Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2013

Baby Food

Well, my baby girl is growing up.  She’ll be 7 months old next week!!! CrAzY!!!  She is very interested in table food and so far all I’ve given her is rice cereal, apple sauce, bananas, avocados, and baby puffs and those mum-mum crackers.  She is very curious about what we are eating so I know she’s ready to try more things, but I really didn’t want to buy the expensive store bought stuff.  I found this site on pinterest: 1 month of baby food for $20 and thought I’d give it a try.  I don’t have everything listed, but I do have a bag of sweet potatoes.  So that is what I’m making today.  I’ll take some fun food pics of Abby and her messy face for you all to enjoy later.

Coming soon: Abby’s 6 month pics (she’s 6 months until the 14th, right?  so I’m not too far behind Smile)

Also: Valentine’s Day pictures and the cards I’m making for the boys to take to school.  Working on them today.  I’ll post when I’m done.  I laugh every time I look at the pics I took of them.

Friday, December 17, 2010

A glance at the last few weeks…

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Seth checking out the tree.

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Helped staple 1,000 candy canes to invites to a Christmas carol church service. These were handed out at a parade that we weren’t able to attend since we had the flu that weekend.

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A student, at the school my husband teaches, backed into our car as we were pulling out of the parking lot to go look at houses…so frustrating. Cost $850 – we decided we’ll just live with the dent. We can’t ask him to pay for that…we hope to get a “new” car eventually…well, some day....maybe.

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Since we didn’t have any of our Christmas decor with us, we went to Target got a 4 ft tree and Isaac picked out the ornaments. He picked this blue and purple T-Rex along with a package of ornaments – at least they were coordinating colors.

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Seth eating a fruit and grain bar. Made quite the mess. He LOVES table food. Don’t let him see you eating because you will HAVE to share it with him.

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Sock monkey I made for part of my nieces Christmas present. Go here for the tutorial.

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Had two “snow” days this week. We only got a dusting, but they had several inches in the mountains so school was called off for my husband. Exams were made optional..first time ever in the schools history. It’s been an interesting week. Second “snow” day was rainy for us, but icy in the mountains.

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Please excuse my horrible unedited pictures. But this is our little tree. I’m hoping to take a better picture tomorrow.

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Every house we go to here in TN that has boys, has play guns. I’ve never been one to encourage playing with guns, but we felt Isaac needed to learn the correct rules of playing with one (I know I’m a bit of a paranoid mom). So we got him one from the dollar store and all I can say is he is definitely a boy and I hope I don’t regret this decision.

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My baby is 9 months old. Where did the time go? At lot has happened in the past 9 months…crazy to think about it all.

Sorry, for the long post…but this is all the time I have right now. Trying to pack for our move, pack for our 10 day trip to Indiana to see family for Christmas and move the rest of our belongings down here. Making tons of calls for the old and new house to get ready for closings on both. Still making a few last minute Christmas gifts and I ran out of wrapping supplies last night…need boxes, wrapping paper, and tissue paper. I just need to remember to breath and take one day at a time… I can’t wait for Christmas so I can relax and enjoy time with family and celebrate our Saviors birth.

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

December, already?

Can it really be December 1st already? I will admit that I love this time of year. It does get busy and hectic and this year it will be even more so with moving the rest of our stuff, selling our house, and hopefully buying and moving into our new house. This December will be different in that we probably won't have much snow, if any. I'm from the Midwest and I am used to having TONS of snow. This doesn't bother me too much though, except for missing the beauty of it all. We will be back in that area for Christmas break, so I'm hoping we get to enjoy the snow while are there. Isaac will love it too and keeps talking about how snow comes out of the clouds.

Have you started/finished your Christmas shopping yet? I for one, can't stand crowds. Especially when I have two little ones in tow. So I have all my gifts purchased and just have a few left that will be handmade by me. I went shopping Monday morning thinking it wouldn't be busy since everyone should be shopped out from the weekend...well I was wrong. So I think I'll be avoiding stores as much as possible the rest of this month. I'll go out for groceries, but otherwise if I need something I'll just order it online or wait until after December.

One thing I am missing is being able to decorate. All of our stuff is back at the old house and we wouldn't have much room to decorate here anyways. I did purchase a little 4 ft tree and let Isaac pick the ornaments. What did he pick? Brightly multi colored ornaments and a blue and purple T-rex. He is quite excited about the tree.

Do you have any special traditions you do for this time of year? I recently found out about doing a Jesse Tree for advent. Isaac & I colored and cut out and glued the first 6 ornaments onto cardboard (used a cereal box) yesterday. I think we were supposed to start the readings 2 days ago, but we will start tonight. I hope it helps Isaac understand what Christmas is really about.

I'm hoping to edit some pictures that I took of our cute little tree and my boys...I'll try to get those up soon.

Happy December 1st everyone!


Friday, November 5, 2010

Homemade Baby Gifts

I’m invited to a baby shower tomorrow where the mom is due to have twin girls! I went to the fabric store on Tuesday and had so much fun picking out girl fabric. I secretly hope to have a little girl some day. Girly stuff is so much fun! Here is what I made…

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burp cloths

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burp cloths (can never have too many, right?) baby gifts-8 diaper/wipes case holder (go here for the tutorial)

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Linked to Just a Girl’s show & share day!




Thursday, November 4, 2010

Children's Art

I came across this blog post about great ideas for displaying children's art. Isaac doesn't do a lot of art projects yet, but he is getting more and more interested in stuff like that. He loves to do things together, so lately I've been searching online for cheap yet fun things to do together. Some day when we have our own home again I'd love to use one of these ideas for displaying my children's art. Go check it out...you might get some ideas for your home.



Friday, October 22, 2010

Adorable Kids Room

I happened to come across this blog post about an adorable kid's room idea. I would love to duplicate this some day...

Isn't it adorable!!! I better start saving my Michael's and Hobby Lobby coupons so I can go buy some cheap letters.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Wedding Gift

My cousin is getting married tomorrow and this is a little something I made for their wedding gift. I make these quite often for the gift I give to the wedding couple. I really enjoy doing them and it's fun to find out a way to incorporate their colors into the ribbon or flowers and put them in the frame. Every one I make turns out completely different. Hopefully people enjoy receiving them as gifts as much I as I enjoy giving them. Thought you might like to see pictures of the one I made for my cousin.




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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Free Giveaway

I love looking at other people's crafty blogs and one I especially love is Stardustshoes. She has a yarn and craft bag giveaway on her blog today and I thought I'd pass this along to those who love knitting and would like to look at her other crafty and fun projects on her blog. Enjoy! Click here for her blog.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Sewing Addiction

I think I'm beginning to become addicted to sewing. If it's a pretty simple project I usually can tackle it on my own. Today I found some Valentine fabric on clearance and these flour sack towels were a great deal at Walmart. I have to admit that I saw this project on someone else's blog. I'm not creative enough to come up with my own projects. Thought you might enjoy seeing what I put together. I may have to give these as gifts or something... we'll see who ends up getting them. I wonder if I should start an Etsy account and see if people will buy some of my projects. What do you think???

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Sewing Projects

I've recently completed some sewing projects. I have to admit that I am not an avid sewer and have just recently tackled a few things I thought were easy enough for me to handle. The first is a towel with a little hood and the second item is a little snugly blanket that is small enough to take with and stuff in a diaper bag instead of carrying a big blanket around (it's especially nice for kids that are attached to their blankies and need a little something to hang on to). Both were a gift for a friend that is due to have a baby girl on Christmas Eve.





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