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Halloween!

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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We had a fabulous Halloween this year! It all started over a week ago at the church, continued with Trick or Treating with friends, and ended with a sleepover at Poppy’s house. I think it was a success.

Molly decided months ago that she would be Pippi Longstocking, with Mr. Nilsson:

pippi

Gabe was a doctor:

doctorAnd they somewhat cooperated for a joint picture:

togetherThen we headed off and met up with friends:

m,g,h,hAnd then joined more friends:

the crewAnd had a ball going from house to house with the T-Rex following them all!

trexOur final stop, as always, was my dad’s house for supper and this year, a sleepover. Dad always dresses to match his pirate friend:

poppy caseThen I headed home to get ready for my own Halloween party at Emma’s house!

the adult crewEmma magically changed from a T-Rex to She-Ra and naturally had her sidekick, He-Man along for the ride. We were also joined by BatDad and Jen! And although, according to my brother, I look like a Popple, I am actually the Cheshire Cat. However, the popple idea is good!

So fun times all around – good food, lots of junk, and entertaining costumes – all that Halloween should be!

Cheers!

S.

Trunk or Treat!

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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This past Sunday our church held its annual pumpkin carving night. Yes, our church celebrates the pagan holidays. No, we don’t care, we actually love how spirited they are. Yes, we had an awesome time!

molly

This is always an event the kids look forward to – we bring our pumpkins, the church has templates, snacks, and games available, and we have fun. This year there were tattoos and face painting as well so the kids really had a great time.

gabe

Gabe picked out a template and after Darrell gutted both pumpkins, I drew the design on and he carved it out:

gabe pumpkin

Molly, of course, didn’t want a template, she wanted a bunny. Sitting. With kind of floppy ears. Friends, I cannot draw. Not even a little bit. Sigh. This is what I carved out for her – luckily, she was happy enough with it!

molly pumpkin

After the pumpkin carving all the kiddies (who had been told to dress up), lined up and went to the parking lot for a round of Trunk or Treating!

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Have you all heard of this? I hadn’t and it’s the most genius idea ever! All the cars lined up with their trunks (or the boot as my friend Emma and my stepfather would say!) pointing out into the parking lot.

Now, to backtrack a little, before the kids went up the adults were told to go get ready so Darrell went to open the trunk and get the candy ready. Then I got a text:

text

When we went out, I got it. These people are seriously *into* Halloween.

car2

All the trunks were decorated. There were lights, and decorations, and smoke machines (really) and people pretending to be decorations but would then come to life.

car1

One car had a seemingly benign setup – there were bags of chips so you could just take one from the trunk. And then a hand would grab you and yank you in. Molly and Gabe could not get enough of that one – they thought it was hilarious!

car

To say they had the best Halloween ever is not an exaggeration. The fact they get to go door to door and do it all again on Saturday? Icing on the cake, my friends, icing on the cake.

Cheers!

S.

12 on Twelve | October 2015

22 Thursday Oct 2015

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This week got a little crazy and so I’m late with a post – sorry all!

I haven’t posted on of these in a while but I’m still doing, and loving, the 12 on Twelve pics – here’s the October bunch, taken on Thanksgiving Day.

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  1. Loving Mom’s spare bed in Eastport
  2. Molly and Gabe’s favourite place – their “cupboard under the stairs.”
  3. watching movies on the long drive home.
  4. gorgeous weather as we drove through Terra Nova Park
  5. talking to Nana
  6. taking a selfie with Donna
  7. selfie with Mister Gabe
  8. sideways selfie!
  9. Gabe and Sydney picking red currants
  10. Thanksgiving dinner
  11. watching The Voice
  12. bathtime

Cheers!

S.

Book of Me – Kid Style!

02 Thursday Apr 2015

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I was making a LO for something special (check back tomorrow!) and Gabe, of course, wanted in on the action. I set him up with a sheet of cardstock, his box of supplies and told him to go to town!

gabe is 5

Don’t you love that moustache? He asked for “the right kind of picture pen” to draw it on! Also, he obviously likes the shimmer as much as his mama does – not only did he add silver alphas and use a silver gel pen:

gabe is 5 title

He also insisted on ColorShine mist and star sequins:

gabe is 5 - shine

I did the mist tapping – I let him one other time and I’m still cleaning up the mess, lol! – but he told me what colour and exactly where it needed to go.

Naturally, when Molly came home from school, she had to do her own LO:

baby me

Unlike me, she likes the multiple photo, interactive idea:

baby me- open

And finally, a sneak peek of Gabe’s birthday plans. I borrowed a stamp set from my friend Cathy to make the invites and Gabe wanted to make a poster. Apart from me lining up the buildings along the bottom, he did everything else himself – I think he’s going to be a darn fine stamper!

superheroes

See you all early tomorrow for something fun! It’s also something I haven’t done here in a while! 🙂

Cheers!

