Fun with the girls

Alaina and Ruby spent the night with us this weekend.  We always have a fun time together; we know we need to treasure these times because these girls are getting older!

We went out for supper and then walked around outside when we got home.  They may be getting older, but they still like the swing.

We took a walk down the road to say hi to the horses.

They were enjoying their supper, but did come over to greet us.

We usually do our craft on Saturday, but the one I had planned was a 2 step process, so we started Friday evening. We were making some small dishes from air drying clay. We molded it to soften it and then rolled it out. Then we cut it into a circle, pressed lace into it to make a pattern.  Ruby made on all over pattern, I did 1 stripe and Alaina did 2 stripes.  Then we left it to dry overnight.

Alaina has discovered she likes chess, so she and Bob played a game on the phone.

After the dishes dried overnight we painted the edges.  This is Alaina's.

Here's Ruby's dish.  She made her edges ruffly and it had lots of texture.

With the leftover clay, we made pendants for necklaces.

Next, we had to do something to go in the bowls.

You know, we always have an abundance of acorns here.  I've been collecting nice ones.  I baked them in an oven to make sure we didn't get any surprise bugs from them, then we painted them with metallic paints - gold, silver, copper and metallic blue and green.

Here's the girls with their finished Fall decor!  We all had fun with this.