beans

The long summer days seem to have gotten to me. We've been so wrapped up in looking for a house (and it's been SUPER frustrating) that I haven't blogged all summer! Well, I'm hoping to take my mind off the housing market, and do some relaxing with these last couple of weeks!

Our church is having VBS (Vacation Bible School) next week, and I signed up to make bean bags for one of the games. Just look what an awesome idea I found for them while browsing through Ohdeedoh.

I am SO making these this afternoon (if Ashlyn ever gets to sleep). They're perfect for teaching letters, or just to look pretty! Even the little ones can participate in filling the bags. Tutorial here at yet another amazing blog, Little Blue Boo.

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With one day to go, Em finally has her costume for the Harvest Festival... a happy little blue bird. It took a bunch of felt, several hot glue sticks, and about an hour to put together... if you're in the same boat check out these EASY D.I.Y. costumes from martha!

freshening up

In other news, I finally sat down to turn out a couple of the projects which have been brewing in my mind for quite some time. Just had to: convince dave to go to home depot (like he needed an excuse),get some time, and, oh yes, i had to find the kitchen table...






Found this FANTASTIC idea for a clothes peg board on "So Tread Softly." it took all of 10 minutes to put together.


some new pillows for the couch (nothing special yet, can't find that perfect fabric)

oh, and here's a photo of the kitchen table now, lest you think i would leave it looking like that for too long!
until next time...