RTT: Harriets Travels Part One

So I originally wanted to start posting Harriet's travel pictures earlier this week, but life got in the way :( so I figured that I would post some of them today as my other random thought was going to be a bit of a rant about boring things. SO without further ado Harriet's trip to Canada:

Harriet checks out the view of Quebec from our hotel window. Such a pretty city!!

<-- Harriet poses with a sheep outside one of the awesome wool stores. "Hey I'm made from your wool!!"

Below Harriet tries one of the hand made socks on for size... Looks too big!

 

Harriet and I walk around Quebec city. The picture on the left is the Hotel de Frontenac, where we stayed while we visited. It looks a bit like Hogwarts don't you think?! The picture on the right is actually a mural, not a real building. It's amazing to see in person, Harriet wants to live in the building with the green roof on the right!

Harriet and I thought it was funny how they wrote the gas prices! On the right we pose with a Canadian bear mountie! Eh?

We ate out at a restaurant in the lower city, I forget the name of it (and can't seem to find it on google) but the whole place was done up in zebra print (if anyone knows please let me know!) The food was amazing but Harriet preferred the mints!

 No Harriet don't open the bottled water!!! Harriet makes a long distance phone call on a modernized pay phone (it had a place to insert a credit card!)

Harriet enjoyed the poofy pillows on the beds at the Frontenac

Harriet and I pose at a scenic spot overlooking the water. Harriet made some new friends in one of the shops "Please can't we take it home!?"

 Harriet checks out a cannon ball that has been stuck in this tree for decades. It was fired at some point during a battle when Canada protected Quebec from British troops. Amazingly the tree grew around the cannon ball and is still alive today, and let me tell you it is HUGE. I found the fire hydrants here to be cute, Harriet posed with this little red and yellow one.

Harriet checks out some of the shops in the Lower City, they're so quaint :) Harriet takes a break from all her walking to sit on the steps of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, a beautiful church that dates back to 1723!! 

 On our last day we decided to order room service, Harriet was SO impressed by all the yummy food! She loved how the chocolate was shaped like a castle, just like the hotel. But Harriet is a girl after my own heart, her favorite breakfast food was croissants (below)! YUM!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures, the trip was amazing!! I'll post some more vacation pictures of Harriet ASAP!
Until then!
~Megan

NPM: Finally Felted!

Bonjour all!
As I mentioned I had been on vacation the last week and a half. We visited Quebec Canada and our wonderful timeshare in Smugglers Notch Vermont. It is literally my favorite place in the world!! Harriet did come with me and I have a TON of pictures to share with you all! But I'll get to those later this week since today is New Project Monday. While we were in Smuggs  we picked up a schedule of things planned for the week and to my delight there was a felting class!! As I have mentioned before, felting is the one thing I was never able to figure out on my own. (I now realize that my supplies I used were partially to blame for that!) so I signed up for the class. It was taught by Annette Hansen who you can find here, and here she is great and was so helpful!! It was SUCH a blast! I learned so much and at the end of the hour I had created my first felted friend. A small owl!

Before we started Harriet got to meet a number of critters that Annette has made, here she is posing with some of her new friends!

Harriet was excited about learning how to felt as well. Here she helps me make the shape of my owl. Then we went to pick some colors to felt over the frame: 

Here is my owl now with a layer of soft turquoise felt and cute little eyes. I love how they look on him!

Here Harriet poses with her finished new friend, aren't they adorable!!

Hanging back at the room together!

I picked up a starter kit and a bunch of fleece, I am having such a blast with this and will absolutely be making more felted items! 

I should be posting the first installment of Harriet's vacation pictures tomorrow!!

Hope you have all been enjoying your summer breaks!

~Megan~

RTT On Friday!

Hey everyone
Oh man, so I realized this morning that I didn't post a random thought for yesterday :O I have been crazy busy tearing my room apart and putting it back together. I decided that enough was enough and it was time to get rid of stuff. 5 years of college and 1.5 years in my masters program = a TON of papers.
So since today is Friday and it's been a while since we've last seen Hank or Harriet I figured now would be a good time to post some more pictures of them!

The other day Harriet and Hank decided to go house shopping! They decided it was important to have a place to call there own. Here is the house that they both really liked!

Next they decided to pick some furniture and nom noms to chew on... They had a LOT of choices!

Hank really likes this bed, so they decided to get it for the new house!! But Harriet had other ideas....

She bought a brand new china cabinet to hold all their dishes, (yes of COURSE they have dishes!!)

Here Harriet is with her finished cabinet, she loves that the doors match her bow! She can't wait to show Hank what she did when he gets home from Army drill!!

Speaking of Army Drill Harriet is so happy when she got a picture from Hank the other day:

Hank and Harriet sent each other a picture the other night, just to say how much they were both missing the other...

Here is Hank at drill, hanging out on his bunk with his buddy "Button" (the bunny lol)

Aww aren't they cute?! The other day my little cousin came over and played with Harriet for a long time, I am now in the process of making her a blue version (she's 4 and her favorite color is blue... naturally when I asked what color it should be that was her answer lol) Here's one last picture of her with Harriet :)

Cuties :D

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!!

Harriet goes to a friends house!

Hey everyone, sorry for the late post, I'm not feeling 100% today and didn't make it to the computer until now. So I promised a new installment of Harriet the hamster. Today she visits a special young friend of mine (she's the one who I made the mini-quilt for) and well... lets see what happens:

Harriet is all ready to go!

Harriet meeting a new friend "Hammy" the guinea pig.

Harriet getting to take part in an American Girl fashion show!!

Posing with the models ;)

Getting ready for the sporty category!

Harriet decided to get involved with the festivities, here she is modeling the "beach/island bum" look, loving the grass hula skirt!

Harriet loves to play Star Wars on the Kinect, here she is saving the Wookies as a Jedi Padawan :)

Harriet also loves the "Vader and Son" books, this is one of her favorite parts!

The trip wrapped up with a camp out in a new tent!! Harriet had SO much fun and can't wait to visit all her new friends again!!

Later this week, see what happens when Hank and Harriet go shopping for a new home! Also, what happens when the power goes out? Harriet and I get creative!! All this and more coming up soon! Make sure to follow the blog to be kept up to date :D

~Megan~

*=^-^=* and Harriet

Harriet the Hamster

So last Friday I introduced you all to Hank the Traveling Hamster, well it was such a hit, and James and I had so much fun thinking of places to take Hank that I decided to make my own hamster to bring around when I'm not with James and Hank. I introduced Harriet the other day on the blog, but today she wants to tell you a little about herself!!!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my home! It's small but perfect for me, plus it's purple, one of my most favorite colors!!

Here is Megan and James' fish Cheese (named after the Fosters home for Imaginary Friends character) sometimes I get to feed him, he used to be yellow, but with lots of love and good food he changed color and turned blue!! Here he is watching me watch him :P

I love to take pictures, I am a bit of a photography nerd, I get that from Megan, she takes a TON of pictures all the time, I'm taking some of the rain here!

I love horses!! Hey look it's the tiny horse from Megan's earlier blog! She is so pretty, look at that wonderful mane! Maybe I should grow my hair out....

*sniff sniff* what is this thing!?!

I like watching DIY Network and HGTV, it gives me ideas on how to improve my little home!

Yay I just got my letter to Hogwarts! :D

Om nom nom, cinnamon poptarts

Here I am posing with my friend Cooper, he likes my turquoise bow!

So now that you know a little about Harriet, I'll be posting some of her stories soon! She and Hank have a lot planned! Thanks for reading :D

~Megan and Harriet~