Category Archives: Crafts

I love to try new crafts. I especially like to choose crafts that my sweet son will enjoy doing with me.

At the Home Depot

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I feel a little like a Home Depot advertisement, but I wanted to blog about the Kid Workshops we have now gone to a couple of times.  Davey loves them.

Home Depot has the Kid Workshops the first Saturday of each month.  We went for the first time in November.  Davey got an apron which he thought was just the coolest.

Each month he gets another project pin to put on the front of his apron.  Another awesome thing for Davey.  He was checking out the other kids, some of whom had like 20 pins on the fronts of their aprons.

The best thing about this is that Davey does this with Daddy.  I suppose I might be allowed to participate one of these times, but it’s a real fun daddy/davey thing.

Right now, David guides Davey through much of the project.  This particular project was a snowman napkin holder.  I think it involved a screwdriver, paint and some stickers.

Guess who else was here?

Home Depot Santa.  Davey has talked to about 4 Santas so far now, but he was feeling a little bashful on this day.  He didn’t want to engage with Home Depot Santa.

I think this is going to be our new monthly Saturday morning event.  It’s really a cool thing.  It’s free, and the Home Depot people who run the workshops are so friendly and helpful with the kids.

Oh and finally – notice what David is wearing?  He really likes The Sweater! 🙂

Goofy family photo below:

 

 

Crafty with Leaves

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Davey and I tried out a new craft project the other day.  I’d learned about it on pinterest.  I can get on pinterest and spend about a year there.  So much cool stuff.

So we made a leaf garland.

Davey and I went outside and gathered leaves.  A big bowl.  I had big plans for a big garland.

We arranged our necessary supplies:  yarn, scissors, straws, tape and leaves.

My little helper was at the ready – lollipop hanging out of his mouth.

We cut up the straws.  When you cut straws, they go popping and flying all over the place if you are not careful.

Davey helped me for awhile.  We had to cut the straws and tape them to the back of the leaves.  Then you ran the long length of yarn through.  After awhile, I realized that it would be easier to run the yarn through the cut straws first and then tape in place so that I could tape more securely.  It requires having an idea of how much garland you want to make.  While this was kind of fun, I quickly realized that I didn’t want to make that much garland.

Davey quickly grew weary of the process.  His little hands were not quite ready to tape bits of straws to backs of leaves (with small bits of tape.)  He handed me leaves and straw pieces for awhile though.

The garland turned out pretty.

The leaves are drying out pretty quickly.  I guess we will need to remove it before it crumbles everywhere.  Although it would add a little color to our general state of Davey-messiness that fills the house.

More crafts and a sweet one too.

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Yesterday afternoon, Davey and I went to Hobby Lobby to look for more crafting ideas.

We came home with foam jack-o-lanterns and the various foam stickers with which we could decorate them  (It was all in a little kit).

Davey had fun with it.

And then my friend Carol (aka Miss Murray which is how I first knew her when she was my music teacher) posted this sweet and salty candy recipe.  Davey saw the pictures and couldn’t wait to try it out.  So this afternoon we got the necessary ingredients (of which there are only 3).

He unwrapped Hershey’s kisses and carefully placed them on the pretzels.

 (Check out the octopus tattoo.  He’s pretty much trying to refuse a bath because he does not want it to come off.  There may be a bit of a battle in a bit. (I’m liking that tongue twister.))

Then he eventually started putting more kisses in his mouth then on the pretzels.

Then he said, “I’m tired and off he went.”

So I finished them up.  We just made one sheet today.  I don’t want too many of them tempting me.

I have a fascination with taking pictures from this angle.

They are now in the refrigerator firming up.

I’m happy to say that as a result of making these Davey tried a new food.  Candy Corn.  I know it has no nutritional value, but whenever he will try something, anything new – I am just a little bit happy about that.  He liked them.  I had to put those out of his reach as well.

 

 

Crafts

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This morning we were playing with Halloween paper and stickers.   Davey is not much for sitting down to color or draw, but he loves to fold up paper and add stickers to make “crafts”.

I love to watch his little hands work.

He asks me to cut up small squares of paper for him, and then we make additional adjustments.  He used a little glue and some sticky dots to put things together.  Finally, he wanted to add some glittery stickers.

He folds and arranges the paper into all different shapes and sizes.  “I’m doing this for my schoolwork  Mommy” he tells me.

Crocheting Craze

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I’ve started crocheting again.  I used to make afghans and I’d crochet the occasional stuffed toy.  But I decided to try a hat.  Or two.  Well, I’ve started on my 3rd.

I’ve been working on my Girasole for awhile, and I needed a break  (The blob is ever growing). Crochet goes so quickly, and the patterns I’m working on are really fun.  It’s a great way to knit up some of my yarn too.

So I crocheted a couple of hats.

I began with a simple beanie.

That was so much fun that I decided to try another.  My second hat was of a slouchier style.

It was fun taking outdoor no flash pictures of my hats on my little mannequin lady head.  However, it was more fun to involve Davey.

We modeled together as well.

I’ve started a black hat that is going to be very slouchy and will be done with primarily a puff stitch.

I’m having mucho fun.

 

Graph Paper, Crayons and a Skateboard.

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I started figuring out the fair isle chart last night for THE SWEATER.  I was working with a photograph that was not great.  It was fairly pixelated by the time I zoomed in well enough to kind of see what was going on.  It took me awhile to figure it out.  The snowflake also hurt my brain, but I think I worked it out. I did have fun coloring. (Davey added a few touches as well.)

I want to document my process on my attempt to knit a sweater that David will want to wear.  As my friend Kathryn suggested, by the time I am finished  it may instead be placed into a shadowbox shrine.

I forgot to take a picture of the swatch I knitted.  Picture light gray yarn in an approximately 8cm square.  (It’s rare that I talk in metric.)  I knitted it in a stockinette stitch.  It was a good swatch.  I hope.  Just the fact that I made a swatch is something.  But I figured I’d probably better give myself every possible advantage on this thing.

So.  That’s THE SWEATER thus far.

Today Davey and I had to go over to the school to give a make-up final.  While there, Davey colored with markers.  He created a mixed media piece when he began sprinkling grass on top of his marker designs.  David was teaching Davey how to mix colors the other day to create new colors, so since then he loves to practice mixing colors.

He likes to create “sculptures” and “structures” with his crayons and markers almost as much as he likes coloring with them.  He was feeling very artistically inspired today at the art school.

There are also always a couple of skateboards to be found around outside in the central area of campus.  I’ve been amazed by some of the skateboarding moves I’ve seen.  Anyway, Davey enjoyed playing on the skateboard.  David helped him move along for abit.

Someone walked by and commented that he was “kicking the moves”.  I have no idea if I got that bit of skateboarding jargon correct.

And now Davey is waiting for snow.  We were under a winter weather advisory so we were getting all excited.  That’s been removed now, but we are still maybe going to get some snow.  David got Davey some snowboots just in case.  Davey put them on and said he was going to take them off when it started snowing.  He’d probably be sleeping in them if that was the case.  He finally took them off a little while ago.  I got a cute picture of him, although the light is not good.

Come on Snow!

 

 

Love Like This

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Did a layout for the "Scrappin’ The Music" Challenge.  It’s the first time I have participated, and it was fun.  I have wanted to scrap this picture for awhile.  I really like it a lot.

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