Craft Day

When I was a kid my Mom and my Aunt Melanie (Mooie) would have my sister and I and all my cousins make cookies and crafts together. We all loved it. Now that we are on the next generation my Mom is continuing the tradition. Last year she had the kids as well as their cousins from West Union and some friends come over to make crafts. We did it again this year the Sat. after Thanksgiving. The kids had lots of fun and I thought I would share a few of the crafts…..

First, we made little snowman ornaments. I made these one time for gifts when I was in high school.

You need: small wooden spools, small woooden round balls or “heads”, black plastic top hats, snow-tex paint, scraps of cloth for the scarves.

Use hot glue to glue the “body and head” together.

Paint with Snow-Tex and let dry.

Hot glue the hat on.

Use a sharpie to draw on the eyes, mouth and buttons and an orange one to do the nose. You can use cream blush or lipstick or a pink marker to smudge on the rosy cheeks. Tie string around his neck for the hanger and then cover with a small strip of cloth for the scarf. Stay tuned for some more pictures from our craft day tomorrow!

Kitchen Towel Cake

Mom is taking Caroline to a wedding this weekend in Florida. I am gonna miss my girl and am jealous of the one on one time they will share! I am sure they will both have lots of fun!! I needed to get a gift and have been seeing the most adorable diaper cakes and some towel cakes. I decided to try a kitchen towel cake. I had fun trying to make it work. I really needed some more dish rags but...they are leaving tomorrow so I had to use what I had. The "cake" ended up only being 1 layer.

I used dish soap in the center and rolled the dish rags and put a clear hair band around them (the super tiny ones).

Then I put a rubber band around the dish soap and put the rags around it.
I wrapped the dish soap and rags with a few kitchen towels, ending with a fluffy one on the outside. I just folded the dish towel in half lengthwise and it left a little space around the top to fill in with shredded paper at the end. I just used a straight pin in the back to hold it in place until I could put the ribbon around. The hardest part is getting the dish towels tight.

After I was done I stuck some shredded paper on the top to cover the dish rags and stuck in some wooden spoons and 2 chip clips. I used a red pot holder in the back to add some color and tied it with a ribbon. I used some measuring spoons on the front as well.

Terrible picture but here it is packaged up and ready to go. I made a card too but forgot to take a picture.

The best part about this gift.....I got EVERYTHING at the dollar tree! Shouldn't admit that probably but in this day and age everyone needs to save a little (or a lot)! I think it turned out pretty cute for $15. I hope they like it.

Candy House

While we were in DE for Easter, we made a candy house (the box said Bunny Hutch :). The kids did more eating than decorating!! They had fun nevertheless...See....

Maybe we'll try a gingerbread house for Christmas...

Mod Podge fun

I am participating in Mod Pogse mania over at This is the Year. I posted this right before Grant was born. Sad to say we still need to hang the letters on the wall!!

I feel like we haven't gotten to do much for this baby that is just his. Caroline was our first and so that was exciting. Grayson was the first boy was everything was new. I feel like poor Grant is just getting all leftovers or something. I know babies don't know or care, it is just a different feeling with #3. He is inheriting Grayson's room. We did get a new crib but are using the same bedding. I decided to try getting those wooden letters with his name and covering them with scrapbook paper to match his room. I thought it would make it a little more personal. Unfortunately the day I decided to delve into it our internet was down and I couldn't look for instructions. Well, here is what I did:


Painted the letters white first so that if anything showed through it would be white.

Then I traced around the letters leaving about 1/2 inch around the outside and cut the letters out of the paper. I put the mod podge on the front of the letter and pressed the paper down, trying to keep from getting bubbles. Then I turned it over so the back was facing me. I didn't take a picture of the next part....but I cut little pieces all around the edges so that I could fold them up onto the letters. I used my finger to spread the Mod Podge onto the paper and back of the letters. I know I am so bad for not taking pictures but here is the back of 2 of the letters so you can kinda see how I did the back.


I had to let the back sides dry before turning over and putting the top coat on.I painted the front and sides with the mod podge and let it dry. Here is how it turned out: Now I just need to attach the ribbon to the back and hang them up. That will happen sometime...not sure when :) He will be here by Monday night after all! I will post pictures once we have it up on the wall.