Lunchtime tutorial - Nik's squishy toy - the end ?

Et voila the squishy toy is complete ....... or is it?

The first one we made is now with it's intended recipient and his mommy thinks it's lovely and soft but we have one of our own and ........ we are experimenting. We have a stuffed yoyo head and are contemplating legs :)

What kind of animal or insect do you think you could make?

Phew - I thought I was never going to get this tutorial finished and posted. Spanish lesson, repair man for the phone line, unexpected run to school, phone call from my daughter's lawyer and the resulting running around from that. Kris needed help making a Bundt cake, Nik needed help making layered vanilla pudding, dinner does not get into the oven on it's own etc. etc. etc.

And no I am NOT going to do a tutorial for the fabric doll. Y'all can buy the pattern at the store. Dolly, by the way, thinks she has just been given a new pillow :)

Raised bed, companion gardening

Kris' big project, starting this week is learning how to grow flowers and veggies in a raised bed. We are planning on doing companion gardening. Her brother will probably help with it as well :) The three of us went to Home Depot this afternoon to do some pricing and to decide what to grow. She has her list and we will shop sometime within the next couple of weeks. We have to prepare the bed first since I let it rest last year. Currently she is looking at some of my gardening books. 

Nik wants to try and grow moss and a Venus Flytrap again. Last year's efforts did not go well :)

If anyone is interested in reading along about their gardening efforts I'll be writing about that on our family blog, http://jocarhansenfamily.blogspot.com

Nik was watching me do some beading this morning and decided he wanted to make something. After some thought he decided to make a soft, round toy for his friend's youngest brother. He found some spare blocks in my fleece fabric box. I had him measure and make a circle template then cut the fleece out. I sewed the pieces together for him and he stuffed the toy. Looks quite nice. He wants me to post it to my blog so I will make a little "lunchtime tutorial" out of it and post that next week.