Friday, January 25, 2008

Sticker mania!

Stickers have been the craft du jour at our house lately, thanks to the fact that brother and sister both find endless entertainment value in the little adhesive pictures. It started with homeschooling, actually -- I bought stickers to put on Will's work, and Adelaide would steal them and litter the house with "Great Job!" and "Best Ever!" stickers. Not that those little accolades weren't nice to find every now and again in places like the laundry room (where heaven knows, I could use pep talks sometimes!), I decided to go out and get her some of her own.

So I grabbed the cheapo Wal-Mart book of "groovy retro" stickers, and we all sat down together one afternoon to enjoy the bounty of gaudy, colorful adhesive fun. Of course, when Adelaide decided that these would do better as body art than on lowly copy paper, we all ended up a little groovier. Sorry for the lower-res photos -- my camera battery was charging, and this was an opportunity I couldn't miss, so the iPhone had to do double duty. But they're not too bad for phone photos, eh?

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Bad blogger! Bad!

I'm sorry everyone. I have not, as you might have assumed, been abducted by aliens, taken a vow of computer celibacy, or simply forgotten how to log into my blogger account. I have just (wait for it...wait for it....)

been busy.

I know, I know -- how long does it really take to jot down a quick, "Hello from planet Alyson" blog every now and then? Yes, chastise me for my absenteeism. Please. I'm waiting. I can take it.

(sound of me expectantly cringing. no, that doesn't make a sound. just go with me on this one, okay?)

Anyway, I could give you the rundown, but really, it would be boring. In fact, if we'd done anything really exciting, I would have blogged it. It's just been work, homeschooling, family time, house upkeep...the boring everyday stuff you really don't want to hear about.

But as a peace offering, I extend this olive branch of photography. It's not much, but I hope it shows my sincere thanks that you even checked back after almost a month to read this. And I promise, I won't be so long away again if I can help it.