These look yummy!

1 pkg chocolate instant pudding
1 1/2 C milk
2 C Cool Whip.
Dissolve pudding in milk, whip in Cool Whip. Spoon into 3 oz cups and insert popsicle stick. Freeze.

I love sitting with like-minded (crazy about softball) people who love watching their beloved girls out on the field trying their best. My granddaughter is on a great team. The parents get along with no drama (rare), the girls get along with no drama (rarer), and the coaches are terrific.

My granddaughter plays catcher. She is just great at it. I have loved watching her evolve from good to awesome. Her throwdowns to 2nd base this year are strong and accurate. She is the team’s power hitter. What a future for this little girl!

Kaylea popping up to throwdown to 2nd.

Now my little Kam is playing t-ball. What a joy to watch the babies learn the love of the game. Her team is just practicing now. Her season starts in a couple of weeks. Cannot wait to cheer her on!

Being somewhat new to facepainting, I don’t have many actual pictures of my work. I have developed some resources to help me show kids ideas. I also use these to develop ideas before I try them out on my lucky granddaughters. Here is an idea page for our Safari Souper Sunday.

I have made full face blanks and 3/4 profile blanks. If you can use them, help yourself! They are PDFs.

Full Face Blanks                3/4 Profile Blanks

He made a frame of from pipe and painted it flat black. It has pendants dropped down at each end and one in the center.

One end is wired to the off center outlet and the other end is fastened to the ceiling. That solved the problem of how to center a light fixture!
The green shades go really well with our Fire King collection. I am so proud of him!

We bought some vintage Edison light bulbs. They cast a soft warm glow in the room and look great!

What my baby Kam wants, my baby Kam gets. Gramma just picked up some more material to make sweet baby Kam a quilt. (Who’s spoiled??) She also likes the color purple to the extreme so my plan is to make a pink, purple, black, and white quilt. The new material will combine with some I already have in my scrap material drawers. I think I will make a log cabin quilt with thick stripes. The finished blacks will be 12″x 12″. The center will be 4″ blocks.

Materials for a pink and purple quilt

My oldest granddaughter, 13 years old, has decided to change the color of her bedroom. For a few years now it has been a vivid pink with black and white zebra. Her school mascot is a zebra so everything in her room has reflected that.

She must be growing up because she has now decided to go with teal, black, and white – no zebra. She can still incorporate many things she already has in her room like her new black bean bag chair. This is such a sophisticated color palette. I am a bit surprised that she chose it. This is her inspiration picture. How peaceful is this?! I like the little zings of orange as accent color, but I think Kaylea is going with a coral red. Pretty!

Inspiration

I found this material yesterday and thought it was perfect. It will be the basis for a new quilt for her room. I think it’s lovely. Now to find some additional fabrics and to find the perfect piece with the coral red in it. I don’t want too much though. Just a little flair here and there will be sufficient.

Teal, black, and white material

People who don’t doodle don’t seem to understand. And that’s fine. There is no common experience to relate to.  Fellow doodlers grab each other by the elbow, look each other in the eye, and exclaim, “I know! Right?!” Well, maybe it’s not quite as dramatic as that, but there is an acknowledgement of a shared mystery.

I just found an article, or rather Facebook found it for me, that doodlers concentrate better while doodling! Here is a link to the article. There is some pretty amazing doodle/art on the page as well.

Love Me Doodle… Is doodling good for our brains?

Doodly-Doo!

He does have this fabulous collection of Fire King dishes. When he was a young boy his mother had a breakfast set of Fire King. They weren’t that old when she had them. She has since passed away and he ended up with her old Fire King milk pitcher. That one piece led to another which led to another. Soon he had a sizable collection of Fire King pieces. This is a small sampling of his collection.

Fire King Dishes

Our daughter on the east coast found a gorgeous little divided plate to add to his collection. She wrapped it carefully and shipped to us via UPS. When it arrived the little dish was broken. My husband was so upset. He had been so excited.

Fire King Divided Plate

Now the work on trying to collect the insurance money from UPS begins. Last time this happened it took over a year before we had a check in hand.