check it out

I added a link under sites I like, but I wanted to draw your attention to it. Some of you in particular will enjoy it!

http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/

Those pictures I keep promising you!

These are self explanatory, sadly.





So happy to have an easel, does anyone want some paintings? No, seriously, what should I do with them all? I am in the process of tracking down envelopes to mail some to you Auntie, I have had them in a pile since Christmas.



This was our very exciting snow day in Philly! We went to the park with Farrah and made snow angels and covered ourselves in snow as if it were sand at the beach. Then we got cold and came home.

Before I forget

Just picture this for a moment. You are in a giant fabric warehouse in south Philly. The radio is blarin' and every tune is one that you want to sing along to. You are filling up your cart with fabric, some earmarked for specific projects, some just too fun to pass up. Up the stairs walks a 70 something black grandma. She has on high heeled boots, a long coat, a fancy hat and a fantastic grin. She has some errant whiskers sprouting from her chin, but she owns them! She exchanges niceties with the guy at the counter and grabs herself a cart. She actually has to wrestle it from the other carts that are gripping it so tightly. Once on her way she begins to hum and then to sing along to the music. What is playing? SUPERFREAK! It is adorable. We both browsed some more and I took note that she sang along, tapped her feet or even did a little dance to every song. She was so hip and so adorable. Also to complete the picture I aught to ad that she was looking at the fabric in the fake fur section. I had been over there myself marveling at the cow print fur, but at $10 a yard, I couldn't afford to be so frivolous.

Easel!

At long last we assembled and erected the easel that Ivy's Mommom got her for Christmas. It is a hit! This is her second afternoon painting. Painting also entails pouring water, mopping it up with some paper towels and singing about pouring water and mopping it up with paper towels. It is an exercise in letting go for me, water spills, painty fingers, a 5 second picture followed by another 5 second painting and another. She is doing well though, and hopefully we will work up to some more stamina so the set-up time/play time ratio evens itself out. And when I was little I would paint and paint until each and every picture was brown, so at least we aren't having that problem!

Pictures to follow.