Things I love

In honor of Valentines Day I thought I would do a post on things I love. I cannot even begin to touch on everything, and I couldn't find pictures of like mud, church, or swimming, but believe me I love them.

God and His Holy WordMy FamilyMontana Dressing up with friendsCanoeing and swimmingFruit!DancingMy friends (Don't worry you all come much higher on the list)BadmintonCleoCorduroy jackets, and clothing in generalanything extreme like skydiving, tree climbing, ironing.

P.S. you should all check out this sport it's amazing! (Bewared though not all the pictures all 100% appropriate) http://www.extremeironing.com/

Crazy sitters

I just love interesting chairs and benches.

Here are some of my favorite.This bench is just amazing, I can't believe someone actually made this.I found this rocking chair on etsy, very comfy looking.Isn't the wood gorgeous!

This chair from anthropology is so cute! I love the colors and it looks very hugable.

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.

Winter

Well, winter is officially here, which means Christmas and New Year, ice skating, skiing, sledding, snowshoeing, shoveling, wet socks, and slush. though I can't say winter is my favorite season (It actually comes third after Summer, then Fall) There is something felicity about watching snow falling, and wrapping gifts.


Merry Christmas!
Just remember Christ is the reason we celebrate!

Dress

I finished a semi-formal dress I had been making today. I really like it. I'm so happy it fits and turned out nice. I'd never made a formal dress before so it was kinda an experiment. I'll post better pictures later.

Caution! For strong stomachs only. (I'm not joking)

Yesterday night was crazy! First John Mark came over because he said he "broke" his knuckles and wanted my mom to look at them. Well, he hadn't been here 5 minutes before my dad runs in holding his hand and dripping blood. We had got over 6 inches of snow and he was out using our snow blower tractor. He thought he had turned it off ( he is hard of hearing) and was going to clean the built up snow out, so he reached his hand in. Big mistake. Two of his fingers are a mess. It looks like he stuck them down the garbage disposal. We called Mrs. Mallery to come over (she has dealt with these things before). James and Stacia (they had come over for dinner) went to town to get some bandages and stuff. Mrs. and Mr. Mallery soon came over and washed the wound out in warm water and grapefruit extract. We applied myrrh, pan away, tea tree oil, lavender, Roman Chamomile, and olive oil. About every hour we had to change the bandages. There was blood everywhere, even Cleo had to be cleaned off. I'm hesitant to put a picture, I really don't want to get flagged for disturbing images or something. So I think I won't. I'll leave it up to your imagination. Remember when Jaclyn cut her forehead open?It makes that look like a paper cut. If you want a picture I will e-mail you one. Please pray for healing for my dad.

Birthday, Deer heads, and Cleo

Well, today is my 17th birthday!

Last night I had a lovely evening with family and the Vestals. My mom and I made a lemon filled coconut cake from scratch, yummy! And I made everyone try an Italian Soda

(I think for the most part they all liked them). Eric shot a deer a few nights before and had to show us it's head.

Sorry the picture is blurry, but you get the point (pun intended)

Today we saw Cleo surrounded by turkeys. It was really cute!

Parade!

Last night the Valley Voices Choir was in the Kallispell parade. Hannah, Caitlin, Jillian, Hayley, Nora, Nicole, the Stafford girls, and myself, all dress up in Victorian dresses. It was so much fun handing out candy to cute little kids! I don't think I've had that much fun for a long time. I totally came out of my comfort zone. Giving little kids my biggest cheesiest smile and telling them I liked their hat, or gasp and say that I have the same name too! The hardest part was trying to hand tiny little kids candy with mittens on. They would just drop it! We had the Llama, Alpaca group behind us, and Hannah and I would keep merging with the llamas when we were slow at handing out candy. I was so funny to hear what people said about us. We had some parents ask us if we were faeries! I mean come on, do faeries were hoop skirts, bonnets, and leather gloves! We must of heard over 20 people say princesses, and many asked what play we were from. Just about every kid we handed candy to, their parents would say "say thank you" It was cute, but every kid! Didn't any of them know how to say it by themselves! And anyway I didn't have time to wait around for each kid to say thank for a tootsie roll. Oh, and half way through the parade my bonnet kept falling off so I ran over and put it on the float. It was embarrassing trying to get it off because the ties got caught in my scarf and the Llamas were catching up. I was like pulling and twisting, but finally got it off. It truly was a blast!

Sorry I don't have any pictures. Tell me if you want me to call about the Bigfork parade, and maybe caroling in Bigfork again.

All things bright and beautiful!

The other evening there was the most beautiful sunset. Hasn't God created a wonderful world for us to live in? The night is far spent, the day is at hand,

Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness,

and let us put on the armor of light.

Romans 13.12

my etsy shop!

After some encouragement from Hannah, I finally got around to starting my etsy shop. It opened yesterday and now have four items listed and plan at least 3 more.
It's at http://www.etsy.com/shop/calicomoose Please visit!

Mushroom fancy.

Sorry I've been very uninspired when it comes to blog post lately. Well, as you may know. I hate mushrooms in food. But I think they look adorable, or I guess toadstools are. So, here are some really cute pictures I've found, mostly from etsy.This little cottage, is so cute as it is, but adding a few little red accents make it picture perfect.The hand stitching and lace, make this little guy adorable.I just adore this picture. It's so funny! who would have ever thought snails could be so cute.I'm sorry "person" whose little kid this is for posting it on my blog, but isn't this the neatest hat ever (cute boy too)

I think this could be the cherry on top to just about any outfit, or should I say mushroom.