥Diamond by the snow (or else it’s Rutabaga, it’s getting hard to tell them apart)♥
How much snow did you get? What did you do in the snow?
***Allison***
Allison Marie 