Repurposing with Keepers

On Thursday the final Keepers meeting of the year was held at our house.   Mommy did an excellent job teaching how we can take jeans, ties, and t-shirts and make them into something "new".

 

While the girls were in the meeting, Joshua and Lincoln went fishing at the creek.

Cutting out our t-shirt scarves.


Knit shirts don't fray and they ruffle easily!!!


Cut nine 9" circles out of your t-shirt.  Once your circle is cut out, start cutting into spiral shape.  When you pull the two ends, it will fall into a ringlet.

Cutting off the jeans pockets


Finished products

Sewing tie wristlets

 You can store your cell phone, money, credit cards, etc.  And it only takes one tie!

Modeling our scarves!

 When you cut all the seams off the jeans, glue them together and you have a jean hotpad!

Mommy took the tie ends and made a flower to clip on her purse!


~Repurpose*Refashion*Upcycle~

A Beautiful Day In Amish Country

Today was beautiful here in Amish country...white fluffy clouds sailing by in a baby blue sky, an occasional horse drawn Amish buggy rattling up the road, and the sound of birds singing in the trees...here are a few pictures from our day.

 Amish giril buddies...

 Elainah is learning how to ride her bike!

Go Elainah!!

 Joshua, Lillia, and Hope have a new unicycle trick...

 They all ride in from different directions and then join hands and swing around in a circle.  It's pretty cool!

And another trick too..

They've Left The Nest!

     Yesterday when we checked the nest the three purple finches had taken flight!  You may have notcied that in all my pictures there were only three birds visible.  If you remember, at the beginning there were four eggs.  In the bottom of the empty nest there was an egg that had been punctured.  I would have posted a picture but it was kind of gross!

     In previous years once one brood has hatched and left the nest, the parents sometimes return and raise a second brood.  Sooo...stay tuned!