Winter

Last weekend on my way to bring Tay to Karate, Jozie said "look at those trees mom." And would you believe I was lucky enough to have my camera on me. So I dropped off Tay, and we went and took some pictures, and here they are.

I love the contrast on this one.

This my favorite, because I love that Jo is hugging the tree, and she named this place her Winter Wonderland

 

My children having a blast at the ocean.

Weekend Random Roundup

My weekend started Friday (like everyone Else's), I dropped off Zack at his dad's and Jozie went to my mothers. Then I came home, and Jeff had dropped off Tay at her mom's and brought back some shelving that we ended up putting in Zack's closet to organize him better. It looks great.

On Saturday I went to get a tattoo. I did not pass out nor feel like I was going to. I do have a tip about getting a tattoo, and an opinion. My tip, it hurts, but not so much while getting it, it hurts more after , because it burns! My opinion is this, I always here that when getting a tattoo, the outline is the worst part, I however disagree, I find that the color,(or shading in my case) was the worst, note the blood and bruising which came while shading. A great friend of mine came with me while I did this, and if you want tips on getting a tattoo, she has some great ones.

On Sunday I went to Boston with my mother to see The Lion King, I highly recommend you get tickets and go see it, but I do not suggest bringing young children as it almost three hours long. After that we went to a great restaurant on Tremont St., called Sibling Rivalry, and had a great meal.

As of today my tattoo although still bruised a little feels much better, and is starting to look better as well.

Happiness

This is happiness...

Fun Weekend

This weekend I spent a lot of time just making jewelry, and it was pretty fun. I made my wooden bracelets, and then I made these two silver ones.

They were fun and easy to make.

Birthday Art

For my Birthday(back in November) the kids had bought me some paints and wooden bangles for me to paint. Last night I finally made them and here they are.

Valentine's

This year instead of buying valentine cards with little cartoon characters on them, we are going to make them.

We are going to make these butterfly ones for Jozie's class from FamilyFun where they have plenty of great ideas for kids of all ages.

There are also many different ideas and printable's that you could use.

These barrettes are cute and pretty simple to make for your girls to wear next week to get them in the Valentines spirit, even when school is not.

This site has a ton of cute crafts for Valentines day that are pretty inexpensive as well.

Finally one of my favorite sites abcteach.com has coloring pages and worksheets for kids of all ages, and you can print them for free, and you can even print your own little book for the younger kids to read to you.

Fun, and Earth Friendly

On New Years day my mother and I took Jozie to the American Girl store for the unveiling party of the new Girl of the Year. We had gotten there early enough for Jozie to shop, and then went to a dinner party were we could learn about the new doll. (they all have stories). While we were eating we did little surveys to see if we were outdoor or indoor people, and we all talked about things that we could do to help the environment. We had a blast, and learned some cool things.

One of the cool things that they gave us was a few strips of paper, some small beads, a straw, and some string. All these things make a bracelet, like the one above. The cool part of it though is the paper is form an old American Girl catalog (that if you have a daughter you are getting, and throwing away). Now you can make all kinds of things with these materials, and it was easy too. All you do is cut the paper into skinny triangles, wrap the strip of paper around the straw. Glue the end down, (best to use a glue stick). Then put it on the string, and you use the blue beads as separators.

That is it. Easy, Fun , and Earth Friendly Jewelery.