Easter Dress

Someone made a comment about how I'm never in the photos that I put on the blog. (Well, actually, I'm usually never in the photo unless we stop someone to take our photo.) So, Evie & I were leaving for church on Sunday morning, and I decided to try some self-shots of the two of us. This one was decent enough. Evie is darling!... Although, I could never get a full shot of her dress because she insisted in carrying around "Da da's" book. It's hard taking a picture of an 18 month old by yourself! No one to position her, and snap the photo!!

tutu leggings

I Just had to post this tutorial link so that I can remember how to make these darling tutu leggings one day when I have time! (And remember to buy the socks!)http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/2010/03/guest-blogger-texas-monkey-tutu.html

On a snowy March 26th, I decided it's time to post a welcome spring picture! This was my fun project that I experimented with this season. I have always wanted to plant grass to decorate with, and so I pulled out my wheat in my food storage, threw some in with soil and added water! Tada!!! It really does look cute on the kitchen table! I think it needs a haircut...

I covered it for 3 days to create a greenhouse. They sprouted on day 3. It grows so fast!!

time away

It feels like forever since i've blogged...so I'm catching up today. I actually got to go to southern Utah with meg & Rach and had such a fun time eating at the pizza factory & shopping at the outlets. When I came home, Evelyn had a fever, and so Monday was spent taking care of her, and time has flown by since then. I'm back and posting again! Enjoy the spring crafts!

New Easter crafts

I finished this candy holder. I just stained the wood, then mod podged paper onto the front. Then, screwed the acrylic into the wood. So easy. I also had a helper... Eveyln was so good about putting the jelly beans into the egg. She didn't even try to eat them til we were near the end. Then, she realized she didn't like them all that much!

Here's the back of the egg...so both sides are open. It is so fun!
Here's another egg-stra special project!! This is wood eggs that I mod podged onto wooden shapes, painted the dowel & base and voila!! standing eggs!!

Young women activity

We had such a fun young women's activity last night. Thanks to my wonderful sister-in-law Brenda. She took three photos of the salt lake/bountiful temple, edited them, and cropped them to fit an 8x8 square from costco. I then got some wood from my counselor's husband and it was 10x10 square and I painted them black. Justin drilled two holes and then the girls mod podged them onto the board. They really liked them a lot and had fun choosing ribbon to hang from it. Great night! We also taught them how to make homemade hot chocolate (yum) and I made mothergoose popcorn (candy popcorn). Kaylee & Leslie (above)

Jenna & Jennika (above)

Brook (minus the ribbon -- she was waiting for it to dry). Aren't the photos gorgeous!?!!?

Easter Decor is up!

I am so excited about my tree! It turned out so cute. I cut some branches off our apple tree, stuck it in styrofoam and put moss around it. I then hung these darling eggs off of the tree. I think I got them from Tai Pan last year. It turned out really fun! Here's my chipboard bunny's and eggs!

This is my new project this year. I had the blocks that had another vinyl saying on it. I took that off, and paper-crafted the blocks to cover the paint. They were already stained and sanded! Yea, one thing I can put down that I Reused/recycled! (besides my newspaper!) I cut the vinyl with my cricut and I think it turned out pretty Cute. I am ready for spring!