Greetings everyone, I wanted to drop in and say hi and that I have not dropped off the face of the planet even though it seems that way. I have been working and I absolutely love my job, I spend all day outside by a pool, talking about an amazing city, and creating crafts. It … Continue reading
As you can probably see I have taken a break from blogging the past couple of months has been insanely crazy. For some reason I thought it would slow down once school got out, not so. This summer is so much different than in previous years, I have not one but two kids I need … Continue reading
The three dreaded words of summer vacation… MOM, I’m Bored! I heard that every day last week, even on the days we went to the pool. Growing up is so different now than when I was a kid. For example I had kids to play with no one went to summer camp meaning there were … Continue reading
Last week was the last week of First Grade for my daughter and we had our first Tropical Storm of the season, which equals a crazy busy week. I also opened a Society 6 shop to order prints of some of my paintings and drawings – check it out here. The Rusty Blue Car … Continue reading
Several years ago my friend got the princess a SpongeBob Snow Cone Maker. I cringed – I thought why would someone do this to me, with my fondness of Blue Raspberry Snow cones that I can now make at any time, all I could say is why. It has been on the top shelf of … Continue reading
We have been frequenting the library quite a bit this summer and one of the books I checked out was, “Simple Puppets from Everyday Materials” by Barbara MacDonald Buetter. I thought this would be fun to make one or two puppets with the Princess, I had not planned on making every puppet in the book … Continue reading
Note all supplies were bought at the Dollar Tree. The original project can be found HERE at Skip To My Lou.
I will do a blog post on these soon – probably in the next couple of days now that I finally finished the piggy painting. I found these on Pinterest and I did have to change the materials they used but it worked GREAT! I will explain everything in the blog post but I had … Continue reading
Our first day project of Summer Vacation was painting birdhouses. This was an easy project that kept the kids occupied for about a half hour. They really enjoyed using paint and I also thought decorating them with stickers would also be fun. My table is currently covered with paper and will be for the rest … Continue reading
First I want to say I am sorry I didn’t post yesterday, I had the plague. Making the most trying thing I did yesterday was get up and switch the DVDs for the kids. So the thought of even typing anything was not a priority. The plague has officially hit everyone (expect Jeff) in the … Continue reading
Who Are You Calling Crafty? 