Pretty things

These photos have been hanging around in draft limbo since August. This is a new hip wrap that I made over the summer just because I saw that beautiful blue and orange yarn in the fabric store and just had to have it. I used these photos to help me plan the layout of the piece before I started gluing and sewing stuff on. I crocheted the base of this hip wrap myself and made the tassels by hand. The little mirrors got glued on and so far only one has fallen off. The shells were sowen on. I eventually added some flowers I made out of the blue and orange yarn with tiny bells in the middle of them.


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Since costume pieces are always a work in progress, just a couple of weeks ago I added some angle hair yarn fringe to the belt to add a little more movement to the piece when I dance. The yarn was on sale and I'd been wanting some since the spring. I got the mirrors and the shells from Oriental Trading Company.

I had nothing to do with this. I came out of the kitchen and found her in the toy box. 

Snow day!

No school today thanks to the collision of two moisture laden low pressure systems right above our heads. Hubby went out at 8:30 AM or so 8:54 AM (so says the time stamp on the first pic on the camera) to shovel snow and just came back in. There's a lot of ice underneath the snow. Hubby cleaned the car off and chiseled it out of the ice so we won't have as much work to do later if we want to go somewhere. That's assuming of course that we can make it out of our driveway. It doesn't look like there's been a plow down our street yet. Anyway, there'll be pictures up shortly here are some pictures.


Hubby standing in the snow outside our basement door. 



Hubby down on the sidewalk as a minivan inches down the street. 



This is the Zelkova at the end of our front walkway. It's a memeber of the Elm family. (Learn more about the species here.) There are some really impressive specimens at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. 

Little Girl

Sophia stands at the door watching the boys wait for the bus on the front porch. This picture was taken on a warm windy day at the end of November right before the current cold snap set in. Shortly after this was taken Sophia was blown over by a particularly fierce gust of wind. 

Wrestlemania

Despite appearances I think Isaiah is winning. Shortly after I took these pictures Isaiah wiggled out from under Ethan and ran across the room to sit in the rocking chair grinning like the Cheshire cat.


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