~kids pilgrim ship art project~

I'm the room mother for my kid's classroom.

This is the project we will be doing tomorrow

after their Thanksgiving Feast.

I found it on Pinterest (here).

So simple.....a ship with their hand print.

We'll see if I'm saying "so simple" after

trying to stamp 18 different 5 year olds

hands and clean it off before they end up

with hand prints all over their clothes too. 

   

~a little tiny peek at my Thanksgiving decor~

 I haven't had time to do a full run down of

my Thanksgiving decor this year....

Here's a little taste of it:

As you can see-I'm all about the fall foliage.  

GOOD NEWS!

 I am finished with the quiet book and all other

birthday projects for my little lady. I will be taking

pics of them today and posting on here within

the next few days......PROMISE.

  

~semi-home-made bracelets~

On top of the already busy season, I have

many birthdays in the month of November that

I like to acknowledge. Because of my time limits

this year I decided on some semi-home-made gifts.

Semi-home-made meaning I bought them and 

just embellished a little to personalize them.   

This bracelet was already made, I just had to change

the loop for the closure (it was really chintzy) and

added the charms. A wish for a year full of "love"

for a dear friend who's suffered much heart-ache 

the past 1 1/2 years. Love is on the 

horizon for her again :)

 

   This set of bangles was for my cousin. 

I added the charms to these by connecting the

thin bangles together with a large O-ring.  

It looks so cute on her....so much so that now

I'm wishing I kept it for myself.  

 And this bracelet was full on home-made....

 ....another little wire heart bracelet for my son's friend.

I attached the key charm to this....been thinking of 

making one with a charm for awhile and just

now got around to it. I think it turned out cute and

I'm pretty sure the little lady liked it to. Apparently

she thinks it's a key to "the city".

See....good things do come in small packages :)     

~Favorite Things Holiday Swap 2012~

Hello eveyone.

I am two pages away from being done

with this quiet book and

after that I PROMISE I will be sharing

more often. I've been going thru my pics

(for another holiday project) and I've

found sooooo many pictures of projects

that I haven't shared with you yet.

Moving on.......

Have you ever participated in a Holiday Swap?

One of the blogs I read, Design Gal and Her Handyman,

is doing a Favorite Things Holiday Swap.

Basically, when you join the swap you are paired up

with someone and you send them a nice little

package that you've crammed full of your favorite things.

The limit is $20 so it's not impractical.

In return, you also get a package from someone.

Check it out (here) and join.

Maybe you'll be paired up with me and

let me tell you, you want the package I'm going 

to send you!                

~still here....~

It's been a busy month and I have some fun

projects to share....if only I could find the time.

Halloween has come and gone-did you dress up?

My husband and I went to a Halloween party.

The theme was dead celebrities.

Here's my costume: 

 Amy Winehouse...the cigarette is a prop....

but it is real. I was terribly afraid that I would

be tempted to start smoking again by the 

end of the evening. I didn't smoke it but it sure

was fun holding it all evening and posing with it.

It turns out, the accomplishment of 13 years being

smoke free is a greater feeling than the urge

and desire to smoke the cigarette was. 

woot woot!

I did make my son's costume.

He was Kick-Buttowski..suburban daredevil.

       His costume on Halloween night had a big 

collar on it like this but I forgot to attach it

when I took these pics.     

  The costume was simple to make and he loved it.

Only problem is, he tries to actually BE

a daredevil when he wears it. Right after I snapped

this picture he and his bike fell of the rock

and skinned his leg. In real life my kid has a face....

but you'll never see it on here.  

Now we begin the busy season of birthdays,

family, Thanksgiving, Christmas and a 

MILLION projects to be finished before it 

all comes and goes. My current project,

a quiet book for my daughter's 2nd birthday.

Less than three weeks away.....

and I haven't started it yet. 

I foresee some very late nights in the near future.         

~kids halloween craft-Q-tip skeletons~

There's a blog that is solely dedicated to projects

found on Pinterest that when tried to replicate

turned into COMPLETE FAILURES!

I don't know what the site address is and I don't

have the time right now to find it to share.....

but it does exist-take my word for it.

Not only does it exist, it is HILARIOUS!

This Halloween project I did with the kids the other day

is actually one that was a complete success.

       

 You can find the pin on Pinterest by clicking here

The blog is Busy Bee Kids Crafts.

The only things we did differently was gluing 

it to foam sheets instead of construction paper.

We also used a piece of felt and googly eyes for the

head instead of painting it on.   

~hibernating flowers and chalk people~

 This is the last of the flower arrangements

from our own garden for the season.

It's been SLIM pickins the last couple weeks.

 I love the beads of water on the rose petals.

I could have shaken it off before I placed

it in the vase but chose not to. I picked these

on a rainy morning last week.  

I still have a couple tomato plants with lots of 

fruit I'm hoping can ripen on the vine before it 

gets too cold....which reminds me, I need

to cover them tonight.   

The weather is getting cold FAST and my

husband is hard at work preparing the flower beds

for the winter now. Cleaning up and pruning the plants

and re-planting all of our bulbs that have been sitting

in the dark all summer. I almost choked when

I walked outside last week and saw that he

had cut down my ENORMOUS sunflower plant.

I replaced the sunflower plant with

something else that was enormous:

A chalk outline of myself.

My kid thought it would be fun to do 

outlines of our bodies in the driveway.

I'm not gonna lie....I thought it would be fun too.

Until I saw how short and SQUAT I really am.

I thought maybe it would look better if I drew

some clothes on it. WRONG!

Looks even more short and more squat.   

 My kids outlines turned out cute :

 It rained the next day and washed 

our little chalk people away.....  

 Next time I'll draw a more slimming 

and elongating outfit on my bod....

maybe some stilettos?