Spiders and bats and Halloween fun!

23 Thursday Oct 2014

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I love Halloween. Love. It.

I love Christmas more but don’t like the crafting aspect as much – weird.

There’s just something about making ghosts and bats and spiders that makes me happy so the other day we made some creepy crawlies while the kiddos had a Professional Development Day off school.

See how happy Molly is about getting her picture taken? Haha!

Here’s the three of ours together (Poppy had already taken hers home):

I went with regular googly eyes but the kids wanted coloured ones, of course! I’ve almost run out of my round coloured eyes but found some oval ones the other day (for you local peeps who have been asking, I found them at the dollar store in Mount Pearl!) and I think they look pretty awesome! We obviously used egg cartons, black paint, and googly eyes. For the wings I had some sticky back felt but paper would work just as well.

We also made spiders but I only have a picture of mine:

Isn’t he cute? I had the idea and wanted to make him *now* but had no pipe cleaners so we painted wooden skewers and broke them up for legs – I actually like how it looks that way! He and Mister Bat:

have become two of my faves! Now, to come up with a new ghost idea….

Cheers!

12 on Twelve – October 2014

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Another 12 on Twelve! Before you start I should forewarn you of baby overload – my best friend had a baby on the 12th and my brother is home with his new baby. Enjoy! And to all my fellow Canadians – I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend full of food, family, friends, and good times.

1. Playing games on Daddy’s iPad.

2. Morning drive home through Terra Nova Park from Central Newfoundland.

3. Porch selfie.

4. Sweet Baby James! He’s only about 15 hours old. 🙂

5. Happy parents.

6. Old friends, new baby.

7. Baby Maya is home for a visit!

8. Molly loves her new cousin.

9. Harvest bread for Thanksgiving dinner.

10. Birthday cake!

11. Laundry time…

12. My bed buddy.

Cheers!

12 on Twelve | September 2014

13 Saturday Sep 2014

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Another month, another 12 on Twelve – but this time my Nikon is on the fritz so I took all the pics with my phone. Not sold on that process, my friends, I miss my camera!

1. early morning boot camp – let’s go!

2. waiting for his ride to school – he loves kindergarten

3. making Aunt Madeline’s Blueberry Buckle

4. kitchen dance party!

5. crazy Ella, she wouldn’t come in out of the rain, just sat there looking pathetic

6. play date in the dirt – they had sand everywhere!

7. home again and enjoying blueberry dessert before lunch

8. Mm worksheet

9. quiet time, for all of us!

10. craft time after school

11. finishing a canvas donation for The Sunshine Foundation silent auction

12. evening treat – Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company peanut butter cups and Reese’s Pieces caramel apple

12 on Twelve | August 2014

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

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1. The longest part of the morning – getting Molly to drink a cup of milk

2. Gabe building Legos – a super Chi warrior

3. It’s Valentine’s Day at Scamper Day Camp

4. porch selfie, of course

5. labeling all the new school supplies

6. snack time

7. Spiderman swimming goggles

8. Butterfly princess #1 – Miss Layla

9. printing quotes for my summer canvas class

10. drawing a picture – “Look mama, it’s me and you but I’m bigger.”

11. Butterfly princess #2 – Miss Molly

12. bedtime…

Overheard – M&G

18 Friday Jul 2014

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background: The kiddos are in the basement trying to get rid of a big creepy crawly bug of some kind…..

Gabe: I’m freaking out!

Molly: No, Gabe! You have to save us!

Gabe: But I’m really freaking out! (he sounds pretty excited to me. Just saying. 🙂 )

Molly: You’re Gabe the Brave, you can do it!

(Gabe comes upstairs): I need socks and shoes.

Me: Why?

Gabe (looking determined and thrilled): So I can squash it dead! Yeah! (insert fist pump here)

Gabe the Brave – bug killer extraordinaire

They’re a blood thirsty crew, my lot.

For the record, he squashed it dead *and* cleaned up the bug guts!

Party hair and a WINNER!

14 Wednesday May 2014

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Big Picture Classes, giveaway winner

Almost every morning Molly and I have a fight about her hair. I want it up, or at least back in a hair band. She doesn’t want it brushed.

So imagine my surprise this morning when she declared that she wanted “Party Hair.”

