Oven Use on Thanksgiving
We roasted a turkey for Thanksgiving and I had the Effergy monitor on the oven electrical line and found that it uses up to 4KW during use.
Turkey 2017
My sister visited and set a beautiful table with my mother’s fancy china and silverware.
Thanksgiving Table
My granddaughter colored all the place settings with a little of my sister’s help. They were lovely. They told the ancient lore about acorns leading to long life and tiny acorns were attached to them.
Place setting
I spent most of my sister’s visit working on crafts for my grandson’s second birthday party in December. His theme is Cars and Trucks and Things that Go, which is his favorite book. I sewed Richard Scarry Lowly Worms out of 100% merino wool felt and stuffed with organic cotton. These are for California kids whose parents care about this kind of thing.
Partial Lowly Worms
It was also much nicer working with quality materials. I made several patterns and had to make my Lowlies kind of short and fat to get them turned out.
Lowly samples
My sister and daughter helped stuff and stitch them up and stitch on the hats. I made the tassels out of yellow yarn and embroidered the mouths. The eyes are childproof too.
Finished Lowlies
I also made a few stuffed goldbugs out of left over yellow jersey from sewing a Little Prince costume.
Stuffed Goldbug
We had the idea to find Lowly throughout the party set up like he appears in the pages of the Richard Scarry books. There was a sample of a wooden Lowly online and I thought it was cute. For little ones they had to be rather sizable so I bought 3″ wooden pegs. Then painted them with non-toxic tempera paint.
Painted peg Lowlies
They are decorated with non-toxic expo whiteboard markers and finished with cutting board wax. These are all natural materials and therefore not dangerous for little ones. My grandson will be two and his guests are about the same age and older.
The Lowly Worm troops are finished with the cutting board wax and ready for the party.
Goldbugs ready to party