I heat my bed nearly every night with my blow dryer. 
This project was for a bulletin board at church (primary)...
I went home and finished it up during the week.
Now it is the year theme bulletin and has lettering in the bottom area that reads
Sorry about the blurry picture--this is a painting hanging in my living room. It was inspired by the trip Danny and I took to Spain the summer we graduated. It is not finished...but I don't know how to finish it and don't expect to soon, so it hangs on our wall anyway. It used to bug me and make me feel bad that I hadn't finished it, but now I like to imagine the different possibilities for what would give it the ring it needs.
This is a work-in-progress mural at my in-laws house. It is a part of a cute little room made for the kids. I've basically taken a two month break from it in order to do some problem solving on the project. I started painting it before I knew exactly what it was supposed to look like in my head...so poor Anne has to be very patient as I prepare to fix it...and make some pretty substantial changes.
I will post more pics as I work on it. You will see it quite a bit thicker in foliage, with much lighter and softer greens, maybe see a lower branch added to give it some lower visual weight (so it appears as a more inviting tree to the children). then once the basic tree is done I will add a few chipmunks, maybe a hole in the trunk, some birds, and some long soft grass which will run along the perimeter of the room, just above the 8" wood baseboards.
Well I did an inventory of our 3-month, "rotating" food supply last Saturday. It felt good because sorting it has been on my to-do list for a while now ( I am obsessive about my lists). Well, I took out about 20 cans of expired/unappetizing foods and gave them to my neighbor, along with 5 boxes of expired mac-n-cheese that each member of our family disdains. My whole goal for food storage is to eat it regularly, you know, rotate it. The stuff I got rid of seemed to be choking up the rotation line!
Well Danny did not approve of my actions. Well--he approved the inventory part of course but not the discarding of the goods part. He said, "Annie, if we need to rely on that food storage tomorrow, I am not going to be unhappy to be eating slightly expired store brand cream of mushroom soup and macaroni and cheese. ...Does macaroni and cheese really ever expire?"
At first I was offended that he would interfere with food storage business, because so far, it has been my baby, not his. But he does have a point. That night we both took a can off the shelf and ate it for dinner to commemorate our food storage mishap. I chose Tomato soup--I've never had it, never wanted it. I am not sure how it even got to my food storage shelf. And Danny chose Dinty Moore Beef stew, a food item he had liked when we first got married (when he was used to that sort of thing a lot during college days) but now isn't so fond of. We tried to share with Melia. She ate a bit of the dinty moore but mostly just wanted the saltines.
That night we fed ourselves, like usual. But more than that, our hearts got a little bigger just thinking about how lucky we are to have so much.
What is his name? Daniel Robert Hyde
I just wanted to post that Melia, my poor little sleeper, has gone to bed at bedtime every night for nearly two weeks now, in her bed! Way to go, Melia!!! You finally learned how to put yourself to sleep! Thanks Shannon, Kristen and Super Nanny for your help and encouragement.
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