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Cat on bathroom counter.

Silly Ladybug

One day I got up, got ready for my day. After I was all ready for my day and had fed our two dogs and cat, I got the ladybug out to feed. To my surprise the ladybug was gone. I was panicking for the ladybug, she/he was out in the house with no food it could probably find water but it had absolutely no food! I was looking all over. I could not find it. I just hoped it had gotten out the way it came in. then I found it! It was gone for about a half a day. I put it back in the habitat. It seemed happy to be in the habitat again.

I will update again soon!  

Ruffle pellow

Today I will instruct you on how to make beautiful ruffle pillow. The best thing is you can reuse old T-shirts. This pillow will go lovely on your bed or couch.

Now I will give you a step-by-step tutorial. I will start by giving you all the materials that are needed.

Materials 

·         Scissors

·         A rolling cutter (if you have it)

·         A cutting mat

·         A measuring square

·         One or two fabrics of your choice

·         Old T-shirts

·         Straight pins

Step One: Pick one (or two if you desire each side to be a different color) color of fabric.

Step Two: Pick 1-3 T-shirts that go with the fabric or fabrics you picked.

Step Thee: Now get your cutting mat, your rolling cutter (if you don’t have one scissors work fine) and your measuring square. Use your measuring square and cut your fabric the size you want your pillow (I made mine 10 inches) (make sure to cut on the cutting mat so you do not cut anything you don’t want to) you want two piece one for the front and one for the back, so if you have two fabrics cut one piece out of each fabric. If you only have one fabric you can fold the piece in half and cut.

Step Four: Cut two or three strips of T-shirt, from the bottom of the shirt.

Step Five:  Now cut the T-shirt strips in a wavy design, then stretch them, this will give them a wave and also by stretching them they will curl a little. Then you will want to pin the T-shirt strips on one or both sides were you want them.

Step Six: With a sewing machine, sew down the middle of the strips, and take the pins out as you go.

Step Seven: (Optional step) cut a circular strip of T-shirt off. Take the pillow and sew the T-shirt around the pillow when you come to were you started overlap a little (about an inch) and then cut the extra off. (If you have a large pillow you can make do with two strips, and cutting them so they are flat and sewing them together to make one long one)

Step Eight: Now take the two sides of the pillow and carefully sew them together to make sure, not to sew the ruffle in. (Make sure to turn the pillow inside out before you sew it so you can turn it right side out and the stitching will be on the inside.)

Step Nine: Turn it right side out. Poke the corners out. And stuff it.

Step Ten: Now sew the opening closed (backstitch about a half a inch when you get to the end of the opening, just to make it stronger.) (Don’t worry about the stitching showing the ruffle will hide it, but if you want to you could stitch all the way around the pillow.)  

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Butterflies on our bush.

Setting up the Habitat

I rescued a ladybug, that had come in our home. I caught the ladybug in my bug catcher, but it was way to cold to release the ladybug.

I made a habitat for it. If you find a ladybug, and want to make one here is the website I found the instructions at http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Care-of-Your-Own-Ladybug . I found a container and put all the suggested things that were on the website, in it. You will need to feed it every day, or when the food runs out. You will also need to change out anything that is wilted, like leaves or lettuce (which is one of the suggested foods.) Once a week you will probably have to take everything out and wash the container, because well…..the poop will build up (yes I said it POOP!)  for all of you that didn’t know small creatures pooped (because there was a time in my life that I thought that) they do poop. When you wash the container out have a small jar or something to put the ladybug in. Always put a piece of fabric on the top of the container with a rubber band around it (because there are tiny holes in the fabric that the human eye can not see, but it lets enough air in so the bug can breath, but it can’t get out)

The ladybug is doing very good. I think he/she likes its new habitat. My brother has already named it ….Turbo.

Entry to, Ladybug Rescue

I rescued a ladybug, which was in our bathroom. I caught it in a bug catcher, but it was way to cold for it to go outside. So I am going to keep it in a container until it is warm enough for it to go outside. I will update on how it is doing every other week or so. As soon as I start my updates, the links to them will be on this page.   




 setting up habitat

silly ladybug

 Ladybug Update 

 escape artiest

COLDDD!!!!!

It is bone chilling cold today! It is fluctuating between 21 and 22 degrees. I heard that it’s suppose to get up to 27 degrees today (still very cold.) last night on the news I herd there was a wind chill of 3 degrees.

We have a fire, our dogs are laying in front of it. It keeps snowing off and on. I like snow, I wish it would snow more.

It’s really windy too! My mom has a mini green house for her plants, that sits on the ground, about 5 feet by 3 feet. It was so windy last night that her green house blew over, fortunately there was no plants in it.  

What's really Down There

Have you ever looked down at your feet? Today I am going to talk about somewhere no-one ever thinks to look. On you base boards! Do you ever dust down there? I never would have. It was not until my mom had it on her to-do list. I was shocked at how much dirt and dust was down there. Behind the doors, in the corners. I think you’ll be shocked at the amount of grime you get.

Did you dust your base boards?

How much dust did you find?

Pleas feel free to express your thoughts in the comments.  

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yumm! no bake candy.