Logan, Crafts and School

Logan's favorite thing recently is Mom's iPad.  He is addicted.  Seriously.  I am not exaggerating.  He looks for it as soon as he gets to our house and is completely engrossed in it for hours.  As annoying as that can be when you are trying to get his attention for anything else, it has been a great learning tool for him.  He is amazing with it!  The stuff this kiddo can do amazes me, especially considering he still barely talks!

 

 

A few months ago I found a super cute picture on Pinterest of a sewing machine cover and I thought it would be great to have one!  Mom always keeps my sewing machine covered with towel, but it always falls off then the sewing maching gets so dusty.  I don't use it all that often, but maybe I will now.  So I dusted off the sewing machine and got some cute fabric and viola...I  have a sewing machine cover now!  Yay!  I love it and I do think it turned out pretty good!

 

 

 

Today was Eric's first day of his senior year.  Geez.  I can't believe he's a senior already.  I know I say this a lot but he makes me feel so old!!  Mom wanted to get first day of school pictures, but Eric didn't want too (obviously!) so we just snapped a quick one while he was about to leave.

 

 

On a side note, I start grad school this week.  I will be getting my Masters in Nursing Administration.  I am only going to go to school part-time, since I will still be working full-time and I will be having a baby in the near future :)  The program will probably taking 3 years or so instead of 2 years.  I am excited to get started though!



Being Crafty

Largely due to my unhealthy addiction to Pinterest, I have been extrodinarily crafty lately... for me anyway! I love being crafty, but I am not very creative so I need ideas to get me going.  Luckily Pinterest is FULL of ideas! 

I found two things recently that I thought were easy and great ideas, so I copied :)

Both of these are basically scrapbook paper placed inside a frame with glass.  The glass then can be used as a "dry erase" board!  Genious!

 This one is printed with the words "I love you because..." then you use a dry erase marker to add reasons you love your spouse to leave notes for each other!  Cute idea, right?  We keep it on our dresser since that is a place we will definately look everyday.

Our new kitchen dry erase board is much cuter than buying a plain white board and we can use it to plan the weeks dinner menu!  I just bought a cheap red frame since my kitchen has red accents and used a scrapbook paper with a simple pattern (the pattern also has some red dots, but you can't really see them!)

The third thing I wanted to make was a wreath for the front door.  This time of year there isn't a holiday wreath to use and I hate having the front door empty :(  So I search pinterest for diy wreaths.  I found several that I liked and I took a few bits from each and combined them to make my own!  I knew I wanted it to be a monogram wreath (and since Mom and Eric have a last name with a M and Shawn and I have a last name with a M..perfect) but I wasn't sure what else I wanted.  I decided in the end to use our wedding colors too.  This is what I got.

I had to find some instructions online to figure out how to make the felt rosettes, but I think they turned out pretty good!  Shawn wanted me to paint the M a different color, but in the end I think the white works perfectly!

 I have to admit...I am pretty pleased with my own craftiness :)



Pumpkin Carving!

Shawn and I were out shopping today...enjoying a day with just about nothing important to do.   We decided to wander around Target (what else is better than that?).  We we wandering around the Halloween stuff (if you can find it through all the Christmas stuff that's out already...but that is another story) and I found something that I really wanted.  Well a few things.  Actually more than a few, but we settled on two things.  A really cool clear glass pumpkin shaped candy bowl with a lid and a pumpkin carving kit with stencils of characters from Monster's, Inc.   So cool!

So we decided to buy something pumpkins too and get the decorating going!  I bought a couple of small, decorative pumpkins to complete the centerpiece of my dining room table.

I decided to carve "Boo" in her monster costume.  It was hard!  There were a lot of details, but I think it came out pretty well!   Shawn decided to do the Green Lantern logo (probably because we bought that movie today too). 

I am totally new at the pumpkin carving thing, but I think we did pretty well!  I can't wait to do it again next year!  I also dug out some stuff I bought after Halloween last year and got Marcie in her scary "eyeball" scarf.  She was not really a fan.

She did like the bits of pumpkin she wouldn't stop eating though.  I hope they don't make her sick :( 

I love days like this...all day with my favorite guy!