Before we left for church yesterday morning Betsy and I were trying out the timer settings on our cameras. We got tired of that though because we had to get down really low so we wouldn't get our heads cut off! I think that someone needs to put away those hangers.. (We're both probably letting each other take care of it... :-p )

*looks at pictures* surely there is another photo to add to this post! :-) Oh yes. My beautiful bath towel. I already have one beautiful blue bath towel but one isn't enough. When it's being washed I have to use a boring towel from in the cupboard. So with a gift card I got for my birthday I bought myself another one. Unfortunately  this picture doesn't do the color justice. It's a wonderful and marvelous green! In this picture it's more of a olive green instead of the lime-ish color...

I set up a bunch of rocks in a corner of our yard and took my photos there. I took pictures of them in abut 5 different spots before I was satisfied! I don't really think that the dad's hair looks very nice but mom said it was fine...

I read TWT yesterday but I'm making myself wait on the Double Cousins book. :-)

Last night Alison and I got to play with the big group again. It's sooooooo fun! Here is one of the songs we're playing. It's really fun but we always seem to wait till the end to play it so we've never finished it... :-(

Here is a group picture of all the kids. We adopted our friend Mackenzie for the day. :-)

Then comes a really old picture of me. I'm not sure how old it is but you can tell it was a few years ago. :-) I cut Alison out of it but we were playing (or trying to) Mastermind at our grandparent's house. It looks like I was enjoying myself!

And here is a cactus wren that was out yesterday. He was really loud! Maybe someday I'll post a video of him that I took.

The edge of the photo was supposed to be shadowed but that obviously didn't work. Oh well. And the setting that I used made it more grainy than normal but I still like it.

I thought these mountains looked pretty neat yesterday and today. Ignore the weird posistions that the pics are in... I found that setting/option yesterday and wanted to try it. :-)

You can't really see it in the picture but there are 400 tootsie rolls in that bag! That is a lot!!! Dad says I should eat one a day and share some with my family and they'd last till my next birthday. I'm not sure I like that idea. :-)

Here is a close up of the scissors and fabric. The fabric was from Betsy, and the scissors were from Mom. I love the design on the blade! My favorite fabric is probably the stripes. It's so cute!

And best of all... books! You can see all the titles in the picture. The bottom two are in the We Were There series. Those are great!!!

For my birthday supper I'm having meatloaf, mashed potatoes, cooked brocoli and carrots, and homemade bread. I had a few more things on the list but mom said that this wasn't a thanksgiving feast. :-p It's been a great birthday!!!!

It's the international gum wall! My little sister even stuck her piece on there. Don't ask which piece it was...

I could've stayed at the quilt shop all day! Even if I was just looking at fabric. :-) I got a couple of ideas while I was there that I'll try soon. (scroll by this picture and the thread will do strange things...)

There is a bag of chips (yep there are chips inside), cookies, a carrot and a slice of and orange, a cupcake and hoho, and some strawberries. Pack it all up for your picnic:

It's actually a skirt and top. I found that easier to get on. Don't ask how I'm going to get the shirt off the doll... For now it can stay on there. :-) Betsy has 12 of these dolls and since she isn't using all the bodies I think I'll make a few more outfits!

How do you organize your photos? Starting in November, I've been emptying the camera card each month and putting them in that month's folder on the computer. It will be alot easier to find my pictures this way! I used to just throw them onto the computer not sorted really at all. I'd have New Folder, and New Folder (2), and sometimes even 3...

The problem with me doing all this sewing is that the floor looks like a wreck with all the little threads all over the place! So I made one of these. I had seen them before on some other blog and decided I needed one myself! (sorry it's not a good picture) The pouch on the top is filled with pinto beans to weigh it down. Then it hangs off of the edge of your sewing table/ironing board and you can drop your trash into it!

The other day mom bought me two quilting magazines at the library, each a dime. I think it was a good way to spend 20 cents. :-) From it I made the start of a strip of triangles that would normally go in a quilt but for me they're just going to sit around. :-) And  I also made a block from a quilt. Here is a picture of the block. I had tons of fun making it!

I didn't read the instructions very carefully when it came to the face, and so I ended up sewing on the eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and nose after the face was on the head...  That isn't the way it was supposed to go though so it was a little difficult. Here is a close up of the face. If I make Molly's sister, I think I'll glue the face pieces on instead of sewing them... And her sister will have eyes looking the other direction so they can look at each other. :-)

My apron has pockets on it that have lace across them just like the top of the apron, but the pan is covering them up... I'd like to say that I did them all by myself, but that wouldn't be true... I had to have my mom help me gather the hats, and do the lace on the apron... If you are going to try the tutorial that I linked to above, here is a link for instructions on how to cut out a large circle. I don't know what else she has posted, so if I were you I wouldn't explore it either... :-p http://schmancy.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-cut-big-circle.html

I arranged them into strips and sewed them together. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures... Then I decided that it was a little too small so I took some left over fabric from a dress we had made for Emily and cut out a border. I Alison what I had done so far and she said, "You should make that a pillowcase!" I did need a new pillowcase and I thought it would be a cute one so I decided that there would be no doll blanket after all. After asking mom what she thought, we decided that it would be best to sew it on to the top of a pillowcase we already had. After ripping out the seams in the pillowcase and sewing and sewing and doing more sewing, we had this: