That's a Chicken!

The super bowl was great wasn't it?

What you didn't have fun?

I did...had breakfast with the cutest kid ever, played with Mags, went to church, went to a fabric store because they had $1.00 fat quarters, came home, took a nap, made a corn n macaroni casserole, went to a super bowl party, did some for-reals college homework, graded some student homework, laundry, bed.

Back up...you went to a fabric store for fat quarters...what the heck are those?

Fat quarters are a fourth of a yard of fabric but instead of the fabric being cut into four even "strips", the yard of fabric is divided into four quarters...giving it a nearly square appearance.

For those of you who like visuals

And those of you who need a real life scenario

This is a big deal?

YES, fat quarters are typically between $1.75-$3.00...these were ONE DOLLAR!! (Do you feel like you were just in an episode of Sheldon Cooper Presents Fun with Flags on The Big Bang Theory..'cause you should!)

This little adventure with my mom, grandma, and Carly was the highlight of my super bowl...Paul Harvey's "Why God Made Farmers" was a close second.

We have been talking about farm animals and wouldn't you know it - 5 minutes into shopping at the fabric store Carly decided she was bored. SURPRISE!! Luckily there was another little girl there and they had so much fun running in between tables and undertables and trying to knock down 70 year old women and break their hips...fun was had by all.

Finally I corralled my heathen and took her over to look at the cool wall hangings that looked like this...

I pointed to one similar to the above picture and asked her what it was..."K-State Wildcats, Mama" and without missing a beat she pointed to the next one and proudly said...."That's a Chicken!" Oh yes. The KU wall hanging, she thought, included a chicken.

 

Close enough. 

Christmas Crafts - Letter shirts

I don't like crafts that involve a lot of skill, because I don't have a lot of skill.

I call these, crafts for real people.

Not that other crafty people aren't real - they are super. I am not super. I am just me.

Things I do that make me less super than the super moms that blog a new craft each day include: eating foods from their containers, spending hours on Pinterest with no intent to do any of the things I pin, only folding half of the laundry, not ironing a thing until 5 minutes before we need it, watching crap TV when I should be sleeping, napping with my daughter, playing outside when it is really warm, taking Maggie to the creek to cool off, gardening -sort of, only cleaning really well when we are going to have guests.

This is why when I get crafty, I also get real.

 These shirts are from the Walmarts, they were super cheap. I had my husband draw some letters for me. An I and an E for my cousins' daughters.

Then I took those letters and I cut 'em out to make stencils. Using my white colored pencil (not a good idea to use crayon) then traced the letters on the shirts.

Next the buttons were sorted and the ones I liked were put on the stencils.

I sewed the buttons on as they were layed out on the stencils. That's right...I can sew. I am actually a 4-H Champion seamstress several years in a row. BOOM!

Only a few buttons were sewed on at a time, then the thread was tied off and a few more were sewed on at a time... like 3-4 buttons.

Why do this? That is a simple question, if a thread gets caught and breaks you only loose 3-4 buttons not all of them. Mind blown again? Thought so, you are welcome.

Oh, you don't have a giant container of sweet buttons lying around? Go get some, now. There are a billion buttons at flea markets or your mom or grandma might have some old ones lying around they aren't using. USE THEM!! No one wants some old stuff lying around, people would rather wear it.

Especially your two year old child.