Catch Up

I cannot believe it has been a month since I last blogged. Where did October go? Where did the majority of November go, for that matter?! Only 10 days (well, 9 really) until December. How is this possible. Maybe I would be more productive if I did not waste so much time pondering where all of my time has gone! Here are a few of the things I have been up to this last month:

My darling girl finished her first season of soccer. I may have mentioned in a previous post that she scored THREE goals at her last game. I am so proud of her! This was her first team sport and she worked really hard. Here is a picture of her after she received her medal at the post season soccer party.

This is the beautiful pink soccer ball cake that my ridiculously talented mom made for the team's party. Of course it is pink, and of course it is complete with little pink ladybugs she made with icing. Seriously, is there nothing my mom can't do?? And did I mention it tasted great, too?

Aidan wanted to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween. We found this extremely cool costume at The Disney Store. It even lights up! He loves the costume now, but he almost didn't wear it. It came with the purple hood thing that Buzz wears and Aidan did not care for that part of the costume. For some reason he thought he had to wear the entire thing. Once he found out he could go sans purple hood thing he was elated! I love my boy to infinity and beyond!

Emma made her mind up about her costume a year ago. She LOVES Wonder Woman because she is a Princess and a Super Hero. I don't think I need to point out that my mom made the entire costume, including the cool tiara and bracelets. Not shown are her super cool red boots and her golden lasso. We could not find blue fabric with white stars so she just appliqued them on. Emma is my favorite Princess Super Hero. I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, my girl can save the world.

I have managed to do a couple of small shows recently, but I decided to limit myself in this area as of late. I love doing shows, but there is always so much work involved to get ready. And with holiday orders, it just has not been feasible to do as many as I would have liked to have done.

The girls and I got together last weekend for craft night. It was so much fun. Eve worked on a few scrapbook pages and Lucy and I made frames. Jen couldn't make it, but she will be here for the next one on the 29th. Lucy will likely still be out of town for that one, but we are getting together again in early December. We are thinking about making these darling little cupcake bath bombs that Little Birdie Secrets was kind enough to share with the world. I think they will make fun little stocking stuffers and I know my kiddos will love them. They beg for bath ice cream every time we go to The Makeup Bar. If they are pretty easy to make I will let them whip up a batch themselves. They love to cook and they love to craft, so this will be right up their alley. I will make sure to post our results, no matter how they turn out!

Craft Night

Saturday's craft night was a huge success! We had so much fun. Eve, who had just had surgery the day before, even joined us! She was not up to crafting, but we were so happy to have her there for conversation.

Thanks so much to Lucy for hosting and making a great dinner. Here are a few pictures of the event. One note: of course I forgot my camera, so these were taken with my phone. Not the best, but good enough.

Jennifer concentrates on stretching her fabric over her canvas.

Here Jennifer carefully places her hand-drawn stencil design. So cute!

Lucy stretches her High School Musical fabric over her canvas. Her project is a gift for her niece.

Jennifer's final project. So cute! I love the color combinations here.

Lucy's final project. So fun! Her niece is sure to love this one!

My final project. I realize I look as though I am about to fall asleep. I was really tired. We had a garage sale earlier in the day.

A little about our projects:

We stretched fabric over canvas and stapled it in place. We then covered the fabric with Mod Podge and allowed it to dry. Once dry, we lightly traced our patterns onto the fabric. We then either blocked out or filled in the stencil. So easy, so fast and so fun!

I cannot wait for the next craft night!