Winter Words reading challenge

I am participating in the Winter Words reading challenge. I chose the acronym, snowflake. Here are the books I am going to be reading:

S: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
N: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
O: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
W: Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
F: The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
L: Loch by Paul Zindel
A: A Little Princess Frances Hudgson Burnett
K: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
E: Emma by Jane Austen

That`s it.

~Allyson

thanksgiving

me and my family are staying at our grandparents house for thanksgiving. our grandpa cooked the most amazing thanksgiving dinner. we watched gi joe last night. that`s it. ~allyson

Painting The Room

We are painting our room!

We are painting the walls lime green, and the ceiling white, and the bottom of the baseboards are going to be black, the doors are going to be chalkboard black so we can write on it, and the windowsill is going to be hot pink.

We are almost finished the walls and the ceiling is done.

That's it.

~Allyson

School

We started school last week!!!
I am supposed to be giving my mom something written every week but I forgot to last week, so I'm writing a report on Harriet Tubman and I'm going to write one on William Lloyd Garrison. I want to finish the Harriet Tubman report tonight but I don't know if that's going to happen. I need to go to the library soon to get some books on William Lloyd Garrison.

~Allyson

The zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo!!! It was a lot of fun. I got a lot of pictures. I'm going to put at least a few of them on my blog!! Here they are:


These are the pink flamingos. My dad loves them so I got a picture.


This is a zebra and and I'm not positive what the other thing is.


This is a picture of two giraffes. I sent it to my grandma because she loves giraffes. She is going to print it and hang it in her bathroom.


This is a peacock. I was very surprised when I only saw two of them through the whole trip.


This is a kangaroo with her baby joey!! It's so cute!!!


This is  a picture of a prairie dog. It did not turn out very well because I was looking through the plastic tubes.


I was very surprised when I saw this polar bear outside because it was so hot out!!
That's all!!

~Allyson

peekaboo shrug

Here are a few pictures of a little jacket I made. It is called a Peekaboo shrug. I got the instructions from a book that I got from my library. The book is called get hooked again.
This shrug is seriously just a crocheted rectangle. All you do is sew the sleeves and add a border. Here's the pictures:





~Allyson

Decoupage, instructions and new cover

We started with this light switch cover that we got from Wal Mart's for 20 cents!!!



The picture mom wanted me to use for this light switch cover looked similar to this. This is in the family room so that is why this light switch cover will be in the family room.



In this picture my mom is cutting the picture so that it will fit on the cover. First she had to pick her favorite part of the picture because she couldn't have the whole thing.



This is where I spread the decoupage over the back of the picture with a sponge brush.



This picture is the back of the light switch cover now that I put the picture on it. You have to make sure the corners are tucked in very tightly.



This is the picture after I cut the holes for the light switch cover and screws.



In this picture I am spreading decoupage over the front of the light switch cover, picture, so that it will harden and not rip.



Your cover should look like this when you are done spreading the decoupage over the front.



And here is a picture of the light switch cover.

See you again soon with a new craft!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Allyson