S.

A present for our beautiful Maya

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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One last Christmas present to share and a confession – this one hasn’t actually been sent yet. Oops. It’s going in the mail this week though, I promise! #worstauntandsisterever

Anyway…….

I did another name for another gorgeous baby, my awesome niece Maya:

Maya frame

I found a frame big enough for this one but since you can see my fabulous crazy hair in the glare of the glass I thought I’d show it to you out of the frame too:

Maya unframedI like to keep these pretty simple so the letters themselves actually stand out. I do normally back them with patterned paper but the colours of these looked so good on the black fabric background that I left it as is.

I added enamel dots and hearts, plus wood and enamel buttons from Freckled Fawn to the “M”:

Maya frame m

And to the “Y”:

Maya frame y

The “A”‘s have cork stars layered with gems and cork arrows:

Maya frame a

At the last second I also added little vellum phrases from Freckled Fawn to each letter as well – I love how they look, all vintage-y and translucent.

That’s it! Super simple and pretty for my pretty girl! Hope her parents like it when all their presents finally arrive! 🙂

Cheers!

S.

12 on Twelve | January 2015

13 Tuesday Jan 2015

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This is the one project in my life that seems to get finished every year and that I don’t get tired of. This year I’m going to try and get these days into my scrapbooks as well, instead of just on my blog!

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1. standard porch selfie (apparently I don’t get tired of that pic either!)

2. typical daily playroom floor mess

3. working on his fave – a tag bookmark – with a new Prima Boy Doll Stamp, Skylar

4. Sweet Holly came to visit

5. little boy bedhead

6. “Take my picture like this, Mama!”

7. Working on a blanket for bunny, using the peg loom Daddy built out of pencils

8. couch cushion fort

9. Kayleigh-Bug

10. Bad Boots has serious bedhead!

11. Something special for Nana and Grampa Ken

12. night-time snack – so much for healthy eating!

Cheers!

S.

P.S. I’m working on the December Daily blog posts and I promise they’ll be up this week. There will be at least three since I don’t want to overwhelm you with pictures and there are a lot! Check back tomorrow for eye candy, inspiration if you don’t have yours done yet, or ideas to Pin for next year’s album!

Gabe and his funny sayings…

10 Saturday Jan 2015

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Overheard, and said in a very serious tone:

Gabe: I have a case of the hiccups. Oh no.

snow eating gabe

hahaha!

Cheers!

S.

Molly Pocket

19 Friday Dec 2014

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Just in case you thought I only had one cute kiddie:

molly pocket

Yeah. She melts me too.

See the split second change from grumpy to laughing? That’s my girl.

S.

Mister Gabe

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

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You know how you always love your kids but some days it just really overwhelms you? He just slayed me today.

gabe kissesI mean, really. My heart, people, right there. Look at that curl sticking off.

And check out his talent:

monkey card - gabe

So in love with this boy.

S.

A Reindeer here, a Snowman there….

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

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It’s that time of year again friends – crafty kids time! I’ve got a couple to show you today, for a couple of different age ranges.

First up is our reindeer, inspired by my friend Krista. This is great fun for the older kids who can help each other trace out their hands and forearms and then cut them out. For the younger ones you’ll have to do the cutting and assembling but they think it’s funny when you tickle them by tracing!

I used black construction paper for the “antlers” and made sure to trace their forearms so we have room to stick them onto the head:

reindeer antlers

The face was just brown construction paper cut into a wonky oval shape:

reindeer head

Add some googly eyes, a glitter nose, and a mouth and you’re done!

reindeer

We also made snowmen. I bought a bunch of styrofoam cups for Halloween a couple of years ago to make ghosts and I thought they would be great for snowmen too!

For Heidi, who’s two and a little bit impatient 🙂 I simply drew a line around the top of the cup and told her to colour it in for his hat (she picked out all the colours):

snowman colouring

Then she we added eyes, a nose, and a mouth to call him good (I poked a hole in the top of the cup to thread string so we could hang him).

snowman head

For the older kids, I strung three cups together, separating them with buttons tied on the string to hold them apart.

snowman assembly

They added the hat to the top cup, then eyes, nose, mouth, arms, and buttons.

snowman layered

Isn’t he fun? He wiggles around when a breeze hits him, lol! This happens to be the prototype that I made with glitter glue so you can see that you can really add all sorts of fun stuff if you feel so inclined – my two added real buttons down his front! It just occurred to me that you could colour the lip of the top cup to make a scarf too.

Anyone else out there making crafts this Christmas? Link me up – I’m running out of ideas!

Cheers!

S.