Part 1: Dinosaurs of rock or Giant Child-Eating Dinosaur!

No, we did not go to a concert; just a gemological show. There is this guy that goes every year that has life size puppets of dinosaurs they are made out of foam. I am not sure if he makes them or if he purchases them either way the kids love it. The kids always have fun with that and chase him around. I thought this might be fun to post for all those kids out there who are in love with dinosaurs. When he is not using the puppets he has them on stands for you to see.

The white ones are more of a hand puppet although he does tie them to his legs and his hand goes inside of them.
The brown ones he has to be inside of. I know that sounds kind of weird. But there is a harness and he fits in the dinosaur between the back legs below the tummy.When he is inside them you almost don't notice him he wears all black so as to be more of a backdrop and not distract from the puppet.For some reason they all have these tags on their backsides. I have no idea why.You are not aloud to touch the dinosaurs unless the man is wearing it then it is ok the kids think this is fun they also like being eaten by the dinosaur.My daughters kept going back to take turns on being eaten. because they are made out of a real soft flexible foam this doesn't hurt a bit.These photos are of a display of real bones. I am glad nothing with teeth that big is alive today. I don't think it would be fun to be eaten in real life.

This first is a T-RexTusk of a Stegodon

Spring Swap

Items from spring swap at MJF that willow tree creek was in charge of.

1. willowtreecreek pin to wear
2. celebrate 2727 sun flower seeds in hand made bag
3. Tina Michelle decrative hangers for like a small easter tree
4. Sunshine I did a few different styles of pins this one was kind of fallish so I was glad it came back to me the rest are more spring like
5. mumof3 a very lovelyglitered box with a pin inside to wear with seed beads and a vintage mother of pearl button and looks like vintage ribbon too.
6. lambgirl seed dirt and pot and an easter egg full of candy
7. beckels a hanger for the wall for little trinkets and she also did a flower pot with seeds.
8. Nance in France a wash towel that you put your hand inside of and bath salts
9. ktknits a note book in a felted cover with yo yo and button and a bumble bee to go with my caterpillar from the last swap, Easter. I think most of the girls in the swap got pillows. But since I was in the last one
10. knewslady I think she actually took this photo of an old farm lady feeding her animals, pigs.

Waste Not Want Not

In a post dated July 26, 2006, over on Poppalina I found that she showed a wonderful little baby jacket she made from scraps: "Baby Wedding Jacket". I just loved it; it reminded me of a project I started a few years back using of scrapes of 6-stranded embroidery thread, knit cro-sheen, and size 10 crochet thread. I have no idea when this project will ever get finished, nor do I care. It is just fun every now and again to sit down and make some Irish roses and add a square or two or add a few shells to the boarder. It is one of those projects that, if it takes you a lifetime, you just don't care; the journey getting to the end is worth so much more than the end result. This has antique threads, new threads, you name it in it cotton, rayon, and metallic.

I can look at this and see parts of dresses I have made for my children and thread that was used on doilies and things like that. All are a piece of something else and a whole together. It is fun to see it grow I am purposely doing the edges first because, if I have a scrap of thread to small to make a rose, I can add it to the edge. The roses are easy to drop in anywhere, while the edges have to have something to go into first. So I guess after a while I will fill in the middle, but 'till then the edges grow slowly.

My Tutorial is in an E-zine

There is a E-zine (electronic magazine) that just came out called "Small Town Living". My English Paper piecing tutorial is a feature in this e-zine. You can find it on pages 25 -31. This is the second time I have been a feature in this magazine; the first was the Jan/Feb issue. I wish Tina and her husband lots of success with their baby mag; it is on its fourth edition. Please feel free to follow the links and read this magazine and their other three editions; they are at this link, too.