art class - session I

Okay I did it again...I signed up for a class -er actually 3 classes, but if you think of it as one long running one it doesn't sound so bad...ha! like I have anymore time, but I couldn't pass it up. Still time to sign up if anyone is interested. I'm really excited! Wish me luck!

Session 1: August 1-6: Imaginary Creatures



Dog Days of Summer



wip and paper crafts

There is just not enough time for a working mom, but these I plan to finish! Sounds pretty committed and determined doesn't it? I hope so. These are just a few things in my long, insanely long list of things I want to make and do.
I'm curious to know what you want to do and don't have time for? Maybe I want to do it to...hehe!
Happy Friday!

Sneak peak quilt... 

Sneak peak - quilt

Pillow for Ravelry Cover to Cover group.

Reading group book and some gifts for my reading group.

Here's some paper crafts the boys did. I'm so proud they do some kind of craft, just like their mama...haha! 

Old Vinyl records, Ram made a record player as well, didn't get a pic of it yet...Ram made sleeves, Rem's is the happy face.

 Ram's Redstone rocket, it's got some 3-d to it, but I'm not sure the pictures shows it very good.

xo

Estela



a little pledge

I love this image, the colors and the idea behind it. So I am taking the pledge and it's green! (Big smile on my face.)

Support your community by buying local. Click on the icon to see handmade resources.

Here is a sundress I'm currently working on for my daugher.

xo

Estela

look who is a decade old!

Rem turned 10 Saturday, July 16th and of course he had a space party. I made astronaut helmets for all 3 kids a couple of days before as party hats and they turned out pretty good. I had to throw a picture of Fred he looks good for a 14 year old...We didn't have astronaut food so we had Moon Pie's...hehe! I made sure Rem got all his good wishes you sent and he was very happy you all remembered him!

Just wanted to add this video of Atlantis landing this morning from the Los Angeles Times, you can also find some neat pictures.

  

Hope you all enjoy!

xo

Estela

where to park???

Earlier this month we took a road trip to Florida to see the last space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 launch, marking the end of NASA's shuttle program. We had only one thing planned for Friday...get to Kennedy Space Center. We finally got a parking spot, actually I made one up, the middle of where the road and the off ramp come together and I parked on the hatched marks, set up chairs and opened the tailgate. (I did it that quick too!) It was thrilling hanging out with all those people. Everyone was easy going.

A few minutes before the launch I put L in the car lifted the tailgate and waited to take a picture. Don't worry she wasn't in a hot car the top part of the tailgate was open and getting a breeze...see below. Being to close to cars I didn't want to worry about her and trying to take pictures. I decided to do a video instead of pictures.

Rem sat on top of the car and was ready. Unfortunately it turned out I was not...

I couldn't get the video to work, [user error]I had been messing with my phone trying to get the internet because Ram wanted to hear the countdown. Finally gave up a few minutes before. I was freaking out everyone was yelling and cheering and I couldn't get the video to work! Agh! I finally got it and looked at the sky to find the shuttle...WOW!!!it was amazing then it diappeared...into the clouds!!! We got to see about 20 seconds before it was gone. It was still very exciting. I did not get a video of it so I snapped a quick picture of the smoke trail just to prove I was there...

It returns Thursday, July 21st at 5:56:58am EDT.

So here is one I googled courtesy of NASA [they were able to get alot closer than we did].

this one also googled, I love this one...

Saturday...

we were off to Kennedy Space Center to enjoy the day. Ram and L with their 3D glasses waiting for the "Space Station" movie to start. [Yes, she hogged the popcorn and then spilled all the unpopped kernals all over the place. It made a loud noise when they fell on the floor and people turned around...but what can you do. Good thing it was at the end.]

This is the Rocket Garden where we spent alot of the time the boys just had to check out the rockets...in detail...

I can't name them all but the boys can, they had their favorites and they checked them out...oh wait I can name one, the one on it's side is a Saturn rocket...yea for me!

The food was not that great and very expensive, it never is at these places but they were very well behaved and we got to sit in the a/c and rest for a second. They got to check out their loot they got at the space shop, rockets...no surprise there...haha!

ohhh this picture is for Karla...haha! They had a Star Trek display next to the IMAX and we ventured in, the boys are not big Trekkies but they we all ran around the mock bridge of the Enterprise from the original series. I'm in the captains chair...yea, engage!

The memorial to the fallen astronauts is beautiful it feels like it's part of the sky. I wanted to make sure the kids saw it and know the names of the people and honor them but it turned out the boys told me all their names, what missions, dates, vehicle names and how it happened. So my work was done...Yes that is L in the foreground I let her out of her stroller.

I'm snapping the picture, a lady was nice enought to hold L up.

This is rare...they love each other.

As we were walking out the boys spotted the space person [ok that's what they called them I would have said spaceman...no comments on that please, I'm just not PC yet] and we got a picture, they are holding up their patches they are so proud of them...so her we go...

Rem has the Mercury 6 Friendship 7 capsule patch, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth, launched on an Atlas rocket. Mission was 5 hours long.

Ram is holding Mercury 3 Freedom 7 capsule patch, Alan Shepard the first American in space [Launched from a Redstone rocket, Ram's favorite] both are Mercury missions. Yes, boys did their homework...haha! The mission lasted 20 minutes. I didn't need a tour guide I had 2 of them.

As we drove out of Orlando we had a beautiful sunset. They can't wait to come back.

xo

Estela

weird e-mail and some pictures

First I would like to start off that I'm not sure exactly what happened but some people got some spam e-mail from me today. It appears I sent some kind of advertising for enhancing your romantic life or some diet crap. I e-mailed yahoo to see if they can figure out what happened but in the mean time, I like to say I did not send any mail today, 27th of June. I apologize for the weird e-mail from me.

Here is a picture from the photography class I attended Saturday in OKC (which was also the birthday present Rog got me! Big smile on my face). It was actually fun and I enjoyed listening to Samantha Lamb talk about her process and her ideas and also left with some neat resources. I'm planing on putting some of my pictures on postcards.

This picture has some editing because I wanted to bring out the color and try something different. Samantha does little editing as she can to her pictures so this is not one of the things I learned. Also the class was taught at this neat store that sells handmade items and if it was closer to me I would go broke.

One more thing...Rog and I made the TulsaWorld newspaper! Yet again...haha! This picture was from a Freewheel ride we took about 10 years or more ago and it was originally in the paper the day after they took it. The article has some good advice on sunburns. Here in Oklahoma we are in the three digits already. Do you think I look fat? (haha!)
 

 
XO
Estela

are you ready for some football?

Well it's almost that time of year!!

Opening game in Denver against the Raiders will be televised nationally on ESPN, Monday, September 12th.



http://prod.static.broncos.clubs.nfl.com//assets/images/schedule-and-events/2011_schedule.pdf
from NFL.com