This is a picture of a window in my dad’s tractor.
It looks a little strange for a window, huh? That’s because a rock broke the window, but the window tint held the safety glass shards together. Amazing!
***Allison***
Cracked Up
Willow: The Fuzzball Returns (Caption It)
Dun-duh-duh-dun! The return of the fuzz-ball! Her fuzz is looking particularly fluffy today, isn’t it? I have a few photos for you to caption today. If you want to play, just comment with what you think Willow could be saying or thinking in the photos below. You can caption one, two, or all three if you want!
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***Allison***
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Bubbles in a Pan
A greasy pan left to soak in water. Soap bubbles, grease bubbles, water in the pan. You can find little wonders everywhere if you look closely.
***Allison***
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Macro Chicory
Chicory is one of my favorite wildflowers. I love it’s periwinkle blue color, and it’s simple but beautiful petals. Once I took some macro photos of chicory (or rather I cropped them so they were macro), and it’s fascinating what they look like up close. Here is a close-up one to start with:
And here are some macro pictures. The last one looks kind of odd, but it’s a picture nonetheless.
And I’ll throw in a bonus picture just for kicks. 🙂 Can anyone guess what flower the little bee (or whatever it is) is on?
***Allison***
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Spirograph Envelopes
I made these a long time ago but never posted about it, so here they are now! You know those Spirograph machines? You can’t do much with the finished spirographs except hang them on the refrigerator, right? Wrong. You can use them (or any other circular piece of paper, really) to make a beautiful envelope to hold, say, a gift card. They are very simple to make.
First, take a finished spirograph…
… and fold it in half.
Open it up and fold the two sides to meet the center crease. (I used scrap paper; that’s why there’s a random picture of a man on the inside of the envelope. I recommend using plain paper. ☻)
Now fold one end of the of the spirograph a little less than halfway up.
Fold the other end down so it overlaps the bottom of the envelope, tuck your card or gift card inside, and seal with a sticker.
Ta-daaa! Here are the backs of two finished envelopes.
***Allison***
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Labor Day Celebrations
For Labor Day this year, my family, my grandparents, and my cousins got together and made potato chips and funnel cakes. Boy, were they delicious! We fried them both in a rather rusty contraption that worked quite well none the less. (Don’t worry, my grandaddy cleaned the inside of the kettle quite thoroughly.)
The oil in the kettle had beautiful reflections in it of the trees above.
First we made potato chips. They were deliciously light and crispy.
Next we fried funnel cakes. It took a bit of experimenting to get the batter the right consistency, but boy were they delicious! Here is a link to the recipe we used. At first the batter was too thick, but it made some quite interesting shapes.
Finally we got the batter the right consistency. Are you hungry yet?
We had lots of extra batter left, which made some tasty, very smooth waffles, although they were a little tougher than normal.
What did you do for Labor Day?
***Allison***
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Willow, My Willow
Here comes another photoshoot of the adorable flufferpuff! I absolutely love Willow, but I must say she is harder to photograph than Lily because she is so fluffy and dark. But oh well! I couldn’t just leave her un-photographed, now could I?
Willow is getting more gray instead of black, for some reason. She must be getting old! 😉
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Willow and I, swinging on the porch swing…
And now she is left all alone –
Hooray! Some playmates!
Isn’t she adorable with a bow in her hair – er, ears?!
Now we take her to the deck, where she is fondled by a small human,
And becomes a ball of fluff with ears.
Willow wishes to escape being a model. She looks longingly over the side of the deck rail, but decides it is too much of a risk to jump.
And for the final humiliation, she is wrapped in a damp cloth to “cool her down,” or so the humans say.
Good girl, Willow!
I hope you enjoyed Willow as much as I did!
***Allison***
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DIY Memo Board/Bulletin Board
One of the presents I made for my sister Megan’s birthday this year was a bulletin board set that included pretty clothespins and a little hedgehog drawing. The board itself is made of foam board and scrapbook paper, and the clothespins have thumbtacks in the back so you can hang pictures without damaging them.
Today I will show you how to make the board, the clothespins, and I’ll include a link to show you the original drawing that I looked off of for the hedgehog picture. To start with…
You will need:
For the board:
- a large piece of foam board
- scrapbook paper
- a glue stick
- tape
- scissors
For the clothespins:
- wooden clothespins (Not the one-piece kind with a slit down the middle, but the kind you pinch to open.)
- scrapbook paper
- hot glue
- glue stick
- scissors
- thumbtack (the kind with a flat top)
I used to have more step-by-step pictures, but unfortunately I accidentally clicked “delete all images” on my camera instead of deleting just a few images. 😦 Anyway, I took some pictures of the finished product that should help, even if they’re not step-by-step.
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- Cut your foam board into a square. It’s nice to arrange your scrapbook paper on the foam board before you cut it, so you will know how big to make the square.
2. Glue 4 squares of scrapbook paper in a checkered pattern on the board, leaving a little extra paper sticking out around the edge of the board. Optional: cut a smaller square from a different patterned paper and rotate it to make a diamond for the middle. Now the board should look something like this, except with paper sticking out around the edges.
3. Turn the board over. Fold down the extra paper from the sides and tape in place.
4. Now for the clothespins. They are really easy, but look amazing! Place a clothespin upside-down on patterned paper, trace around it, and cut it out. Glue in place on top of the clothespin.
5. Hot glue a thumbtack to the back of the clothespin, about at its middle. And you’re done!
You can give this as a gift with something already pinned on, like a card or a picture. Oh, and here is the link to that adorable hedgie art if you don’t want to draw your own: https://wanelo.com/p/5420153/fun-little-rainbow-hedgehog-art-print-drawing .
Until next time!
***Allison***
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Joyful Kitty
We currently have two kittens named Joy and Coffee Bean. (Coffee Bean is black and fluffy like Willow, but he has a bad eye, so I just took pictures of Joy.)
Joy is very energetic and playful. She was trying to capture my dangling camera lens-cover while I was taking pictures of her. Her prowess was all in vain though, because the lens-cover is attached to my camera, and I was NOT going to give my camera up as a kitten toy. 🙂
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Joy is – hmmm… tasting the air?
“Relaxing in the bunnies cage, just lettin’ off steam….”
Daydreaming again!
I love this close-up picture of her fuzzy little paw!
Oh! I have a snippet of news – I sold Honeybunny! The man who bought her is going to breed her, so someday she will become a proud mama rabbit. Goodbye, Honeybunny – *sniff, sniff*. Although I’m kind of sad that she had to go, at least she will have a more interesting life than staying penned up in a small cage so she won’t nip and fight with our other rabbits. Have a good life, Honeybunny!
***Allison***
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