New Direction

Well, I don't think too many people actually look at my blog anymore and so I decided to use it not just as a place to post pictures of my darling daughter, but also some of my creations, particularly the ones entered into challenges. This post just happens to have both! :) My amazingly talented and creative friend, Dreena, over at Prairie Paperie posted this challenge recently. I had a very hard time narrowing it down - there is inspiration EVERYWHERE! I may have to do more than one project for this challenge! Here's my first one. Every time Julia wears this outfit, I feel the urge to create! Closeup of the skirt:My paper interpretation:

Fingers crossed!

I've been doing a lot of looking at crafty sites lately, and entering contests too. I have yet to win anything, but hopefully soon. This one would be really awesome!
I found this great blog through another great blog!
:)

Christmas pictures - finally!

All About Julia

My blog is pretty much about Julia all the time, but she is so much more interesting than I am! She is changing and growing at such an amazing rate, it blows my mind!

Here she is helping make supper. Actually helping, not just playing around! She was cutting up the wieners for that old family favourite, Saucy Franks. Yummy.

Here she is dressed up for Halloween. She loved being a little ladybug with wings, antennas and a wand! Sure, a ladybug can have a ladybug wand. Why not? :)
(I loved that her costume came from the dollar store!)

Ah! One of the many reasons I love having a little girl! Of course the only way she'll sit still enough for this is if I let her watch cartoons on the computer.


And here are a few of my favourite "Julia-isms":
"TIME OUT!" -shrieked very loudly on the bus after I told her to sit still and don't move. I guess that's also what I tell her when I put her in the time-out chair...
"I LOVE it!" -said about many things, including doggy doo on the sidewalk.
"Come on, come on! Aren't you coming?!" -tugging on a hand in the direction she wants to go. She's very persuasive.
"Pachyderm" -name given to her stuffed elephant, after hearing Daddy refer to an elephant as a pachyderm.
"Thank you Lord for food" -sung while playing with her doll. Her prayers often include giving thanks for everyone we know, and movies.

2 YEARS OLD!

Funny face!

Presents!

Birthday cake!

For my friends in Edmonton

I thought you might like to see this. (Sorry the picture is blurry. The camera still works -sort of- since I dropped it, it just doesn't always focus really well.) This is just a block from our house. It is quite beautiful. And such a change from living on the prairies! Julia and I like to walk down here and people and seagull watch. :)

Beautiful September Days