I got an early birthday present from my dad this week. I kept having to ask him if I could borrow batteries for my camera (mine had died) and he finally decided that he wasn't going to wait till my birthday to get me those batteries! We've used this brand before and we know they're really good. It's been great to be able to use the camera any time I want again! :-)

This morning I decided that my craft box definitely needed to be organized. As you see in the picture below, I couldn't even shut the lid! So I dumped everything out on the floor and neatly put it back in. You can't really see it in the picture but what takes so much space is a big box of wool... If that wasn't in there, the lid would always be able to go on right! :-) I must say that that finished product looks a big better... Even if the lid does bulge out a little. ;-) In that box there is two wrapped shoe boxes with beads and acorn caps, a lot of felt, a box with an unfinished sock money inside, a little basket with finished people, and many other misc things... That little yellow container has seed beads in it. I'm going to try embroidery with beads one of these days... I've seen pictures of it and it always looks really neat!
 
Next I tackled my desk. Well, I had done most of my desk yesterday and Saturday night so there wasn't much left. You can see many interesting imprints in the dust there. It shows that I haven't dusted my desk in... who knows how long its been!  The picture on the left is the whole corner that my desk is in. The flower in the corner is actually on Betsy's desk but it stuck into the picture...

This collage is pictures of Emily taken on Saturday. She is reading Green Eggs and Ham. I tried to get her to look up more often but she was too busy reading. :-) I guess she hasn't memorized it yet....

I decided I'd better post these pictures soon because I've been busy making more! :-) First there are those felt strawberries that I mentioned earlier. Some of you are getting snow, but here our strawberry tree is just starting to give the juiciest strawberries ever! (yeah, I know, strawberries don't grow on trees!) You'll notice that one of the strawberries doesn't have any seeds... That's because I got bored of sewing them. I actually made 4 but only three got in the picture. The strawberries are actually bright reds and greens, but I set my camera for different colors.