gardening vs. quilting...

...decisions...decisions... :-)

colorful baking lesson...

Beg your mother to take you to the craft store to buy a silicone baking tray.  Make sure you have a 50% off coupon, otherwise begging will not work.

Collect your broken crayons and place them in the silicone baking tray.  (Your mother will be happy that you are finally getting rid of the broken crayons :-)

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Under your mother's watchful supervision, bake in the oven at 230 degrees.  We have a convection oven, so we baked for 10 minutes.  Adjust your baking time if you have a regular oven.

(Warning:  The unbroken crayons in the above photo were purchased for 25 cents a box under the guise of "school supplies".  They were broken and placed in the silicone baking tray without my knowledge or consent.  Do not be fooled by your own child when shopping for school supplies -- bring a list!)

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Let your mother know that this was worth her time.  

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Go collect more broken crayons and repeat!

lesson of the day...

Do not leave your kindle laying on the floor...

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...not happy :-(

we brought in the experts...

The girls try to explain to the head garden gnome how they will fix the tree that has snapped at the trunk.  They have brought with them various glues, staples, thumbtacks, and, a wubbah chiken {huh? shakes head...}, to remedy the situation.  The domos are making alot of noise preparing to blow up the tree with TNT.  The garden gnome is totally mesmerized by the mischievous domos and is unaware of what the girls have said -- and -- that he should move to a safer location...

Sadly, the tree cannot be saved.

the view has changed...

WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

This happened BEFORE the rains came during last night's thunderstorms.  The winds were horrific -- and I thought the pear tree (in the right upper corner of photo 2) was going to do the same thing.

Mother nature is a mean lady!

ginormous...

...sunflower leaves!

As a size reference, I perched my (monster high) bee girl on the leaf stem.  You can't see the bottom of her legs, so she is about 7" high in the photo.  The smaller leaves are part of a morning glory plant that decided to climb up the trunk of the sunflower plant.  At the bottom left of the photo is the actual sunflower on this particular plant.  It was standing straight up, but after we had thunderstorms, it drooped and never recovered.

You can click on the photo to enlarge it.

block #3 completed!...

yay! :-)