It's a Zoo Out There

Our Fourth of July weekend didn't quite turn out how we planned it. We had intended to have my parents over but on Friday morning, hubby woke up with 101.4 F temperature.

My Dad had a quintuple by-pass a few years back and so Mom and Dad are careful.

The girls were a bit blue so I took them to our local (adopted) grandparents and did this craft. I saw the idea for these heads in Family Fun Magazine

K's (the first one pictured) is from a milk jug and C's (the one above) is from a bleach container. They were loads of fun to create.

Wild animals have been part of our summer. When we were in Michigan on vacation, we met one of my blog friends at the John Ball Zoo. Here are some of the photos.

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Looking for a Creative High: Party #6

You may notice that the past several parties feature kid's crafts!! Between vacation, VBS, guests, and photo shoots, I've had no time for my own crafting!!

This weeks high is tops. These tops are super duper easy to make. 

Supplies

shooter marble

old cd

drink bottle lid

paper

markers

white glue or glue stick

heavy duty adhesive or hot glue

Instructions

Glue the shooter marble in the middle of the hole in your cd on the bottom side of the disk.

Use a cd as a template to cut out your paper.

Decorate the paper in bright colors so it looks great spinning.

Use the white glue or glue stick to glue the paper to the top of the disk.

Glue the bottle cap in the middle top to make a handle for your top.

Spin away!!

These tops are super easy to spin and spin for a long time!!

Now for the Party!!

Last week's party had thirteen entries. There were some super creative ideas. The sheer imagination of the entry by Ann at Make the Best of Things blew me away. She made a washer necklace for her teenaged grandson and presented in a box with a story - a gift of imagination.

The Rules:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog. Link to something you made that shows off your creative genius; something that gave you a creative high kind of like the endorphin rush that runners talk about. It can be an old post or a new post but it needs to be something you made.
2. Give your entry a descriptive title.
3. Use my button to link back to the party or add a text link in your post.
4. I can’t accept links to etsy shops or online stores.
5. By entering your link, you are giving me permission to use any part of your post including pictures in a spotlight at Those Northern Skies (appropriate credit and links will be given to you and your blog of course).

The Prizes:

1. Every Friday at the next party, I will highlight my favorite posts from the previous week.
2. My favorite entrant of the week will win an advertisement in my sidebar free of charge for one month (four weeks). If you do not have a shop, I can put your blog button up or if you would rather I can put up a button for your favorite charity.
3. In addition, for those who make a project inspired by one of my projects or one of my tutorials, I will pick one winner a month and they will get to keep an advertisement in my sidebar for two months. Plus all inspired entrants will be part of a featured post at the end of the month.

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Codes and Giggles

My oldest daughter is really into codes. While on vacation, we saw a display explaining signal flags so when we got home I found a key to signal flags on the internet and printed it out for her. We made a signal flag sign that said welcome for the her grandparents when they came.

The rest of the signs are as follows:

Morse Code: Hello
Elvish Runes (from LOTR): Greetings
Egyption Heiroglypics: Good Morning Alex

On a completely different note I am going to share a bit about vacation. On the way to my sister's home in Michigan and on the way home from B's house, we stopped at my UP's and Aunt P's house (my Uncle has a blog My Tippy if you are interested).

We had a great visit - I enjoy chatting with both my Aunt and Uncle.

My uncle shares some adorable photos that he took of my girls and his impressions of our first morning there on his blog.