100 days until Christmas eve!!

Yes, it is true. I know some of you may think I am crazy, but I absolutely love the holidays. They bring such fond memories of years past. I am making it a goal this year to have everything made and finished by Thanksgiving. I am trying to have the majority of the gifts I give this year be handmade; so I will be posting a lot of the things I am working on over the next few weeks. :)

My piano bench makeover!!! and some other things.

I have been pretty busy this past week~hemming pants for friends, sewing baby gifts and a few extras, making handouts for my girls in yw, and lots of other crafty stuff. Oh, and I finished some Christmas gifts, I am seriously excited about that. I promised my husband I would not be finishing Christmas gifts the night before this year (I have a bad habit of doing that). He doesn't completely believe me. He said he thinks I will just add more at the last minute. :) Anyways, I am super excited about what I got to do tonight after the kiddos went to bed. My piano bench has been in dire need of a makeover. The fabric on the bench was never my fave. and it was time to go when my two little girls took marker to it yesterday. Just click on the picture to see how ugly it really is! YUCK!!

It was just the motivation I needed to get the job done. So off to wally world I went because I had seen the perfect fabric there for exactly this project.

So after an hour or so of work you have this beauty.

I am really happy with how it turned out!!:)

Oh and here are some pics of the onesie dresses I made last week. Feel free to let me know which one is your favorite and how much you think I could sell these for. I am thinking of listing on etsy or ebay; haven't decided yet. Tell me what you think.

This is the one I gave away.

Last thing ~here are the pics of the Christmas gifts I finished last week. They are revamped walmart bags. Trying to be a little greener. O.K. so this isn't a picture of a finished one but my computer ate half of the pictures I took of making these guys so that I could post a tutorial. I think you get the idea. I will be posting a tutorial on how to revamp your bags hopefully this week. They fold up so that you can hook all of them onto a caribeaner(?s/p). Pretty cool, I love them.

The mind of a 5 year old

You only get pics of her feet, but I'm thinking that's all you need. I was mod podging a craft project when Grace wanted me to cut some apples for her, I kept telling her just a minute. When she finally gave up and I realized the onslaught of "mommy, mommy, mommy" had quit I looked behind me and this is what I saw. I made her stand there so I could take a pic. It just cracked me up. She doesn't have the strength to do it with her hands so this girl was using her head and decided her feet would work better. I know not very sanitary cutting your food on the floor.

The little guy trys his first bites...

My little guy tried his first bites of food this week. The pictures tell the story....

Ohh, something mom is letting me put in my mouth.

Yuck! This is not what I was expecting.

No!! Not again!

This is what he did most the time. It was very hard trying to cram the sweet potatoes in his mouth as he kept turning his head and pursing his lips together. Little stinker!

I painted my door! and here's the pic

I primed and painted my door today. It turned out beautiful!! I totally copied a friend from church~she was kind enough to share the color with me. I will have to post pics. of it tomorrow after I take one. I loooove it, it is gorgeous!!

Here is the before. Of course I forgot to take a pic before I started priming. But it was green as you can see.

Here is my gorgeous door after. Sorry about the dirty windows I guess I should've cleaned them. Oh well!

And here it is ready for fall!!! Yay!!

Loooong week!

It's been a long week! I have been organizing my room and closet this week. I am finally almost done. It was frustrating for me to only be able to work on it for short periods of time~between schooling the kids and feeding the baby~it just seemed like I could never get in more than 30 minutes of cleaning; until today when I enlisted the help of my 7 year old (bribery) and 13 year old to help out with Peter. They are so awesome with him. Anyways, I was able to clean for a couple hours and now all I have to do is fold some laundry and clean the bathroom. YUCK!! But it feels good to sit in my bed and not see piles of clothes laying around everywhere. I had taken all the clothes out of my closet to organize it and it looked like my closet had just thrown up all over my bedroom. Ahhh I can finally relax a little!

My boy has a tooth!!

Peter has a tooth! My kiddos don't usually cut teeth until about 9-12 months, so this is early for one of mine. I kept thinking something was up, he has been super cranky and his tongue has been hanging out of his mouth constantly, which is kinda funny. Hopefully, he will keep the biting to a minimum while eating! :) And here he is in all his tongue hanging out glory!
Oh, and did I mention this little guy started crawling 2 weeks ago and is getting into everything now. Then just yesterday he pulled up onto the ottoman and was standing. Yikes!!