It's been awhile, but we're still here. We had to buy a new computer since the screen got busted on the other one. I am busy catching up on some writing projects and loving on Katelyn. =) However, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving and trip to Washington D.C. - I'll be posting about it once I get everything else caught up. Love you all!

Picture Post

K Represents

Little Miss K was caught stealing daddy's beanie and representing Brasil. She was pointing to it like, "look where I want to go". Super cute.

Finger Paintin' Pumpkin

 

I know this post is way late with Thanksgiving just a week away, but I really wanted to share the pictures. I put them on FB, and forgot to post them here. I found some homemade Finger Paint recipes to try, and I must say that they turned out really cool, and Katelyn had a blast with them.

They are not exactly "edible" as in LUNCH, but there is nothing harmful in them for when they do eat it.

What You Need:

1/2 cup Corn Starch (or Flour)

3 TBS Sugar

1/2 tsp Salt

2 Cups Water

Food Coloring

Containers

 

For this simple fun time, just combine all but the food coloring into a saucepan. Stir with a wisk and Heat until sauce thickens. Remove from heat, let cool, spoon into containers. Add food coloring, and enjoy. I used empty baby food jars, and this amount filled four of them perfectly.

 

I was surprised that the coloring actually did not stain our skin that much. Blue was the first color that I made, and not thinking I put like 5 drops in it...it was very bright!

 

 

Here are some links to other sites for Finger Paints.

http://easiepeasie.blogspot.com/2010/07/homemade-finger-paints.html

http://www.momtastic.com/parenting/activities/171489-kids-activity-edible-homemade-fingerpaint

http://www.icanteachmychild.com/2011/06/squeezable-homemade-finger-paint/

http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2012/06/homemade-finger-paint/

Victoria got to carve her first pumpkin! It was awesome on the front porch.

Katelyn's Capelet

Another super easy- 20 minute (or less) project. It's a simple capelet. Pretty much, no skill required.  It's a little big for Katelyn at the moment, but I'd like for it to fit her in the Spring. My next project was going to be some super cute pajama shorts for myself, but I think I am going to attempt to manipulate a pattern to make a stroller cocoon-type-thing for Katelyn to keep warm this winter. We'll see!

I used Simplicity Pattern 4434

Baby Bunting

I won't say that I've been super busy, but now that Katelyn has decided she owns my sewing area- it's impossible to sew while she is awake. But, I got two projects completed. (Well, four if you count fixing the tear in K's jammies, and the rip in Chris's jeans.)

This is the first one- a baby bunting, it is fleece and super warm. I'm hoping my friends baby will love it! I used Easy Sew Simplicity pattern # 5720, and pretty much followed the pattern. It took me a couple days, but in reality without K's distraction- should only take about 45 minutes from start to finish (if that).

Puppy Love.

It started as a simple idea, but then I couldn't find any Dalmation spotted fabric...So, we had to hand stitch every single spot on to the costume (and it took forever!). I want to be sure to thank the special people for helping me. Victoria cut all the panels out. Ashley helped stitch some of the spots on, my mom stayed up all night stitching spots on, and Chris watched Katelyn when we got home the next night so I could stay up all night stitching on spots and sewing it together. I'm super happy with the costume- even though I was a dim-wit, and closed my casing for the elastic on the hat. (Never to find the time to fix my error, but we didn't stay out in the cold long, so it was ok.)

 

 We hit up the neighbors to show off her costume, and to see thier grandchildren's costumes, and then set up camp to hand out candy. Chris had the fire pit nice and toasty in the driveway for us when we returned from showing Victoria how we Trick-or-Treat in the United States. Next year Chris wants to have an Apple Cider Bar set up.

I used Simplicity Pattern 1797 as a guide. A little tweak here-and-there never hurt no one. ;)