Happy Friday!

Are these not the cutest little printable ghosties you've ever seen?

I'm willing to bet that they are. Visit Ginger & George for the printable.

[image via Ginger & George]

Happy Friday!

A Little Bit of Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was busy. Here are a couple of V-Day highlights. (Excuse the photo quality, blah blah blah. It was night time, I had my flash on, and a not-so-good photo is better than no photo at all, as far as memory preservation goes.)

Anyway. The Boy made valentines for his grandparents. We started out with the embroidered card tutorial I blogged about earlier, and we ended up with this:

And the cookies. Oh my heck. Delicious.

I used cherry juice in the frosting. Pink, cherry-flavored frosting is better than red dye #40 any day--and especially on Valentine's Day.

Fingerprint Shamrocks

...in the dark!

Just kidding--I forgot that I had the flash on when I took this photo. I promise that we were doing this craft in the middle of the afternoon, with the blinds open and everything.

Anyways.

We're on a home school break this week, doing all kinds of Irish-y things. (I stole our schedule from Megan--we school year-round, with a break every few weeks, and I try to make the breaks fall just before a holiday so we have time to do holiday stuff.)

This wee little craft is pretty simple--just make green fingerprints for the shamrock leaves and use a green pen to draw the stems. I made a shamrock with four leaves first, and Little Boy went along with it for a few minutes, but then he informed me that shamrocks have three leaves and he made only three-leaved shamrocks after that. So there.

Birthday Queen

Little Boy helped me make a birthday crown for my mom's birthday last month. I did the cutting, he did the sticker-choosing and -placing.

The Yarn Octopus Looooves You

Octopus. Valentine's Day. Hmmm...

 

I've been trying to use up some of my yarn scraps. I used this tutorial to make a yarn octopus out of some pink yarn that I wasn't using for anything else...and then realized that the octopus just happened to match my Valentine's Day decorations. But what does an octopus have to do with Valentine's Day? 

I don't know. Octopuses (not octopi, fyi) have lots of arms, so...they're good at hugging? That's Valentine-y, right? I'm going to go with yes. Because the octopus looks pretty darn cute with all my other pink decorations.

This, That, and the Other

A few random photos from the last week.

Here's our laundry waiting patiently by our front door. We own a washer and dryer, but our subsidized housing complex doesn't have washer/dryer hookups. Thank goodness for my parents, who are kind enough to let us do laundry at their house instead of at the laundromat.


Maybe you've noticed that Little Boy likes hats. His favorite right now is "Daddy wasside hat". Extra points for you if you can translate that from toddler-ese.


I don't know what Little Boy thinks he's doing when he gets this close to the camera, but he does it alllllllll the time.


I made a "mailbox" for him to play with out of a shoe box and index cards (yes, he's wearing Daddy's wasside hat and a backpack shaped like a monkey). He liked it even better than I expected--he played with it for an hour after I put it together. Notice his trademark stuck-out tongue. Mailing stuff is hard.