Today was the first day of Kids Clothes Week Challenge hosted by Elsie Marley. I’ve participated once before – right when I started this blog and have meant to play along many times in the meantime, but it never seems to work out. So I was pretty happy to start the week off on a productive {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s daycare had their Halloween party on the 31st, and I stuck around to help out and take some pictures. This is the only one I can share without other kids identifiable in it, but it was a great party with lots of activities. This is the first time I’ve seen Arden use scissors, and I thought she {…Continue Reading}
Today was spent getting ready for tomorrow’s Halloween festivities – packing the treat bags for disbursement at daycare, minion costume at the ready, and pumpkin carving! Last year’s pumpkin carving post is here. Arden did great with choosing the designs and with scooping and picking up stray pumpkin seeds. She did not however, understand to keep her {…Continue Reading}
This year for Halloween, Arden requested to be a character from her favorite movie – “Yellow Guys”. You would know it as Despicable Me. Despicable Me is the first movie she started to pay attention to, and I think I’ve seen it at least 50 times now. This was a good year for this type {…Continue Reading}
I made one of these candy corn pinafores for Arden last year, and bought a ton of extra fabric with the intention of whipping up a bunch for my Etsy Shop. You can see them at the link or above on my Etsy mini widget. That didn’t happen last year, but this autumn I’ve managed to {…Continue Reading}
Arden thoroughly enjoyed her first foray into the world of trick-or-treating. Aside from a mini-meltdown while donning her costume, she got right into the groove of things. We only went to a couple of neighbors and nearby friends houses, but she quickly figured out how to hold out her little pumpkin bag and then check {…Continue Reading}
Remember this? Arden modeled Victor Marcus’ cow costume after I had the bulk of it finished. It was still in progress, and now I’ve finished up the costume. Here are the final details: I spent a lot of time deliberating how to make hoof mittens, and then I realized that I could make them two-dimensional and he {…Continue Reading}
My good friend Kim was lamenting about how she wasn’t able to find a cow costume for her two year old son Victor Marcus  that she liked that wasn’t insanely expensive. Since I didn’t have anything at all to keep me busy every evening for the next couple of weeks (ha!), I volunteered to make him {…Continue Reading}
I don’t have any fun projects completed to post, so I’ll just do a quick wrap up of what’s been going on. We broke ground – literally – on our garage reconstruction. On Thursday, they took out the old slab, dug for the footings, and put in the foundation walls. We’re using a treated lumber {…Continue Reading}
Decorating our mantle is a little difficult, since it usually ends up being a catch-all for everything we don’t want dogs, cats, or toddler getting into. But with all the inspiring mantles I’ve been seeing, I thought I could give it a try. The vase on the left was a wedding present and is filled {…Continue Reading}
