Battlestar Galactica series finale party

I made Eye of Jupiter dip. Sour cream in a circle of guacamole (with blue food coloring ... didn't look too bad in person) in a circle of salsa in a circle of yellow chips. Mmmm-mmm. Fracking delicious.

And Cylon Raider rolls. They're crescent rolls filled with spaghetti sauce and mozzarella. The eye is a strip of pepperoni.

Bride and Groom

I made my friend Denisse jealous when I made my friend Tom the crocheted Jabba the Hutt and Sculpey Boushh/Princess Leia set. My friend Melanie gave me "Creepy & Cute Crochet" and I'd been looking forward to making something out of it. Aha!

Denisse's upcoming wedding didn't really call for creepy, though. Just cute. So I skipped the creepy skeleton ribcage embroidery and just stuck with cute toulle.

Robot Day!

The boys and I taped together cardboard boxes and cut out arm and face holes. I mentioned this to our buddy Melanie (the art teacher who lives down the block). She said, "Bring them over tomorrow!" The next day our next door neighbor asked if her son could come over for a while so she could run errands. Absolutely! Plenty of boxes to go around. So we threw together a box combination for him, too.

An hour or so of kid-led painting and construction-paper-ing later: