Recent Reading!

I recently found Laini Taylor's first book, "Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer" at my local library much to my delight. Discovering her blog through Sunday Scribblings is what led to me finding out about her first book and reading the first chapter online. Laini is a talented artist and author.

Faeries of Dreamdark is the tale of Magpie Windwitch. Magpie is a faery whose noble efforts help to rid the world of devils and worse in a time when most of fairy civilization has fallen to frivolity. Through her journey she unearths dark secrets hidden since the beginning of the creation of the earth by it's creators and faces the resulting chaos head on.

I give this book two thumbs up! ;)

Las Frutas!

Card craft!

My kids and I love to make cards. We've never made Halloween cards before really but what the heck, it was an activity that didn't involve the TV... woohoo!

Blown Out!

Leftover tire from trip from hell...

Harvest Table

Julie's Chicken Tagine!

(Cheated and had to use olives from a jar)

Twas yummy!

Ham Jensen...

A character created by Chaya...



Ham tries on an apple for size...

Halloween is Coming...

New REAL Water Colors With the Girls...

C'mon Mom, the new paints are ready, take the picture already... (i only had time for one try!)




The girl's results as hung on the wall by little E.



The end. Little E. thought it'd be fun to mix everything together to find out what happened.

This was the best $5.60 I have spent in a long time. A set of 12 real water color tubes... I had to get over micromanaging the girls about keeping the colors separate, mixing separately, and not using too much paint. For goodness sake, it was only $5.60 and we have enough left for at least 4 or 5 more sittings.

Self Portrait Before Date...

Jeff and I will have been together for 19 years in a week or so. We've been married for 13 of those years. We went out this weekend...