Altered Notepads!!!

For the Altered notepad you need: A notepad, paper, glue, paper cutter or scissors, and decorations.

The making

  

Step one:  Cut the paper to the size of your notepad

 

Step two: Put on stickers or whatever you have to decorate your notepad with. 

 

Step three: Glue the paper to both or one side of the notepad. 

 

Now you have a beautiful notepad to write all your important info in.  Enjoy!

 



Clyde the dragon!

This weekend I was looking up crocheted animals on pinterest and I found this cute little dragon!  He is so cute!  I named him Clyde and he is just a baby dragon so he does not breath fire.  Clyde also has a little brother who is blue and very cute.  He has not been named yet.  I think am going to make lots more of these little guys! 

                  This pattern was pretty easy.  The things that were the hardest was the starting of the head and connecting the feet, otherwise it was splendid.   You can find the pattern here.    I added some of my own touches to him.  I used a bigger hook for Clyde so he is bigger, I also used polar fleece instead of felt.  So for his ears I had to put two pieces of fleece together with two tooth picks in between so they will stand up and I also made them more of a triangle.  I put his tummy on upside down and smaller from the one in the pattern.  His horns are not a cone shape like the originals.  They also used embroidery floss I just used yarn for his mouth and fang and the lines on his tummy are not floss ether.  The arms I put half way down the body instead of right by the head.
When you put the tail on you should put it a little higher up then mine is because he will stand but not that well and falls easily.

Baby goats!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Wednesday Calliope had babies!! She had a boy and a girl. The boy who was born firsts name is Giles. He is white with some blackish-brown spots. He had a harder birth because only one of his legs was forward when he was born. The girl was born second. Her name is La la Lola ( it is like that so it is four syllables long). She had both feet forward so she had a very easy birth. Lola is a light brown with a dark strip down her back, with a white and black head. She also has white legs with black knee pads on her front legs. They were small but are getting bigger and eating a lot and soon I probably won't be able to pick them up. They are very cute!!

Bert the Senegal parrot

Bert is a Senegal parrot that I got for Christmas. He is green with an orange vest and a gray head. Bert is about 14 years old. He says Good night, Good morning, What are you doing?, Pretty Bert or pretty pretty pretty Bert, Come here, Merry Christmas, shhh, coughs, laughs, beeps like an alarm clock and look at me. He is so loud you can hear him when you take the dog out. He is the size of a 20 oz pop bottle. He is not a good flier and has only flowing for us twice. Once out of his house and on to my back and to the bed (he is in my brother's room) and then back to his house. If you are talking, he will some times repeat what you said. One time Mom was yelling for Kacheekers and Bert yelled out Kacheekers. Bert also loves attention and being petted. If you sit in the bedroom and play with Lego's, or don't look at him, after a couple of minutes he will start talking to get your attention. He likes to listen to the radio so we play it for him.

Como Zoo!

We went to the Como zoo last Friday. Here are some of the pictures we took.

This is a monkey from the ape house who sat against the window looking out. He must have been bored or tired because he started yawning!

This is Sparky. He was looking for a snack, he would zoom around and do a trick and then look at us.

Football fish fun!

My brother plays flag football on Saturdays. He read about paper footballs in the comic Fox Trot and and looked up how to make them. We made lots of these on Saturday. I got the idea to make a paper football fish after looking at the footballs. Here are the directions I use:

1. Get a sheat of paper and fold and cut it in half lengthwise.



2. Fold the paper you just cut in half and start folding to the left in little triangles six times.



3. Fold the part that is left into an arrowhead shape and slip it in the pocket of the triangle. Make three footballs.


4. Draw an eye on both sides of one triangle

5. Draw scales on two of the triangles with a nice color.

6. Use black, and the color you used for scales, to draw lines on the leftover triangle on both sides for the tail.



7. Tape the triangle with eyes to the other one with scales.




8. Tape the tail point to point with the body.




9. Do the same thing for two fins but smaller, tape one on each side.

10. There is your fish.

Take my picture!

When we were at the state fair we went to see the biggest pig his name is Reggie and he is 5 1/2 years old and wights 1450. The sheep are in the same barn as the pigs. We were taking pictures of a sheep when the other sheep in the pen got jealous and stuck his head out so we could take a picture of him. This is the picture of the jealous sheep.