1) Well, I have to admit that I have Anna to blame for the new desire for doing things crafty! Over the summer, she was all the time wanting to do a craft of some sort, so I would get on-line for some ideas. (those of you who know me- know that there is not much to be said with me and crafts!) Well, for Mothers Day she wanted to make something, so to the internet I went and I found an idea for Potpourri Sachets. (What would we do with out the internet these days!!!) Now, keep in mind that this is the FIRST thing I took on by myself!! I thought it came out pretty cute, and decided to keep one for myself---the first one of course. (It was the trial and error one...)
I "painted" the kids hands with fabric paint and with Steven's help, laid it flat on a piece of white fabric that was previously cut out. With the other piece of fabric, same size as one with kids hand prints, hot glue the two pieces together - leaving a opening wide enough to get your potpourri in. Once filled with your favorite scent, hot glue the opening closed. Now, keep in mind this was a first for me so I did not do anything else to mine. The idea on the internet said you could stitch around the edges for decoration but chose not to press my luck.
2) Another little idea we came up with is, this vase of flowers. We have given several of these because they are so cute and pretty easy to make. They were also fun to color with Anna!
All we did was print out some coloring pages from a website we like to go to, colored and cut out the flowers. I then hot glued them to 2 to 3 pipe cleaners we braided together. (I would recommend 3 pipe cleaners to support the weight of the flower and so you can position them how you want.) Arrange them into a small vase and tada... Pretty easy and fun to give!! (and they never die like real flowers!)
3) This week, Anna and I put together a little sweet treat for her teacher at school. (We of course made one for her daddy too--he loves these.) Now, again--thanks to the internet, I got the idea from someone else and tweaked it a little to our liking. So I don't take full credit...
4) We picked up a pumpkin after being at Pumpkin Hollow, in Piggit, all day last Saturday. (pics to come soon!!) Anna picked out a smiley face and we went to carving it. Lets just say that she did NOT enjoy the process of cleaning out the pumpkin!!!! This is the first year we got one due to this very reason, I don't really like cleaning out the Yucky stuff either and Steven said "no way, you are on your own". I did have her do a little so she could say what it was like, take a look at her response...
She thought it would be fun and just before she "dug" into it...
She realized how slimy and yucky it REALLY is...
She grabbed a big hand full of it and...
Yeap, she started crying!!! To say the least, mom finished
cleaning it out......... YUCK!!!
We did get a really cute finished product out of it! Anna named it Princess Ava - where that came from I don't know. LOL
Princess Anna with her carved pumpkin, Princess Ava
Yes, Princess Ava is even wearing earrings! LOL
I am excited to report that Anna and I have a couple of cute crafty ideas already up our sleeves for Thanksgiving and Christmas so more to come on those soon... We don't want to spoil the surprise.
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