Made a pouf for my husband's cousin's wedding shower!  Had a blast making it and can't wait to make another one!

The table!

The beautiful birthday girl!

Table decorations!

Tulle pom poms!!!

Party favors!

Found the pattern for these online, my wonderful hubby took card stock paper to office depot and they printed the pattern on the paper for us, super easy!  A little bit of ribbon and we have simple elegance fill with dove chocolates.

Clark's Birthday

I know it's a little late but I wanted to post the pictures from Clark's party.  My sister-n-law is a genius with a camera and took pictures for us and here are just a few, they turned out very well.  I'm gonna start with the banner I made for Clark, it now hangs in her room.  I'm really attached to it, I got the idea from pintrest, and had a blast making it.  I hope to make many more in the future. 

Cooking with kids

Brinkley is always helping me when I cook, he loves it!  So when a friends three year was turning four I made her a play apron and potholders, complete with a recipe box which I covered in felt to make match the set.  The project turned out better than I expected.  I had no pattern for the apron, I just winged it, but next time I would try to make the straps Velcro I didn't think about children not being able to tie.  For the potholders I found a cool video on YouTube about how to make a potholder, which was very helpful.  The recipe box was actually a Christmas recipe box that I got on sale after Christmas, after covering it with felt you couldn't tell that it had been a Christmas one.

Re-purposing

I've never been very good at re-purposing, but I found this treasure at a yard sale for twenty dollars.  I knew fair well that there was no room on my kitchen walls to hang it but I had to have it.  I fell in love with it.  It sat in our office for the longest time, until we remodeled our bathroom.  It got mixed up with the materials we needed to do the bathroom, I thought to myself, "too bad we can't put this in our bathroom because it would match perfectly!" And then it hit me, "I can put it in our bathroom!"  So now it conveniently holds books and magazines.  I can't imagine it being anywhere else in our house.  I love it!  I've included a picture in which my daughter managed to sneak into...my apologies. 

dino

Ok....I've had a lot of craft fun lately and little time to blog about it so here goes nothing.  I'm gonna start with this cute little dinosaur that I made for my son.  I foolishly thought that I was the first person to think of taking this route, but after posting it on Etsy I found that I am far from the first person to think about making a stuffed dinosaur.  There are no new idea out there, just different versions of old ideas.  But that's okay I still think my little dinosaur pillow is adorable and so does my son, which is the most important, right! When I finished my two year old just kept hugging it and shouting "Cute! Cute! Cute!"

P.S.  My husband and I built a light box and took pics of the dino in our new light box.  My husband is always impressing me.

Rocking thoughts

So tonight rocking my one year old I thought about all the ways and people who will hurt and disappoint her in her life, I know ridiculous right?  I just want to protect her, keep her safe, keep her bright eyed.  I go through this often, then I have to remind myself that though she may get hurt, she will make a million awesome memories, meet a ton of unique and interesting people, and do amazing things.  Hopefully the good will way out weigh the bad, hopefully I will continue to remind myself of these things and allow her to live the full life that she deserves.  Being a mom is so hard, but I wouldn't give it up for all the treasure in the world. 

Clark's party invites

CJ and I sat down and cranked out these invitations in two hours.  I was quite impressed!  I would have been even more impressed if Clark's first birthday wasn't last Saturday, the good thing is that she is too young to know the difference, last Saturday...three Saturdays from now, she won't care. I'm finally getting in the spirit of things and maybe three Saturdays from now I will even have had a chance to come up with some clever decorations...or maybe not, we'll see.