new stuff today!

We got in some octopi today. That's the plural of octopus. We got in a whole bag of shiny brass octi that are sooooo cool. I want to make one with some labradorite drops off the tentacles. Or maybe pearls.

These babies are all over the place at Fred Flair and at Day-Lab, too.

You can make yours any color you like, just use a bit of Krylon spray paint in three thin coats and then seal it with Clear in two thin coats. Let dry 24 hours. Attach it to chain and voila, tres chic in a deep sea way.

We also got in some of these large spools of French Baker's Twine. Use it to tie up gifts, or wrap home made cookies in wax paper and tie them up with a bit of this. For extra credit, leave the cookies on my porch. Ha, just kidding. Not really.

Amy's Dragonflies

Our power went out in a big storm tonight and I tried to put two really hot children to bed for about an hour until magic daddy showed up and somehow got the big one down so peacefully. We had been sitting and sweating first in the big bed, then in the living room, then on the porch, then back in the living room. I swear, right before he got home I was trying to figure out how we could all lay with our heads down on the tile in the bathroom.

After he got home I went for a walk with baby N and let the dark and the crickets lull her to sleep. She loves flying insects and we saw a moth under a neighbors (working) porch light and she went nuts. She calls all flying creatures 'pitterfies' but it made me think that a nice flying dragonfly might be just the thing to add to her above-the-changing-table menagerie.

I saw these at the Crafter's Flea Market and got busy and didn't get back to buy one or seventeen. Imagine a whole tree filled with these? ahh...

Visit Amy's site and see more of her dragonflies.