at the beginning of this year, i participated in a facebook “pay-it-forward” challenge. someone had posted that they would send a handmade gift to the first five people to comment on their status, and in return, each of those five people was to post a similar status, stating they would made a handmade gift for […]
gingham quilt
got the bright idea from crazy mom quilts blog to make a gingham quilt. i had it done from start to finish in like 12 days. and that includes some down time when i moved my craft room from a cramps corner of the bedroom to the basement (dungeon). and some down time while i […]
colored rice. the making and the playing.
one item on our bucket list was coloring rice. not because isaac wanted to, but because i had seen it in internetland and decided i wanted to try it. once we got started though, isaac was all in and just as happy as if he had come up with the idea himself… shaking the bags […]
indoor tree house.
we have been trying to settle on what to do with the dormer window in isaac’s room ever since we knew we were having him. for the first year or so, it was home to his glider rocker. it’s had a tent squeezed in occasionally. but, we were looking for something with more “wow”. well, […]
homemade popsicles.
knocked off another summer bucket list item, by pouring orange juice and lemonade into popsicle containers, waiting, and then consuming…
our new favorite pool
this summer, i researched joining a bunch of different pools, before deciding that the cost to go to tanglewood park’s pool was only $7 per trip and we’d have to go a lot of times to justify paying $400 or more to join any of the “private” area pools. plus, we finally paid the yearly […]
homemade play doh
yesterday, we accomplished summer to-do list item number 1: make play doh. i think isaac was more excited to “x” it off the chalkboard than he was to actually make the play doh. but, he went along with it for my sake… we located a recipe on the internetz and got to work. lemonade for […]
propeller luigi and blue toad cake
i think the title speaks for itself. this cake is for caleb, the eldest of three boys, but with the third birthday in the calendar year. earlier this year, i made a james cake for jesse and a bulldog cake for ezra, caleb’s younger brothers. a very specific request, for his two favorite super mario […]
summer checklist
once again, i ran across a cool idea on pinterest and couldn’t rest until i had implemented it in my own home: the summer bucket list. i saw a few, from simple poster boards, to colorul picture frames backed with scrapbook paper, to my favorite: a giant chalkboard. unfortunately, we don’t (didn’t) own a chalkboard…. […]
romper room
after reading a blog post about how easy it is to do shirring and make a romper, i decided i needed to make anna a sweet summer outfit… so, bridgette and i hit up karen gray’s, a local fabric store and i picked out a pretty little fabric (to match anna’s pink sneakers, of course). […]