MyLuckyChicken

Much A Doin'

Well is seems the holiday season has sneaked up on me once again. Thanksgiving was spent with friends and many children which was just perfect. All my thanks to Patti for hosting! 

 

 To kick off the Christmas season, if you live in the Boston area, I highly recommend the Enchanted Village at Jordan's furniture. The company bought the original Enchanted Village my Nana used to take me to when I was a little girl. 

It's sweet, vintage, innocent, and fun. (and also free, which is a bonus) At the end there is a Santa who actually listens to the kids. No 'take a quick snap shot and on your way' here. Also, I am fairly certain that this guy is the real deal.

 

 He told my boys to clean the basement to get ready for Christmas, which is what actually needs to happen, and there is no way he could have known that, is there?

 

On the crafting front I've been working on the gifts for the neighborhood kids. I am making reusable snack bags. I don't want to say too much, but there is embroidery involved and so far they are kinda cute! 

 

Our dog Buddy has been a bit under the weather. We are changing his food hoping it will help. If anyone out there knows about raw feeding, Buddy and I would love to hear from you!

 

posts of Christmas past

As I was poking around through my iphoto (I am slowly becoming a mac convert, don't tell anyone), I found pictures of the Christmas presents we made for the teachers last year. Since they may be making a come back this year,  I thought I'd post them. 

 

Simple and fun. I cut out the circles, the kids drew on them then I glued the circle to a wooden disk I got at Michael's.  Then I covered the drawings with a thin coat of diamond glaze. If you haven't tried diamond glaze I highly recommend it, it makes things super shiny and gives it a professional look. Very satisfying.  

We finished them with super magnets. Which I love because they are super small but will hold many many pieces of paper to a fridge or a white board.  

As a teacher myself, I can say that I always need magnets. Teachers don't need hand cream, and please dear God no more mugs! Magnets are good. 

more experiments

 

A few more pictures from my experiments with TTV photography. 

These were taken with my much less fancy kodak. It basically looks like this:

but if you want to really zoom in you need a contraption (scroll down to my last post to read more about those). For the Kodak I used an old black sock attached with a rubber band, fancy I know. I'm tempted to take the camera apart and try to clean off some of the dirt and those big blobs, but that may be a little too much for me. I'm having fun with this but I'm starting to think it might be a good idea to get a start on my handmade Christmas presents for the neighborhood kids.