Thanks!!

Thanks to Mom for covering for me while I was away!
Great photos (show-off) to view while I was gone.

If you missed them, check here at Photo of the Day for all the shots.

I’ll be back with “tuesdays for tea” tomorrow and a few holiday re-caps this week from our 3rd annual California Road Trip!! We ventured from Vancouver to Oceanside (Carlsbad), CA and back in 10 days. In case you’re calculating, that’s almost 6 days of driving and only just over 4 days of “fun”… Met some very nice ‘Mericans, saw Canuck jerseys in Disneyland, “surfed” and completely memorized every last detail of the inside of our mini-van…

(Boo was in there s’where with me… I look veeeeery serious!)

Ok – off to finish unpacking, do laundry, update myself on life this week and just STAY HOME for a bit .

Crafting Time – Part 4

Yes, Part 4! I’ve put only 6 crafts per post because I personally can’t read past two or three paragraphs without coming to the end of my own attention span – I’m giving you all the same courtesy . Who wants to read a post that’s 50 photos long?! So, here we go one more time.

Yes, even our pumpkins get downright crafty! One year we eve had one with little white lights poking all around it. These ones are an owl and an… anteater?? Can’t remember. We’ve had some pretty impressive ones around here, though. I’m pretty sure I remember these templates being in a Martha Stewart mag.

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It’s a bit hard to tell what this particular craft actually IS by this photo… We bought dollar store colored sponges, cut them into strips and tied 6 or so together to make water bombs! Then we put up barriers, like the trampoline on edge, and bombed each other away. They also made good, fun, wet, baseballs to hit with a bat for a splash. And far easier to “fill” than those fussy water balloons!!

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This craft was a great birthday gift for our then-4 year old niece/cousin. B painstakenly drew out the Dora and then her and A decorated away, front and back. She got to wear it the whole day – the whole year!

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Nothing is safe from a crafty soul – not even breakfast. With tubes of raspberry sauce and spray-whipped-cream, anything is possible!

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“Craftiness” around here not only includes food, but also clothes. B bought this “Gr 7 Grad” dress during our trip to Paris, and then sat and sewed on row after row of matching colored beads around the bottom rim and top collar. Way to go, B! It was a very rewarding craft – she was so proud of it on her “Grad” day.

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I can’t remember what we did with these after we went to all that trouble to make them, but at any rate, here they are! I’d found a dough-bead recipe online and away we went from plain round to super fancy. Dough-beads were fun to make, that much I do remember.

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Keep tuned for more craftyness!