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Crafty Tuesday – of sorts.

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I cannot even tell you how very disappointed I am with myself. Not just that I have been promising all kinds of posts and photos to you all and haven’t delivered nary a one,  but when I finally downloaded my camera this weekend, I realized I don’t even have any real photos of the project that has consumed-our-every-minute-for-the-past-month! Only phone camera photos. I know. I am a bitter, bitter disappointment.

So I am going to try to find some t-shirts at the ballet studio tomorrow and snap proper photos of them before I resort to these crappy phone camera shots. So, I guess, a little more waiting on that project.

Of course it has been so crazy around here that Peter Pan was so-three-projects ago! We are on to many other goodies, including throwing a baby shower for JB and the new baby V and all of her LA peeps. It was very fun to plan and execute – I just wish I wasn’t so crazy throughout all of it, that would have made it even more enjoyable, I think.

The theme was children’s books – so I stole an idea (thank you for the millionth time, Pinterest!) to do the invites as library cards, complete with little library card pockets. I just took manila folders and made the pockets, designed the cards (invites) in Illustrator and printed them out.

photo6(Yes, more phone photos, you all are going to disown me aren’t you??)

photo7And since we asked everyone to bring a book, on the back of the invite we listed the books that JB already had – we didn’t get any repeats!

photo8The nursery is going to be pink & orange – so we used those colors for the decor…

DSC_0579So thankful it was a gorgeous day, perfect for an outdoor brunch & baby shower. We decorated with children’s books and a few special gifts. I made her this bunting for the nursery, which also includes all of the fabrics that will be in her baby blanket. (THAT…well, that we still have 8 weeks to finish! It will get done…)

DSC_0575And the lovely Erin made these incredible onesies for the baby that we clothes-lined up for a little more decor. I didn’t get a good closeup of them, but I’m sure Erin will feature them over on her blog (Practically Martha) at some point!

DSC_0574And then I manipulated all kinds of kid’s books to fit our menu. We did a brunch – light lunch – tea nibbles kind of party. By request we had Amelia Bedelia’s Vanilla Scones…

DSC_0568Peter Rabbit’s Garden Salad…

DSC_0564Jamberry’s Berry Salad…

DSC_0562Stinky Cheese Man’s Cheese Plate…

DSC_0565Petunia Pepper’s Tea Sandwiches…(Petunia is the character of the children’s book that JB is going to write someday!)

DSC_0561The Cat in the Hat Cheese Hats, Madeline’s French Toast…and of course, If you Give A Cat A Cupcake – Cupcakes!

DSC_0570It was totally fun and turned out lovely.

DSC_0558I was so thankful to my co-hostesses and our honorary co-hostess, Addie! She was my side-kick all morning and was ever so helpful. I’m grateful to have such a creative (and fancy!) girl!

DSC_0572And now we just sit and wait and let little Baby V. cook some more… And Aunt JB is doing a fine job in that area.DSC_0591

AGAIN, totally disgusted with my photo-taking abilities this month. If you could see her face, she is positively glowing and beautifully pregnant, we will get a better photo of the girls!

Crafty Tuesday

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The girls have been crazy crafty around here again this week.

Mama? Not so much. But J. is out of town this week, my project is done, and nobody is visiting (boo!), so it looks like I may get a chance to get to my sewing machine and maybe a few layouts done, too? We shall see.

In the meantime, you can see all the goodies I got for Mother’s Day! I can barely keep up with the art projects that infiltrate our house most weeks, but the girls created some real “keepers” this week.

Addie came flying out of her classroom on Thursday, “Happy Mahzer’s Day, Mama!” (she still cannot say her th’s!) she yelled, as she thrust a card into my hand and demanded that I read it right there and then.

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There are tons of flowers on the front, this drawing of Addie and I (??) on the inside, and a little dictation from Addie – transcribed by Miss Mary.  It says -

“My mom’s name is Carrie. I call her mommy. She’s tall. She works on her computer. She cleans up stuff. She cooks. She likes to go to Target. I like to go to the park with mommy. I like fish sticks with mommy. She covers me up. I love her. ~Addie

Eeeee! How precious is that? I love that the girl knows my Target weakness – and my weakness for little peeks into what goes on inside that curly-haired head.

Emma became very concerned watching this exchange because she was home sick, and she realized they were supposed to be bringing their Mother’s Day creations home! Luckily, Daddy brought her homework to school for her and her teacher made sure Em’s creation came home in time.

Sweet, sweet photo frames.

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And I love the flower/garden/growing theme they had throughout their gifts and cards…

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Then on Sunday while I was eating my breakfast, reading the paper, she also made this card…

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It reads – (design and spelling all done by Emma!)

“Happy Motehrs Day Mommy. I love you. I hop you have a spashl (special) day. I hop you like my sing. Love, Penut. (Peanut)

Double Eeeee! And I did love her singing. (The Cherubs sang in church for the moms). I especially love that she knows how to write a letter and that she is trying to work it all out herself. It is so endearing to watch her learning and growing.

OH, and speaking of growing…we have been growing in other ways, too!

We’ve got BUGS. Ladybugs. Lots of ‘em!

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And while I was making dinner last night Emma came running in, shrieking. I thought something was horribly wrong. But, no. We just have butterflies. Two of them have emerged. So much excitement. Meet one of our Painted Ladies -

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Appropriate name for Crafty Tuesday, wouldn’t you say?

Crafty Tuesday

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There has been some craftin’ going on around heeere!

Em has had a few serious homework/craft projects for school. Ones that require trips to the craft store to get glitter glue and jingle bells.

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And when you are in the same aisle as the pom-poms, you have to know you aren’t leaving without a package of those for another little someone.

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And then Wendy called and invited us over for a Girls Crafty Day, and we made some serious ornaments.

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Most of these were actually Wendy’s creations (except the 2 over on the right of the picture, those were crafted by the two cuties pictured!) Most of our creations from today are going to be given as gifts, so we can only tease you with a sampling.

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It was such a fun, fun day. Thanks, Winnie!

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And finally, my new obsession… (which was born out of my other new obsession – trolling around and browsing etsy shops) the craft of the season. Hopefully every kid in my life will be getting one of these for Christmas.
I present the kidlet.

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HOW cute are they? Just little bags to hold books, animals, stuff. You can hang them on hooks or on a doorknob. As our lovely model is showing here.

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We made this one for Addie’s little friend, Madison who turned 3 on Sunday. Put a cute little book inside, a card in the front pocket and voila! Gift! Cute! Fun!

So I’m off to cut out about 10 more kidlets to work on before Christmas. Want to guess what you’ll be seeing next week?
What about anyone else? Got some fun stuff to share?

More on our Picasso

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This is how Em and I spent part of the day…

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Trying to pare down some of the wall ‘o artwork in the air-conditioned, very cool playroom. In retrospect, this should be done without the budding artist standing in the same room.

“Oh, we have to keep that! That was for you!”
“We can’t throw that away, I worked on that with Denise!”
“But I neeeeed that one, too!”

And on and on it went.

We did finally come to some concessions and put away some of her (and addie’s) artwork and recycled the rest. Now we have a clean, blank wall to fill up again!