iBook Author

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12

My friend, Fawn, told me about an app her kids used to make her an e-cookbook, iBook Author. So of course I had to download it and I've been taking pictures of food to put into my own. Here's my homemade chicken noodle soup.

Chickens

We're raising chickens this year, and they started laying about a month ago. Here is the first egg we got!

And here is the first one I ate! It was a pretty big egg, and the chicken had skipped laying the day before. When I cracked it into the pan, it was a double yolk! Delicious.

Reading

I really like these books by Anne Perry, and the stories I'm finding on the web about her are pretty interesting, too! I have read these six, and I'm on the seventh one.

http://www.anneperry.co.uk/books

Quilting

I took a quilting class earlier this summer and this is what I made! This is a half-square triangle pattern.

My first two attempts at free-motion quilting doing a stippling pattern. I'm taking a Craftsy class online. I cannot figure out why my phone takes these weird inverted shadow pictures.

Crochet and Knitting Latest Projects

Here is the cute giraffe I made for Samantha to go with the flamingo. I also sold one to a friend!

I got bored at Grandma's house when I was taking care of the "farm" and so I made these slippers for Cameron, Brittany's boyfriend. He keeps wearing the ones I made for her several years ago, so he needed his own. And he only likes green.

Here's my first attempt at felting slippers. (They haven't been felted yet.)

Resurrecting the Blog with a Flamingo

I have really enjoyed crafting lately. I made Kiersten a zebra and posted a picture on Facebook. Then Samantha, my niece, asked if I could make a flamingo and a giraffe. So here's the cute pink flamingo, and I will post a picture of the giraffe when he is done. So fun. And nice to have a project that I can do in a few days instead a few years. (Mom's quilt!)

Garden Progress

The garden is growing some with the warm weather. Here's the peas.

And the tomatoes and pepper.

And corn. Now there's not much corn showing, and I think it's because I had to have one of the sprinklers fixed and the guy stomped all over everything I planted. So I planted more in a different spot and am waiting to see what this will do. I will probably replant it later.

And my prettiest strawberry plant.

Also, I went to a Relief Society Enrichment night last night on gardening and it was very interesting. All about how to seed your own tomatoes, squash, etc., inside in the spring. Also on composting and how to plant. She recommended the book Square Foot Gardening, and I bought it today. Check it out on my Shelfari shelf. I'm wondering how much of the actual building (boxes, trellises, etc.) I will really have to do. It seems like a great idea, though.