Mushroom Branch

Ellie Blue loves mushrooms. So with a stick, some fabric and some IKEA mushroom ornaments I made a her a hangie room thingie. I'm hoping it won't cause strange dreams.

Noah's Maggie

Maggie has been there for Noah through hospital stays, ambulance rides, long trips, countless adventures and now, chicken pox. He (Maggie became a boy when Noah was 4) is a very good dog.

I'm back......

new gallery wall in the kitchen

Little Red, in brother-in-law made frame, and spelling words on post its

Ellie Blue's studio

New hats, only the tiny baby one is still available, good craft fair last week

my favorite hat model

Little Bird

Fiona, the cashmere bunny

Last week I had no computer. Seriously, over a week of checking email on my I pod. My poor lap top crashed and could not be fixed without erasing everything. Thankfully, my hubby is a computer wiz and was able to save my lap top.

Anyway, I 've been working on the house a bit, making hat and critters and this week I am teaching at the college. College students can be so quiet, it's creepy. Here are the pictures, well not of the college students, that would be really creepy, pictures of the other stuff.

web site

I'm still working on it, but here is my web site so far.

http://www.wix.com/jpostema/originals#!

sad day

she was so little when we got her. she thought she was another kid. when the kids played out side she was always with them. she loved to snuggle on my lap and lick my sweater. she thought I was her momma. we found her dead in the road this morning. we miss her. Goodbye, Ruby dinosaur wonderpants.

new pet

We have a new pet. Her name is Flutterbye. She is, of course, a monarch butterfly. You see, I come from one of those science families, the kind where my mother brought home things (cats, pigs, cow eye balls, ect.) to dissect on the kitchen table. So, when we found a monarch caterpillar on some milk weed we brought it home. We let it live on its milk weed on the kitchen table, don't worry I put a tray under it to catch the tiny little poo balls, besides we outside during the summer. Anyway, the thing made its chrysalis and we were very excited when the chrysalis turned black, meaning the butterfly would soon come out. But then something went wrong. We came home on Saturday to find a butterfly with its chrysalis still attached to its butt. Joel performed surgery, he is a doctor, but Flutterbye never fully recovered. Her wings and legs do not function properly. So we are feeding her sugar water and trying not to step on her, she usually lands on the floor when she tries to fly.

smarty pants

Sometimes my children are so much smarter than me. Ellie made this painting the other day, when I asked her to sign it she figured out an easier way to write her name, LE. Maybe Joel and I should have spelled it that way, it makes more sense.

Noah ordered some Legos from Lego.com. When I explained the price of shipping and how long it would take, he said, "they should use and air plane, it would be much faster than a ship."

We adults make things so confusing. :)