Spring and Easter Craft

As another holiday was fast approaching and we still had a lot of scrap wood. I thought it would be fun to do a Spring/Easter craft. I cut the blocks to the various sizes that I wanted then sanded them. My best bud and partner in crafts came over and we got to work. We painted all the blocks with a base coat of white and then made sure that the edges had at least 3 coats of white and the faces of the blocks only had 1 or 2. We were going to be painting them a different color. She wanted hers to be different than mine and since hers was going to be more labor intensive we decided to both work on hers first. I didn't do a very good job at taking pictures of her project as it commenced, but here is the final outcome. (sorry about the pictures, I couldn't get some of them to turn the right way.)

  This is a single white lily, it's suppose to represent the Savior.

I helped her do a lot of the big painting, the sky and grass, and putting on the vinyl. Then I was in charge of the flowers, bunny, grass, etc. She had to leave it with me because it was getting so late in the night and her poor little girl was fast asleep on our couch. :p So I worked on it the next day and got it finished. I think it turned out really well and I am fairly pleased with it. the blocks I decided to do wasn't near as intricate, but I like them all the same. :)

Both sets of blocks are reversible with Happy Easter on one side and Welcome Spring on the other. I am very pleased with how both sets turned out and I am excited to try more things in the future.

Necklace

My little girl got a hold of some of my beads and was having a fun time dumping them out and then putting them back in the bag. But when it came time to clean up she got really mad and said they were her "pretties." I asked if she would like a necklace out of them and she agreed and was very excited. She hovered around my legs while I made the necklace chanting that it was her necklace. :) Here is the necklace I made for her.

One more Hair style.

 I did this hairstyle for church yesterday. I was a little amazed that she sat so long and let me do this. :)

Toddler Hair styles

So now that my little girl has really long hair I can do really cute little styles with it. I have been experimenting with some ideas that I have found. She does pretty well for the most part to sit still. I do try and do her hair while she is eating breakfast, so that might have something to do with it too. :) Anyway here are a couple I have done and taken pictures of.

 This was actually quite lucky. I haven't been able to do this hairstyle since. She just wont sit still that long again. :p But This was my first attempt and I was quite proud of myself.

 This was her Valentines hair. It didn't hold up quite as well as the other since I didn't have the other pony tails up as high like the hair before. But still very cute.

 This was the best picture I could get of this hairstyle. I did a double pony tail pigtails. they stayed in really well all day long and was super cute.

14 Days of Valentines

I'm sorry this post is so late, life has kept me pretty busy. For valentines Day I did the 14 Days of Valentines for my husband. I found some free fun novelty printable valentines on Pinterest. Things like Superheros, Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter and others. Everyday I would hide one of these valentines with either a sweet treat, poem or "coupon" for this like a 30 minute massage attached to it. I didn't document all of them but I did take pictures of a couple. I decide one night that it was getting to predictable so I changed it up a bit. When James went down to our room he found this. (This was a little last minute)

I wrote fun little things on the balloons like "pop" and "Happy valentines Day". Inside I had taken one of those valentines and cut it up so he had to piece together the puzzle to see which one it was.

I also had little love notes in the balloons as well. I think he had fun with this. :)

For Valentines Day (the actual day) I had his lunch already made up with a fun harry potter valentine as well as a more serious card. When he got home Avery gave him a card that she had "made" for him. :p I had "heart attacked" our bedroom door. (it's where you cover a door with a bunch of cut out hearts. sometimes with messages written on them. Mine didn't have messages.) inside our room I had a balloon for every year. Attached to the balloon was a not with the year and a message of love about that year. I had a lot of fun putting this together for him.

 I forgot to take pictures till after he had already opened the messages and taken down the hearts. :p

Button Letter

Sorry that I haven't posted for awhile. I am back in school so the time to craft and do other fun things like that has been reduced by quite a lot. :) But this past week I was starting to get tired of how empty the walls are in my little girls room. So I decided to make a button letter for her. First I was going to do a simple one either on paper or sew them on fabric. but I found this cute wooden letter and thought it would be just as cute. I knew there was going to be some empty spots where you would see the wood so I decided to use scrapbook paper to cover the wood.

 looking back now I wish I had just painted the wood pink instead. After I got the paper glued to the wood I used a fine sandpaper to sand down the rough edges on the paper. Then I started to sort out the pink buttons from the others and started to place them. 

At first I used wood glue and I was picking each and every button very precisely. I blame this on the time I was doing this as well as the long day. When I finally came to my senses I switched to hot glue and I put a pile of buttons that I liked next to me and started to place them at random. Time went by much quicker and I think it was looking better then trying to place every button in it's specific spot.

 and walla done. :)

 I really liked the way it turned out. The only thing I would change is that I wouldn't use scrapbook paper but paint instead.