Category Archives: A Little of Everything

Little Felt Book Gallery

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I’ve still got this one. I realy like the shiny shell button.

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This was the first one I finished. I still have it.

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This was my favorite. I made the flower with angora/ lambswool blend felt that April and I made together. It sold, so I’ll have to make another one.

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Even though I didn’t put a button closure on it the felt lies open when you want it too, but the book stays shut too.

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More little angora/ lambswool felt flowers.

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This one will be a birthday gift for April (tomorrow!).
(She has dial-up, so I know she won’t be reading this.)

A good day

We got a new YMCA a few months ago. The best thing about it is that there is a pool. A pool in which I can swim laps. I didn’t know I loved to swim until after Brenna was born. I decided for the rest of my life I would need to be in the best shape of my life before I had a baby. Just after I got pregnant with Brenna (unbeknownst to me) Barry and I rode 150 mile on our bikes from Stanley, ID to Boise. So, after Brenna was born I needed to out do myself, so I decided it would be worth a try to train for a triathalon. Problem was that I couldn’t really swim and I hate to run. I never got over the hate to run part, but I signed up for a swimming class (I was still in college then). The first day I thought I was going to DIE. I couldn’t even swim a full there-and-back lap. But, the wonderful patient husband that he is, Barry would go to the pool every now and then and give me some pointers.

Anyway, this is getting really long. I learned how to swim and could swim laps all day if I could. I did a sprint length triathalon for my “I’ve been un-pregnant for one year” celebration and accomplished a goal.

So, what I started out saying was that we have a new YMCA. it has free childcare and a pool. I packed up the kids and dropped them off to play and I swam 1100 yards while little grandmas did water aerobics in the other half of the pool.

I liked it.

bunnies and books

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Now, here are some cutie-cute-cuties. My friend April has been busy devloping the pattern for these rabbits and their clothes. She spun yarn, dyed it and knit away. I’m so excited that she found something so fun to do that she is so good at!

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Here’s a detail of my favorite. I wish I could remember her name. She’s knit out of handspun angora/lambswool and feels heavenly soft and snuggly. She’s got a hooded sweater and her ears fit through the hood, I just love it!

If anyone wants the book she made of the pattern just e-mail me (jessica at seedpodbooksandart dot com). It’s well worth the $8!

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Remember the felt I made with my kids? Here it is in book form.

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This book makes me smile. Why, you ask? Because the cutest ladies in the entire universe bought it. I guess the Smuckers sisters are a bit of a legend in mid-Ohio. They are little Mennonite ladies that are older than dirt (late 80s, early 90s) and cuter than anything else I can imagine. They wandered around the show with their cute bonnets and rain coats, their skinny little ankles showing under their hand made dresses. Their backs were a little hunched, their eyes twinkled. They stopped at my booth and oohed and ahhed over my books. “We make books, you know,” one of them said to me. They loved the button on this one, inspected the paper, told me how they write poems, and keep journals and how you just can’t get by in life without a sister. I’ll never forget them, but I wish I had taken a picture of them!

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