I am not very good at budgeting my time.  I don’t have a great record for estimating how long it takes me to do something or get somewhere.  I am often late.  Today I had 2 different activities planned.  We left the house this morning to do some grocery shoping because Old Mother Hubbards cupboards were pretty bare!  I couldn’t even concoct anything edible with the combination of stuff I had left around here.  We went to Marc’s first of course then to get gas-Thanks Mom for your Eagle card.  I got $1 off each gallon of gas!!  Then we hit Trader Joe’s and finally Whole Foods.  I am a particular shopper when it comes to food.  Everything else I buy second hand.  But when it comes to food, I am a bit of a freak.  So that is why we run all over town to grocery shop.  I didn’t plan on it taking as long as it did.  I never do-that is part of my problem.  By the time we got home and I put ll the food away and showered-finally at 3:00PM it was time for Mollys tutor apt and bead class!  So I have no great activity for today.

So you may be wondering what we had for dinner after all that grocery hopping.  My family ate hot dogs at a baseball game.  I brought carrots to the game-bit no takers.  And the hot dogs were only 10 cents each, so my kids ate alot of them!!  I don’t even want to imagine what those are made of!

Now off to bed-possibly a project tomorrow!!

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Sorry again for the lack of updating.  I feel like I am running in place lately.  So much to do, so little time.  I am planing to do a huge Spring cleaning this week with a garage sale planned for  Saturday as motivation to clear this place  out.   So this weeks posts may be unexciting as well, but you never know.  I am sure my creative kids will come up with a few ideas on their own.  Which I am really looking to as the weather warms.

Throwing them in the back yard with odds and ends of junk and paint is really a favorite activity.  Wet sand and body art, making forts and loads of pretend play.  Once my house is clean I can focus on other things!!

I sort of work like that.  I do best when I can put all my energy to one place-this week it will be cleaning and decluttering.  Next will be gardening and then on to summer activities!!  I can only be good at one thing at at time.  Be it cooking, cleaning, researching something.  My son is just like me.  I try to remember that when I think he is having as educational dry spell.  He will always find his way to a focus.  Although the older he gets the lull in between is longer and longer.  Nerve racking!!  But that is another long post.

Thanks for all the encouragement and kind words on showing my photos but it didn’t happen.  I arrived at the barren space with 20 minutes to hang my stuff.  Looking around at the empty walls I assumed the show was canceled.  After checking with several tenants the sad truth was confirmed-No SPARK this month.  Well I am ready for next month or June.  I also talked to Renee at the gallery where Molly has her class and I am going to put some stuff there.  I am glad to have some finished pieces.  I am usually running at the last minute as I was Sturday but now I am ahead!

Ginger spent some time rockin’ out yesterday. I would like to say she was singing something classic but I am sure it was Hannah Montanna .

I had plans  to do the watercolor tutorial from Camp Creek last week.  I bought some watercolors in the tube as well as a multi-color tray from Marc’s last week-($2.48!!).  The girls found them and tried them out yesterday.

And Yes the photo from the last post was a train and Railroad crossing.  I really wanted to get out of the car to shoot it but my girls were freaking out so I slid out of the passenger window.

This weekends Macro Challange Photo entries

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Molly still isn’t 100%, but tired of lying around and in need of warm sunshine, so we headed outside to work on a jump rope.  If you read Family Fun the directions were in this months issue-and it may be worth looking at if my description isn’t very clear.  You will need 3/4 inch loops of stretchy fabric or nylon.  It can be purchased at a fabric store or, like me, you can go to the thrift store  and buy some used tights to cut up.  We cut out the tip of the toe and then just cut the legs up width wise to make loops.  According to Family Fun, 157 loops will give you a 6 1/2 foot jump rope.

Now, wrap a loop around your index finger, twist it a half turn and pull it down over your middle finger, twist it again, pull it over your ring finger, then twist it once more and wrap it around your pinkie.

Repeat the same steps with another loop over the top of first set of loops.

Now pull the bottom index finger loop (mine is white) up and over the red loop and off your finger, lifting from the back of your hand to your palm.  Repeat with all three fingers.

Continue doing this over and over until the rope is the length you want it-which should be ends being 4 inches above armpits with midpoint touching the ground.

To remove rope from your fingers, first snip a new loop into a strip, thread throughout the loops, pull out your fingers and knot ends together.

To make handles, fold over 4 inches of the rope at each end and wrap it with loops.

We didn’t get this far so Molly transferred her weaving onto a paintbrush, I used a pencil.  Slide it through the loops on your fingers.

This is super easy once you get the idea.  Hopefully we will have a finished product to show you soon!!

I am sad to say I was foiled by my Marc’s.  I purchased these beauties at a mere $2.99 only to be unable to even walk 4 steps in them.  They are slippery as hell, and so wide they could accommodate an elephant.  But boy are they sparkly!!  I may wrap some scotch tape around and around the toe thong part to make them a bit tighter and scuff up the bottoms really good and add some foam to the pretty parts underside!!  I’ll let you know if the situation improves.

But aren’t they sooo pretty!

Todays shots for the  30 day Macro-Challange

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