Craft Fair at Dave's Soda and Pet Food City

Kristen and Marley did their second craft fair at Dave's Soda and Pet Food City in Agawam today. It was in the back of the store and there were a lot of "pet" crafts. It was a perfect place for Marley; she loves to "browse" in Dave's and look at all the animals.

When we left there, Paul and I took a ride to Brimfield, MA. The tornado damage there was unbelievable. It looked like a bombed out war zone. Really.

There used to be a house at the end of this driveway; now just a foundation. Of course, it has been over 4 months so things are starting to get cleaned up, but it still looks awful - so sad for so many people.











P.S. More post offices.

Brimfield, MA


Fisksdale, MA


Palmer, MA

Kristen's notebooks

Tonight when I brought Marley home from Prims, this is what I saw.

This is a picture with her "equipment."



Kristen is getting ready for her next craft fair. This time she is expanding on her notebooks. I love them! I have three different ones. I just think they are so unique!

Marley's first craft fair

Today Marley and Kristen had a table at a craft fair at School St. Park in Agawam. It was a benefit for the Girls Club of Springfield. The daughter of someone Kristen works with was hosting it. This was Marley's first craft fair and they have been getting ready for this for months (see this blog).

Paul (and I) got there early to help set up the little tent that they had.



Kristen had bought a pin maker a couple of months ago. These are a few of the pins that Marley made for me and Paul.



Marley set up her pins.






And Kris set up her crayons.



Here's their table.




I was babysitting for Mason so I brought him to the craft fair and we had lunch.





In the end, the whole craft fair didn't "fare" too well. There weren't a lot of customers. The most important thing, though, was that Marley had fun. She was very happy with her earnings that day, $18.50 (even though the agreement was that she had to give half of her earnings to her mother until the pin machine is paid off!).

Making notebooks

Marley had two friends over after church today and Kristen made little Crayola notebooks for them with her new "notebook making machine." (I'm sure it has a name but I don't know what it is.)

Next week Kris and Marley are participating in a craft fair. Marley has been making "pins" and Kris has been making "crayon creations." These have varied from crayon letters that spell out your name, to cupcakes, to Chinese fortune cookies, to caterpillars. Every time I go over there lately her kitchen looks like a crayon factory. I think the caterpillars are the only ones that are going to make the cut.

She is also making notebooks out of all of the crayon boxes.



She sure didn't get her love of crafts from me. I feel like I could break out in hives just listening to all of her ideas.

Sock Afghan

Yesterday Kris brought over her sock afghan that she is working on. All of the squares are made from yarn of socks that either she or someone else have made. I tried to pick out the squares of socks that she has made me (and Paul; he has two pairs), and then I put our socks on the afghan. While I was wondering if I was getting them in the right squares, she pulled out a paper with a print out of the afghan. Each square had the person she had made that sock for, or the person who had given her the yarn. Yikes. I think everyone in my family has a little bit of OCD. The only problem is each person has a different OCD and we are not always tolerant of each other's particular OCD - LOL!

This is the afghan without the socks -

199/365 - Marley's New Sewing Machine

Marley got a new sewing machine today. She actually got a real sewing machine for her birthday but this one is a kids machine, just perfect for her to practice and play on. It seemed a little bit over-indulgent, but with a 50% off coupon at A.C. Moore, we didn't feel too bad. She loved it and after a few instructions, this is what she did this afternoon - a pocketbook, a pouch (for grandma) and a wallett, Pretty good, right?

The music craft is done........finally!!!

Here are the Prims holding their finished (Thank Heavens) music crafts. It has been three long weeks making these musical instruments. It has been three long weeks of glitter, glue, stickers, tinsel type stuff (really ugh!), beads, feathers, and who knows what all else. BUT, we are finished making them and next week we will have our musical parade. Our next badge is Friends. I can't wait to see what craft we will being doing for that (I really do hate crafts).