Sunday morning my oldest has drawing classes, and he was refusing to go recently because he was “too busy” pretending to be a cowboy. He and his brother were both galloping around wearing cowboy hats. After I promised that, he could return to playing cowboys after drawing he dropped the hat and off we went. As soon as we returned, I was roped into their pretend play.
“Where are your horses?” I asked
“We don’t have horses,” they said
“Do you want horses?” I asked
“YES” they said
“Where do we get some?” they asked
“We make them,” I said
Dress up
On the eleventh day of Christmas…
On the eleventh day of Christmas I was crafting for a birthday. Just a few days after Christmas its my nieces birthday. I have two boys, four nephews, and one niece so its very rare that I get to make anything pink. It is always nice to switch up the colour scheme and get a little pink in the mix. I made this superhero cape and crown for her birthday present.
If you are interested I sell them here on Etsy.
King of the Castle
Whenever I get out crafting supplies one of my kids asks what I am making. When I told my oldest that I was making crowns to give as birthday presents for a couple of upcoming parties, he requested one. I had a crown pattern drawn with stars on it and when I showed him he requested more points and to change the stars to diamonds. So this project was designed by my oldest and sewn by me. He is my biggest critic, greatest source of inspiration and the king of the castle. At least one of the kings of the castle, my youngest is challenging him at every step. No one around here wants to be the dirty rascal.
My youngest is yelling to the neighbourhood “I’m the king of the castle you are the dirty rascal”. He is also sporting his superhero cape and his love shirt.
If you are interested in making a crown here is a pattern. If you are interested in buying one here is a link to my Etsy store.
Superhero capes
If you could choose a super power what would it be?
At a party this weekend I was asked what superpower I would chose if I had the option and my response was the ability to fly. Most people wrote something about reading thoughts or controlling people with their minds. Thinking about it now flying might not be the most practical super power but it sure would be fun. In keeping with the flying theme I made all of the super hero’s in my life personalized capes for Christmas. And if you are interested I will make one for you too, click here for details.
When you have more than one child I find that there is fighting over everything. Having personalized toys helps cutting back on the fighting (at least when they can recognize their own names).
Up, Up and away.
Halloween – Garbage picker?
I stooped to a new low this week in my pursuit to make a milk bottle skeleton. I went around my neighbour hood on the night before recycling day looking for milk cartons in my neighbours recycling boxes and I dragged Sasha with me. Let me tell you that I have the best neighbours ever they actually wash out their milk jugs!! The skeleton that you see hanging in the background of some of the pictures was made from 6 milk jugs and zip ties. What an awesome almost free decoration, and fun to make too. Here is a link to the instructions.
So I took the easy route this year and bought the kids costumes and did not for the first time in my life dress up for Halloween. I put a lot of though into what I could be, but I just couldn’t find the time as I am nearing the end of my first semester as a graduate student to get a costume together. But just because I didn’t have time to make the kids costumes didn’t mean that Sasha didn’t find the time to make his own! He changed his mind every day during the last week, he was going to be a skeleton, monkey, dog and then a crossing guard. He made his own stop sign with construction paper and a straw and I couldn’t have been prouder. I can’t imagine what he is going to come up with next year but it looks like I might be off the hook. There are a couple of pictures of Sasha in his dog costume too which he wore to the mall to trick or treat.
Making A Life 