framing our artwork.

we had three empty frames hanging on the wall.

solution = each of us draw an animal, color it, sign your artwork, and frame that baby.

it felt as if cheez-its were necessary for our art time...gray agreed.

my parents gifted us this awesome fold-up blanket that we use all of the time - beach, picnics, living room art sessions, etc.

and grandma millie gave gray that cool, crayon concoction - who wouldn't love to have that many color options?!

pretty sure i enjoy the color options the most out of the three of us.

gray is all,

 'i need red, not razzmatazz' 

'kassie, could you please give me a blue crayon?'

i hand him a blue crayon.

 'well, it's not blue, it's wild blue yonder. can you find me the one that says just blue?'

can we briefly talk about how beautiful this next picture of gray is?

i mean, look at those eyelashes. 

love.

Jewelry Maker.

Grandma Millie (Dusty's mom) spoils us with gifts.

The Fed Ex truck has visited us more this past year than it has ever visited me in my entire life.

Let me tell you...that is fun stuff when the doorbell rings, you see the package, and you have NO  idea what is in it.

Anticipation is a wonderful thing.

One of Grandma Millie's presents was an adorable jewelry making kit for Gray.

I saw the word 'kit' and thought we would be using string, beads, making knots, struggling a bit, etc.

Instead, all we had to do was snap the beads together...it was glorious.

Gray was loving it...so much so, that he wanted to keep making more and more pieces of jewelry.

Before bedtime, he managed to create: 

• necklace for mommy
• necklace for Gray
• bracelet for me
• bracelet for daddy
• bracelet for Gray

Here he is modeling one of his necklaces:

Gray smiles when he sees Dusty and I wearing our bracelets...he is pretty darn proud of his creations :)

Beach Trailer

We created some new wall art in these parts.

Bare wall in the living room needed a little sprucing up...

What do you think?

Pretend that the wall is not that shade of yellow and that I took a better picture and didn't choose the filter that I chose.

I like it - it makes me happy...so bright and cheerful...and it makes me smile.

Beach Trailer sign? My favorite.

We decided we are keeping it forever - it will hang in our garage when we make it big :)

And the best part is...no money was spent.

We had all of the supplies on hand.



Gift Idea - Chalkboard Vase

Our friends were kind enough to have us over for Thanksgiving dinner.

After the invite, I kept trying to think of a gift as a thank you.

The hostess LOVES things with chalkboard paint.

I have this thing for reusing wine bottles.

The solution = paint an empty wine bottle with chalkboard paint,

(I searched for chalkboard spray paint and it was nowhere to be found in our area, so I used regular chalkboard paint & put 3 coats on)

write a message on it,

put a 'Happy Thanksgiving" tag on it,

(I found cute Thanksgiving tags here, and printed the one I wanted on cardstock)

and then we picked up some fresh flowers for the vase.

I like how you can switch it up and write/draw whatever you would like on the vase.

 

Wine Bottle Vase

In the previous post, you may have noticed the empty wine bottle I was using as a vase in the background.

I have always thought of it to be temporary - I thought it needed more.

So, yesterday, I went outside and spray painted it.

Spray painting things gets addicting - such a quick, fun, and easy solution...and I had that leftover gray spray paint from the 'Love' wall art we had just finished.

Anyways, I wanted to try something new...so, I put rubberbands around the bottle before I spray painted it.

And the result:

I used primer spray paint because it was the only gray paint they had at our local hardware store...it worked great and I only had to do one coat.

I am on a project roll - my mind is racing, trying to think of what I should do next!