Caption Contest

Friends--
It has been a while since we gave away some free stuff so here goes

Caption Contest:
Leave a comment here, facebook, twitter, text or email me.  Give us a fitting caption for this picture.  Winner will be chosen by Darren and myself.  The winner will receive a free pair of earrings of their choice from http://www.dartinstudio.com/  ($10 value + free shipping or delivery).  All wrapped up nice and pretty for you to give as a gift or as a present for yourself.  This means you gentleman can enter to win, too.  You need a gift for that special person in your life (i.e. wife, girlfriend, sister, momma . . . you get the point!) here's your opportunity.

You can enter to win as many times as you like.  Please be sure that your entry is not anonymous if you would actually like to w.i.n. lol!  Happy Captioning, we are looking forward to your comments!
(We will take entries for this contest until Sunday, Septempber 18th, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. No purchase necessary and any other disclaimers that come up will be added here as they come up).

Science and Art



I love this picture but what it represents is even more fun.

Darren asked the kids to go outside and collect some items to view under the magnifying glass.  A few of the items are shown here.  While under close examination, each of the kids were asked to draw a replication of some of the things that you could only see very close up.  They did explore the items thoroughly and some really great drawings were created.  Of course the experiment wouldn't have been any fun if they couldn't have been able to see how many of these items they could burn holes into with the magnifying glass :0)

Feathers and Crochet

 I love crocheted jewelry and my girls love feather earrings.  So in some of my spare time this week I have dabbled in making a little of both.

My girls are going crazy over the feathers and all I can think about is, what must the little birds endure in order to have their feathers gathered (???plucked??? ewwww... ) and then dyed and sanitized in order for us to decorate ourselves with them.  (I know I have mentioned before that I am an overthinker to a fault) I did have fun listening to the girls squeal with delight with each new pair of earrings that I designed.

Now the crocheted lariat necklaces are more my speed :)  I hope that everyone is having a great week!