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We’re taking a break from Music Together classes and getting active at the Little Gym. We took a trial class last January but I felt Sienna was still a bit too young to get anything out of it besides just releasing energy. (Which isn’t a bad thing but not at those prices!) This year we took another trail class and signed up for the rest of the Winter semester (which was only 3 more classes). We’ll be signing up for the Spring semester, which is actually this week. Sienna really seems to be enjoying it (at least most of it!)

Not crazy about sitting in the middle of the parachute while we move around her.

Loved this!

She could really hang around!

She was a little unsure of this!

But it turned into a forward roll, which she really enjoyed!

And of course all the kids seemed to get mesmerized by the bubbles! It’s hard to tell but there are a lot of bubbles surrounding Sienna (probably mostly behind her).

Here’s a video of her doing a forward flip on the high bars (I forgot if that is what they are technically called). Please e-mail me or leave a comment for the password.

Flipping out at The Little Gym! from Lisa on Vimeo.

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Here is Sienna giving Skippy a hug. This was last week. He needs mega hugs this week as Tuesday he went into the vet to get some things done. First, he got 4 teeth pulled! They were rotting, poor thing. Then he had 3 growths removed, 2 small ones on top of his head and 1 big one on his left back paw. The vet never actually explained what they were and I forgot to push him on it as I am curious. He just told me we might as well get them removed while he is under because they could get larger. And the last and major thing he got done and the thing that made me most guilty is, we got him fixed, poor thing. He was having lots of accidents in the house, even though we let him out during the day to release his bladder. The vet said because he isn’t fixed, his prostrate gets enlarged and can’t hold large amounts of urine and/or he can’t release all his urine at once (I forgot which or maybe it is both reasons).  The first thing I said to him when I picked him up was to ask him if he was mad at me. He was so out of it, it didn’t matter. And he has to wear the cone on his head until Sunday to keep away from the sensitive area. Poor thing. Send him a virtual hug!

Sienna pointing out his cone head.

He’s giving me the ‘look what you’re putting me through’ look!

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I’m a little behind in my posts as Chinese New Year was on Monday. Sienna had a slight fever last Friday and since the weekend was very cold, we hibernated and we were all getting cabin fever by Sunday. Sienna was overjoyed to be getting out of the house when we went to my parent’s house for New Year Eve’s dinner on Sunday. In my family the big celebration is on the eve and my parents cook chicken, cellophane noodles, sausages, abalone (one of my faves and the only time of year I get to eat it!), baby bok choy and a few other things that I don’t remember because I usually don’t eat it! HA!

(the abalone is the beige in brown sauce dish on the left)

Sienna’s digging into the fried rice, made especially for her and Yves

I’m digging into the cellophane noodles, my second favorite dish!

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My craft has been off the last week so I thought I would post some of the things I made in the beginning of the month when my craft was on. I was in a swap for 10 surprise items, could be store bought or hand made and I did a combination of both for my partner based on her profile. Some of the things she likes is chickens/roosters and the Old West. I knew right away I wanted to crochet a chicken potholder for her and was one of the first things I started back in December. Glad I did as I left plenty to do last minute! I decided to practice my carving and made her a name stamp with a chicken. I’m pretty proud of how it turned out! And just so everything wasn’t going to be fowl related, I made some “Old West” magnets with images from my clip art book.

The work in progress. I had a temporary brain fart and thought I needed the image to be reverse (top right). Good thing I realized I was wrong before I started carving.

I think it came out well so even joined a carving swap. Yikes!

I used Diamond Glaze on a couple of them and 3D Crystal Lacquer on the others. Definitely like 3D better for this (no air bubbles!)

I gave the chicken green eyes! ha!

So now I have become obsessed with making these glass pendants. I discovered these glass pendant kits from Annie Howes’ Etsy shop back in August and practically harassed Annie about when she was going to ship them to me. The kit comes with pretty papers to use under the glass but I knew I was going to use my own photos. Well, I finally got motivated to make one earlier this month (part of the delay was finding just the right photo!)

