Cards

I love crafts we can actually use! I had the jellybeans help me make cards to use through out the year.
It was a nice way to sit around the table and visit while we created cards to share with friends and family.
Keeping in touch and thank you notes is becoming a lost art, but one I hope to instill the importance of in our home.

Stay in touch! ~ DeAnn

Imagination

My girls and when Brendan was younger they entertained themselves on good old fashioned imagination. I love watching or hearing them play...but this made me giggle. I walked in on this:

Apparently the Pride cubs had been naughty, so I first thought this was a form of punishment-YIKES!
Silly mom, the cubs had clothes pins on their ears so they couldn't hear the girls plans to catch them in their naughty acts of making messes.  I had fun, moving their cubs around and making some messes for the girls to find after hearing this one!  ~ DeAnn

Hats

Today's summer craft was to make hats. We took these simple baseball hats, then the girls designed the flowers and I hot glued them on~ adorable!

Before

After

How cute they look in their hats! Though Sadie
looks like a deer in headlights.
I think I need a hat like theirs ~ DeAnn

Feelings Art & Frames

This coming school year I will be working out of only one school. I wanted to personalize my space a bit, so the girls helped me paint &decorate frames. Sadie then drew me some feelings pictures to go in them.

Love them! It was fun working together, I wasn't sure if I wanted them to take over my project butI set the ground rules and they did awesome and had fun too! 

Welcome Home Teagan

Teagan has been enjoying time with her Grandma and her cousins in Albuquerque! She has been gone a week, and I miss her terribly! One of our traditions is to pack notes and surprises in the travelers bag and welcome them home. Today in anticipation of Teagan's homecoming, the sisters and Mom decorated her door!

Welcome Home Teagan! We missed you!

Candlier

When our family doubled, our outdoor table no longer fit all of 7 of us. I missed eating outside to the sound of the birds, the candles, a new table was in order and ordered.   The gold candlier, no longer matched the table set so I seized the opportunity to re do our candlier, save a little money and add a little bling. I painted it black and added some beads. 

I was able to reuse the old table too, by putting it by the pool  which is working out great on these summer afternoons.  Love working with what we already have but feeling like we have something new.

~ DeAnn

Face Painting for Added Fun

To add some spice to the girls play, today we did some face painting. 

Tiger and Pirate on their adventure!

~ DeAnn