faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust!

Here is a project I have wanted to do for some time.  I just thought it would be so exciting to have a fairy house outside!  I wasn't sure how to execute it.  Finally, today Hallie and I collected sticks and just went for it.  Here is our fairy house for Tinkerbell and her friends to come visit in our backyard.  We used sticks, floral tape, hot glue, and dandelions. . . and the whole faith, trust, and pixie dust bit.  We will probably add to it as we go.  Right now there is a little swing.  I imagine we'll add more flowers and rocks and such.  Now Hallie has a fun place to imagine outdoors.  It's not perfect, but a three-year-old and her impatient mother made it.  And it's supposed to look like fairies put it together from found objects (great excuse, huh?).  We love it.

Searching for flowers for Tink's house . . .

 

After Claire woke up from her nap, she entertained herself by stuffing rocks in this watering can.  Cheap thrills.

Now that we are satisfied, and a little tired, the girls are watching the Tinkerbell movie as I type.  Fun stuff, I tell you.  Fun stuff.

flannel board book

One week before Claire was born I was nine months pregnant and could not sleep! So, I waddled downstairs to my craft room and got to work. I didn't know what I was going to make when I got started. I just pulled out my craft bin and went fot it. After several wee morning hours of work, Hallie's flannel book was complete! I used a thrift store board book, ribbon, flannel blankets, and old scrapbook die cuts. I always keep this in my church bag so that Hallie can play with it at church when she is restless. With the commotion of having a baby, I forgot to post about it until I found the picture files today. This is a cheap, very easy craft using things most of us already have!

Each character in the book has flannel on the back of it so it will adhere to the flannel pages.

photoshop fun

I am taking an online Photoshop class about special effects. Here are my two projects so far . . .
Ha! Ha! This one cracks me up!

Sweet!

And by the way, even though I complained last Wednesday . . . I really have to get my root canal today. It starts in forty minutes. Please send gift cards so I can get through this trying time. Just kidding-- seriously.

Hallie's Baby Book

After lots of work, I am almost officially complete with Hallie's baby book (her first year scrapbook). Here are some of the layouts from throughout her album. I still have some journaling to do. And I need to do layouts for her fifth month and eleventh month. But, otherwise I am finished. I am not a very fancy scrapbooker. Most of the time, I don't even mat my photos. But I make it with love and I hope she can feel that.

For most of the album, I just did one layout for the entire month. I do have several "theme" layouts like sitting up, her first solid foods, right after she was born, etc. In the back I have a big pocket that has my letters to her and birthday and shower cards from close friends and family. For most of my monthly layouts, I got ideas from Becky Higgin's sketch books. I am a big Becky Higgins fan and have been following her scrapbooking for the last ten years.