Here’s a blanket I made for my cousin’s baby shower. I’ll be making more of these for all the babies happening in the coming months – they’re super easy and so soft (not the babies, the blankets…well babies are soft…I digress). I just sandwiched a piece of fleece between pieces of printed flannel and solid cotton. After sewing them all together, turning out and stitching again all around, I randomly stitched through the layers with yarn to hold everything in place. (Of course, this is a photo of it all folded and tied up with yarn for wrapping.)

…and here’s the Nikki McClure print I’m giving Kyle for doing all the manual labor around the house while you’re gone (Dave)… I think he’s really going to like it.

Here the girls are, painting. They look great when they paint, don’t you think?

And now the girls are out of bed trying to convince me they’re suddenly scared of the dark and it’s not even dark outside yet…barely 9:00pm – geez. Olive’s telling me she’s scared of bumble bees. …convincing…

And finally…the most exciting thing of all. In preparation for the big cross county move, I’m streamlining some things around the house. Puzzles. I love them, but those stupid boxes take up so much space. It’s like a bag of chips – mostly air. Here’s what I did with the kids’ puzzles:

I cut the picture out of the box lid and put that and the pieces all in a zip lock. Now they take up like a millionth of the space. Nice.