In the Moon Garden

Adding music to your blog

I've been looking for a simple way to add music to my blog (and Melody's blog...this quest was her idea)

...Go to www.playlist.com and register for an account (it's free).
...Find songs you like and add them to your playlist.
...Click on My Playlist and then Share (under your playlist)
...Choose how you want it to look if you want to add it to your sidebar (you don't have to)
...If you want it to automatically start playing the music when someone goes to your blog, make sure you answer YES to Autostart.
...Click on Get Code and choose Blogger on the next page
...enter your username and password that you use to log onto Blogspot
...Make sure your blog address is correct ( it autofilled my login info but that is different than my blog address.)
...Choose whether you want it added to your sidebar and click on post.
...that's it! go to your blog and make sure it is working.

You can see on mine I have added it to my sidebar. I doubt anyone is on here more than a couple minutes so I figure they can pick which song they want to hear or the can stop any music from playing. I will make a better playlist later when I have more time. I just chose a few songs from the list on the site.

I hope this helps anyone looking to add music!

More fun with Polymer

Kellen and I are still playing with the polymer clay. Here are a few of our new creations.
We still need to put another coat of paint on them tonight but here they are so far.

Kellen's alien...he said he doesn't like it so he wouldn't let me take more than one picture. I think it's cool.

My little ellie, I love her little tail.

And my cartoon bunny. I love this guy! I think I like making the cartoon-ish characters better than trying to make real life copies. I also used some colored clay on this one. I only painted the yellow and I need to go over it again.

Polymer and Puffy

Kellen and I played with polymer for the first time last night. I made a mini-Bruno but I cannot paint (for real, I'm not being modest) but here it is...
Bruno and his Mini-Me

And then I made a frog...

Kellen made a really cool snail and a ladybug. He still has to paint them...

Kellen is really good at this. I'll take pics when he is done painting them tonight.
Kellen's pet Puffy decided to help too...

Yes, those are Thin Mints in the third picture and no, there aren't any left. yummmm

What was your favorite childhood candy??

I was playing around on Amazon and I have no idea how, but I ended up on this page: Retro Candy

Do you remember penny candy stores? We had two when I was growing up. One was a little market called Von's in Bellevue, KY. We would stand in there picking out a few of this and a few of that while the very patient store clerk added it to our little brown paper candy bag. It was a favorite trip for us to walk up there with our friends during the summer and get our candy. (Remember when you could walk around your small hometown as a group of nine year olds and it was safe??)

The other place we used to go as teenagers...yes, we loved candy as teens too!... was called the Ice House. It sold mostly beer and liquor but they had penny candy behind the counter. My best friend, Tracey, and I would go in with a dollar and get a little bag filled with $1 worth of penny candy. 10 gummy red dollars, 10 little packs of sixlets, 10 red fish, 10 malted milk balls, etc. The clerk in that store was not so patient so he would just grab a handful of each and throw them in the bag without counting. He was good-humored about it though and we got extra candy that way.

Neither of those stores are there any more...too bad.

My favorite place to get candy was Schneider's Sweet Shop. Hand made candy and Oh My...the smell of that place when you walk in...so heavenly. *sigh* My kids love to go in there now when we are in Bellevue. We don't get up that way often so it is a very special treat. My favorite is peanut butter fudge. I used to take a dollar in there when I was a kid and get a bag full of it. Now a dollar might get you two pieces. Still, it is sooo worth the price!

My daughter is an alien

Kellen swears that Brooke is an alien. He says he can provide proof if he could just draw some of her green blood. Anytime she acts weird or is in one of her hyper moods, he says this is further proof of her real nationality. He hasn't been able to get her to admit to it yet, but sometimes when he calls her an alien, she will say "I am not an alien".....then she will look back at him and say "or am I?"

So I found this book called "How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction" by Ann Druffel on another blog (No Missed Opportunities). I bought a copy off of Amazon.com today. I told Kellen about it last night, he is very excited to read it. lol

I will be back with a full book report in case anyone else has any abduction fears.

by the way, one of Kellen's favorite movies is Signs.

Texting with Sean

I have journal entries that I title Konversations with Kellen to record his interesting and sometimes bizarre thoughts on things. So I thought I would start one with Sean and/or Brooke about our texting. I hate to text but they text me all the time so I play along.

Anyway, a conversation with Sean just the other day I thought was rather poignant for me and obviously for him too.
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Out of the blue I get a text from Sean: Do you remember rockin' out "isn't it ironic" alanis morissette when we were little (referring to him and Brooke)

Me: Yes, why

Sean: I heard it today and it made me remember a long long time ago when you were full of youth like me

Me: lol Who says I'm not still full of youth?

Sean: Cuz I'm already losing mine

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First of all, thanks for the second "long" in a "long long time ago". haha Second, I can totally still rock out to Alanis or anyone else! Yeah, that's right, I still got it. Bon Jovi rules!!!

It is kind of sad in a way though that the poor boy is already starting to feel old. Although I think he is confusing being tired after a full day's work for feeling old. He is still as energetic as he always has been!

I just thought that it was nice that he has fond memories of his childhood. I think about that sometimes. I don't want my kids to have no memories of me because I work a full time job and have all of these responsibilities that take up my time. When they were little and I was married I was home a lot more. So I try to make sure that I'm not just "there." We do things together, even if we are just sitting at home.

My kids when they were little. Sean was always such a goof when he had his picture taken. :))