Projects Completed

Seems to me that 3rd grade is going down as the year of the project. This time two projects overlapped. we were not yet done with the famous African American timeline when this beauty landed on our laps: create a Valentine box that can hold 32 valentines, uses recycled materials and must have 3 moving parts. Those of you snowed in on the east coast grab your recycling bucket and put the kids to work now. E first came up with a list of items to make that would interest him. Then he stood in the pantry looking over the variety of materials available. He had to have the oatmeal tub for the control tower and we brainstormed and came up with the empty nut container as the top "windows" of the thing. He then set to work drawing, covering and decorating. It turned out terrific! I like that as the kids drop in cards they can watch it drop through the 'window' section. E loves the guy he drew with binoculars. Four moving parts was the final total: a door, 2 planes on pipe cleaners that"fly" and an elevator.

This is a project I have been working on for 2 years.....

I did blog2print and turned the blog into a book. It looks great and was simple. The pictures and stories are saved and I have to say that it was easier than keeping up my photo albums. For anyone who wants to keep the cute quotes, stories, pics, but thinks it would take too much time this might be a good solution. The photo albums are getting cumbersome to label pics and insert, never mind even getting the prints ordered online, but I am 6 completed volumes into the photo album format and hesitate to abandon it totally.

OK one last project that has been completed for a while, but I know was finally delivered.

I told you in an earlier post that this was harder than any other quilt I have done. It is also sort of insane. I just kept thinking about monsters. And then the fabric came and I knew what I had to do and figured out that it had to have pockets.. and that required button holes... and then the monsters had to attach inside the pockets yet still be removable... and it just kept building. I didn't even get a pic of the back which ended up with a pattern to it instead of just a plain muslin back like I usually do. Sorry if it scares baby C, Jill.

love and hugs and finishing projects feels so good... maybe I should look at the mountain of laundry as a project,B