Fest and Craft Fair

Well, here are some pictures from the craft fair at the multicraft store and from the 4th of July Fest. The store was supposed to be closed today but opened up anyway. I think they did OK business wise, but I didn't look at the books :) I do know that I paid for the girls to take a "Kid's Craft Summer Camp" from the 4th through 8th of August. They will make different crafts everyday, which as most of you know the girls will LOVE. The crafts are ceramic dish, marbled paper, book, t-shirt and one other thing I can't remember. It is from 11:00 to 1:30 each of those days, the craft supplies, and instructor are part of the price. I think it will be money well spent.

I think that the pictures from the rides turned out pretty. My three girls look SO cute! The fair was good, chocolate covered strawberries were GREAT! Dad took the girls to the movies, the fest, and they got home around midnight from the fireworks. Little (I guess not so little) Michael hung out the whole day with his friends eating junk food and chilling. They all rode home together. All-in-all, it was a really great day.

Straight and Narrow

Well, we straightened the girls' hair last night. They now think that they can wear their hair down without worry as if they are little white girls with bone straight hair. Problem is...they aren't. Their hair is not the same as mine and their friends' even with the straightener in it. Madison wore hers in just a pony tail today and we will see in an hour or so how she feels about that when (and if) her hair is full of rats and hurts to comb. I was able to get Sierra to see reason and let me put it is a single braid. I also tried to get them to understand that they would be hotter with their hair down--even in a pony. There was no reasoning with them so I was out of luck.

I have seven of the ten Independance Day dragonflies done and will be starting on a few spiders along the same line. I hope to sell them at the Arts and Crafts fair at Patch on Friday, 4 July. Once can hope. I will of course have a bunch of other colors that day as well. One thing I forgot to mention about these little guys is that they look great as Christmas ornaments and all you need for that is some ribbon! The lights on the tree look really pretty. I am thinking about creating a small web for the spiders. I will know if I really want to do it if and when it gets done I suppose. I am just trying to keep it mixed up a bit so that I don't get bored with it. Of course I still have two different very large cross stitch projects to do AND a whole bunch of books that I bought during the school year to read over the summer when I had more time. So I have plenty to do that will switch it up, but maybe I will just take a nap :)

A Day in the Sun With Our Girls

Well, we have had a wonderful day so far. JennyP, Emily, and Ava came over and the girls played in both the slip-n-slide and the baby pool. I am afraid my girls were a little more adventerous than Emily, but first they are older, and second she got braver as we were out longer. She was SSSSOOOO cute telling the girls "your turn" to get them to go down the slip-n-slide. We got some REALLY great pictures and it was entertaining for the adults just as much as the kids. I also created a different dragonfly last night that "flies" around a flower. I think it turned out ok. I have still only sold the one dragonfly, but it hasn't been all that long since I started. I don't know if any sold from the Patch Multicraft Store either. I am also trying my hand at making the spiders. I will post one if it turns out ok. After the water play, we all came in for lunch. The kids had kids quisine...(don't judge, it is a fine meal, afterall it says "quisine" right on the box), and JennyP and I had a barbequed baked potato with real butter, cheese, and sour cream. YUMMY. There is also a really cute picture of Emily telling me to shhhh with her finger because I kept calling her name to look at me so I could take a picture. Too Cute!