The Making of a Mol

When your 15-year-old calls you up and says "I have to make a stuffed mole for school" this is what happens:



First: you are a bit confused for a while wondering why a sophomore in high school has to make a stuffed mole...and even moreso when she says it is for chemistry...Turns out she is making a Mol rather than a mole--but it looks like a mole--but is supposed to represent a mol of some element--so it is really a Mol mole....do you follow?



After looking through all the elements on the periodic table, she chose to do an arsenic Mol mole(being the goth-ish and morbid teen that she is).

Emma did not have the pattern provided by the teacher, so it's a good thing mom knows how to make such things---after discussing what the teacher's Mol mole and pattern looked like, and several sketches later, we had a pattern to test on blue fabric.

A few minor adjustments to the original pattern and voila! an Arsenic Mol mole is born--complete with poison warning on his back! (I wanted to stitch a tiny piece of old lace to his paw, but emma said no--she's no fun!).

the joys of the season

Ah. Autumn. My most favorite season of all! Fall means....pumpkin patches(no, we don't have fall in March in Chicago...)....

and corn mazes (both of which were extremely muddy...the hayride trip to the pumpkin patch turned into a rescue mission--a second haywagon lost it's tire in foot-deep mud....needless to say, we never even ventured off our wagon into the patch...)....

and of course, the making of Halloween costumes...new witch's attire for me this year!!

it's been a while...

So now that I found some really, really cool backgrounds and updated the look of my blog...I feel inspired to actually start posting again--but of course, you know how I am, so we will see what happens.....