I love the fabrics in this little quilt.

I'd love to make one of these for my toddlers-- I could see it occupying one 2 year old I know for quite a while.

Image of To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson

Image of Detectives in Togas

Image of The Trojan War

Image of Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury

birthday tree

A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of Better Homes and Gardens May issue.  On page 78 there was a photo of a child’s playroom with a crazy beautiful tree toy on a shelf.  It looked like a tree that needed to be in our family room, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it was.  So, I took a photo of the magazine page, posted it to flickr, and asked the internet to help me.

It worked!  It’s called a Totem Tree by Kids On Roof.  I decided to treat myself to one for my birthday and it came today, a day late, but that’s fun because it stretched the celebrating out a bit.

totem tree

The boys and I put it together tonight while Barry took pictures of us with the new lens he got me for my camera.

putting it together

going up

birdhouse on top

lots of leaves

Now, doesn’t it look like it should have been there all along?

voila!

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