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This blog was created for our Farm Story friends so we could share a bit of our real world with you. Much love from the Schmoos

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tiny Schmoo's "toadie" wall mural step by step progress

 Here we go... first the toadies get faces and anything skin tone...



Then each toadie gets a diffent color hat and vest to wear...  Tiny Schmoo chose four colors... the green toad will be riding a yoshi in another part of the mural...




And voila... here are the toadies with their shoes on... as you can see the paint is not even dry... but was hoping to catch our farm friend Bon Temps before she goes on her trip to Sydney.  Thanks again for changing your toad into green clothes for Tiny Schmoo last time!  Hope you enjoy your trip!


Remember that this is only part of the mural (about an 8th of it maybe) so I will be taking pictures as the rest of the mural progresses and will be posting  the final shot of the finished mural at the end.  Thanks for watching!

Tiny's new bedroom mural sketch - step 1

Sorry it is not very clear but here is the sketch of part of Tiny's Schmoo's "toadie" mural.  I tried to take a picture of the whole wall but then you can't see it in the photo at all (since it is in pencil.)  So I will  try to keep you updated and add pictures as I paint if the computer and card reader cooperate.

Tiny's Garden Update

Look who is all smiles and harvesting radishes in the morning...

It's Tiny Schmoo.  He has been watering and taking good care of his little garden and now he is finally able to harvest some radishes and loves to eat them with ranch dressing (of course!) Guess all that pretend watering and farming on Farm Story transfered over into real life.  This one seems to have a green thumb and finally found something of his own that big brother is not really in to. Hooray for radishes!  Wish we could share them with you!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Check out Little and Tiny Schmoo's new favorite video on YouTube

Kirby dance 2 video on You Tube
All the Schmoo's absolutely are in love with this Kirby dance video. It is so cute we just play it over and over and over!  We love the song... which is the chorus of the song Caramelldansen.

If you want to hear the entire song it is on the video for the rabbid rabbits
Rabbids love Caramelldansen video on You Tube

4 Marketti - Schmoom joins the bandana crew

We just love Buster and River in their bandanas, so Schmoom wanted to join team bandana dogs too.  He also has one in plain green but some how he has not tried to take this one off... guess he saw how cool Buster and River looked in theirs and wants to be part of the crew.  Go team bandana!!!!

Summer campout in the backyard

Summer means Daddy lets us put up the tent in the backyard on Friday nights so we can have a pretend campout. Here is Tiny Schmoo with his stuffed friends.  Look closely at the bottle hanging in the center of the picture.  It is a lantern he painted with the solar system on it that he made from a recycled water bottle and a kit he got from the giftshop at the kid's museum we went to last weekend.

Here is Little Schmoo with his stuffed friends as well.  Note Kirby and his new stuffed skunk (which also came from the children's museum - thank goodness it is not real!) And P.S. for Marketti, the skunk that used to live on the other side of our backyard wall that used to spray the area when Schmoom went outside in the morning and while it did not spray him directly... still made him smell like skunk... well it was no match for someone's car... so we don't have to worry about Chet smelling like skunk anymore!!!!!

Tiny Schmoo's poppy garden finally blooms

 Tiny Schmoo planted poppy seeds this spring and they finally bloomed.  We took shots every 10 to 15 minutes as they were opening in the morning.  If you look closely you can see the flower slowly opening and another one appears in the last frame.  We were not expecting that one to open yet!  Last pic is Tiny Schmoo smelling his flowers.  He is so proud of his beautiful little garden!



Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Cars2 Smackdown challenge

Sorry these are so sideways and upside down but they show up right before I download them and then they end up turned all around.  I tried to rotate them and re-download and they still end up wrong so please excuse the positioning of the photots.  I am computer inept and don't know how to fix it!!!!!!!                                                                                                         Little Schmoo's Shu Todoroki (fine tuned by Momma Schmoo)

 Desire's Mater








 Momma Schmoo's Zen Master Pitty
 Maarketti's Carla Veloso









 GraCie_N's Mack
 Momma Schmoo's the Queen
 Maarketti's Sargent HighGear
Maarketti's Francesco Bernoulli

Santa in June... REALLY?!?!?!?!










