Christmas Wreaths

Sora & Olivia had their friends RaeLynn & Tina over. So what better to do than a craft, right? So I saw this idea on-line (not exactly sure where) on making Christmas wreaths out of paper. It looked rather simple and fun. Plus I liked how the end result looked (at least on the website I saw). Now actually doing the project took a little more time than I thought and well not so easy for the in-experienced girls. But all in all their wreaths turned out nice. Although there were burnt fingers from the hot glue gun. Oops!

So you cut these little circles out. Of course I wouldn't do it if I didn't have my handy dandy cricut.

Then you fold the circles like so.

Then you stack the folded pieces in fours one inside the other.

Then glue it on a large round circle. And well this is kind of what they are supposed to look like.

After the friends had to leave. Sora and I decided to work on another project, tissue paper trees. Saw this on my sister Dacia's blog. Olivia was too tired and went to sleep so Sora & I stayed up until wee hours in the morn making our trees. Really time consuming. But her tree turned out cute!

*Pictures taken Saturday, December 18, 2010*

Craft Room - Storage Bins

Slowly but surely putting together my storage bins for my craft room. One of these days I will have an absolutely sweet craft room. One of these days . . .

*Pictures taken Sunday, December 12, 2010*

Baby Hands

Well I attempted to do a 3D keepsake of Oloiso's feet. And well that project did not turn out so well. So I thought I would do this clay imprint instead because I just love the tiny things about babies.

My son is not very cooperative when it comes to these projects. So I had to try a couple of times because when I would put his hand down to make the imprint, he would grab and the clay and scratch it all up. Oh well, I gotta love his enthusiasm.

Aren't those just the cutest little hands. I L.O.V.E. them!

*Pictures taken Wednesday, December 1, 2010*

Project Toddler Runway Recap

Here is a recap of all the projects my sister, Chelsea has submitted for Project Toddler Runway...

Top 10 Winning Piece

Week 1 - Upcycling

Week 2 - Wear a Flower in your Hair

Week 3 - Sequins, Feathers & Fur

Week 4 - Boy Inspired

Week 5 - Denim

Week 6 - Design with meaning

Final Week - Candy Shop

Chelsea has made it to the final 3 (YES!) and voting will be open until Sunday, February 27th over at Shwin & Shwin Blog.

So cast your vote by clicking on your favorite in the right hand column of their blog.

Please go there now because you still have time to vote.

I hope you don't mind sister if I copied your blog post.

Detailing

So one Sunday morning I got this hair brain idea to detail my suburban. With the enlistment of some help (well for a little while at least) and a few hours later, I had a shiny, clean smelling, vacuumed, shampooed, clean truck. Oh how I L.O.V.E. it when things are clean.

This is my only before & after picture. It's really not that dirty, right?

Well with children it gets pretty nasty. Too dirty for my tastes. Why do kids not care if it's dirty or clean? Is it really that hard to clean up after yourself? How hard is it to remember to grab your trash when you get out of the truck? I can't believe all the things I found under the seats in the back, really? Gross! Oh well, I guess that's what happens when you have children.

My little helper for a few minutes. She doesn't really enjoy getting into all the little cracks and crevices (Whoa! Flashback from childhood. Get out of my head dad!)

It's funny how now that I'm older cleaning is actually relaxing. Weird, I know. But like some would say that's my OCD coming out. Hey, at least my truck is clean. Can you say the same?

Yes, I did the whole nine yards. My carpets were all vacuumed and shampooed. Leather all scrubbed and wiped down. Every thing I could take off, move out of the way, get under was moved and cleaned.

I'm proud to say that even now after a couple months my truck is still clean and smells good. Yeah, I get on the kids every time they're in it. "Make sure you get everything you brought in out. Don't leave any garbage on the floor or in the back of the seat." And yes, I do check it when they get out. "Sora, what is this brush doing on the floor? Olivia, is that your jacket?" My poor kids.

My other little helper was happy enough to be laying in his stroller, sipping on some formula and hanging out.

I did stop to take him for a walk. How could I not? This cute little face with the big eyes.

*Pictures taken Sunday, September 5, 2010*

Grand-daughters Blanket

So I picked out some really cute material and decided to make a blanket for my newest grand-daughter, Brielle. This was really soft material so it was a little hard to pin together and sew it without the material sliding out of place. But it turned out so cute I almost want to keep it for myself. I L.O.V.E. these colors and patterns.

See all the fuzz it left on my ironing board.

I don't really have a very big room to do my projects in so I have to settle for the hallway floor.

The material on the other side is a chocolate brown with some textured little bumps. So soft and cuddly. The edging was the hardest part. Partly because the material was pretty thick and I don't really have the best sewing machine. But I managed. It toke me a couple of hours to complete on my Saturday. It always feels good when you can complete projects in a day.

So what do you think? Don't you just LOVE it? I do. Still deciding if I should give it to her for Christmas . . . I guess I have to since it has her name embroidered on it.

*Pictures taken Saturday, August 28, 2010*