Thanksgiving Decorations

Here are a few of the things that graced our Thanksgiving table.

 Candy Corn Indian Corn.

Salt Dough Leaves and Accorns

A very festive table

Halloween Crafts

Several months ago, I found a few pictures on Pinterest {Are you following me?  You really should!} using embroidery hoops to display funky fabric on the walls.  

I mean, seriously, how cute is this?

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 Or this for Christmas?

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It just so happened that my amazing Mother had some extra embroidery hoops just lying around at her house.  I offered to take them off her hands, I'm such a thoughtful and generous daughter, and she agreed.  I used a few left-over pieces of fabric and added a few new ones to create this wall in my entryway.  Isn't it just the cutest?  It makes me so happy whenever I walk past, plus, I now have a place to check my lipstick before I run out the door.

If you look closely, just to the right of the mirror {which, by the way, came from my Dad's old office}, there is an embroidered heart made by my dear friend, Amy.  How sweet is that???

I still had a few scraps of fabric left-over and was searching for something to do with them until I saw this.

These adorable pumpkins {found on Pinterest, of course} just jumped out at me and couldn't help but make them.

I followed the easy, peasy directions here and was so excited at how they came out.

I absolutely love orange and blue together and am thrilled that they look "fall-ish" but are much brighter than the typical orange, yellow, and brown combination.

This bowl of pumpkins just makes my heart happy!

Texas Crafty Fun

While in Texas, we planned some crafty fun to entertain the kiddos and keep them busy.  Auntie Nessa brought some Play-Doh along with adorable mats the kiddos could create pictures on.  There were cookies, hot dogs, tacos, goldfish, octopus, guns, and flowers that were created...what a success!

 

Noah thought that all the cousins needed turtle shirts just like his.  It was so fun to help the kiddos create turtles that were as unique as themselves.

Thanks Auntie Mel for the pictures!

 

PopRo didn't want to be left out, so we also made a shirt for him with all the grandchildren's hand prints {including a belly print for Baby Jed}.

PopRo and all his little turtles!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

I am feeling so loved and blessed this morning!  Kc and Noah have been secretly working on the most spectacular art project for me.

I love the pallets, the burlap, the initial...Isn't it just fantastic!!

Kc started with 1x4 boards that he distressed and stained.

Next, he cut out a piece of burlap to cover the N.   

Noah told me, "N is for Noah".  Too cute!

Now the fun painting began.

 

Bubs had a blast covering the burlap.  He painted it with a brush and used a cup to make circles of paint.

Almost finished.

Kc finished the initial by wrapping the burlap around it and securing it to the pallet.   

I absolutely LOVE my artwork.  It was created with love by my two favorite guys.  Now I just need to figure out where to hang it.

Ocean Crafts

Noah and I have been getting pretty crafty these past few days.  We've made a few t-shirts including a turtle shirt

and a Nemo shirt.

Both were made out of Bubs' handprints...how cute are those?!?

I even got some ideas from here and Bubs and I made a seahorse out of tissue paper

 

and the cutest shark placemat you've ever seen.

I love that my Little Man loves to craft as much as I do.

Wrapping Paper - Year Three

It's that time of year again...wrapping paper time!  Every year, I enlist the help of my most willing son to create cheap and easy wrapping paper.  You might remember when Bubs jumped all over the paper two years ago.  Last year he ran the wheels of his trucks through red and green paint {unfortunately no pictures...we were in and out of the hospital at the time}.  This year I took a few sponges from The Dollar Tree {just love that place} and cut them into tall triangles.

 Then Mr. Man had a ball dipping them in white paint and stamping them on red paper.

Peek!  What's under there?

One more tree.

This is SO MUCH FUN!

 Bubs got a little bit zealous in his painting and made some "snow" falling onto the trees.

 BANG!

 Painting sure does make your hands sticky.

The final products...

 BEAUTIFUL!

Gettin' Crafty with a Wreath

There are so many fantastic crafting blogs out there.  The Scrap Shoppe, Tatertots & Jello, Running With Glitter, and Craft-O-Maniac are just a few of my favorites.  I decided that I needed to get on the crafting bandwagon and make a wreath for our front entryway.

Every year for Christmas, my parents give us a fresh wreath for the entryway.  It is nice to pull into the driveway and see the festive evergreen.  It is so nice to smell the fresh pine every time we go in or out of the house.  I wanted that same feeling again...just not so wintery.

I found the perfect grapevine wreath at the dollar store for...you guessed it...one dollar.  SCORE!  I also picked up a roll of twine while I was there.  SCORE AGAIN!  I began wrapping and wrapping and wrapping the twine around the wreath.  I was hoping it would look a bit like this.

Unfortunately, Allison at A Glimpse Inside used a solid foam wreath rather than a grapevine wreath and she used two spools of twine, neither of which I had.  Well...I took my wreath that was wrapped only three quarters of the way and attached flowers to the lower left side.  I made three satin flowers using this tutorial.  It stayed that way for over a week...until...I saw this.

Nikki at Nikkis' Nacs put her house numbers in the wreath.  How cute is that?!?

I decided that my wreath needed numbers.  I found some cute ribbon that had all the colors of my flowers, turquoise, white and red.  I played with several different ways of attaching the numbers, but decided this was just too cute.

I love that you can see the house number nice and large from the street and the turquoise and red just make me think of summer.

I'm kinda loving the fact that it's not wrapped all the way.  Perhaps because I like things to have a bit of symmetry to them {the flowers are balanced by the unwrapped portion of the wreath}.  Perhaps because it's already hung and I'm a tad bit lazy. 

At some point, I may decide to finish it.  Or I may just decide that it's already finished.