April 19th - M is for Meow

First of all, I LOVE this new color!  Okay, yeah, I think I am definitely a cat person.  But...I have a dog.  He is pretty cool, but he is huge and more than we thought he would be to handle.  I don't play with him the way I should...:(  Anyone want to adopt a dog?  Seriously.  No, really.  He is great with kids, he will give them doggy kisses.  And he will protect your home with his loud bark.  Sigh, I'm sad to put him up for adoption, and I'm not really trying very hard to find him a home, I'm hoping that those folks at my house who aren't in love with him will come around.  Leave a comment if you're interested. 

Buddy the dog

This Year in Origamis So Far

I took home all my origamis to take pictures of all of them and when they were all off my desk, I realized how much better my desk looked!  I totally thought I could keep all of them out on my desk for the whole year....um, and that's not going to happen.  Soooo, every time the color changes, I am going to put away the ones I have out.  But I'll try to take a picture of all the same colors ones together before I put them away.  Check out all of the origamis from this year so far.  This is nutso!  Just to give you an idea of the perspective, this is the corner of my couch covered with a sheet!  That's a lot of origamis!

April 18th - Teeny Origami

In order to make the Picture Perfect frame, I had to cut off four one inch squares from the corners.  "Hey, little tiny origami paper!" I thought.  I just had to make some tiny little origamis from the squares.....they are totally AWESOME!  Check it out.  Three of them are little versions of ones I have already done (butterfly, lily, and starburst box) and I also did a crane.

Modular Update

So, I have been saving my extra pages that are practice folds to make a modular origami piece.  I need a total of 30 pages to make it.  I have 9 so far.  The picture on the left is of the outside, the one on the right is of the inside.  I'm still not exactly sure how it will all come together, but it is pretty neat so far.

If I took this all apart and cut each paper into 4 smaller squares, I could have 36 and go ahead and make it....hmmm, that's something to consider.....check back to see if I do that.  I mean, I was crazy enough to retake and repost all the pictures, so this would be nothing!

April 16th - Unusual Picture Frame

This frame is so cool and much easier to change out the pictures whenever you want.  This picture is of Kenny (10 months) and Charlotte (almost 3) on the Garden Tour for the Azalea Festival last weekend.  She dressed up like an Azalea Belle and wanted to find all the real belles.  It's a huge step up from last year when she was scared of the belles!

April 15th - Picture Perfect

I didn't think my kids could get any cuter!  Look at this!  Charlotte is just the best big sister you could ever ask for and Kenny loves her so much, just look at that huge smile!  They are the greatest!  And this frames them perfectly.  I couldn't ask for anything more!

April 14th - Bananas

Well, of course, where you have monkeys, you must have bananas.  At my house, these were called "nanas" for a long time.  This might not present a problem at your house, but my mom is my kids' Nana, so we were a little concerned that Charlotte would start to think that my mom was a giant yellow fruit that you eat.  Eventually she learned how to say it the right way.  Now we have the fruit and the grandparent and only one more kid to teach the difference when he starts talking!