A little bit of this and a little bit of that

Can't believe the month of June has already sped by and we are approaching July.  I'm still busily trying to plan my homeschool for the next school year, I've been fighting vehicles that keep stranding me, I've been melting in this horrible heat wave we've been having, and I've been really upset and sad finding out that 2 of my only friends are moving out of this neighborhood. 

I was given a solar Happy Flower from one of my good friends last year and I loved it so much that I bought some more to put in my window.  They have brought me so much joy watching them move and dance in the sunlight.  And I absolutely loved that even when we had very overcast skys where you couldn't see the sun, they still found any speck of light and continued to move and dance.  A couple of weeks ago I was devastated when I had my window open and a strong gust of wind blew my blinds out and knocked all of the happy flowers to the floor breaking almost every single one of them.  I was able to super glue and duct tape a few of them back together but, most of them were not repairable.  I found some more happy flowers on amazon and to my delight they had a pink one with butterflies and a yellow one with ladybugs--perfect to represent Janessa and Hope.  I put them in a different window so they won't be knocked over again and now they peer out at the angel tree.

I've been busy trying to figure out what I wanted to do for Janessa and Hope's prayer flags this year for The Day of Hope on Aug. 19th.  Last year I didn't find out about it until a couple of weeks before so I hurriedly sewed some flags together out of felt at the last minute.  They turned out beautiful and I love them, but, this year I just don't feel like sewing anything. 

 

We are not sending them to Australia this year like we did last year, but, everyone who participates will just hang them in their own special place and take a picture of them and post on facebook instead.  I like this idea better because then I get to keep my prayer flags.  When I found out about it last Sunday I was determined to make 4 flags.  Now, I just want to make 3, 1 for Janessa, 1 for Hope, and 1 for all the angel babies I have done pinwheels for--(though with 171 names this one will probably turn into 2 or 3 flags by the time I'm done!!)  I went to the store yesterday to get some ideas.  I think I will use a heavy card stock paper and foam paper this year because there are things I want to write on the flags and it is too hard to write on fabric and I'm not very good at sewing.  Of course when I stopped by a fabric store later I found the most perfect material.  It had butterflies and ladybugs and hearts and it was in my wedding colors of pink and turquoise--maybe I will make 4 flags after all 1 a combined flag for both Janessa and Hope.

While I was at the store I found this beautiful candle holder that was on clearance.  I fell instantly in love with it!!!  It has 2 butterflies to represent Janessa and Hope and then 5 hanging crystals that I love because they make rainbows---wish there had been 6 on it because then that would have represented all my living children--oh well I'll just count the candle holder on top.  Now I can light a candle whenever I am missing my angel babies and I can light a candle for all the angel babies on the angel baby birthday list when it is their angel birthday.