PE UNO

This doesn't really fit the "everything nice" category,

but I DID make a poster and I want to record

it somewhere for future reference.

I am teaching PE for Bentley's 3rd grade class

this year. 30 minutes once a week,

and it isn't always easy to come up with activities.

I found this one on PE Central.

Hopefully it will keep the kids happy and

moving for at least 20 minutes tomorrow.

Ruby's Quilt

A year or two before Ruby was born,

I was lucky enough to inherit some of

Carla's fabric stash. I loved the colors and

couldn't wait to one day use the fabric in a quilt.

Last spring, I decided to make Ruby

a quilt little quilt for her bed.

It's not exactly what I had envisioned

when I first got the fabric,

but I like the way it turned out,

and am glad that fabric isn't still

sitting in a drawer in the basement.

My mother-in-law, Carla,

did the beautiful machine quilting.

The quilt is going to be worn out by next week.

Ruby is dragging it all over the house.

On the one hand, it hurts a little to see the quilt

being dragged across the floor, and on the other hand,

I am so glad that she likes her simple little quilt.

Little People Halloween Party 2010

This was the 7th Annual Little People Halloween Party

at our house, and again this year we kinda sorta

went with a pumpkin theme.

I didn't get pictures of the treat bags.

They had finger puppets, kazoos,

Halloween stickers, bubbles,

and stretchy skeletons,in a little pumpkin bag

Yo-yo Wreath

I saw this wreath on Samster Mommy,

and after discovering that rosettes were hard for me,

I decided to make a Y0-yo wreath.

Maybe the rosettes would have been easier.

The yo-yo's took a long, long time.

But I do like the finished product.

Baby Gifts

Made these as gifts for some new babies
(along with some onesies).
I didn't have a lot of thick ribbon,
so I used 1 1/2 inch strips or fabric on three of them.

Monograms, Ages, and Dates

These were for my friend Erin's kids,
Milo, and Henry. The one with the birth date

on it at the bottom is one of my new favorites.

MADE by Mikey

Mikey made these for some friends of his.

He did most of the work,

but I helped with the xacto knife.

Once again, we used this tutorial from MADE.

Peace, Love, Lightning, and a Gorilla

For these shirts, I used the tutorial from Dana
over at MADE. The kids picked their designs,
and then painted them on. It was a little tricky
with the xacto knife, but not too bad.

Number Shirts

I made these for the kids, and one for their cousin, David.

Lexi

I made this onesie after I saw a similar one

at The Quilted Bear. The one at the store had
little soft pink yo yo's around the collar.

I wanted a cute purple tutu to got with it,

but found these shorts, instead.

Then, I made a matching burp cloth.

To make this cute onesie dress, I followed

Stephanie's tutorial with her changes.

There's a matching burp cloth for this one, too,

because I liked the fabric so much.

Temple Blocks

The company that helped us make this,

also sells kits to make temple blocks.
I ordered five everyday temple blocks,

and gave them to the kids for Easter.

It took a lot longer than I expected it to.
Each layer had to fully dry before moving on,
and because I didn't want the kids to see me
working on them, it took about two weeks.

I finished the last coat of texture cream

just before we went to bed the night before Easter.

It was dry when we woke up, thank goodness.

Bentley - Salt Lake City

Maxwell - Logan, Utah

Jonah - Mt. Timpanogos

Ruby - Provo
(Poppyseed didn't have Provo as an option, so I used
this photo from LDS.org, cropped it, and blurred the edges.)

Milo - Idaho Falls

Halloween Party Invites 2009

I found these photos when I was looking for the

family tree photo, and realized I hadn't blogged them.
Pretty boring, but this will make it easier

for me to find them this October.

Family Tree

Inspired by this idea and this tutorial.

I've been wanting to make this for a while,

and having to put it together for the YW

finally motivated me to make my own.

Dolphin Party

I showed Jonah several really cute (in my opinion)

party ideas. He even agreed to go along with one,

for a few days. Then he asserted his independence,

and told me that he wanted a Dolphin Party.
What on earth do you do for a Dolphin Party?
Here are the invitations:

For decorations, we hung blue streamers across
the living room and over the kitchen table.
In the living room, we put waves along the walls,
and fish cut outs hanging from the ceiling.
We also blew up a bunch of blue balloons.

When the kids arrived, they colored little fish cutouts.
Later, we held a blue blanket (parachute style)
and the kids dove underneath to find their fish.
After the coloring, we watched a few clips from
a PBS video about dolphins.
We played the "fishing" game, and then
practiced hitting a ball with our faces (like dolphins).
We played Memory with some Go Fish cards,
and Jonah opened his presents.
John got pizza and root beer from Little Caesars,
and for dessert we had brownies (no cake for Jonah).

T-Shirt Dress

My Mom made cute t-shirt dresses for Ruby

and her girl cousins last summer.

Ruby still really likes the dress, but she has
grown enough that the skirt was too short,
and she refused to wear leggings or pants
underneath it. I decided to add a little
fabric to the skirt so she could keep wearing
the dress. Ruby told me she wanted it "longer longer"
so I ended up adding a few rows of fabric.
I had some ribbon that matched, so we added that, too.

Peacemaker

I gave Lesson 9 in Manual 2 today in Young Women.

Mindy suggested sunglasses or magnifying glasses,

and told me what to write on them.

It's so nice to have a creative sister. :)

I bought a bag of 48 small magnifying glasses at

Partyland for around $3.

Bandana Skirt #2

I made this skirt based on V an Co's tutorial,

and using a bandana Mindy bought for me,

along with some extra polkadot fabric.

I had trouble with the elastic on this one,

but the good news is that Ruby will actually wear it.

He wanted a train

The day he came home from school with a note about making Valentine boxes, he knew what he wanted - a train. We found this idea, and changed it a little. Last year, Bentley and I spent a couple of weeks making his box, just a little work in the evenings. Maxwell didn't really want to work on his, so it was the Saturday before it was due we put most of it together. He was happy with it, and I guess that's what matters. :)