And 5, 6, 7, 8

          Recently, London has enjoyed watching Angelina Ballerina. She started singing and twirling in our house. I posted the video on my facebook page. After asking her for a couple week if she wanted to go to dance class and learn to dance like Angelina, we went and observed a class for three year olds. London wanted to get out on the floor with all the other little girls. We decided to give it a try.


So, last week was her first day at ballet class! She was so excited to twirl and gallop with the other 3 year olds. She did really well for her first day.  We need to work on sitting still and waiting our turn, but we'll get there.
     She didn't want to take her leotard, tights, and dancing shoes off. It's took a little bit of convincing that our dancing shoes are only for dance class. and she's looking forward for the her class next Friday. It's so how amazingly fearless she is sometimes. They were jumping through some hula hoops that were laid flat on the floor and London was ready to go right on in. Here's my pretty ballerina!

A Stich in Time

       So I crochet...a lot. At least when I have the time, and the month of March I had quite a few projects to be working on. I made three baby blankets, a firefly hat, and tried out a new pattern for a My Little Pony.

London got some My Little Pony figures for her birthday. She loves them and even insists on sleeping with them. They are made of hard plastic, so I thought it would be a good idea to come up with a softer, more cuddily version. I still need to get the mane and tail in and eyes. I thought it would be good to start with a smaller pony that doesn't have cutie marks. For those of you who aren't versed in My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic (one of the benefits of being the mom of a three year old little girl) there is a group of littiler ponies called the Cutie Mark Crusaders that haven't gotten their cutie marks. Cutie marks are these designs that are one the back flank of the ponies.

 I also started on a Twilight Sparkle. I have all the pieces, but still need to sew them together.
    
If anyone out there embrodiers, or has any good ideas how to make eyes and cutie marks I won't say no to the idea.  The person I got the pattern from used felt to make eyes and cutie marks and glued them on, but I think that would last all of  twenty seconds with London. So, I'm trying to find a better way to do it. And once I do, I will probably list them on my Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/shop/LondonBugDesign

      Out of the three blankets I made two were a ripple or chevron pattern. I made them with alternateing colors and varying widths of pink. I think they turned out okay for a first try and went ahead and listed them on my store.


Six rows of pink between each color change
and slightly ribbed



Three rows of pink between each color change
and ribbed

      The third blanket was one that I had made before. It's pink and with green shamrocks. I really like doing the instaria or picture blankets. I've also done one with ducks on wavey water and I'm currently trying to finish a teddy bear blanket. I added the bows to make it more girly since it's for a little girl. I still have to add eyes, noses and the mouth to some of the squares. I post finished pictures when I can. Hopefully I 'll have more time to work on some more project ideas.
 

3.1415...

               March 14 is one of my favorite days of the year. I think it should be a national holiday! Why? you may ask, simple PIE!!! Thankfully for me, I work with some like minded people in regards to Pie Day. For the last two years Piemagedon (the awesomest pie contest) has commenced at Ancestry.com.
      Rules are simple; anyone can participate, you may be supervised, but you must make your pie yourself. Everyone picks an anounomous name for their pie entry, and then the entire shift gets together to taste/score all the pies. What could be better than a night of eating pie?
        We have prizes for the best presentation, best tasting, overall best pie, and best pie name. It's always interesting to see the kind of entries that will come in and how original the names will be. This year we had some really interesting pies. Jeremy brought in a pie tin filled with mini bacon wrapped pigs in a blanket. It was called Little Piggie Pie ( or something to that affect). They were super delicious! So, it was no suprise that it won best tasting.We also had a Mile High Strawberry Pie that Jeri made. It looked like it could have been photographed for one of those pie/desert cookbooks and was the pefect combination of strawberries and the syrup stuff you use in the filling. Her pie won best pie overall.
       The pie I made was a chocolate candy crunch. It was a chocolate graham cracker crust, chocolate filling with crushed symphony bar(the kind with toffee and almonds), topped with whip cream,more crushed candy, and drizzled with melted german chocolate.

I ended up winning a Pie Bird Funnel for best presentation and the most misunderstood pie name. I entered it under 22/7. For those of you who are not mathletes 22/7 is a fractional representation of pie. Drew gave me the suggestion when I was trying to figure out what name to submit my pie under.

  





 So, it was a great day, not only did I get to eat lots of diffrerent kinds of yummy pie, but I also won a nifty gadget to help me continue on my pie making experiments. Happy Pie Day to all!!!