Artist & Illustrator
I’m busy getting ready to leave for 5 days. I’m trying to squeeze as much I can into these last couple of days.
Like:
one on one time with this sweet girl…
getting as many cuddles as I can from this little monkey …
desperately trying to finish this piece for an upcoming show. … my hands hurt from all the stitching!
Sosi made these paper plate portraits of me and Paul. Paul is looking a little hairy, and I’m challenging my inner Annie. 🙂 I love them!
The rainbow party was a success! We had so much fun getting ready for it and the kids all seemed to have a great time. We made these super easy and cute hanging rainbows (made with paper plates!).
The cake… was amazing. It was totally gone by the end of the party, a sure sign of a good cake!
The best part of this party was seeing my sweet little girl this happy.
We ‘ll so lucky to have her in our lives.
One of my gifts to the girls this Christmas were matching Bigfoot tees. Trying to get a picture of them both in them has been a challenge! Ila loves the shirt but wants to wear nothing but “monkey jammies” and Sosi doesn’t like pictures being taken of her lately.
The shirts are beautifully made, I’m really happy with them. You can get yours here.
Happy weekend folks!
Hers.
Mine.
(Both drawn with Clementine Soy crayons, so smooth and nice to draw with… too bad Ila has broken all of ours already!)
I’m finding it hard to get back into the swing of things after such a wonderful blur of days. Sosi’s been doing most of the drawing around here these past couple weeks, it’s now my turn to get back at it!
This arrived in the mail from Grandma a couple of weeks ago. It was all I could do to keep Sosi from it until today. She gets to open a window and get a new Playmobil toy each day. I don’t know who’s more excited, her or me.
I think this may be the earliest we’ve ever had a tree up. I couldn’t hold her back any longer. Sosi decorated the entire tree by herself this year. I found her and Ila later that evening lying on the floor together looking up at it in the dark. Ila looked over and smiled and said “beauuuful!!”. Yes, beautiful indeed.
While there’s no doubt Sosi likes the little mini albums I made her last year, I’d have to say Ila LOVES them. She sits and looks at these photo albums (that have no pictures of her) over and over. It’s a little sad really. So I decided for her upcoming birthday (!), I’d make her some of her very own.
I decided to give them to her early (maybe because she was sitting beside me as made them). As I explained what they were and that they were full of pictures of her, she just smiled so big and started hugging them. I can’t think of a better reaction to anything I’ve made.
Every day we comb it, every morning it returns.
Much fun to be had with Instagram… I’ve given myself the challenge of blogging more often. Wish me luck!
Poor little Sweetie didn’t last long in this world… we were very sad, but now we have Lisa. She is much more social and active than Sweetie was. Look! We even got a picture. She is adorable. Paul finally got his Lisa (it was his name choice for both our girls), Sosi chose the name just for him.
Sosi found my button collection the other day and we decided to make button rings after an intense sorting session (oh, she is my daughter!).
We used straightened paper clips (the coloured ones are best), wrapped them around a marker to make a ring, and slip the button on. Super simple and very fun.
We got a hamster! His name is “sweetie”. He is adorable and we are all totally in love with him. The only problem is this is about as much as we ever see of him. He either really loves the little house we built him… or he hates us. Not sure which it its.
I finally finished Sosi’s back to school sweater. I think I knit this more for me than her. I worked out a lot of my anxiousness about her starting school with this sweater! Thankfully she seems to not have inhertied my shyness or social awkwardnes and is making lots of friends and having fun.
Now I get to start a little dress for Ila. She’s well into Sosi’s hand me downs these days, which are seriosuly lacking in the dress department. Ila would wear a dress everyday if she could, so I better get busy (if you have any cute pattern suggestions let me know!).
(The pattern for this sweater can be found here, I’ve knit this one so many times and I still love it.)
My disposition is similar to Ila’s today…
Lori Joy Smith
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