cozy fire, or fire cozy?

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elfling is mad for fireman sam. on the way to washington this summer, manlyman stumbled upon an episode on netflix, & within days we had one smitten toddler. it has been a few months now, & his interest has not waned one bit. elfling eats, breathes, sleeps fireman sam.

he proclaimed that his wooden people were: sam, penny, elvis, & the rest of the crew, & regularly can be found helping them put out fires on pontypandy mountain.

today he decided that they needed a real fire to put out, & so i made one! i quickly cut two pieces of wool felt into a pitiful fire shape, & haphazardly stitched them together with floss. initially i was going to stuff it, & sew on a bottom, but i remembered we had a cute wooden tree, so left the bottom open. a fire cozy!

look! a forest fire!

thanks, fireman sam, you saved us all.

~peace.

bits & bobs, fancyficated

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bags hanging on my closet's door

with his photo-blog well under way, thehobbit spends a fair amount of time playing with photos. he was just having too much fun, so i decided to play too. having no tardis to feature, & a toddler uninterested in being photographed, i just popped around thebelfry snapping bits & bobs.

lavender in a milk-glass vase

mini-adam accosting the eiffel tower

giggle

a cartoon painted by thehobbit yesterday. whatever could it be...

finally getting illustrations in elfling's playnook. nothing says 'toddler' like ale!

currently on display on our museum wall. the dapper man on the left is my gr-grandfather.

me, with unwashed hair in a ponytail, & no makeup. sorry people, i'm taken.

if you want to fancyficate (real word) your photos too, download picasa. it's does not have a lot of options, but definitely enough for the average jane & her teenage joe. i cannot recall what was done to each, but i'll do my best: 

1 - soft focus

2 - cinemascope

3 - beats me

4 - have not a clue

5 - comic book

6 - 1960s

7 - saturation

8 - black & white / polaroid

hey! i remembered more than i thought i would. the photo of lavender is my favorite of the above. i love how it looks like a still from an old movie, & how the milk-glass vase nearly disappears against the white wall.

your turn to go off an play - enjoy!

~peace.

the big & little of it

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just the other day i was whining wondering aloud, why are popsicle molds so large? how is it that they do not sell molds better suited to the needs of wee toddlers?

it isn't that i am concerned that elfling is getting too much sugar; i make my pops from coconut milk & fruit only. it is just that he does not often finish one, & refuses to eat left over pops. pre-eaten popsicles? are you mad, woman? forget that he did the pre-eating...

it would seem that daiso is not only dangerous, it is also my very own be-lamped genie.

my new molds are still hideous to look upon (does everything made for children have to be in bright colors?), but they are the most perfectly toddlerish (real word) size.

they are nearly half as big! witness the pre-eaten pop, sitting sadly in the larger mold.

no, i was not photo-happy this morn. i could not get a good shot of the molds, so decided to just upload all of the bad ones instead. i am sure there is logic there somewhere.

~peace.

fabulosity

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this is the actual label on manlyman's new shorts! just had to share this bit of fabulosity (real word).