One ball of yarn

So pleased that I was able to make three projects out of one ball of Peaches and Creme yarn - only about $1.78 - so cool! A baby bib, a babydoll bib, and a little dish rag.

Also worked on an early Valentine craft - with, yep, glitter and sparkly pipe cleaners! It is truly my favorite holiday!

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I have recently become a fan of the wooden shapes, boxes, ornaments they have at craft stores. Here is a tissue box that Claudia painted for our bathroom. Doesn't your nose feel better already? Also ... only cost $3.99 and we had the paints.
I bought her a blank wooden purse for her birthday - plan to paint it pink and let her glue on the sparkles!!

Star Wars plus Glitter = not fabulous

So ... inspired by Henry's love of all things Star Wars I thought we could combine or two loves in holy matrimony. A good idea, but not as successful as I had hoped. Darth Vader turned out pretty well, but pretty disappointed in C3PO who just looks like a crusty light bulb and the storm trooper seems a bit Vegas. Anyway - here's to experimentation!!

Winter Wonderland

Some of the ornament type decorations we now have decorating our front door. Switching gears to pure winter decorations. There are renditions of the rare purple spotted door watcher and the venomous bicolored bluebird - a real welcoming sight. The painted and glittered evergreens are a team effort and I have to say I did the Winter Wonderland all myself, because ... I love glitter.

Cake decorating

Here is the Chocolate Cake I made for our family Christmas party we hosted. Gumdrops, sprinkles and silver dragees are just like edible glitter for me. The cake was three layers and quite yummy. I was just really pleased that it was so much fun to look at!

Poinsettia decor

Also, did some poinsettia decorations. I cut out the leaves in red and green and put down the glue. Then the kids put the leaves where they wanted. Then added the yellow circles in the middle and ... you guessed it, glitter glue. I think Henry's looks especially wonderful!

Wrapping paper snowflakes

I know I am not inventing these crafts but hopefully documenting them so others can say - hey - I can do that at home too - or - I forgot about that idea, thanks for the reminder. I LOVE doing the crafts and almost every morning - let's say at 6:30 am - I hear my daughter say - I want to do an art project (I am NOT kidding), so I think the kids are having fun too!
We do so many crafts that keeping them cheap is also important.
You can just use small scraps of wrapping paper that you have lying around or if you think of it use the bits of wrapping from opening Christmas gifts. I do love the white tissue paper ones too, but this is a bit of a change.
I showed the children what I was doing by folding the paper and then cutting it and they opened them up and taped them to the window. Once they are older I will of course let them cut the snowflakes themselves, but honestly bloody snowflakes would not be so festive! ;-)