Tie Dye Results Photo

My sister and I planned a little tie dye day last weekend, these were my results!

 I am going to post more photos over at my other blog today, but thought this photo was fun and deserved a place here too ;-)

Cupcake Sculpture Hair Bows

I really LOVED making these and thought I would share some from my Crafty Blog today. 

Sand Art

I found this sand art kit at Target on clearence for $1.25 {score!}  Yesterday, I agreed to let the girls try it out. 

They LOVED making their layers and choosing their colors. This isn't a crafty thing I would have normally gotten for them because it looks a little too messy for me, and I usually am not that picky.  They did so well with it and just made a little bit of a mess on the table.  I would totally recommend this for a summertime, outdoor activity.  Added Bonus: Way cheeper than doing this at a fair or carnival!  :-)

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Handprint Hearts

I finally uploaded my photos for the week which include a few from our Valentine's Day preparations. 

The girls made these cute handprint hearts for my parents, my sister and Brian, and my Grandma.  I think they came out so cute!  I kind of wish I would have had them make an extra for me...

[I need] Something to blog about

For the past few months I have been writing blog posts having to do with playing catch-up.  Basically, I organize all my photos by date and I followed the date along and wrote about the photos that corresponded.  If the event waranted taking a photo, then it could be blogged. 

I have made it.  I am caught up. 

Now what? 

I thought I had a list of blogging ideas, not on paper, but in my head.  And I do.  Well, I thought I did.  Every now and then I think of something that would make a good blog post and I make a mental note, but mental notes are like Post-its... sometimes they lose their stickiness and fall on the floor to be found a few months later.  My blogging ideas have fallen to the floor.  Either that or I am going to have to get used to writing about the more mundane events in my life. 

Needless to say the past few days I have been experiencing a bit of writer's/blogger's block.   The only photos I have taken have been for my photography business and for my crafty blog. 

So, I guess I'll go with it. 

Here is one of the projects I have been working on... a yarn wreath with felt flowers inspired by Mrs. Priss's tutorial found here.

I am now a felt addict. 

iLoveToCreate: Tote Bag Revamp (on my newest blog)

Because I have the need to compartmentalize the different aspects of my life, I have created a blog specifically to showcase all of our crafty projects and household revamps. 
Check out my recent iLoveToCreate project here at the new blog: Frankly Speaking Too!

Tie-Dye

I think the last time I made anything tie-dye I was 6 and at a Brownie camp-out. Wow, have things come a long way! My sister hooked us up in a focus group one day awhile back so we had a few tie-dye kits to play with. My friend Alice had done this before, so she caught us up on some of the different techniques and volunteered her house for us to have our little tie-dye party at during the spring break.
Here is one shirt all tied up...
Another, tied into a swirly pattern.

And now we add the dye...

Hannah enjoyed this, as she does any craft...

One of the outcomes... the swirly pattern.

Another, just gathered and tied in three spots.

This was really such a fun easy project for us to do. The girls got the biggest kick out of seeing how different they all were when we washed them out the next day. They have been wearing them to bed or out to play every day since they were made. I am looking forward to making a few more soon :)

Easter Eggs

Our weekend was a whirlwind of fun, starting with my sweet Hannah's fifth birthday on Thursday. (More later, of course)

We finally did get a chance to decorate eggs on Sunday, and then enjoy them for lunch. I had wanted to do them the day before, but it ended up being something fun to do inside as the weather was pretty aweful outside.

Hand and Footprint Reindeer!

These were super easy, and I love them :)

No fun pictures of the girls making them, but I will give you the rundown here...
* We traced one of each person's feet onto brown construction paper and both hands on red construction paper, then cut them out.
* I then glued the "antler" hands to the back of the brown paper.
* Next I added some large googly eyes and a fun Rudolph nose, we used a button, but you could use a red puff ball or even just cut one out of some construction paper.
* Of course we added some antler bling with our favorite color of glitter :)
* Ta-da! Cute decor for your home and a keepsake of your child's hands and foot! You might even do one for the whole family and have a reindeer family!

O' Christmas Tree!

Here is one of the Christmas crafts we did this year. The example of this I found was just some construction paper made into the shape of a tree. I decided that the girls would have a lot more fun decorating their own trees, so I went searching for materials we had on hand.

First I found some scrapbooking paper that I liked for the background and then some green for the tree. I cut the green into ascending 1-1/2" wide strips. I think these strips were 8-1/2", 7", 5-1/2", 4-1/4", 3-1/4", and 1-1/2". I just eyeballed my cuts, but I know some like precise measuremants. I also had some brown paper cut in a 1-1/2" square for the trunk. I gave the girls a glue stick and we decided as we went which strip was the "next smallest". It was actually a good lesson in "bigger and smaller", especially for Claire.
Once the tree was complete, we added our ornaments. I had gotten a bag-o-buttons at Michaels last year for a different project priced half-off. I pretty much dumped them out and let them choose their ornaments. Hannah was very precise in putting all the ornaments in a row on her page.

Claire's was a little more random, and I did help with the glue. The concept of "just a dab" is slightly hard to grasp.

We added one of these foil stars that I found in a package at Wal-Mart in the craft section about 20 of them were .97 cents.

Once the tree was all decorated, we of course added a little bling! Glitter is all the rage in our house.

I loved that this project was easy for the girls to do mostly by themselves, that I could tweek it to be a little more age appropriate for Claire, and they could be as creative with their decorations as they wanted.

Pretty cute, huh!