9-10-2014 GBs

#1 wearing her new Wallaby sweater!

#2 ready for bed!

#3 swinging at the park...

#3 doing a plank!

#3 on the verge of crawling!

(Time to put up the baby gates!)

#4 sporting a superhero shirt!

9-9-2014 November Man

DH & I went to the movies today:

November Man

And ANOTHER "Super Moon!"

9-8-2014 Raglan Pullover

 It's all seamed up

and ready to wear

just in time for autumn and winter!

9-7-2014 Chain Saw Lathe

DH & I saw this downtown 

at the Beaux Arts Fair Yesterday...

If there's a will... there's a way!

I have to give this guy an A+ for ingenuity and creativity

for de-barking and shaping a tree trunk!

9-6-2014 Farmers Market

Today DH & I drove downtown to shop the Farmers Market

and saw some fun things...

Pumpkins with 'warts'...

 ...and clouds called "Mares Tails"

which are RARELY seen in these parts!

Though common in other areas (like Colorado, Montana, etc.)

it's the first time I've seen them here in Iowa

since moving here 8 years ago!

There's a weather saying...

"Mare's tails

bring storms and gales!"

9-5-2014 Fairy Friend

My Fairy, Bindweed Saturnfly,

is coming along nicely.

She is all 'beaded up' to go meet her friend 

at the LYS tonight!

Check out her pretty floral hat!

Still waiting for her wings...

Having fun at "Sit & Knit"

with her friend, Petal Cornglimmer.

:*)

Mommy is still working on my wings, eyebrows and tendrils...

9-4-2014 Moonstruck 3D Lashes

After just one use

this new product left my eyes

red, swollen, itchy and peeling.

It's a fun new concept in makeup

but my skin reacted horribly

to the ingredients!

Sigh.

9-3-2014 World Domination

I swear...

everywhere I look

I see Hello Kitty!!!

(I think her aim is world domination.)

I'm surprised the NFL and Greenbay

allowed their logos to be used thusly!!!

9-2-2014 Raglan Pullover

The front, back and sleeves ready to be seamed

before adding the neckband

on this Raglan Pullover.

9-1-2014 Peace

8-31-2014 A Fairy Came to Visit!

Fairy Charlotte Webglimmer

came to visit last night

and as the morning mist dispersed this morning

I could see her handiwork

all across my back deck!

She is such an amazing sculptress

and can only be seen 

under the light of the harvest moon.

Charlotte had a busy night!

8-30-2014 Last of the Bunch

My day lilies...

the very last of the bunch

has bloomed today (sigh).

I'm sad to see them finished blooming for the summer.

They always brighten my day

as I enter (and exit) my front door each day.

Now it is time to pull out the dried stems,

get out the hedge trimmer

and cut them off at the ground...

then prune down the bush next to them

(in upper right hand corner)

and pick up/dispose of all the clippings.

Think I will wait for a nice cool day to do that.

8-29-2014 Gymnastics

 Gymnastics class...

more fun

than a barrel of monkeys!!!

GD#1 bouncing on the trampoline.

8-28-2014 Achew!!!

Ragweed is in full bloom.

These plants along our walking path

are 8-10 feet high!

8-27-2014 Bourbon

Am I mistaken that

"Bourbon"

must come from Kentucky?

(And Champagne must come from France?)

8-26-2014 Re-Knit the Bindweed Fairy Skirt

Today I re-knit the skirt on my Bindweed fairy

so that it would more closely resemble

the blossom of a bindweed...

(white at the waist and

pink at the hem)

I'm much happier with it now

than when the color way was reversed:

8-25-2014 Resident Fairies

I just saw one flying around my house...

and her little sister fairy is trying to flap her wings and keep up!

8-24-2014 Party Crashers

DH & I 'crashed' a family birthday party last night

while in Nebraska visiting my M-I-L...

it was wonderful to see most of the family again!

Guy on the left is leaving for Italy tomorrow...

Godspeed!

The birthday girl in blue on the left.

8-23-2014 Special Delivery!

Remember this Lapghan I finished crocheting recently?

Well, today I got to deliver it in person

(to my 100 year old M-I-L)!

What a special delivery!

DH is showing her pictures on the iPad

of her most recent three 

great-grandchildren.