Somehow my attempt at making the geisha car Okuni for the Cars2 smackdown challenge didn't go as planned... while some liked it, a whole bunch of people who didn't read the post thought it was Santa on summer vacation!!!!!!!!! She didn't last 24 hours.  Hey Desire... did you find that magic hay clearing button yet!!!!!!!!!

One, Two, Three - a story by Tiny Schmoo

"One, Two Three" a story by Tiny Schmoo
(re-spelled below by Momma Schmoo)
First was purple, purple was nice.
Then came blue, blue had a pet dog.
Then came red, red had a pack of stickers.
Then came green, green had a pack of bouncy balls.
Then came yellow, yellow had some bubble gum.
Then came orange, orange had a pencil box.
The End
Hope you like my story, I wrote it my last week of kindergarten.

Summer's finally here!!!!!










For our (formerly from) California friend: BIGREDDOG - we are finally having California summer weather!!!  Kids have been running through the sprinklers in the afternoon.  They have been having lots of fun after that weird round of rain in the first week of June (which for California is very unusual as you know.)  My friend even had snow up at his cabin near Tahoe - Snow in June?!?!?  Glad the strange weather is finally gone so we can enjoy the sunshine!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Farm Story showcase #1 featuring characters from Toy Story








Little Schmoo's - little green alien
"Ooooohhhhh... the claw!!!!!!!"







Pasta's - Buzz Lightyear
"To infinity and beyond!"








GraCie_N's - cowboy Woody
"Listen lightsnack.  You stay away from Andy.  He is mine and no ones taking him away from me!"








Desire's - cowgirl Jessie
"You callin' me a liar?!?!"








All of this wonderful hay art was made by some of our bestest farm friends: Pastas, Desire, and GraCie_N.  Everyone has been loving the showcase and it turned out beautifully.  Everyone did a terrific job.  Stay tuned, Maarketti will be joining us in the next showcase.  We are so excited we can't wait!  Thanks so much to Pastas, Desire, and GraCie_N - you all are the best and we love you all to death!  Thanks for being such special friends!  Much love from the Schmoos!!!

Tiny Schmoo's Teddy Bear picnic - kindergarten graduation day

Friday was graduation day for Tiny Schmoo's kindergarten class.  They had a little ceremony then had a teddy bear picnic out on the grass.  Lots of classmates came to share a spot on Tiny's Schmoo's picnic blanket.  Tiny (sitting on the bottom left corner) brough his stuffed friends Titus (the bulldog) and Rock (the owl).  Everyone had a blast!  Off to first grade next year!  Hooray!

Author Day for the Schmoos

 


Here are some pictures from Author Day at the Schmoo's school.  The author Kathryn Otoshi was as sweet as can be and Momma Schmoo had a blast talking with her at the luncheon.  We got our pictures taken with her for the book signing and in front of the mural mom painted for the book "Marcelo the Movie Mouse" - (got the mouse on in time! hooray!) - [remember, mouse was missing in previous post.]  Also pictured is Little Schmoo's sock art project that decorated the library.  And if you look closely in the background of the book signing picture, you can also see the other mural mom made for the book "What Emily Saw."  the author wore matching pigtails that day.  We had a blast and will never forget this day!

"Buster and River" a story by Little Schmoo

This story was written by Little Schmoo for our friend Maarketti...

"Buster and River"
One July afternoon, Buster and River were playing in the pool.  When they got out they chased a duck.  They went out of the yard and into the unknown.  Soon they got to a river.  They swam across.  QUACK! Soon they got to a house with crackers.  They ate and went back home.  The End.

Hope you enjoy the story!