This was Tuesday’s first real Halloween. I mean she got it. When I told her earlier in the week that we would go around knock on people’s doors and they would give her candy she said, “WHAT?” It was awesome.
We did a fun craft yesterday I wanted to mention. I cut out pumpkins and face shapes from the silhouette and let her go to town with them:
I was very inspired by this blog post.
Tuesday was very proud of her creations!
Tuesday had been saying she wanted to be “candy” when I asked her earlier in the month. I had no idea what that meant since her idea of candy is a cookie or something. I was changing her into jammies one night and saw the old polka dots pants I had given my god daughter years ago. I searched around and yes, we had a red shirt, so ladybug it was!
The only things I had to buy were a black headband, some pipe cleaners and pom poms (also awesome ribbon from my mom: Lipstick Red Georgette for the “backpack” and Lipstick Red Ribbon with Braided Edge for the shoes). If I had to change anything I would have put the antenna on a hat since it’s so wet and cold here on Halloween (I just carried an umbrella right over her when it was really raining, and she has a double layer of shirts on).
The back was the best part. All I did was paper mache over a balloon, let it dry and pop it. Then I cut the edges clean and painted it. I love how it turned out (in case you’re wondering I went for the Coccinella septempunctata or 7 spot ladybug since they are garden helpers :)).
Tuesday “pick me up please” Garrison was insane trick-or-treating. She walked at least a mile and probably would have gone longer, but the bigger kids were coming out and they sprint up and down staircases. Plus it was pretty cold and got really dark really fast. All in all a great night. I let Tuesday eat whatever candy she wanted, and then the candy fairy came and took the rest of the candy and left a surprise (a great idea I read about on Amanda’s blog).
Papa had to work so she made sure to show him all her scores.
And for nostalgia’s sake: 2009, 2010
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life. -
I’m excited to say I’m going to try Project Life next year. Sarah is in too, and I just saw Paula’s post so she’s doing it too. What is it? It’s a kind of all in one yearly scrapbook with special divided page protectors that you can fill with journaling cards, pictures, or bits and bobbles of your life. I don’t think I’ll make a spread a week, just more keep the life in order for this book. I’ve held off doing it for a while for a couple of reasons. 1. I wasn’t sure what it would do to my “regular” scrapbooking. But I think it will be a nice counterpoint. 2. I didn’t have any where to put it. I was afraid that if I couldn’t leave it out I’d never work on it. I’m going to talk my brother into making me a big tray for the top of the black dresser in my living room so I can leave it out along with journaling cards and a few basic supplies. Bj is excited about the project too so I’m hoping we both fill in the blanks of our lives in this thing.
From my new turquoise core kit (all the components are on the products page). I love these cards. I’m also planning on getting the clementine core kit to mix it up (you can see detailed pictures of all the different kits here). Besides loving the designs of the products a few things really sold me on trying it out for 2012 (2012?!?!). First of all the amazing examples all over the web. Lisa, Ali, Liz, and Marcy are just some of my favorite examples (I’ve linked to their project life pages). I just love how different everyone’s looks. My favorite thing though is all the bits and pieces of life. The drawings, the notes, the receipts, all that stuff. I love it, I collect it and I never do anything with it (or rarely). So I’m super excited to get that part of my life into books. Also to really free up the “classic” pages to stories I really want to tell, instead of making sure all the things I think should be documented are. I sure wish Grandpa had this type of system (I need to take a picture of his albums to show you!).
Sarah and I had an impromptu craft day last weekend and I didn’t want to haul out all my stuff so I decide to work on filler cards for next year. I figure I’ll have lots ready to go to make it easy for me to stay on top of this project.
I love the idea of artist trading cards, but never got into them, so I’m really looking forward to working with these little tiny canvases within my bigger pages.
I used last years card size (they are slightly bigger this year). I don’t think it will bug me, but in case you’re wondering the new size of the cards is 2 7/8″ x almost 4″. Making these was so fun!
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