Little Ghosts

 A few months ago while I was browsing Pintrest I saw the cutest little canvas with ghosts made from children's footprints. I knew it was something that I had to do this year. I have done a few things with hand print in the past but never footprints. It was so simple to do just a pre-stretched canvas from the craft store along with white and black paint.

I really wish that I had done something like this last year while there feet were still tiny but I am sure that next year when I pull out the Halloween stuff I will look at this and think the foot prints are so little.

Halloween Crafting

It is officially October so yesterday I busted out all of my Halloween decorations. It was also the first cool day we had that required the kids don jeans and long sleeved shirts so why not Halloween shirts.I have seen all these great ideas to make shirts using freezer paper as stencils on some of the blogs I read an on Pintrest so I decided to give it a shot.

I found some clip art images I liked and made them big enough to put on a shirt then I printed them and traced them on the the freezer paper. I used an exacto knife to cut out my design, ironed the stencils onto the shirt and painted. All in all it was pretty easy. They turned out great I did a pumpkon for Hailey and a ghost for Ryan.

I also decided to dress up the mantel with some frames, and Halloween scrapbook paper.

The house and kids are now ready for Halloween!

4th of July Subway art

I have been to several peoples homes that had great subway art that they changed out for the seasons and holidays. I thought that they were such a cute idea and figured I could make some of my own to display at the house. My first attempt was quite sad but then I found this great tutorial over at I Am Momma Hear me Roar using Picnik.  It took a bit of playing to figure it out but this time around it worked much better!

The first one I did was a 5x7



The second one I can not take total credit for I found a free printable on the web and I apologize as i did not save the link to give proper credit. I could not get it to print to the size I wanted so I used the layout and made some changes to the fonts and words to get what you see below.

Fourth of July Craft

Recently I have started to change out some decor with seasons or holidays, and decided it was time to bring out the 4th of July stuff. I saw this cute idea over at eighteen25 for framed letters and decided to give it a try. They used wooden letters for theirs but I decided to use glitter card stock for mine.

I started with wooden 5x7 frames from Michael's and painted them white.

Then I found a font that I like on the computer and blew it up to a size that fit the frame then printed them and cut them out to use as a pattern. I traced the letters on the back side of the red glitter card stock (be sure to trace the letters backwards so it will be the correct direction when you cut the letters out),and cut them out.

I glued the letters to a printed background and then put them in the frames.

Bow Organizer

My 2 year old daughter loves is obsessed with her hair bows. Hailey did not really have much hair until she was about 18 months old and since then she has accumulated quite the collection of hair bows. We get up very early on week days and she is usually half asleep but she always reaches up to her hair to check to make sure she has a hair bow in and if she doesn't she will let you know she needs one. (She also thinks ponytail holders are hair bows right now)

Her bow collection was a mess in the top drawer of her dresser so I decided to do something to organize them.

I have seen bow hangers at arts and crafts festivals but didn't want to pay $20 for one. I picked up a pre-cut wooden butterfly from Micahels and then painted it to match her room using acrylic paint I already had from a previous project.  I glued a wide ribbon to the back to use to attach all of the bows to and to hang it on the wall. I decided to use thumb tacks to attatch it to the wall and make them look like antennas. I hung it up in Hailey's room and put her bows on it and realized that I should have used a longer ribbon!