What’s that, you say? Good question. It’s the same one I asked.

It turns out that “Party Hair” has one side up in a bun like a balloon and the other side left out like streamers.

I saw this all going terribly badly. However I forged ahead and, being the genius that I am, got it done. We had the bun/balloon on one side and for the “streamers” I twisted the other side up. It almost went downhill at that point but when I assured her that no one would ever let streamers just fall straight down, they always have to be twisted up to look more party-like, it was a go.

And here’s the final product – she was pleased as punch:

Phew. Morning crisis #1 averted.

Now, to share a little something else with you all:

Haha! Just a fun little sneak of the Paperie June Card Kit – I went outside the box on this one, my friends!

And finally, WINNER!!!

The lucky recipient of the spot in Big Picture Classes Art & Science of Scrapbooking Workshop is Bernadette – I’ve emailed you! Congratulations and enjoy!

P.S. Didn’t win the spot? You can sign up right here – it starts tomorrow!

12 on Twelve | March 2014

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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1. Lego people – always a favourite around here (especially the pretzel girl – Molly says it’s her because she loves pretzels!).

2. selfie in the porch, as always.

3. more snow…… blerg.

4. getting photos ready for Keeping Track of Life with Krista.

5. drawing and writing by Gabe. He’s learning to draw hearts (he traced these) because Molly always draws hearts.

6. Miss Rosie

7. reading during nap time.

8. my nap time companion.

9. Molly made a snow~~man~~ woman – Precious Elizabeth. I kid you not.

10. math time. More blerg.

11. dot-to-dots, his favourite. Not sure why he’s colouring with a pencil but whatever.

12. Spark time – painting with a local artist tonight.

Gabe and his funny sayings…

21 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Gabe had a little adventure and lunch out with my best friend late last week – just the two of them. Over lunch they were talking about favourite foods.

G: I love peanut butter.

S (my friend): We don;t have peanut butter. It would make Rachel sick and she would have to go to the hospital.

G: Oh. Well, if Molly picked up a fork and stabbed me in the eye, I’d have to go to the hospital too!

I’m not quite sure where I got him…

Handprint Advent Tree

02 Monday Dec 2013

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Well, it’s the beginning of December and around here that means the beginning of Christmas crafts! We did a fun and easy one today that included some paint – always a winner with little kiddies!

First, I painted everyone’s hands green and stamped them on watercolour paper to make trees. I definitely recommend Tempera paints for this, they easily wash off surfaces, clothes, and skin!

Once the trees were done everyone got a paintbrush and were told to paint a bunch of colours without mixing them into mud – and they actually did it! Mud colour is the norm around here for some reason…

Although the paints dry quickly, a lot of water was flowing on these so I gave them a quick blast with my heat gun to speed up the process. Then, with “help”, I punched 1″ and 3/4″ circles from the paper to make ornaments.I also cut a star from some of the yellow painted sections. All in all, we had 23 circles and one star per child which they then stuck to a sheet of glue dots. We started with this:

and this:

And ended up with these:

And these:

And now we’re all ready for the countdown! Since today is the second they got to pick out and stick on two ornaments, saving the star until Christmas Eve.

Cute, hey? He insisted on making a funny face – no way was I getting a reasonable picture out of him today!

There’s still plenty of time to make your own – it might even be fun for the whole family to have trees!

Handprint wreath (activities4kidz.wordpress.com)
Advent Tree: Completed Tree – First day of Advent (makingandcreating.wordpress.com)
Easy handprint Christmas wreath for kids (nurturestore.co.uk)

Halloween!

07 Thursday Nov 2013

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Halloween

So. Halloween was pretty epic this year.

We had a fall fairy who morphed into a pirate for the actual door-to-door part of the festivities:

and Terry the Fox,who carried an awesome sign with him.

There were of course the parties at school, and Sparks, and we naturally had one here!

And it was very loud in my little house with all those hyped up kiddies.

Then the trick or treating began and my two were 100%, wholly into it this year.

To make it even more fun, their friend J went to a few houses with them and he was so excited that he was literally jumping up and down on the doorsteps!

Isn’t he the cutest?

A few visits to friends, and we ended the (very cold) evening at my Dad’s, as usual, for a late supper. Fun times, a fair amount of sugar, and two very tired little people.

It was awesome.