our fun leaf project! and other pictures

We did some Cherokee left printing this week, before all the leaves fall. We got two beautiful October Glory maples this year and their leaves turned bright red, so we went out in the yard and picked up a bunch of different leaves from all the trees and plants. I found the tutorial through Ms. Anne's Film & Thread blog.

Leaves from blueberry bushes (reddish purple), magnolia bush (yellow) and lantana (green). The very bottom one is from the pin oak.
far left is the Oct Glory maple, then some more magnolia, blueberry, and a few strawberry plant leaves.
Joshua is arranging the leaves on an old tshirt scrap. Wanted a few practice sessions before I do this on real fabric to use for something other then a memento! It's trickier than it looks...


Joshua hammered all he could, then I had to do the rest. I was not prepared for how tired my arms were going to get!
Zoe took a turn too.

made some korker ribbon for hairbows. This could be addictive - they're so easy! Good thing I'm so bored and have nothing else to do.

I just had to take a picture of him loving this raw broccoli. He's been eating it all week, and so has Zoe!Joshua was very proud of his creation. He did this while I was putting Zoe to bed and when I came out he asked me to take a picture to show Daddy :)He asked me to take a picture of him. He picked this shirt out himself (it's my favorite :). What's on bottom, you ask... Lightning McQueen underpants.
Zoe started sitting in the car table... and Joshua followed suit. Right before I took this photo, they were both in there together.

And right before I took this photo, they were fighting over this little chair.