Crocheted Finger Puppets

Oh my goodness! I love, love, love these finger puppets! I think I'm going to definitely give these a whirl. If they turn out looking as cute as the ones in the photo, I'm going to make some for our local Children's Hospital. I can get some Gus' Gang folks together and we can make a pile of these...neat!

Crafty Pay It Forward!

Update: No more spots! If you want to play along you can visit Summer,
Marye or Karen and see if they have a spot available!!

There's a neat Pay It Forward thingy going on across blogland. I'm not sure where it originated...maybe later tonight I'll try to track down the origin. I found out about it over at Nancy's and now I'm posting it here!

Here's how it works:

I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week… LOL… but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.

What you do: Leave a comment here. The first three to say they are participating in paying it forward I’ll send a gift to. Then they go to their blog and have three friends sign up to participate. Everyone ends up with three cool gifts in exchange for their three they send out!

Doesn't this sound like fun!!!

Beginning of our Skeleton Leaves

I was reading about a method used to create skeleton leaves. Skeleton leaves are those leaves that you find on wedding invitations....they are..well..they are the leaves with out all the green between the veins. Of course, I picked the wrong type of leaves but I didn't realize it until afterwards. Anyway, we poured water and bleach over the leaves and let them soak until they turned white...this took about a week. Supposedly, we were going to be able to pull the leaves out of the mixture and brush away the green (that was now white) to reveal the skeleton. When I pulled the leaves out...they completely fell apart...skeleton and all!

I give up!

Country Bird's Home Depot

Yesterday, our neighbors farther up the hill came down. We had a lovely picnic of PB&J sam-itches and baby carrots with dip...oh, and a fruit cup thrown in there too.

After lunch, we went to the backyard and created our Country Bird Home Depots. Hopefully the birds will still be adding "stuff" to their nests and they will come to our Home Depots and grab some of the yarns. If not...well...if not, then we will have these bright colored strawberry containers hanging from our trees! lol!!

Here are the quick instructions:

Take a strawberry container and punch holes in the bottom and around the sides. I snipped the rim of our containers. One of the plastic berry containers would work much better but that's all we had...I'm big on use what you have! lol!

Poke yarns through the holes until you have the amount you want to put in your Home Depot.

Through two of the holes, run an extra long peice of yarn through and then tie. This will be how you hang your Home Depot in a tree...or on a swing set! lol!!

Hang and then your Home Depot is open for business!

Belle and E, on the back deck, working on their Country Bird Home Depots

Belle hung ours on the swingset. Look at our sad slide...sigh...

Close up of Country Bird's Home Depot

Sparkle didn't make a depot...he just sat around and smiled!


We had a great time and look forward to more fun times with our friends!!

Recycle Your Credit Cards

I found this nifty tutorial on how to turn an old credit card into a little itty bitty planter for your fridge. Ideas like this one that repurpose items are wonderful! I also think this would be a nice little unique gift to give to a neighbor or a friend. I'm going to make a few for my kitchen windowsill...I'm afraid if I put them on my fridge they would be demolished. That happens with two hungry growing boys!

I think I'll plant grass in mine...no, not that kind but the basic yard kind! lol!!

Neat!