latest crafting

remember our sweet friends, taylor and lacey, that got married in september?

i made them something for a wedding gift.

found this really ugly tray at an antique shop up the road... i wish i would have snapped a pic of it with the picture that was inside of it... AWful!

 but i knew with a little love it could be something super cute.  so i took it apart piece by piece...

 and reassembled it so that it would be more secure... wood glue and new nails.

and... Ta Da...

 

i spray painted it in teal (my new fav color), put the hardware back on, and inserted some burlap.

did you know that you can run burlap through your printer? (a pintrest realization)

i used embroidery thread to attach a strip of burlap that says, "serve one another humbly in love." from Galatians 5:13

watch out world!

mandy is trying her hand at crafty!

i'm suddenly in LOVE with my sewing machine!

and i made this valentine garland from felt and thread! so easy and it makes us smile! i got the idea from here.

i also saw a rag quilt letter post recently that i loved. check it out here.

one of my friends is having a baby boy in just weeks. the name is to be determined so i spelled baby in boy fabric and tucked it into a rag quilt pocket. the back of every letter is done in brown corduroy.

hopefully it will make a cute addition to the nursery or be a fun texture toy for the baby!

tomorrow, tomorrow,

i love you tomorrow... you're only a day away! lance will have his feet in tyler by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon! yeah! i'm so excited i can not even stand it!

in the mean time... our letter this week is b and our verse is eph. 4:32 "be kind and compassionate to one another." today we cut pictures of things that began with the letter b. they were way better at this than i thought... if you will notice... allie found a bottom! HA!!!!once again they had a fun time... anything with a glue stick is fun!

and after a fun activity and a little nap my kiddos spent the evening with some friends so that i could have some down time!!! thank you to chris and sarah for a fun night away!

these are the girls from the small group that we are a part of. the ladies go out together once a month. tonight we went to Don Juan's for dollar taco night! it was yummy!

it isn't getting warmer...

so we decided to make a snowman (thanks to this blog friend)!

didnt' they do a great job. i covered the boxes and helped a little with cutting circles, but they did the rest! and, yes, that is a real carrot nose!

we also pulled out the trusty playdough!

caleb is growing up b/c his attention span has really grown... look at all the bears he made!