Snow Ice Cream

Click on the title to see pictures and step by step instructions under each picture on how to make your own snow ice cream.  So yummy!

More Cute Hats

Senior Center Garden

Another 4-H Community Service

Our 4-H Club helped to plant a garden at the Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center in Gravette, Arkansas.  Club volunteers showed up on around noon on a Saturday and finished up by 4 p.m.  The kids and parents helped to dig and plant, wet newspapers to put down on top of the plants to help in moisture before laying straw on top, and of course gave the garden a good drink of water when all was done.  A senior woman came and helped plant flowers at the front of the garden.  I'll post more pics of the garden as it progressed in another post.

4-H Community Service

This month our 4-H Club prepared a meal at a Salvation Army Shelter.  My daughter's two older boys, Ethan and Therrin, helped with mixing tea, preparing garlic bread, making salad, as well as serving.  They really enjoyed it and so did I.  Our group is hoping to do it again a couple more times this year.

Hats & More Hats

Sorry to be away so long...you know how it is, life sometimes just gets in the way of all the fun stuff.  Here are a few pictures of some hats I made in the past couple of months.  Most were gifts as you can see by my daughter and grandkids modeling theirs.  The others I sold to friends and co-workers.  I love making hats because they can be so versatile and fun, not to mention they don't take long to make.  

Rip Repair

With the economy the way it is today, my daughter and I try to recyle, reuse, and purchase items at thrift stores.  Saturday afternoon my daughter was shopping at Goodwill and brought home a pair of very comfortable and chic Lei jeans at a fraction of the price you would pay for them at the mall.  They were brand new sample jeans with tags still on them.  She was ecstatic about them except for the long thin rectangular rip where the security tag had been originally attached.  Of course my daughter thought a patch would work.  But then she,  knowing how crafty I am, decided to ask me if I could do some creative but simple crochet on them to cover up the rip. 

She went thru my yarn stash and whipped out some yarn that would match the seam thread in her jeans and a crochet hook that was small enough to pierce the denim and not leave a big hole.  We decided a braided look would work best and I went to work on them.  She wanted the bow on the bottom so I started at the bottom by chaining about 21 and then using a slip stitch to attach the yarn to the material and chained 4 (enough to cross over to the other side of the rip at a slight angle) and attached to the other side with a slip stitch, chained 4 and continued this way back and forth up to the top of the rip leaving enough space between stitches for the return stitches.  Once at the top, I simply started back down stitching into the opposite sides where there was a space between.  Once back at the bottom, I chained enough stitches to create a small bow and tied it.  My daughter was very pleased with how they turned out and so am I.  I think it even made the jeans trendier looking.  The next time your jeans develop a rip or tear, try this method to save buying a new pair.