Crafty Friends

I will be the first to put up some work by Looliloo’s own Jennifer since I snapped some photos yesterday of her awesome felt goodies.  My children and I have a birthday party to attend tomorrow and had asked her to make some for us to take as our gift.  Not only did she fulfill my order of some cupcakes but she also threw in a very yummy looking cinammon roll and a beautiful slice of blueberry pie.

So nice to have crafty friends.  I’m sure that the 3 year old recipient will be quite pleased when she opens the 2 cupcakes that I am actually parting with.

Play Food

In a constant effort to turn over our abundant toy supply into non plastic, gentle, quality over quantity and useful toys I am currently working on felt play food for our little second hand montessori wooden kitchen that we picked up off of Craigslist last spring.  We have some good wooden Melissa and Doug food but I fell in love with these patterns at Bugga Bugs and have visions now of eventually making every set.  However, I have found that they require a lot of hand stitching which is taking me into a whole new realm of patience.  That’s a good thing but instead of knocking out a whole pretend refrigerator full of food in an afternoon I have had to consider this a long term project.  We have milk, though!  I’m thinking about conquering the eggs next.  I’ll keep you posted.