Happy Easter everyone! The winner of my little posie giveaway is Julie Berry! Ms. Julie...I love your comment about treating yourself with a new dress...maybe I should make that one of my new traditions...I love it! Please email me your address and your posie will be on its way to you.
Here is a little bunny cottage we worked on today:
These adorable little stichettes are a free download from Wee Wonderfuls. She has such adorable little creations that you can embroider. Enjoy!
Here is a great little book I bought this weekend. You must must buy it. My daughters are excited to make some of the little creatures in it. aranzi aronzo
Here's a peek inside and some of the cute dolls my girls want to make:
You can find these books online: amazon or you can find them at Michaels craft store. I bought mine at Barnes and Noble. Happy crafting. We'll post our creations soon. Look for my little spring giveaway in a couple of days!
I'm so excited for the rain today! I actually took a picture of it from our upper balcony this morning:
Then we had some smiley pancakes to celebrate:
After school is usually a time where my girls go outside and run around. Well, not today. I made homemade play dough Download for my two year old and found how much my 7 year olds still love it! They made pretend cupcakes with it:
The greatest thing about this play dough is that it lasts much longer than store bought and you can create your own colors.
Yeah for the rain! Have a happy day!
This cute sock monkey idea came from a great children's book: Snooze a Palooza by American Girl. This little book has the cutest ideas for sleepovers. You can find games, recipes and crafts to do with your little girls. I will take you step by step with these monkeys. They only took us about 10 minutes to make and required no sewing.
1.Take one sock and turn it inside out. Take a rubberband and close it off about 1 inch under the heel.
2. Turn the sock right side out and fill it with about 4 inches of dried beans.
3. Once you have filled the sock with beans, cinch it with a rubberband and fold down the top of the sock to make a hat. Pinch some of the sock on each side of the face to make ears and cinch with a rubberband.
4. Then just glue on eyes and add whatever you want to make the sock monkey unique.
Here are our monkeys before they undergo a little style session.
Three Happy Little Monkeys! This would be a great activity at a child's birthday party. You can find the socks at Hobby Lobby on the isle with doll making products.
Today my girls had a little sweet holiday craft time with their friends after school. They ate pink snowballs(do you remember those when we were little...yum) and drank hot chocolate while making cute little gift tags with buttons, stamps and glitter. We are going to use them as our gift tags for Christmas Gifts. I love getting my kids involved with decorating packages. They love to see how excited a family member gets when they find out they made them something special.
I found these Xmas Tree plates at Dollar General! You can afford to buy a lot of these for a Holiday Party! The santa pencils are from Michaels in the dollar section.
Here is our sweet friend Emily busily making her tags. Having the kids work on foil helped with the glitter clean up.
Here are some of the tags they made.
This could be a little gift in itself if you put 8 or so in a cellophane bag...everyone needs cute tags for Xmas gifts.
Have a wonderful and crafty Holiday Season...check back for more holiday baking/crafting etc.
