Busy Bees

WORLD CUP: To say today was a crafty day would be an understatement. We had so many projects going on, every horizontal surface in the house was covered. 

First up was transforming some plain blue paper cups into little Earth-themed cuties.

We also made some globe-like Jell-O Jigglers. First, we made the green Jell-O, and once that was set, we cut that up into little pieces, put it back in the pan, and poured the blue Jell-O over it. Once it all set up, we used a round cookie cutter to make the Earth shapes (and yes, I know the Earth isn't a perfect circle/orb).

Of course, there had to be some cookies in the mix. We dyed regular sugar cookie dough blue and green ... 

then we pieced together some of each color and rolled it into little balls.

 We smooshed the dough balls and baked them for a few minutes.

 Pretty little things!

Christian carved a watermelon globe. Here's an in progress shot. You're going to have to wait until tomorrow for the finished product.

We got a little work done on Chester, the fund-raising mascot. He has arms now! Isn't he cute?

And because we didn't have enough else going on, Annabelle wanted to show me how to make a bookmark. 

You start with a 6x6-inch sheet of paper.

That gets folded in half, and then folded again.

 And folded some more. ... 

 Eventually it's a little page corner cap!

 Naturally, Annabelle had to decorate hers.

We took about a 15 minute break this afternoon to go check out the Seafair pirates, who visited a Starbucks by our house.

Fortunately, these pirates were friendly. Rather than pillaging the Village, they were throwing collectible coins to the kids! CJ and Annabelle each got one.

MEANWHILE, IN HOUSTON: Here's something you don't see going down the freeway 
every day!

This NASA photo shows their crew capsule Orion cruising down the highway toward Houston over the weekend. Pretty cool!