Recycled crafts

For Earth Day Amelia wanted to make a recycled craft to bring for show and tell. We decided on these little water bottle fish.
Basically you paint glue on tissue paper to a twisted water bottle and voila......a fish. Does it really count as an earth day craft if I bought the water bottles to make the craft??  We never have water bottles.
These are hanging like a mobile from our chandelier right now along with our other recycled craft, jellyfish.


These are made from a clear plastic cup and curling ribbon and crepe paper. Amelia's was embellished a little more with glitter ribbon and these silver discs. I highly recommend it for an easy, scrap busting craft for kids.

Been so long

Yep, it's been like 6 months or something since I posted but this adorable little thing is why I haven't able to get to much of anything (and I guess the fact that we moved out of state 2 days after he was born, and did I mention Philip moved away 10 weeks before us, leaving me in charge of 2 kids, a house to pack, and a baby to incubate). Hours and hours of driving for Philip to come home "just in case", 4 hospital stays, tons of false alarms and still no baby. Finally the doctor agreed to give me pitocin and 1 hour later (seriously not kidding) Miles was born on April 3rd at a hefty 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 22 inches long. He was HUGE!!! But he is a perfect baby. Quiet, patient and growing like a weed. I finally have a squishy thighed baby. Now I am getting back to me which means making lists and crossing them off again.  Have no idea who reads this anymore, but I feel like it isn't official until I post it and then I can cross it off. So whether or not anyone checks it out, it's my therapy!!! On to the collages!!

 That owl hat in the above picture is the only thing I made for him.He only wore it for this picture because he grew too fast and he hated it. I guess the 3rd baby really does get all the hand-me-downs. The other things are my fun projects (or ones I actually took pics of) since Christmas!!!  From left to right clockwise: St Patrick's day bakesale pot of gold cupcakes, Amelia's best friend art necklace, apple apron from 2 towels, Christmas cinnamon wreath ornament , yarn beard, apple apron with matching oven mitt, seersucker adjustable apron and mitt, and Amelia's handmade Valentine's.

I could tell a post on each of these, but I am just getting them up and out so I can start for real again. Now on to more fun projects again!!

Why do I do this??

I hate when I make a really cute pattern and don't write it down and then I can't recreate it. Especially when it's shoes and I need 2!!!!  You would think I would learn my lesson, but I don't.  I've been doing this for years. I was trying to make some crocheted baby moccasins and was so tired I didn't get up to find a pen and paper and actually stop each step to write it down and said to myself out loud, "This isn't that hard, I will totally be able to figure this out again, right", and Philip looks at me with total doubt and questions why I do this to myself.  Luckily I don't really love how it came out, so I am going to remake it but this time I am going to write it all down for real!!!   Poor 3rd child. It's true that they get less of those special things the others did, especially when it's the 2nd of a gender. It's crazy how much time and energy we spent getting clothes, bedding, and gear for each of our other 2. I just pulled out my box last night and said, "should I feel bad using pink burp clothes and putting pink socks on a boy if no one sees it?? I mean I do have boy stuff for when we go out, but if I can't get laundry done and he needs clothes.......", I guess I am just justifying my lack of interest in shopping, nesting, sewing, whatever it is. Hopefully the 2 hats, the pair of shoes (if I actually can get 2 to match!!) and a blanket or 2 I hope to make will make up for the other things I just don't seem to be rushing out to get this time around. And because I hate posts without pics....this is me 3 weeks ago. This seems so small when I look at it so I guess I have definitely popped more. I wish I had been better about picture taking this time around. I am just over 30 weeks now, so here's to the countdown!! Hope to post some of my creations soon!!!

Year end total

OK, I have been dying to see how much money I really spend on crafts and projects and my year end total is very positive. $280.43!!! I haven't even used a ton of this stuff  and I haven't posted a lot of the things I have done, so there are way more projects than are posted. The great thing too is I actually got a number of these items for free with credits and gift cards, but I don't want to try and factor that in. I think that's pretty impressive that I did all my homemade gifts, boredom projects, decorating, upcycling, toys for the kids and all that for less than $300!!! I don't know if I will track my money again this year. I mostly wanted to prove to my husband that all my crafting and supply buying is really worth it. He thought it was a lot more but I think he should be pleased to see this amount. So I think this proves I should keep it up!! So here's to another year of crafts and blogging. Hopefully after I am done creating my 3rd biggest craft (our baby boy due in the end of March) I will get back in the swing of things.  Happy crafting!!!