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(Welcome back back to blogging, me! I missed this.)
In no specific order:
- New guinea pigs: Cinnamon and Biscuit
- Knitting this dress for a baby girl on the way (not mine.) Pattern here.
- This doily (in Noro Silk Garden Sock) that I made for my mom for Christmas. I hated to give it up… I need to knit one for me.
- My first Pi shawl. The second is already on the needles.
- Edda is four… How??
- Walter is learning to help in the kitchen.
- Testing countless granola bar recipes.
- Decorating cakes.
- Embroidery. (Pattern here.)
- Cold-weather walks. (Picture from last month. We’re already getting some spring temperatures now!)
Basically, I just needed to catch up. It’s been forever. Well, almost six months. It’s hard to pack all that into one post. I hope to get back to blogging more often. (Maybe even with more relevant posts! I know you love hearing about my kids and all… but still…) I’m considering a name-change for the blog. Six years ago this was a knitting blog, but it has grown into more like a crafting/cooking/life/knitting/everything blog. What’s a good name for one of those? Give me suggestions.
Meet Mr. Dog and Mrs. Rabbit. I made them using instructions from Miyako Kanamori’s book Sock and Glove.
Edda LOVES these two. Technically, the dog is Walter’s and the Rabbit is Edda’s. But Edda has pretty much taken over ownership of both.
I made a “horsie barn” for Edda out of another old diaper box. It was a huge hit, much like the diaper box dollhouse was in its day. (It’s getting a bit ragged these days.) I noticed that a lot of people have been arriving at my blog by using search terms like “what to do with an empty diaper box,” so I thought I would oblige them with another project.
It’s not very polished or fancy. Mostly because you have to hurry when you have a two-year-old helper that wants to play with her new horse barn ASAP. But you get the general idea.
Materials: diaper box, scissors, glue, tape, construction paper, black sharpie, yarn or string, darning needle (or any needle with a big, fat eye.)
Cut off the flaps.
Tape the short flaps in as seen in the photo and glue along the seams. (I put them against the edges of the box’s bottom flaps– now the back of the barn– to give a sort of ledge to help them stand up.) Stalls are created!
Poke some holes in the side of the barn and the short edge of one long flap as seen in the picture. Make sure they line up.
Use the darning needle to make some yarn or string “hinges.”
et voila.
Glue/tape on some construction paper “siding” and add details in sharpie marker.
Let the glue dry (or not) and start filling your barn up with horsies and all their friends.
The diaper box dollhouse was brought in as a second story of the barn.
And much playing ensued.
Happy times.
Edda and I had fun making a dollhouse out of an empty diaper box yesterday. She always takes various boxes and containers and pretends they are dollhouses, so I thought it would be fun to actually make one. We weren’t very careful with the detail, obviously. One can’t be, you know, with an incredibly excited two year old urging you to HURRY.
Other than the box itself, I just used construction paper, tape and a sharpie marker. Oh, and an x-acto knife. (The knife was for mamas only, of course.) Edda actually did help quite a bit. She is surprisingly awesome at taping things.
The ladder and the bed were extremely important to Edda. The peaked roof was also a must. A house just isn’t a house without one.
She also requested that I put pictures of a baby and a dog on the wall.
Oh, and the three wise men seem to like their roof top lounge very much.
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