That time already?!?!

Summer started late this year with a really grey June, and already school is sneaking up on us.

I don't have an exact date yet but it's somewhere around 4 weeks from now.

This will be our second year using the K12 program (online home school), we used it for kindergarten and really enjoyed it.

It's a lot of fun to get the school supplies. We got 2 big boxes from UPS, inside those boxes were a bunch of smaller boxes.

The little one helped me open them so that we could discover all the goodies together, and it's a good size pile of goodies this year.

Now I just need to figure out where to put all this stuff.

Oh, and make the most of the last 4 weeks of summer vacation.

Orange Koi

a new painting in my Etsy

Rag Rug Experiment

So, the other day I got a bee in my bonnet to weave a rag rug. I don't know what came over me, the only weaving I've ever done was on one of these as a kid.

I cut up a bunch of strips of felted sweaters, 2 pairs of old jeans, and some brown cords that had a hole in em.

I don't have a loom, so I stitched the strips together and wound them around an old wood frame.

To push the rows nice and tight I used the bamboo handle of my son's butterfly net.

The edges turned out a bit wonky and it is defiantly on the rustic side, but I like how it came out. It's nice and thick and soft under the feet.

After I give my hands a little break I think i'd like to make a white and cream one for my bathroom.