Ansel in Distress

Okay, so I'm not a great photographer (yet!) but I wanted to share the silhouettes of the boys that I hung on our staircase. From this vantage point, they look like twins.



Got what I wanted! And they look great next to our deliberately tea-stained (i.e., faux aged) needlepoint family portrait -- complete with Stinky the cat -- where we are all rendered as stick figures and the hubby has a ball and chain tied around his ankle. Pure Americana kitsch.

What I Want for Christmas

Yeah, I know, too late. I'm sure everyone who buys me gifts already shopped. But I've wanted these for years, tried to do them myself (argh!), and now time's running out because the chillins are getting older.

Maybe I can figure out how to do them over the Christmas break from work . . .

The article on Cookie magazine says to "follow the instructions." I just hope they're easy and don't include stapling my kids' heads to the wall to get them to sit still.