It's CRAFTIN' TIME!

One thing that we gave the girls for Christmas was their own CRAFT BOX! I highly recommend them, because they get to do whatever they want and truly be creative (without a hovering mother). This box is actually a fishing tackle box, which is something I learned from my mother long ago.

I used a lot of stuff that I had and never used, like pom-poms and various foam stickers. I also had a small container of beads and gems. There are also various crayons and markers that no longer have a home (or the other markers wore out) that I threw in the box. Some of the crayons are even from local restaraunts.
I bought a very big bag of foam stickers on clearance at Jo-Anns before Christmas. There are also plenty of craft supplies at your local dollar store (like pipe cleaners). Of course, what would a craft box be without paint and glue?!?!

I love this because she can just sit at the table and go crazy. Nothing was really expensive, and the whole point is to make a mess and have fun.

Gettin' Creative

I let my little Pumpkin paint today!! She had so much fun this morning.

Pudding spent most of this time asleep, but when she wasn't, she was bein' silly...as usual.

While painting was taking place on the table, I was working on part of a Christmas present for them...special CRAYONS!! Lucky for me, my girls aren't hard to impress. I know it's not much, but it will all come together in the end.

I thought the stars would be best for Pudding, so she could grip them well. I've still got some more to make...looking forward to it.

Take some old crayons and break/cut them up into small pieces. Mix colors however you want! I put them in a shaped baking pan and melted them at 200 degrees for about 15 min. (I would just keep an eye on it...cuz I dont remember exactly how long...oops)

Here is our little art gallery!!

I'm lovin' her big pink circle!

Happy Halloween!!

Okay, so it's a little late. But I've never made Halloween costumes before and I wanted to post them. I let Pumpkin choose what she wanted to be this year (which was "Red Riding Hood"). She also insisted that her sister be "Granny." The only thing unusual about this is that the only Red she knows is from the movie Hoodwinked.
Not exactly your traditional Red. So...here is how it turned out:

There weren't very many pictures of Pudding. Everytime we went out, whether for a Trunk or Treat or on Halloween night, she was already really sleepy.I'm pretty excited to make their costumes next year! Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

A CORNY Weekend

Meet Lady, our wagon cow! :)

We went to our local corn maze this past weekend and had a BLAST! We stayed for a couple of hours and got really tired out. I forgot to take pics of the actual corn maze, but that may be because I was too busy trying to get out of it.

There are tons of things that the kids can do. They had this huge hill with differesent slides going down it. You slide down on an old sack. They are so much fun. For some reason, Pumpkin loved this water pump more than some of the other activities. Probably because it was really hot and she could play in the water.We also let her get her face painted this year. We weren't sure how she would do, but she was amazing the whole trip. We didn't have any problems at all. A lady even stopped us and told us that she looked cute getting her face painted with her little toddler legs standing there.

Here's her ladybug!! She was so proud when she saw it the mirror.

The corn maze gets better and better every year. The grass used to be sand and the hill with the slides is now covered in flowers. It's beautiful. Every year they alaways have these little pits where kids can play with corn seeds. It gets messy, but that's the whole purpose of going out and having fun like this.

Next year, Pudding can have just as much fun as her big sis. This year, she stayed well shaded with her hat and rode in a baby backpack the whole time. We didn't have any problems with her either. :)

Daddy's Creations

A while back, we went camping. My husband probably had two whole minutes to himself, and decided to make this:

We are so proud that I labeled it and put a magnet on it. The pic is actually of it on our fridge. On the fridge amongst all of the papers colored by our toddler. :)

Revamping a backpack

A while back, my mom bought my 2 year-old a princess backpack that has now seen better days. Poor Aurora! It definitely needed a little pick me up. Lucky for me, Jessica at Happy Together got the idea to decorate a backpack with petals.

Now my little angel has a backpack that is church worthy. She can wear it with a cute dress, or just for fun. I love this idea!! The petals were from the Dollar Tree, so they were only a buck. The backpack that Jessica used was also a $1 at the Dollar Tree. I also bought my grosgrain ribbon that I used on it from there. Now I'm not sure if I'm going to give this to her now or save it for Christmas. Hmmm...(any thoughts?)

2 year-old reminder

My little princess just reminded me of something we made a few months ago out of cartons. These are really cute coin purses. You can find the template here.