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Photo shoot with Keren

I mentioned before that we had a my sister do a photo shoot of our family recently. I decided to share some of those picture today. They are just us - so that may of may not be intersting to you but I thought family members might enjoy them.

Ken and I

Miss Mara

Master Jonathan

Master Aaron

Miss Megan

She was posing quite prettily and then at this point Keren asks her to smile and she just kind of mumbles "I really just need to go to the bathroom." I take her up to the house where she seems to have rather forgotten and I had my suspicions that she just was ready to be done with picture taking.

This is linked to:

Wordless Wednesday

and

Through the Lens Thursday

FISHER PRICE MAGNETIC BOARD 999P SOLD

Hats Hats Hats and more slouch Hats.....

My favourite one...all different types of blue yarn...

different shades of red yarn

back view of 'different shades of red yarn'

back view of bobble hat

Just learned to knit the bobbles! nice red hat...

used up alot of different shades of mauve/pink

different shades of brown/rust...sold to Regina

silver-grey mohair...sold to Toronto customer

mink coloured chenille with a silk blend yarn with it

multi coloured blue mohair

white with silver thread

grey with green mohair..sold to Regina

multi coloured mohair..gone to a friend

A Branch Centerpiece with Old books

This was a fun project that my sister Keren and I put together (well I basically put together while she snapped a bunch of pictures!) and I had entered it in a contest but it didn't get selected so I decided I would share it on here. I was putting it together with a wedding in mind but we could use it on your table at home just as well! I hope you have fun with it!

What you need: (for one centerpiece)

-4 Old books. They will not get ruined so if you are a collector of old books it works to raid your own shelves for the wedding.

-Some brush/branches. One or two depending on their size and how many little branches they have sticking off of them. They need to be fairly sturdy for hanging candles on.

-Sheet Moss

-Rocks or sand for weight

-Quart size tin can

- Floral Foam for silk or dried flowers

-Tea light holders

-Ribbon (http://www.cheapribbons.com/products.html)

-Glue sticks and glue gun

-Scissors

-Tea lights

Instructions:

Step 1: Place rocks or sand in the bottom of the tin can. Weight is needed to make it stable, so this is a very important step.

Step 2: Cut the floral foam to fit in the can and fill it up the rest of the way.

Step 3: Arrange the four books around the can and then tie a ribbon bow around them to hold them in place. I used both purple and sand colored ribbon but you could use whatever type or color of ribbon that best matched your wedding.

Step 4: Place a sheet of moss over the foam and can and to the edge of each book. You can hot glue it in place if you like.

Step 5: Insert branch(es) . Push them down in the foam a long way so they are very stable.

Step 6: Make the hanging votives by hot gluing a ribbon hanger to each votive cup and then gluing another ribbon around the rim.

Step 7: Hang the votive cups up and place the candles inside.

This is a very simple and fun project. It isn’t real easy to transport (because of the books being loose and the branch being so big) but you could get everything ready to go and it would be very simple to do the finishing touches at the reception site. Hanging candles create an incredibly romantic atmosphere!