Kimono

Here are the promised pictures of my Kimono I sewed. I got the fabric a long time ago, cut out and started on the Obi, but never quite got around to moving on. I finely got up the gumption and finished it and the Kimono. I just love it! It fits so nice and just feels so fun to wear. Don't ask me why I made it, I couldn't tell you. But now that I have it I'm glad. The obi was very strange to make, it actually has cardboard in it.The Kimono itself wasn't to difficult, but with all the fabric and lining it was a hassle.

I really like the sleeves you could hide all sorts of dangerous things in them!

I used the Simplicity pattern 4080 and made veiw B

Kanzashi

I finished sewing my Kimono a few days ago (I will post pictures later) So last night and today I made a Kanzashi* hairpiece to match. I think It turned out really nice. I love making Kanzashi since I got this book Kanzashi in bloom. The instructions are so easy and fun. The projects are kind of strange and unusable, but like I said the flower instructions are simple, quick, infinite, and very doable. *Kanzashi are traditional Japanese hair pieces.

Pounding

I made my first pound cake yesterday. It looked so pretty, but James said it tasted like soap. Oh, well, I like it!

Umm, lemon soap glaze....

Skiing

Last Monday Hannah, Luke and I went Skiing at Big Mountain (It will never be Whitefish to me). It was really fun. We had a great instructor, and great weather most the day. (p.s. If your wondering why I'm wearing a boys jacket it's because I couldn't find one I liked in the stores this year so I wore my brothers.)

sunny, yellow, happy shoes

I don't know about all you, but I get tired of brown, black, and tan shoes. I'm so happy when I find a pair of shoes that are an unusual color but seen to match more then I thought they would. Like when we were camping I got a pair of bright green plaid high heals (I call them my camping shoes) And I love them! And once I got a pair of red flats, they also match quite a bit of my clothing. So here are some adorable (in my opinion) yellow shoes I've found on random sites.

If life gives you snow, build a snow man!

Sorry I've been absent in the blog world lately, our computer wouldn't let me sign in. I finally asked Dad about it and he realized the time date was wrong, so I guess because I didn't even have a blog in 2002, I couldn't log in to a nonexistent blog.

Well, anyhow I haven't done too much lately but here is an recap.

My brother Luke and Matthew, built a snow man. His name is Hieme. Cleo was his protector.

Next I finished my felted Oro hat, and love it! I think I'm going to wear it skiing next week. Finally, I made the best cookies I think I've ever had in my life! They are banana cookies. They taste like angel clouds fallen into a tropical rain forest were a baby monkey would pick them up and be content for life.

I saw three days go sailing by

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!

On Christmas Eve the Vestals and Underhills came over to exchange gifts, and eat Taco salad (I know very traditional, right?) That was a great evening. (Dad, Mom, Mitch, Aunt Kathleen, Uncle Greg, Nora, plus Shelby the dog)

Christmas day my Grandparents came about noonish, the Underhills around 2:30ish, James and Stacia about 4:00ish, and very later, the Vestals at about 6:30ish. Around 3pm we had Christmas dinner, lunch? Whatever you eat at 3pm. That food was traditional though. Oh, and to top it off it was snowing! It was so fun to celebrate Christ's birth with family and friends.My lovely Grandparents Today, we went to Woodland Park to go ice skating. That was so much fun. I tried hockey for the first time. I thought I would hate it but it was a blast (even if I did stink). I really need to work on my turns. The puck (that's what you call it right?)It would come right towards me but I would keep moving too, and I couldn't turn around to get it! I was eventually put as goally which I really quite enjoyed.

Me, Hannah, Raijoice, and Raydeemie.