Here is something I made a long time ago for a contest. It is a time machine. I didn't win the contest.

Just so you'all don't think I really am that idle and that I acctually do accomplish important things in my life I wanted to post this little bugger:




And here is what my young'n made (In case you can't tell, it's a compost pile):



This little activity with modeling clay has inspired many more ideas for more projects with modeling clay, one involves a really fun website that is going to make me and Kim and my brother Brent a lot of money...that is, if we ever do it.

If you are here, you probably know that the name of my blog is different than it used to be. Of course you may not have ever known that the old name ever existed, and that is okay, you'll live. Or maybe you won't, but don't blame me.

One night I lay in bed trying to come up with a name and I thought up "Project-aisle" or "Project-isle" I later found that these names, or words together, have already been used by someone on the internet, so I didn't want to claim them for my own. I mentioned the name to Kim and she thought I said Project-idle, which is a much more fitting name than the other spellings. That's what this blog is all about...projects that I'm not acctually doing. So now all I have to do is find a way to incorporate projectiles into my post so that the name can truly fit, maybe it's time that I started shooting the bow my husband got me for my birthday a long long time ago. In order to do this I'll have to start working out because the reason I haven't used my bow previously is because I'm not even strong enough to pull it back...I'm a wimp. My baby isn't helping either, she's way to scrawny, I think I'm getting weaker everytime I pick her up. If I start working out then I won't have time to blog, which was the whole reason to start shooting the bow in the first place. Man it's amazing how complicated life is.

A funny thing just happpened. First I was thinking, I should post something to my blog, so I clicked on the create a new post button, and then I sat there for a minute not knowing what I wanted to say. And then I remembered I want to change the name of my blog. A few certain someones have pointed out it's closeness in spelling to a term I don't wish to have any association with. So I went to get my trusty dictionary off the shelf so that I could come up with some ideas for a new name. On my way into the other room to pick up my dictionary I passed the unfinished white quilt and thought about the next project I was going to work on. I realized it was Labor day and Jo-Annes craft and fabric store would probably be having a sale. I thought, "Maybe that one kind of fabric I need for that one blanket I wanna make is an affordable price..." I couldn't remember what the fabric was called, for some reason I can never remember the name of that fabric. Maybe it is because I used to wear flourescent pink bikershorts with a black stripe down the sides, made out of this fabric, to school in the fifth grade, and I am trying to blot out that period of my life. After getting the dictionary and deciding that I'll go to Jo-Annes today I sat down again in front of the computer and randomly opened the dictionary to the section where all the words happen to start with the letter S. My eyes scanned the pages... sozzled -not a good word to know, it wouldn't be good in scrabble... a bunch of words starting with space, including a picture of a space shuttle... spancel-a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal... spandex... (insert vinyl record scratching sound) WHAT? That is the name of the fabric! I have taken this as a sign that this is truly the next project I should work on. That's right, a spandex blanket!

There is a little more to it than just spandex, the details will come out when I acctually start making it. In the mean time, I'm going to continue trying to come up with a new name for my blog. If you have any suggestions feel free to make them, but keep in mind that I don't think anyones ideas are good, except for my own.

My Theme

I've decide to give my blog a theme. And it's NOT going to be about Kim. I just said that in the first post to trick everyone into coming to my blog again. Of course it won't be Kim-free by any means. Even though Kim is my arch enemy when it comes to the attention game, I still love her, thus it's impossible to have a blog without giving her a little bit of attention. Lets just say, if my blog were a parade, Kim gets to ride on a float and smile and wave and throw candy. Danna, she gets to ride the elephant.

So getting closer to getting to the point. My blog is also not going to be about my children. I really like my kids, and they do funny things, and terrible things, like holding their baby sisters upside down by the legs when they think I'm not watching (I'm not sure if that was a funny thing or a terrible thing, but somone spent a lot of time in their room for doing it.) If I was on my first kid, this blog would be devoted entirely to that subject, but now that I'm on number two I don't want to spend my free time thinking about them, if they do anything noteworthy you'll hear about it, but that's all they get, like Kim, a float in the parade.

