{"id":3891,"date":"2013-01-21T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T05:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2013-01-21T22:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T05:53:50","slug":"crafty-tuesday-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Crafty Tuesday is courtesy of a little baby shower we threw together for Kaori, our pianist that helps out during the girls&#8217; choir practices. She is due in a week with a little girl and we wanted to put together a little quick, after-choir celebration from the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Her nursery is yellow and gray (LOVE!) and since we had to have the shower at church, and after choir (before dinner) it was just a little &#8220;quickie&#8221; shower where everyone brought munchies.<\/p>\n<p>I found some yellow and gray paper and made a little bunting &#8211; my new favorite things. I cut the flags out of paper and tied them together with some baby yellow yarn.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0238 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8404850562\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0238\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8505\/8404850562_1841e65e3e_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made some tissue paper flowers &#8211; which are TOTALLY easy to do (learn how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academichic.com\/2009\/05\/26\/how-to-make-tissue-paper-flowers\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0243 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8403757467\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0243\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8360\/8403757467_cba39b6258_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But we had a few difficulties with the space and planning. I had intended on all of the tissue flowers to hang over the table at various heights, but the 20 foot ceilings in the hall didn&#8217;t allow for us to hang anything from the ceilings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0244 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8403757357\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0244\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8214\/8403757357_d3b57b8c24_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;baby clothesline&#8221; didn&#8217;t quite work as envisioned either&#8230;there really wasn&#8217;t any place to hang it, or the bunting&#8230;we just made do.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0247 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8404850038\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0247\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8356\/8404850038_491335f1d7_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite was the onesie that Jamie and I put together for the future little chorister&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0249 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8404849800\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0249\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8355\/8404849800_090d61df37_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That, and watching the kids get so excited when Kaori opened the box o&#8217; baby things that the choir gave her.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0255 by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/8404849674\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0255\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8087\/8404849674_3c6c24810d_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Crafty Tuesday is courtesy of a little baby shower we threw together for Kaori, our pianist that helps out during the girls&#8217; choir practices. 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