This week

This has been a short but sweet week. We enjoyed two early Thanksgiving feasts with friends (thanks, lovely friends!), two quick days of school, and then a holiday break.
First of all, I have been making small pillar candles for a holiday gift exchange. Each of seven of us crafty moms make 35 items, which we then redistribute and each of us gets 5 items made by each mom. We can then create gift baskets of handmade bath-type items. Robin and I packed ours up last night to send off to Pueblo and Kansas City. I think I will use my gift baskets for teacher gifts this year, rather than doing the "put in some money to buy a gift card" gift this year.

My candle pouring process is pretty basic, I used natural beeswax, and recycled items from around my house for molds.

Yesterday we spent the day at Littleton Historical Museum with friends.

Pioneer kids:

I found this doorway an interesting place to frame pictures - Elise was sweeping the classroom, and the rest were just enetering the classroom. Fun!

Climbing on the straw bales, always entertaining!

Looking for fish in the pond:

Last weekend I had some extra energy, so I rearranged part of my living room to make an"Art Room" for the kids. It just the area behind the couches in front of the back window. It gets great light, and is mostly unused space, so I decided it would work perfectly. We can store some of our art materials under the fish tank (behind the orange fabric).