Adventures at The Bunny Manse

Someone is eight years old today.  She's very insistent that until the time of her birth, she is not yet actually 8. Precision is important with this one. 

Someone turned 2!  We had a small party at home on her actual day, presents from Mommy, Daddy, Madeline, and grandparents and a little cake. Margot very much enjoyed all of it.  We'll have a sweet little party with friends soon - we had to postpone the first one after our party girl caught a fever last week.

For her 7th, Madeline decided on a Harry Potter themed birthday - we remain about 60 pages from finishing Order of the Phoenix and well, I said ok. Last year the theme was Frozen, so we had plates, a pin the nose on Olaf, and Frozen Bingo. So. Yeah. How to do Harry Potter theme. I decided to make stations from Hogwarts. Prior to the party Harris and I made wands for each kid using knitting needles and chopsticks from The Scrap Exchange. We melted hot glue over the tops in different interesting patterns, then I painted them all brown and added colors to the tops. I also printed up signs that looked like educational decrees and plastered them around the house.  Herbology was full of wholesome snacks on one side of the table, while HoneyDukes filled the other side of the table with chocolate and candies. We had Transfiguration class by turning paper into animals, that was harder than expected - most kids made paper airplanes.   We took O.W.L.S. by writing down the flavors...

Why look who turned 7 

My selfie game is weak sauce.  That's Margot and The Sneak asleep on Harris in my room. Next up, 60 degrees on Christmas morning in matching jammies on the porch   My birthday, we went to Scratch and Madeline had a donut muffin. True love lasts forever.  Christmas eve sisters being loving and cute

Here we are at the end of summer. We've been thrifting, selling, placing for weeks now. Probably a truckload still to the dump, another to the thrift, and random things we're on the lookout for. Some recents include... Push button switches Transoms The upstairs starting to look finished. Our Ringside painting from Bruce Mitchell now hung in place of safe lighting and prominence.  Our little upstairs nook. We can read there. No it's not Africa.  And when we're not housing, I'm making a Bat Mobile for my little gothlings. Purple and Red hot air balloon currently drying.  Someone completed their first year. Is walking, babbling, and giggling all day.  Someone else started first grade...  Did you wonder if I could find a post office? I always find post offices. This may be the making of a great road trip one day.  Sure - we have a couple of hours. Let's go to Mt. Rainier and ...