rain, rain, go away
this is a layout I did a week or two ago, with my rainboots on, inspired by kk's pic. I'm diggin' all the spring layouts and pictures I've been seeing people do.
This one was from our Annual Easter Talent Show, my dad LOOOOOVES it! (ha!)
Like this one <3 I am in love with cherry blossom trees<3. One day I'll get the guts and continue my sailor jerry bluebird tat I have on on my back into cherry blossoms and such. Peek...
and this was just for fun...where the fairies live
and I was so stoked to find out that I won the last Creative Type challenge!!!
Thanks ladies-you made my day! I was so excited to be able to order $20 worth of goodies from the Living Room Floor! It was hard to make up my mind!
And just so you know, Scrap Mojo is taking off the month of June, returning to one challenge a month in July. I think a lot of us, especially Marie, are feeling overloaded at the moment. But don't worry, the fun challenges will be back in July!
Big sis started learning how to needle felt in her sewing class. Here's the bluebird she's made this week. I can't wait until she starts making the adorable figures like we have on our nature table.
The last few days have been super busy. Getting ready to spend so much time in Mex, and even though it's taken forever to finalize everything and you'd think I'd be more used to the idea, but many changes have happened, I definitely feel overwhelmed with the upcoming move. I'm having some anxiety over the thought of leaving my home and neighborhood, our friends and the convenience of life here. But the beginning of June we'll sojourn down to Mexico for a the beginning of a 2 year experience. We'll return to the States throughout the year, but the bulk of the next couple years will be lived in a high rise apartment in a super crowded city. I'm trying to see the positive in this experience, my daughters and I learning a new language, living another culture, having some amenities that we otherwise don't have here. But I'm also pretty nervous about things like safety and the inability to just run to the store and grab some yogurt. Everything takes FOREVER there. Or not being able to stop by the organic farm to pick-your-own flowers, or running into Trader Joe's for milk (organic here, finding organic there is difficult), or running into the craft store for glue dots, the craft stores I've seen there are not really geared towards what I've got in mind...It's the silly little things like that that make me feel a bit claustrophobic. So life while we're there will be simplified somewhat. Hard for me, I'm always ready to go, have trouble settling down and am definitely at times a little high strung.
But these pictures are making me smile. Little sis joined a gardening class through Pennypack Farms not far from our home. "Little Sprouts" is a class for ages 3-5 and each week they do some sort of gardening activity and read a book. This week she planted eggplant and peppers, weeded some and picked lots of fresh chives and mint. She is beyond happy with her hands in the soil and digging around. She loves to uncover worms and delicately cover them up again. Big sis liked seeing her friend from gym and swim and they explored the greenhouses and took pictures of the chickens over in the coop while the class was happening.
this place was beautiful, too! Sarah took us here earlier in the week. All the kids had a great time splashing in the water, looking for rocks, minnows and exploring.
lastly, so drooling...
