Last year Nana came to the rescue with a beautiful Advent calender she made for the kiddos. I was lagging in the crafty department but, had I thought of this or seen this tutorial for an easy advent calender from The Mother Huddle,via Tip Junkie I could've done this in no time.
Now you all know that I don't sew so, instead I would purchase little sacks from Fabric Barn (a local craft store) and tie them with the ties that come with the bags. Soooo easy! I may still make this and hang Nana's advent calender too, it's too beautiful not to.
Now is the time to start your Christmas projects. Don't get behind like I always do and try to cram them all in the last week before Christmas!
I stumbled across some really beautiful tea light jar luminaires on a blog called Crafts by Amanda a few weeks ago and just knew I had to make some for myself. This is the kind of craft that's right up my alley. If it involves some sort of glue or paint I'm all in!
I bought some spray adhesive for about $5, Bought 3 doilys for $3 and had some jars that I had no idea why my husband saved but was thankful that he did and some ribbon from my hairbow makin' days. All in all I guess this craft must have cost me around $9 for 3 luniairies. I didn't glue the ribbon to the rims so I could change it according to the the season or holiday. These were obviously Halloween themed so I will need to change them to Fall soon.
These would make a really beautiful gift for any occasion.As a matter of fact, I think I may just do that for my kids' teachers this year. Woo Hoo. teacher gifts DONE!
Here are some photos of the ones I made based on the tutorial from Crafts by amanda.
How did five years just fly bye so quickly? Seems like just yesterday, I was moving back to my hometown, pregnant with my little Princess and now, she tells me on a daily basis that she's a "big girl". Oh I can't stand it.
I don't know if it's because she's a girl or because she's the baby or maybe both but, I don't want her to grow up. I want her to stay little and my baby. My boys are growing up so fast but, never remind me of how "big" they are. She does it all the time and I'm starting to feel a little sad about it.
We had a mini at home celebration because we plan to have a big, fun party after the Holidays. It's just too hard to try to plan a big party right before Thanksgiving and Christmas and we want her to really have a big one since she hasn't officially had a big one yet. I guess that's just what happens when you're the third kid in line.
Anyway, she was super excited for her pink homemade birthday cake and when she opened her Lalaloopsy dolls she just flipped out! She didn't want to go to sleep because she would have to put them away, poor thing. I just love my little monkey so much it fills my heart to overflowing to see her excitement for such simple things.
Happy birthday my little Princess. You'll ALWAYS be my LITTLE Princess.
A quick at home celebration for the Lalaloopsy princess.
Every year we get together as a family and have something to eat and head off for fun at the pumpkin patch....This year was no exception. We met up at Autie Erica's house for pizza and face painting fun, then headed out to play games, ride ponies and pick pumpkins... Here are a few pics from our Pumpkin patch o fun.
Almost everyone had me paint their faces before we went to the pumpkin patch.
and off we went
Hope your Halloween was a fun family extraveganza. I know ours was!
Here are a few pics I took from My little princess' first day of Transitional Kindergarten. Transitional Kindergarten goes into effect in California next year but, we our city was lucky enough to receive a grant to start a year early. this is a program designed for young kindergartners.
It doesn't matter at what level of learning you child is at, the program was designed to give the younger kids another year to mature and be ready for Kindergarten. My little Princess LOOOVVEEESSSS school (thank goodness one of my kids does) and has been blessed with a wonderful teacher.
Here she is all dressed and ready to go.
Dissmissal time. She runs to me like this everyday! I love it!
Here is a little video of the first song she learned in class.
This is a little video made on my little princesses first day of school.
I have been so incredibly busy since school started. I thought I would actually have more time on my hands. Boy was I mistaken. I seem to still have just as much to do and more. I have to try and fit all my errands into a small window of time before I pick everyone up from school, then make dinner, go to soccer and got o work...wha?? yes, I've been working so much more which yes is a blessing because I love what I do but, that leaves almost no time to blog.
I did take first day of school pics and even recorded a little video but haven't had time to do the editing. I'll try to get those done tonight and post them later. Now that face painting has slightly slowed a bit I should be able to get caught up here.
I hope to have at least 2 new posts this week for you. Thanks for hangin' in there with me.
