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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sensory OVERLOAD!!

What on Earth??........


WHAT ARE THEY??


Waterbeads.....


they start out hard teeny tiny little beads......
add them to water and wait,
                                           and wait,
                                                        and wait!

They suck up the water (most of it anyway) and turn into this.....

slippery, sliddy, squishy balls!!


they are cold.....


They are jello.....

he just laughed.....


and this guy.......


.....he was there for over an hour.....
                                              which is a long time when you are two!

Others would come and go - but he stayed for a looooong time!!! 
                              we added scoops and spoons for some motor skills!! 
                                            he would scoop and pour,
                                                                      and scoop and pour,
                                                                                        he still asks to play with them!!

Definately going to have to buy these often!!  It is very soothing, calming, relaxing!!




 
 

spooky pasta....

I colored pasta.
I've wanted to for a long time.
I finally did it!


it was super easy!
you can read how here 
or I have it pinned on Pinterest

My monsters made spooky necklaces!

happy Wednesday
****************************

Steph



Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Is this the little girl?



What happened to my baby?




Because it seems to me that when I tucked her in to bed last night she was still little....








And when she woke up this morning she had turned into this beautiful young woman.......






With this fabulous group of young ladies for friends!!!


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

SPOOKY....

Halloween is my second favorite holiday to decorate for!  This year I have made and updated most of my decorations!  I had been saving some ideas that I had seen on Pinterest and I finally got to work on them!  Some of my old favorites made the cut as well!

Let's start out with my favorite!!!



I wish I had  more room to put more of these up because I just absolutely love love love them!

Then I have my sparkly spooky tree.......I posted about this here , but in anticipation of said swap ornaments, I have been puttsing around with a few to add!  The pumpkins are my fav up there right now, but there are cats, ghosts, bats as well!!


PS they are made of the foam sheets!!  so easy peasy!

Next, I found this glittery guy at the Dollar Tree, but he needed something else!  So I cut the ring part off of the spider rings and glued them on!




Who doesn't put a halloween bowl of gordes out?? 




Next, I joined the craze of yarn wreaths to decorate my front porch!  I loves this one mucho!!!


I made the bat template my self,  and cut it out of glitter foam.  I had bought a bucket of foam letters from Joann's (or so I thought!!)  Until I went to dig them out to glue them on!  Guess I left them on the counter at the store - so I pulled out some really old ones that didn't match - and used them as a template to cut out glittery ones!!

I saw this idea on a blogger friend's page - I used the same bag of plastic spider rings and cut the rings off - I glued them to super magnets - and put them on the front door to greet all the little monsters who come to visit!




Then I made some luminaries out of milk jugs!!!



sorry the pictures are bad - but it is hard to get a good one in the dark that shows the true color!!
I took clean milk jugs, cut the back out, decorated the face with sticky back black foam.  Then I bought color changing flameless candles!  I put rocks in the bottom so the wind doesn't blow them away -


Isn't this pumpkin neat?  We didn't grow this one!  But I think it looks pretty cool in my bird feeder!


Lastly here is a picture of the oldy's that made the cut - I put my collection of  PartyLite candle holders/houses up on the high shelf so the littles don't get any funny ideas!!


I am too lazy to actually put candles in them and light them - but they still look pretty cute up there!!

I do have another oldy out which is my favorite - but the picture got lost in cyberspace!  He is my Franky!!  I made him out of flower pots stacked on top of each other!  I will have to find the pic and post him later!!

I do have a couple of other ideas - but I have a craft show this weekend - so my sewing machine is attached at my hip for the next few days!!

Happy crafting!

 
linking up this Monday to :Life Made Lovely

Friday, September 23, 2011

5!!!

.......The number of people in our household.

.......The number of bedrooms in our home.

.......The number of hours it took me today to clean said home.

.......The number of daycare *littles* that were "helping" me clean said home.

.......The number of times I read the youngest littles favorite cow book.

.......The number of hours until I get a much needed date night with hubs.



FIVE!!!

.......The number of years today that I have been married to my bestfriend!



The weather was cloudy all day...until half way through our vows!  Then the heavens opened up and watered the mums!






My cousin Kim on my right , My best friend Lisa to  my left, and my SIL to the left of Lisa.  My daughter Kaitie in front {she was 9}

Our colors were periwinkle and silver!  I made EVERYTHING!  The flowers, the invetations, the centerpieces, the bulletins, and I even wrote and sang a song for my soon to be husband!





We've had our ups and downs. We've shared some pretty stressful situations, we've shed some tears together, we've laughed until we pee'd {ok me - maybe not him so much} We've never gone to bed angry with each other. Most of all we have loved each other every day of those 5 years!


Happy Anniversary Ron! I love you!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Halloween's A Comin'!

A fellow blogger friend had posted that she wanted to do a Halloween ornament exchange for anyone that was interested!  I LOVE, Love, love halloween~ {almost as much as Christmas!}  So I responded that I was all in!  I received word back as to how many to make and where to send them.  Then it hit me.....

I DIDN'T HAVE A HALLOWEEN TREE!!!!

I was going to be receiving 10 wonderfully yummy ornaments and had nothing to showcase them on!  I got right on that!


I found a large branch lying in the woods, sprayed it with black paint {a new obsession!!  Spray Paint!} Stuck it in a very large lime green vase that I had sitting in the kitchen corner, sprayed it with silver glitter spray that I found in the craft dept at Wally World! 


TA DA!!!



I thought it looked a little plain - so I tied orange ribbon on some bare branches~

The bats are the ornaments that I will be shipping out for my exchange!  I saw something like them in a craft catalog and made my own pattern and variation!




This guy is my fav!!





I can't wait to get my ornament package in the mail and decorate this up with lights and maybe some purple,black,green,and orange pompom garland!!



Happy crafting -
Stephanie



Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Learning to swing!!

We had a *little* who got so frusterated that he couldn't make the swing go! (not to mention my frustration of having to stand and push for an hour!!) 

So this morning after a ten minute fit of trying to get on the swing and making it go - look what someone figured out how to do!!!  Look at how proud his face is!! 

PS - check out the little in the background pointing up!  Yes there really was an airplane flying over!  So I thought the song was appropriate!



So when one of my littles achieves a skill they have been working on, OR something exciting happens during their day; I make them a special *badge* to wear until they get picked up.  It lets the child feel special and helps me to remember to tell mom or dad at the busy day's end!!

all it is a mailing label decorated up like a party!!