Footprints

I was just sitting at the table with my kids the other day and realizing how big they are getting...
Sometimes it makes me sad that they can't stay small...so I decided to make this instead :) My kids LOVED making this! My youngest son is 7 1/2 months old, and he just kept squishing his toes in the blue paint. And, yes, my oldest son and daughter's feet are almost the same size...and they're about 21 months apart :) :) :)

Entertaining Kids.....

So, it's been one of those days that I'm trying SO hard to come up with things for my kids to do besides watch the Disney Channel...

My son keeps asking if he can paint, but I don't like to let him use my real paints and paint on my good wood....so I have a dilemma...
But, I came up with THIS.....It was stinkin' awesome. My kids were able to paint all over the sidewalks without fear of getting them ruined....the kids or the sidewalk...
It is so super easy, i super highly would most definitely recommend that any one with little kids try it at least once! You just mix water, cornstarch and food coloring....that's IT!!!!! Just remember to add enough food coloring so that when it dries it doesn't dry white. I actually put 10 drops in each little circle...
And, the bonus is that if they paint themselves, it dries quickly, and will wash off in the bath..

More Summer Dresses

Because I had some AMAZING fabric sitting around and waiting to be used, I decided it was perfect fabric to use to make my daughter a dress! This is fabric from Joel Dewberry, and I have just been sitting on it waiting to make something of it - and this was perfect!! This was such a super easy dress to make (no pattern), and my daughter just loves it.

As always, my son had to get in on the picture-taking...

Measuring Tape...Step 1

So, when my mom was here a few weeks ago, she brought me PART of this super cool project to finish! I was super excited and couldn't wait to get started. My plan was to do it by myself after the kids had gone to bed... but then my children saw that I had bought paint!! After that, doing it by myself was a dream...
So, I got some old T-shirts, some old paint brushes and laid down some paper bags on the kitchen floor. I was going to do it outside, but I prefer the side-walk to stay UN-painted... Come to think of it, I should have risked the side-walk, not my kitchen floor :)
Anyway, they got started. I would pour the pain on the board, and they would paint like crazy! I think they went through an entire bottle on just one side....cause they always needed "more paint!" I had to go back through when they were finished and fill in un-painted holes and even everything out, but they actually did a fairly decent job...
It's great...just drying outside before we do the next step....

Bed Bags

As I was looking at projects across the blogger world the past week, I came across this site... I thought that this bag was a super cute idea, but didn't agree with putting one on the crib, (personal opinion!) however, I realized that they would be great for my older kids on their beds!!!
My kids have medical sleeping conditions, so sleep is always a fight at our house. To help with this, a long time ago we took EVERYTHING except for books and 2-3 lovies out of my kids' room...but it was always 'where do these things go'?

I started out by getting out my scrap bucket...Then I let my son go at it with the colors. He picked out the colors for him and for his sister...he's actually quite good at color matching. He's my best partner when fabric shopping if my mom and Granni aren't around :) :)

Here is my daughter's finished bag with nothing in it, and my son's finished bag packed almost as full as it can get :)

Now there' s a nice place to put these few things that they're allowed to have! Thanks for the super cute idea!

This was also one of my STF projects...only 8 more!!!