Recent Posts Tagged With 'holidays'

• Homemade Christmas Crafts: Easy Ornaments with Craft Supplies on Hand

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 03:00 in holidays, kid crafts, home made christmas

  I used to love making ornamentslike thesewhen I was a little girl.My own little girlslike making them too!Just fold some lace"accordian style"string it on pipe cleaners withsome beadsand you've gotfestive littlewreathsandcandy canesto hang on the tre...

• Re-cycled Christmas Wrapping Paper Fashion Show!

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 21:49 in holidays, kid crafts, the green scene, no sew project, home made christmas

  Some of you Super Greeniesout there won't have any paper gift wrap this holiday season...But,this post is for the rest of us. "Shades of Red and Peppermint Ball Gown"Those of us who are recipients fromgenerous grandparents. Those of us who have child...

• Homemade Christmas Crafts: Drinking Straw and Bead Stars

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 03:00 in holidays, kid crafts, home made gifts, preschool at home, home made christmas

  I saw this fun craft ideain a parenting magazine and showed it to the girls.The best part was it was a craftthat we could all do. Mini-Saurus and I teamed up on the "Rainbow Star"and the Frog Princess made hers all by herself.Just lay out 5 pipe clea...

• Homemade Christmas Crafts: Christmas Tree Sewing Lesson

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 03:00 in holidays, kid crafts, she's crafty, home made gifts, sewing fun, in my studio, home made christmas, fun with felt

  I saw this lovely ideaover at scrumdilly-do blogand couldn't wait to make treeswith my girls.First we cut out symmetrical treesfrom a piece of folded over felt.Then, we pinned them tothe center of our fabric.You could have the child sew the treeto th...

• Celebrating Christmas: St. Lucia Was Here

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 03:00 in holidays, family life, home made christmas

  A scene from our house last weekend..."Saint Lucia invites you to breakfast."This is what happens when you read"Kirsten's Surprise"(from the American Girl Doll book series)to your 6.5 year old.She raided dad's white undershirts to make her "dress"The...

• Homemade Christmas Gifts: Shrinky Dink Photo Ornaments

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 11:00 in holidays, she's crafty, home made gifts, in my studio, home made christmas, shrinky dink fun

  What could be more funand more personalthan Christmas Ornamentswith family photos?! I was SO EXCITEDwhen I found ink jet printableshrinky dink film at our local craft store (Michaels).I got to work making ornamentsfor teachers, bus drivers,grandmas, ...

• Homemade Christmas Crafts: Pine Cone Elves

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 03:00 in holidays, she's crafty, home made gifts, in my studio, home made christmas

  I participated in theCrafty Crow's ornament swapand this year's theme was "Fairy Tales"I don't know why, but for some reason the first thingthat came to my mind were pine cone elveswhen I heard this theme.So, I embarked on a minicrafty journeyto make...

• Homemade Christmas Gifts: Catnip Mice

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 04:00 in holidays, she's crafty, home made gifts

  (Daisy the Cat)(Elly the cat...yes, we have matching cats!)We happen to havetwo furry household memberswho like to be includedin the Christmas festivities.I used left-over fleece scrapsfrom myCrinkle Crinkle Little Starproject to make some cat nip mi...

• Home Made Christmas: Tomato Cage Christmas Tree

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 08:32 in holidays, decorating, she's crafty, fun outside, home made christmas

  If your front yard doesn't have trees,just make some!Our front stoop was lackingChristmas bling...so I made a treeout of two (upside down)Tomato Cages(from my gardening shed) two lengths of 9 foot garland(from my attic)some plastic Ornamentsand a str...

• Homemade Christmas Gifts: Redwork Hand Print Sampler

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 04:00 in holidays, she's crafty, home made gifts, in my studio

  Let me preface this post by explainingthat I am, by no means, a gifted embroiderer.I saw this wonderful idea a year ago onPlum Pudding blog and couldn't wait to give it a go!I made this as a Christmas giftthis year for my mother-in-lawwith the hand p...

