Welcome Spring

We have had glimpses of spring here in Georgia.  March has featured some wonderful sunny and cool days and then will turn back to winter with gray, cold and rainy weather.  Most of us don't complain about the rain here because we need it to make up for last summer's drought.  

I made the rabbit pictured here to welcome in spring.  The idea for the project came from the Martha Stewart website. The pom pom bunny I made is a little 

different in that I made it with a pom pom maker so it turned out larger than the sample project.  I also could not find any black beads that did not have holes in them or looked right so I improvised and used an eyelet with a brad inserted in it and that looked perfect. I stamped the cupcake 

 liner (her skirt) with polka dots and used the same stamping ink to dye the rick rack pink. I also used the white nylon bristles of a whisk broom for the whiskers (instead of thread as used in the Martha Stewart project instructions).  The nylon bristle whiskers were added after the photo of the project was taken.  

Random thoughts for today:  Every morning I hop on the treadmill with

 my iPod to get my exercise.  I usually set my iPod to the shuffle mode and (apologies to technology here and all those 0s and 1s) the iPod gnomes or elves pick the songs that will play. This is how I envision it:  there is a long line of  iPod elves perhaps 50 to 100 and the last elf in line selects a track and hands it to the elf in front of him, who hands it to the elf in front of him, and so on and so on until it reaches the elf at the front of the line who puts the track in the slot to play (sort of like the concept of an old fashioned jukebox). This first elf goes to the back of the line (he will select the next track that plays) and this goes on ad infinitum every day.  Sometimes I like what the elves select and sometimes I don't.  My husband just asks me why I don't create a playlist, but I like the randomness of the shuffle and the iPod elves! Today the iPod elves selected some great songs.  One of my favorites is "This One's For the Girls" by Martina McBride:

"This is for all you girls about 42, 

Tossing pennies into the fountain of youth, 

Every laugh, laugh line on your face 

Made you who you are today"

"This one's for the girls 

Who've ever had a broken heart, 

Who've wished upon a shooting star

You're beautiful the way you are

This one's for the girls

Who love without holding back

Who dream with everything they have

All around the world

This one's for the girls"