I loved how they turned out and made a few for some friends with pics of their newborns. I’m seriously considering selling these and also selling some using some of my holga shots. We’ll see!

I bought myself this stencil book for Christmas and made this shirt for Sienna. I bought this stuff to add to acrylic paint to make it fabric paint (altho I do have fabric paint for the Gocco and some leftover from my silkscreen class). It’s already been thru a few washes and still looks good! Wooo!! fun!

I tried to take a photo of us with me wearing the pendant and Sienna wearing her shirt. We look cute but you can’t really see us sporting my creations!

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Please leave a comment or e-mail me if you don’t have the password for the video!

Daddy’s Slippers from Lisa on Vimeo.

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I can’t remember when my watch strap broke, it’s been so long! After unsuccessfully trying to contact Paul Frank about buying a replacement strap, I tried using black tape to fix it temporarily but it would slide out within minutes. I had the idea to sew on a piece of fabric to replace that part of the strap. Actually doing it took some time! But I finally did it!! Woohoo! It didn’t come out quite perfect as I didn’t realize the metal part would be in the way when I sewed it but hey, at least I can wear it now and it hasn’t broken off (yet!)
I didn’t realize that the strap from the other side of the watch would cover the butterfly’s face but that’s ok because I also didn’t plan on sewing right across his face either!

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He poses with chicken feet, he pretends to gobble up raw ricotta cheesecake and hangs out with Sienna, he helps us do a test run for our first ghetto BBQ, he doesn’t pretend to not know me when I rock out to Kelly Clarkson, he’s Skippy’s cuddle buddy and…

he gave me his old Ipod Touch! (The monkey is Sienna’s). Thanks Pete!!

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I made a pin!

I’m sending a couple to my in-laws. If I make it again, I think I will take out his name.

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I realize I’ve been bad at posting the pics of the swaps I’ve received. So here are some of the latest!

The Amigurumi Food swap, my partner is from Costa Rica! (I hosted on swap-bot!)

The grocery tote bag swap (the bag I made is here)

My partner did such a nice job and I hope to be able to sew as well one day! The inside has 2 pockets. She even included this cute sour cream container pouch.

Tawashi Swap, my partner is from the UK (I haven’t even done mine yet!)

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On Saturday, Pete came over with some Wii games he’d been wanting to play with us so I took the opportunity to bake. I already knew I wanted to make Banana Chocolate Chip muffins because we had super ripe bananas and I made them for the first time a couple of weeks ago and they were so yummy! And I knew I wanted to make New York style cheesecake so I could use up the 2nd graham cracker crust I had. But then I also decided to bake apple crumb pie while I was at the market and picked up some apples and crust. I was having a baking bonanza! Everything came out delicious. The cheesecake was Yves’ favorite and the muffins were Pete’s favorite. I liked the pie but next time I will use different apples as the Granny Smith were a bit tart for my tastes (they were on sale at the market!) I also made turkey chili for lunch (yes, we did eat an actual nutritious meal beforehand!)

I knew I could pawn off the baked goods to Pete so there wouldn’t be so much in the house and he did not disappoint! He was going to a party later and I heard it was well received there! They might not look very pretty but it all tastes great! 😉

The Wii games he brought over were super fun!! I enjoyed them all! We played Ravin Rabbids 2, Wario Smooth Moves (by far the most bizarre game played ever!) and Mario Party 8. Sienna woke up from her nap during Mario Party 8 and seemed to enjoy the graphics. All in all a very fun and filling day! Thanks Pete!

I rushed to take a picture of Sienna on Pete’s lap and had the wrong setting on the camera!

This one is cute but Sienna’s little car was blocking Skippy!

Pete’s like “if I smile again, she won’t stop taking pictures! I’m making a somber face now!”

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