Goings on around here

The kids put on a play for us

And showed off their newest creations, the Robots.

Here we are enjoying an afternoon read together:

The kids have been working on their science fair projects. We're off to a good start. Owen took apart a vacuum cleaner (the "head" had broken off, making it useless to us) and will describe how an electrical motor works. Elise took many photographs of footprints in the snow a few days ago, and will do some research on footprints and who made them.

In the process of taking apart thevacuum cleaner, Owen became inspired to make this for Elise:


Elise requested a fairy flower hat, so here is The Daffodil Hat:

Made it in one evening (used thick yarn!), and she was very happy the next morning.

I have discovered an even bigger time water than Facebook, Ravelry. You can post all of your projects, post pics, patterns, yarn used. You can post your whole stash, if you have the time to figure out what all you have. You can look for patterns. there are a lot on there. And the best part is, not only can you see the pattern, or where it came from (many are posted for free on Ravelry), but you can see many other people's version of the pattern. Their finished projects. SO you get to see the pattern done in many different colors and yarns. That is where I found the Daffodil Hat (Bluebell), and I have many more ideas now to knit. They have a function called "queue", so you can save that pattern and find it again when you are ready to start. You can list projects "in progress", which is fun. I have managed not to get anything done yet this afternoon!

That's all for now. January is planning to be very busy for me, so we'll see how often I post, I'll try, I promise.