my latest findings - i likey

here's what i've been really wanting to do lately:

ART!

i'm subscribed to the Artful Parent's blog i really like her weekly art group with the 2 year olds - i think thats such a great idea. i hope to be doing that soon here.  and i really like her freezer paper stencils!  i got to try it a couple of weeks ago with my sister.  i really like the simplicity of the artful parents designs. a bird or a truck. very nice

knit!  i want to knit!

check out these cute bunnies and other cutie-pie animals! i totally want to learn how to make them.  i know how to crochet (ive done blankets and scarves) but i really want to knit now - 

and aside from the cute animals i want to make socks too.  

and a wool soaker diaper cover  

this one is that is koolaid dyed (for overnight cloth diapers) 

the theory is that the wool breaths so the diaper dries somewhat and doesnt stay wet all night to wake up the baby and so it shouldnt require painful (for mommy and daddy) 2am diaper changes just for a wet diaper.

so the only hitch in the knitting thing:  ian will be way more into the ball of yarn than a cat! plus when am i sitting around with nothing to do?  but still.. i wantsa to knit!

compost

i dont have a yard, only a patio. and i'm really trying to figure out how to do this composting thing because my awesome plants that grew from seed in my cute walmart jiffy greenhouse died after i planted them in my pots with .. um.. walmart potting soil (bad idea - i found out that it doesnt have to even be "soil" to be called potting soil)  

so i decided that i need to compost so that i can get the good stuff for myself and have amazing plants instead of sad ones.   i think i want to make mine out of a metal garbage can

since i think it will look nicer than a plastic one (plus, i wonder how non-toxic a heated up plastic garbage can in the sun could be, and then i'm suppose to use the soil for my garden of veggies? - us new mommies have heard all there is to know about how bad plastic is .. and bpa and pvc etc.) or maybe i could get my hands on an old wine barrel. 

and researching that brought me to this:  Uncle Tom's Garden - THEY HAVE CHICKENS! and all 3 each lay an egg a day! and raised flower beds :D with copper bands to keep the snails out - how cool and their own compost bins (nice sized too) how do you have enough left over kitchen scraps to feed a compost bin and chickens? wish that was my problem to have.  

hmmmm....  and dreaming of living in the mountains :D