{ Valentine's Day Cards }

This is A's V-day cards from last year that I failed to share.  I have seen these done before and always thought it was such a cute idea. So we gave it a try and I think they turned out perfect! 

Christmas 2012: Miniature Gingerbread house

We started with a pre-made gingerbread kit.
Which did not turn out so well. So we made our own with graham crackers.
I think they are so cute and it was so much fun to make.
No more pre-made for us.

I assembled the house for them and they did all the decorating.

Now we have a cute little gingerbread village...

I used instructions HERE

Friday Feature: framed fabric...

I love the idea of using fabric as artwork. With so may great prints out there it's a great way to personalize your walls ...AND on a budget! 

Here are some ideas on pinterest that caught my eye....

So I decided to put this idea to use and frame some for myself!

I had some framed prints laying around that I didn't care for, but didn't want to get rid of them. I liked the frame and matting. 

So I went and picked out some fabric, ripped out the back, and got to work....

I cut my fabric to fit and used fabric adhesive spray to apply it to the print. I made sure to cut out the fabric to make each frame a little different. 

And that was it....simple as that!! I got two new framed prints that I am now happy with. All for only $5!!! Can't beat that!! 

Now all I need to do is hang them ; ) 

Pinterest Pretties....

A little V-Day inspiration

via: pinterest

 

 

Happy Saturday!

Our snowless snowman....

I have to admit, I really wish we would get one good snow.
That's it.
Not a big blizzard, like last year.
Just enough to cover the ground and be able to play in.

Unfortunately that doesn't look very hopeful.

but that doesn't stop us from making a snowman.

All you need is:
empty tp roll
paint
construction paper
buttons
ribbon
black marker

Then let your kids get their hands dirty.....

Isn't he cute??

 

I think it's safe to say, this will be our only snowman we make this year.

 

How about you?

Craft and under the sink.....

Looking for a catchy title??  Well your not going to find one here...not today at least ; )

Anyways, incase you have been wondering where we have been....

 the kids were out of school Wed. and Thurs. of last week.
So I prepared some crafts for us to do on those days to keep them busy.

Avery made her sunflower out of: paper plate, construction paper, beans, glitter, and glue.
I'm thankful that I still have one that likes to do crafts ; )

I also did a little crafting myself last week with my friend Heather. She motivated me to finally make a book page wreath for my shutters and then we a made book page leaf branches for some Fall decorating!

I really like how they turned out!


Now onto the "sink"....

As most of you know, I am on a  organizing mission. I am trying to do at least one drawer, closet , wherever needs organizing, a day.  (which is turning into more like a week!)

So far I have made a "command center"  with the message board and cleaned out a few cabinets including .... under the sink.

Here's a look :

Not a huge difference. Just a quick 10min fix!

I used what I had....hence the two different cabinet liners

I have to have a garbage can under my sink! I use it All the time! Though I would Love to have a custom pull out garbage, I have to make do with what I got. 

I "re-purposed" my empty Clorox container to hold all my garbage sacks that stays right next to my garbage can.

There you have it....

nothing fancy, just clean and organized.

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Wordless Wednesday: butterfly craft

Happy Wednesday!

Happy {4th} of July....

 Just wanted to share my Forth of July wreath I put together for the front door.....I see more of these pinwheel coming for different seasons and holidays. They are so fun and easy!

And....we couldn't leave Pilot out for this Holiday ; )



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Birthday fun & Summer Jar...

I feel so lucky....



to have these two sweeties to celebrate my birthday with....

to have a hubby who (once again) out does himself  with the surprises.

he even made the card like a scrapbook page for me ... so cute!

I could not have asked for a better birthday!

So besides having a great birthday, I wanted to share our "Summer fun" jar with you.

I found this jar at GW and just embellished it a bit. I also made the paper match the outside.  The jar is filled with fun activities to get our day started. Some are big like, roller skating or pump it up, and some are small like, go on a bike ride or play in sprinkler. That's the fun of it, what ever they pick that's what we have to do that day.

They get so excited picking something from the jar and sometimes it's not exactly what they want but, like I said that's the fun of it.
 No matter what we always have "something" to do that day : )

{ Teacher Gifts }

I know it's such a cliche but.... this school year has flown by!!

Which means it's time to start thinking of what to get your child's teachers for all they have done for them throughout the year.

I am amazed daily at how much Avery has learned. We have been blessed to have two amazing teachers for her first year of school.




I know for some of you school is already out but, for those of you who are still in (like us) I want to share some ideas with you.

We gave our teachers these flowers on appreciation day. They were wraped in burlap with ribbon tied around and added a cute printable that said "thank you for helping Avery bloom".
You can find HERE

Last year we did the CRAYON MONOGRAM



For Dawson's first grade teacher I made this book out of scrapbook paper. He was able to write things about having her as a teacher and I left areas for him to draw pictures. You can read about it HERE

And here are some other ideas I came across that would be cute:

via:midwesternsewinggirl

via:helpinglittlehands

via:ourlife

Well there you go...I hope this helps.

Feel free to link up any other ideas in the comments.

{Friday Feature}

Okay...I'm going to have to make this quick because

 unfortunately, I feel like crap (to put it mildly..lol).

I mean... who gets sick in the summer!!

Apparently I do..... ugggh!

Okay, on to the feature:

Avery's fabric flower headband

I made this out of left over fabric scraps and just simply hot glued it down on the headband.

I think it turned out so cute and can't wait to make more!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

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{Friday Feature}

Handkerchief fan and bleached out shirt....



for the fans I went and bought some handkerchief at hobby lobby for 99cents.

You just fold it like you would with a fan and tie together in the middle.

Then you take another and do the same.

Once I fanned them out I just stapled them together.

After that the middle needed a little something extra so I made a fabric flower

out of left over scraps.

And...Walla!

I'm going to hang these at different lengths all down my window.

*note to self...take picture of the process

*inspired by Martha Stewart

When I saw this HERE at this Lovely blog...I knew I had to do it!

Again...got the shirts at hobby  lobby on sale (less than $2 a piece)

Spray bottle (or water guns) dollar store $1

Broke out the bleach and rubber gloves .....

and this is what you get.....

Look at their faces : )

Even though they didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted to (probably b/c I didn't use freezer paper)

at least they had fun!



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