Diva Hair

I was cracking up laughing when I un-did Mary's hair today so she could jump in the tub. For the last 2 days I've been recycling birthday hair. Birthday hair is a (or sometimes two like the picture above) pony tail that's been wadded up in a giant knot and hair sprayed to death. I like to think we all have days where we're in a rush and don't have time to really fix hair so on those days I grab the water bottle, give a few refreshing squirts and re comb her hair into the same style as the day before with different colored rubber bands. I DO NOT recommend doing that with Birthday hair. Holy Smokes it was funny! Even she couldn't stop laughing which led to a rousing round of "She's got hiigghh hair, she's got hiigghh hair. High apple pie in the skyyy hair".

Our Enrichment decorations turned out pretty well. They looked no where near what I had thought they would look like but still cute. I grabbed some to take home so I could blog them but what do you know, I left them on the coat rack. Cody's sister Donni who made them with me took a picture so if I can get it from her I'll have to share. It was very green on green damask with black and white damask with buttons.

I branched out,

And made some ice cream cones from my cupcake tutorial for the bazaar last week. They are much easier to make (just faster) than a cupcake bottom and in my opinion a little cuter, but I have this thing with cherries. Who doesn't like a cherry on top?? This was my favorite one, mostly because it used to be a new sweater I didn't like until now and I'm so glad it's found a good home. I still have 2 white cupcakes left but that's not to shabby, I thought I'd end up with a lot more than that.

I'm off to make some trees for our Enrichment centerpieces tomorrow. Remind me again why I torture myself and wait for the very last second? Better get cracking since it is 9:30. Have a great Monday!

If they would just hold still for 2 seconds!

I might be able to get a decent picture of the kids. I wasn't going for a real holiday picture, just practicing and I can see we need to step it up a notch if I'm going to try to get a fantastic family picture this year. These where the best ones from yesterday- some not so bad and others are so sad!

Huuhhh..

I can breathe again- the bazaar is over! I could kick myself for not blogging at 2:00 in the morning when I was threading handles and bead cherries but that late (early?) I wasn't in my right mind. I finally got the last one done at 2:15 a.m. I wanted to show my cute little milk crate all laden with ice cream cones and cupcakes but didn't get a single picture- all those days of rear aching, neck tweeking sewing and nothing to show for it. Oh well.

The bazaar went well for all those who made sweet stuff and baked goods but not so well for the people who made crafty stuff (me). I did better than I thought I would which is great but it's hard to see everything fly out of there but your own stuff. I'm so glad I made things I knew I could give away so I'm not out anything which is great. I made 19 ornaments and still have 15 if that tells you anything.

My mom, Brittany, and aunt Tina popped up for a few hours and brought me lots of goodies, shopped the bazaar -I saw the squirrel mom, no pity buying! ;o), entered me in a raffle when I wasn't there (I won two prizes!) and then left. I barely got to visit with them but it was fun to have them come un-expected. My house looked really bad and the kids looked like rag muffins- sorry guys!

Cody and I are going to Handel's Messiah this evening without the kids, did I mention WITHOUT the kids. I could use the break before the holiday season really kicks in!

Friday

Me- sitting, staring, sewing, eating lemon pie (my 3rd slice), p.j's, freezing- repeat.

Kids- sitting, staring, snacking- repeat. The true life of crafter children bazaar week.

Thursday

Finally crafting! 0 down 16 to go.

Wednesday

Found a new friend at the tree store (and a few more things I don't really need but I still needed them anyway). Not much crafting going on- UGGGHhhh!

Tuesday

Picture from my phone on my way home from the dentist with Jim- 2:00.

Monday

I'm going to be super busy this week getting ready for the bazaar and church activities. I normally wouldn't be able to blog but since I love to talk/type I couldn't do that to myself, so I thought it would be fun and fast for me to share a picture everyday this week at the same time of day to kind of record little bits of my daily life and still squeeze in some blog posts without taking up my precious crafty time.

Here's todays-

A small army...

It takes a small army to get my house ready for Christmas and lucky for me I happen to have 4 kiddos which in my book constitutes a small army, maybe a tiny one but an army none the less! It being the first day of December and all, I decided today's the day to Christmas-ize. The tree is up and ready and all my little troops are more than ready to help. They can't wait to decorate the tree when dad gets home and have been cleaning and re-cleaning so they're guaranteed a shot at putting on the star, the grand finale.

I have a weak spot for a man in uniform (who doesn't?) so a few years ago my mom bought me a huge nutcracker. Word got out that I liked them and now I have a box full of them. I love them all- especially this little drummer. He's so cute and crazy looking for a little guy who's only 1 1/2" tall (little man syndrome I'm guessing).



I finished all my bling animal ornaments- YAHHHHOO! There's 19 in all in 7 different colors but the squirrels are my favorite.
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Except for this homely thing, I know she'll be one I end up with and will never use, one of those "looked cute in my head" type of things.
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Back to the workshop I go, I feel like an elf making purses and more purses!