• Home Made Christmas: Family Advent Calendar

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 22:04 in holidays, decorating, family life, she's crafty

  So many lovely ideas floating around the web right now foradvent calendars.My dear bloggy friend, Teach Mamahas a wonderful post about her family's advent calendar this year!In the past we've used chocolate open a door-each-day-style calendars.Last y...

• Homemade Christmas Gifts: Scrappy Bookmarks

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 04:00 in holidays, kid crafts, she's crafty, home made gifts, the green scene

  Pssst....if you're a female relative reading this,and you don't want to know what you'regetting for Christmas this year, go read something else!I like to mix store-bought giftswith more personalized homemade gifts.This month, I'm on a roll producings...

• Homemade Christmas Gifts: Paint Sample Purse Notebooks

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 04:00 in holidays, kid crafts, she's crafty, home made gifts

  I believe I first saw this fantastic projectover at Whimsy Love.So quick and easy you can whip them out on your ownor with your crafy kid assistants.Artsy + HeARTfelt + Simple + Useful =a perfect homemade Christmas gift.I folded paint samples like a ...

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 00:06 in holidays, family life

  From my little familyto yours...Wishing you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for you taking the time to readabout our projects. Thank you for following uson our little journey here. Your kind thoughts and commentsare something I hol...

• Texture Plate Fall Leaf Rubbings

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 14:05 in holidays, kid crafts, nature crafts, preschool at home

  Instead of making traditional leaf rubbings(which we do plenty of this time of year)...We decided to try an old-school art favoriteand did some texture rubbing. We used my set of texture plates, place them bumpy-side up under your drawing paperor pri...

• Halloween Round-Up: Harry Potter, Flying Ballerinas, and Snails

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 11:36 in holidays, family life

  Well, it rained last night...but at least it was warm,(the warmest halloween I can remember)It was slightly drizzlyfor the first half of trick-or-treatingthen...it down-poured.At least the girls were cute stinkin' adorable!Mini-Saurus the "Pink Flyin...

• Halloween Past and Present

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 00:04 in holidays, family life

  I've been tending to a sick kid all week.She's SO MUCH better...but it has been a LONG 8 days. Waiting at the doctor's office.Making-up homework.Refereeing sibling "disagreements"screaming matches.Trying not to go insane.Craving my art studio. Cravin...

• Science At Home: Anti-Gravity Brooms

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 04:00 in holidays, family life, pink and green science

  (My sweet Frog Princess model is in her PJs since she's battling Swine Flu this weekend)My in-laws called this weekend to let us knowyou can stand up a broom in your house right nowbecause there is something wacky with the Earth's gravity.(they've ha...

• Pink and Green Mama Crafts: Halloween Paper Plate Spider Web

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 21:56 in holidays, kid crafts, pink and green mama crafts

  To continue with the Halloween-themed crafts,I decided to give spider web weaving a spin!Using simple supplies, a paper plate,yarn, and scissorsyou can try your hand at spinning a web.This would be tricky for preschoolersbut you could still demonstra...

• Pink and Green Mama Crafts: Halloween Stained Glass Templates

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 22:13 in holidays, kid crafts, she's crafty, preschool at home, pink and green mama crafts

  It has been rainy and gray here all week.The girls and I decided to jazz things upwith some homemade "stained glass" for our art studio and playroom windows.We're getting ready for Halloween fun.Nothing too scary...just some friendly kitties,ghosts, ...

• Preschool At Home: Halloween Tissue Paper Craft

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 05:00 in holidays, kid crafts, she's crafty, preschool at home

  The Mini-Saurus and I did some Halloween crafting this week. We got this great idea from another blogger here.We made a Pumpkin and (her idea) a mini Witch. First we fished this cereal box out of the recycling bin,then I sketched out a pumpkin shape ...