We spent the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. The rose garden was absolutely beautiful and Sienna was worn out by the end. The warm weather helped with that!
I love this shot!
She’s starting to pose now. There was absolutely nothing she was reaching for!
Such a great tree
The Rose Garden
We found our way to the Rose Garden at the end of our visit, unfortunately! So Sienna was tired.
Almost all caught up on my posts! Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, we invited the kiddies over for some burgers and dogs. The adults also had Soujuk (not sure if I spelled that right!), a turkish sausage that another guest had brought over during a BBQ last year. So yummy! They had a blast filling up the sandbox with water and the pool with sand. LOL. I made 2 different kinds of cupcakes and 2 different frostings. A banana cupcake and a chocolate cupcake and half had chocolate buttercream frosting and the other had chocolate banana frosting. A note to myself, the banana cupcake was a bit dense while the chocolate one was very light. Both frostings were yummy! Geneva made some awesome baked beans (with meat, beans, bacon and brown sugar! Geneva! I need the recipe!!) And Starr made our favorite, cole slaw!
Sienna thinks Layne is so cute! LOL
The kids were very busy!
Sienna and Phoenix were fascinated with Sylvie’s boo boo!
Eventually Sienna fell asleep in Yves’ lap
We fly home from vacation tomorrow so I hope to be able to post some vacation shots soon!
Some more swaps, fiber related. I decided to use this Coffeeshop burn action for these set of photos (coffeeshop is a GREAT blog for photoshop tutorials and free stuff!). I must have snapped over a dozen shots of the chicken stuffie I made and was not really happy with the results for some reason. I used this vignetting action and it makes it look better so I decided to use it on the rest of the photos.
Chicken for the Spring on the Farm swap, made with the Chickummyjig Pattern
Yep! Made another drawstring, french seamed bag! I’m telling ya, so easy!! For the Woodland Lucky Parcel swap
Eiffel tower stuffie for the Embroidered Stuffie swap. I used a pattern from the Rainbow of Stitches book and widened it. The grey fabric is cut from a linen shirt the Yves didn’t want anymore. Really loved how it came out!
This is actually a Wild Olive embroidery pattern (I believe it is the March embroidery pattern download in the sidebar) that I made a felt pin from instead. For a mystery pouch swap.
2nd time making this owl bookmark but instead of embroidering flowers, I used dimensional fabric paint to paint in my partner’s initials. Part of the Woodland lucky parcel swap.
Used a Sizzix die to make this heart brooch and embroidered my partner’s wedding date on it. Part of the Wacky, Unusual Holiday-June swap. This one was for National Pink Day!
This is actually the Mushroom from Mario Bros. but I made the stem longer so it wouldn’t look like it. The pattern is here. This was part of the mystery pouch tag.
Lion Brand doughnut pattern for National Doughnut Day! I used dimensional fabric paint for the sprinkles.
We’ve been on vacation since Wednesday, the 2nd of June but I have my laptop with me to occupy me during Sienna’s naptime and so I can catch up. The Friday before Memorial day weekend was a fun playday at the playground altho a little chilly than expected. Yves got off early and met us there as well.
Sylvie pushes Nico around
We haven’t seen Elanor in awhile!
I think Izky and Hutch were playing the NO! game
Phoenix and Nico sharing snacks
Sienna playing drums
Gabby slides down the slide with Barbie
Phoenix slides down the slide with Mickey in a stroller
And Sienna slides with Mickey too!
Starr plays around with Gabby
Mia is saying Where’s my Mommy?
Sienna playing with chalk
Sienna and her daddy drawing
swing!
In order to give a fast update since I have so many blog updates to do, I’m combining a couple of posts into one. Did I tell you I won the April ChristyNelson.net crafty challenge? Here is my post with my entry and all the entries here. I won a $25 gift card to amazon.com and some extras from Christy herself. I hemmed and hawed about what to get, honestly, there are so many choices! I finally opted to get a UV lamp to use with some UV resin I’ve been wanting to try (and whenever I wanted to try it, it would be a cloudy day.) So finally, with a UV lamp, I could play with the resin whenever I wanted! All I had to do was pay $5 for shipping.
And here are the extras I got from Christy!
I was really excited to get the birds and birdcages since that theme is so popular nowadays but it turns out that the mandala type stamp in the middle is getting a lot of uses!
Took a Scratch n Sniff card class with the Bay Ridge stampers meetup.
And a couple of Etsy labs! This one is from the embroidered jewelry lab. So much fun!
And Ed Roth held a lab to promote his new stencil stationery kit! I forgot my camera so don’t have photos from the lab so here they are at home.
Catching up on some posts. Another beautiful day on the 14th with a lovely picnic.
Erin brought flying balloons with her. She became very popular with the kids! Sienna got scared of the loud noise the balloons make so hugged my leg the whole time!
Flying Balloon from Lisa on Vimeo.
My good friend Geneva gave birth to her second child, a girl they named Lennox Ava. She was born on Wednesday morning at around 2am on the 19th. I went to visit her later that day.
She took quite a liking to me. 😉
Then on Thursday we went over to play with Phoenix so Layne could spend some quality time with his wife and new daughter.
This may look like karate but Sienna was actually doing ballerina poses.
It was HOT today! Like in the 90’s hot. We were slow moving today so did not make it to the library and just decided to go straight to the playground. I was delighted to see that the sprinklers were on at Owl’s Head Park! And so was Sienna!
Jasmine’s mom shared some of their water balloons with Sienna.
Sprinklers! from Lisa on Vimeo.
The craft of the moment is earrings and pendants. It’s been awhile since I made loops with jewelry tools. I need more practice. It was so much fun to make! These are for ME to wear!
I had a lot of fun stamping on resin beads during the February thing a day and learned that if I don’t coat it, it will fade. I used Diamond Glaze to coat these. It’s looking a little dull after a few wears although I could probably buff it but will try other options next time. And my loops look really bad but they are just for me so I don’t mind.
I just made these over the weekend and wore them for the first time yesterday. I lost one of the silver chains and tree at the end of the day (or maybe I lost it in the beginning of the day!). I was so bummed! I think I may have to dab a little glue on all the jump rings next time.
This was for a mystery pouch tag on swap-bot. I crochet the orange flowers.
Finally getting around to experimenting with UV resins, this one is Lisa Pavelka’s Magic Glos. Still need to play around with it some more.
Phoenix turned 4 on the 15th and I made her this necklace using the acrylic fragments from Tim Holtz and collage sheets I bought on Etsy.
Wow, I can’t believe a whole week passed by so fast! Last Sunday, “Uncle Peeder” came for a visit and we had BBQ for lunch. Sienna LOVES playing with Uncle Peeder and he totally obliged her. Poor guy! Well, he claims he was having fun and was glad to spend time with her. I am selfishly thinking of recruiting him for a babysitter although Yves thinks it wouldn’t be cool to have him come all the way out there to watch Sienna. I guess I agree…hmph!
Uncle Peeder visits from Lisa on Vimeo.
Uncle Peeder rocks! from Lisa on Vimeo.
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