Wordless Wednesday

 

Stamped clay eggs

 Here's something fun we did last weekend when the girls stayed over.
We made stamped, clay eggs.  You can make any shape, but with Easter coming, we made eggs.

To do this, you need craft clay that can be baked.  We used Fimo brand.  You also need a rubber stamp and ink of your color choice.

First, you take a small piece of the clay and roll it out.  We put ours on waxed paper with another piece of waxed paper over top, then used a roller to make it thin and even.  You can see from Ruby's face that this was hard work.

Then use a cookie cutter or clay cutter to cut out your desired shape.

Ink your stamp and press it lightly into the clay.  You can use just a corner, or fill the whole cut out with a design.

Here's Alaina stamping one of her eggs.

This is the stamp we used, a simple pattern that could be used in several ways.

Here's one of the eggs that's been stamped.  We then used a straw to cut a little circle into the top of it.

We put all the eggs onto parchment paper on a cookie sheet.  We baked them for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
When they cooled, we put a piece of cord through the hole and tied it so they could be hung.

Here's Ruby's eggs.

And Alaina's eggs.

And a close up so you can see the finished product!

This was lots of fun.  The girls thought we should do some little ones to make into necklaces.  I think we'll do that soon!

A Day in my life - April

 April is here!  I'm so happy to see it because it means Spring is really here.  Here's what I did on the first day of April.

I'm off to work at 7am.  It was cold (23 degrees) and we had a little snow during the night, which you can see on the side of the road.

I got to work at 7:15.  This is our front entry.  When we come in we have to check our temp, sanitize our hands, fill out a health questionnaire and put on a KN95 mask before we go in. The temp gets rechecked every 4 hours we are there.  No covid cases in our building!

April 1 fell on a Thursday.  This is a doctor day for me.  Our Dr comes every Thursday, so I gathered charts and information that he would need, printed labs and gathered other paperwork he would need to sign.

On this day I also had a Physician Assistant student from the nearby University with me for the day.  She was to spend the morning with me and the afternoon working with the Dr.

I went over our Infection Control program with her and showed her several things I need to check for every resident, like a site that gives information on vaccine status, another one that we have to review for every resident that is on narcotics.  Those things took quite a bit of time and before I knew it, it was nearly noon.

We went out to meet a few new residents and get paperwork signed.  On the way, we passed our courtyard, which is starting to look inviting as the weather improves. 

Soon the doctor arrived and started going over things with our student.

At one point we had a scare when something hit the windows.  It turned out to be window cleaners - another sign of Spring!

The Doctor and the student left around 4:30.  I had to finish making notes, calling families to inform them of changes and orders and putting all the charts and paperwork away.  I left around 5:30.

Driving home - it was beautiful!  The temps were in the 40's and the sun was shining.

Such a pretty drive home!

When I got home I took a walk around the yard and found these daffodils getting ready to bloom.

Bob works late on Thursday, so I heated some leftovers to have for supper.  I made lunches for the next day and started the dishwasher.

Then I put together these little gift bags for our girlies. I knew I would be working all weekend, so I wanted these to be ready to drop off the next day.  This was an idea I saw online, that just took a lunch bag and a pompom.  It was quick and easy.

When I ran my dishwasher, I had extra space, so I put these old bottle in for a quick clean up.  This shelf is in our bathroom and the bottle get dusty quickly, so I try to take advantage of the dishwasher from time to time,

I also threw these old telephone insulators into the dishwasher.

Nice to have them all shiny and clean!

Bob came home a little after 8 and sat down to relax for a while!

Later in the evening I got this photo from our daughter Laura.  They love April Fools and playing tricks.
Laura gave them a bowl of popcorn for breakfast and was singing in an opera voice instead of talking to them.  In spite of Alaina's look here, they did think it was pretty funny once they realized what day it was!

And that's it for April 1!