book talk

Have you checked out the scholastic page(s) lately?

littleman is participating in the summer "Read To Me" program at our local library which encourages reading every day with him for at least 15 minutes - more on this in a later post!

Scholastic has a blog called { Book Talk }

I'm jumping on the bandwagon late, they are on book three but we're going to follow along anyways.

So tomorrow while we're at the library, we're going to pick up the current book they are reading:

They've already read Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel and LMNO Peas by Keith Baker .

I'm not sure if we have LMNO peas at our local library, but we may pick up frog and toad are friends to read together as well.

are you doing anything for summer reading projects? leave a comment or link to your reading activities! :)

Color Samples

I've started a series of Color Sample's

These are colors from a particular photo that I've taken, with colors that I think flow well together.

You can download the photos if you like, and use them in photoshop to sample the colors.

that way you can use the photos in scrapbooking layouts, blog layouts, party ideas, etc. 

just please give credit and link back to the Q farm if you re-post the photo!

Let me know if you use these color's in a project - I'd love to see links and photos!

Nephews Quilt

We have a Super Little Man in the family now - my nephew! Born on July 1st, 2011 - canada day!

Here's a quilt I'm whipping together to bring out for our visit in august when I get to meet him :) It's just the top so far, its going to be reversable, with back being tie-dyed flannel and having appliqued words: 

eat. sleep. play. repeat. 

I'm also going to make him some taggie animals!

with only four shifts left of work, I've been thinking about blogging more

I've been thinking of easier ways for me to get photos, what I can post about, etc. especially since money will be super tight until I can find a job!

Leaf Prints

It was a bit of rainy day here, so to keep little man busy I pulled out the paints!

We went on a quick walk and chose three leafs to print with.

LittleMan painted them then I helped him stamp them on the paper - quick and easy :) 

 

Pinterest

 

I've become addicted to Pinterest. 

Addicted!

I love the easy access to all the food recipes, the design ideas (we're looking at buying a house!) and all the DIY ideas. You can check me out by clicking on the above picture, or the link that will remain to the right! Let me know if you follow me, so I can follow you :)

Here's a few of my favourite things I've found so far:

DIY: Anniversary Pillow

FOOD: homemade goldfish cracker recipe

DIY: make your own glitter!

and

QUOTE: good moms...

Happy Pinning!

Back from some R&R

last post published may 19th.

that's over a MONTH ago!

I needed a bit of a creative break, I had been overloading myself with 

wanting to do too many things at once.

I've started doing some things again, but I'm taking a different approach.

I'm making it fun! I know - crazy thought, right?

It doesn't need to be fancy expensive fabric - as long as it's a quilt made with love.

It doesn't need to be fancy ever-lasting crafts - as long as little man had fun making it.

and I recently found out that I've been laid off - four of our offices are closing. the real kick in the teeth? they announced that they've just hired another 1,000 new employees over in the Philippines. 

*sigh*

but that's okay - because when one door closes, another one opens. eventually. right?

So back to crafting and happier notes...

LittleMan did a painting for BigMan for fathers day...

LittleMan is really into painting and colouring, etc so I'm going to work on this more over the summer with him. I've been worried lately about him being overly hyper and having some behaviour issues. Right now we are working on a sugar reduced diet and it seems to be helping. Having lots of calm talks before we go into soccer and swimming practice are helping as well!

I also made my first wonky star block!

(dont look too close at the left hand column...hehe)

I sat down and did it in a few minutes, and I was relieved afterwards. and proud that I had done a new block without being stressed out about making it into a big quilt. if I can tackle quilts one block at a time, without a deadline I think it will make it much easier and relaxing for me.

I'm also going to pick and choose a few things off this list 

 

{ 50 summer crafts for kids }

today, LittleMan and I are going to make some {boats} and float them down at his new favourite location - the little creek, which we *just* found and it's only about an 8 minute walk from our house :) Look for that past...whenever I can get it up - it's the summer of no time lines and no stress!

iPhone

Bigman and I got iPhones. And the camera isnt too bad. I'm testing out this blog app so I blog on the fly. More updates to follow, more frequent!