Now I'll try to get to the point and tell you what my parade...I mean, my blog is acctually about instead of what it isn't about. You probably already guessed it since I mentioned there was going to be an elephant in it. This blog will be about all my projects, the ones I only dream up and the ones I acctually start, but don't finish. This will give me an extra outlet to divert the effort I could be using to work on one of these, so called, projects. Usually I blame my kids, now I can say "My blog made me do it." Yup, my blog is going to get boring real fast. But this is a good thing. If I make a blog that nobody really wants to go to then I don't have to post anything very often.

The project I am mostly working on right now is a white baby quilt with little pink flowers in the corners. (I say "mostly" because I always have lots of projects that are being worked on at one time. The majority of them happen to be stuck in corners of the spare room or packed away in boxes out of sight. This quilt is acctually sitting around on the coffee table in the living room where I see it everyday and think "I sure wish I could get that finished.") I tried to finish this quilt before the Cache County Fair so that I could enter it and win first prize, I tried really hard to complete it by the deadline, but I couldn't and now I have stopped working on it because I don't have a deadline. I am a deadline oriented person. Unfortunately at this time in my life I have to choose my own deadlines and that means they are all deadlines that dangles from a stick, duct taped to a hat that I am wearing so that when I move forward to reach the deadline it moves with me and I can just go on chasing the deadline and never finish my project.

This quilt is a whole cloth quilt all white, except for the little appliqued three dimensional pink flowers and leaves in each of the corners. I have quilted it very tightly with lots of roses and arcs and borders. While sitting around quilting I have sometimes fancied myself as my pioneer ancestors. But then I take a look around and realize that I'm not making this quilt for survival. It's a silly frivolous showy quilt that no one that was enduring the hardships of the pioneers would take the time to make. It is only something that a rich aristocratic lady would do while sitting on a plump apholstered setee waiting for her servants to prepare tea. It's much more relaxing to quilt with the thought, that my servants are hard at work, than thinking about which hen I'm going to butcher for supper and wondering if Dan is going to be able to get a roof on our cabin before winter. It's even more relaxing to quilt while knowing that I acctually live in modern times, and when I need to, I can walk down my hallway to use my nice flushing toilet. Quilting is great.

There is a growing trend out there in the blogging world that I have become increasingly more interested in. I have decided to, finally, take the leap and join in. This trend is known as, Blogging for Kim. It's where everyone who knows Kim, charitably, writes about the things they do with Kim. That way Kim can just link to other peoples blogs on her blogsite and not have to waste time doing it for herself. Of course, if Kim chooses to do something, by herself, or without a fellow blogger, she will have to blog about it for herself. I think I might be able to use this to my advantage in order to get Kim to spend more time with me. For example, if I ask her to go on a walk with me and she says she doesn't want to, I can use my blog as leverage by saying "If you go on a walk with me, I'll blog about it for you." Or, I can get her to do my dishes by saying "If you do my dishes I'll make up a really cool blog about you saving an entire family of, endangered, orphan, blue-tailed-quolls from a volcano." My kitchen will be clean, kim will become a hero, and google will have an overwhelming increase in the number of searches for blue-tailed-quolls.

Okay, so the real reason I started a blog was because I was feeling left out. I have been reading everyones blogs more often than they post. But no one knows I'm there. Once I posted an annonymous comment on Kims blog, back then I was scared to show myself, but now I'm ready to bask in the light of your full fledged attention. I'm ready to fly on the wings of uninteresting events described in detail and posted on the internet. And while I soar through the blue skys of the world wide web, you can all point at me saying "It's a bird, it's a plane...IT'S PAM!...oh and look, here is a blog about Kim."

So, Kim and I made relish the other day. Or I should say days. It took us a couple of days to do it. We didn't follow the recipies as exactly as we should have so we probably bottled 13 pint jars of botulism. You will all be getting one for Christmas.