We Have a Top Tooth People!

We have a Top TooTh! Well Padon does....But! It's broken through as of Feb 11th. Now if its little buddy next door will follow suit....

-picture soon to follow-

What does one do with a chair collection?

Why build giant book shelves and stack them up of course! I love this kind of stuff. I will never have it in my house, well first of all because it is way too small....but I love the shape of art and how it lends to its surroundings.

I found this picture on a fabulous website http://www.jupiterimages.com/. If you ever need pictures of anything check this site out. It has been a fantastic resource for Power Point presentations.

1st SCA Event of the New Year - Ursulmas 2008

Usually SCA events revolve around Walters (Idris) and the Medlested household fighting in mock battles and there are really only a couple events where I have to stick my hand in the air and say, uh yeah, I won't be hanging out in camp this time, I'm going to go live in the Arts and Sciences section. Ursulmas is one of those events. Held every January in the Monroe Evergreen State Fair Grounds it is a public event advertised as a renaisance faire. Last year I got the opportunity to demonstrate hand spinning as "Living History" and for two whole glorious days all I did was spin and spin and spin on my spinning wheel. I was on cloud nine!

So this year I contacted the A & S Autocrate and asked if they needed anyone for Living History again. They remembered me from last year and jumped on the chance to have me demonstrate since I was the only one. Sadly I missed the first half of Saturday because of a programing class I was taking but I got to Monroe as fast as I could, changed into my Garb and plunked myself down to work on some more of my alpaca. I had already spun a lot of it so I spent the rest of Saturday and half of Sunday plying to gether two bobbins of yarn

It was as great as last year! I layed out all my documentation and samples of wool and books and talked to anyone who would listen about the history of the spinning wheel pointing out its parts and showing the processes of spinning.

The best part came when a gal asked me if I was selling any of my yarn. Totally caught of guard I said no, but then stopped and said but I wasn't against selling it. She said "how much for this?" and picks up a tiny skein of chocolate Coopersworth yarn and I shrugged and said "$5?" She said "ok!" happily plunked it in her pocket and ran to her stroller to get my $5 bucks. I just about pee'd myself with the excitement of selling my first product and I had had that sitting around for almost two years! Next timeI think I better put up a for sale sign.

It was such a great time and I think I will have to do this every year. Next public event to demonstrate at? June Faire in Gig Harbor! WooHoo!!!!

To top it off one of the gals running the Arts and Sciences booth gave me a Beaver fur coat to use to make myself, Walter, and Padon SCA garb out of. That was the coolest! Warm hats and cloaks here they come!

Mile Stone - Beginning of the Scoots

So Walter calls me over to say "Chloe look at this!" and Padon was about 4 feet from where I had left him. Our little bean has learned to scoot back wards! And he was so very proud of his accomplishements.

Nothin is going to stop him now. Not even with help from the dog and tips from the Cat.

Another Great Milestone - 1st attempts at crawling

So Walter had plunked Padon down on the couch for a moment and right before our eyes Padon decided he would push himself up on his knees. Not much farther to crawling! He did it a couple times and just enough for us to get play by play pictures. Yeah! What a big boy!
Ok, here we go....Position the arms.....
Pull the knees up....AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Just about there!....

It's hard work to use muscles you never knew you had.