Day 90: Happy Easter!!

Hope the Easter Bunny was good to everyone!  He sure was good to our family, in two houses even.  The girls were so excited.  I have really gotten into the holiday spirit this year, making multi-colored pancakes for every holiday imaginable!  Today was no different.  We started the morning with neon green, blue, pink and purple pancakes.  We spent the afternoon/early evening in Thompson with Grandma Lustig, Mike's parents and his sister and brother in law.  With dinner, we had a fruit salad with edible flowers, with which, craft was born.

Last weekend, we were going through boxes and boxes of stuff and I found frosty "laminate" paper that I thought "ohhh, that would be cool to make bookmarks with this fall.  Well, today, as we were leaving Grandma's house, I was thinking in overdrive to come up with a craft for tonight.. i am noticing a trend here, i am not planning as well as i used to be!... and as we climbed into the van, I thought "omg, flowers!" so I went running back to grab the edible flowers.

When we got home, I pulled the laminate sheets, a 12x12 white cardstock, and markers out.  I cut the cardstock into 2x7inch pieces with  my handy paper cutter from Christmas (thanks, Mike, again!) and let the girls at them with markers.  When they were done, we added flowers to them, and laminated them together.  After they went to bed, I added floss tassels.  Now i am wondering if the flowers are going to mold/dissolve, etc.  Time will tell, I guess!

oh, btw, the shaving cream flop eggs- here is a picture of them after i cracked them hahaha.  I guess it worked, just not on the shell! :-p

Day 8- wishing for warmer weather

Well, we are in the midst of a heat wave.  It was 39 degrees and sunny today!  That got me in a good mood, so as I started thinking about what craft to do today, I decided to do something that would allow Penny and Iris a lot of freedom again.  We made flowers!  Mike is having eye issues, so he was home the second half of the day, and as a treat, we all got to do crafts together.  It is a lot of fun when he is home for Craft time.
Pulling out a nice smattering of crafting supplies really turned into creative flowers.  We used a lot of beads and I finally broke out the hot glue gun, wow is that easier to use than Elmer's Glue! haha.
Mike cut out big flower shapes that the kids, and he, decorated.  I made a decent a dent in our supply of pipe cleaners.  Good thing Mike bought us a LOT for Christmas!

 I am pretty proud of our flowers.  Iris loved the beads, and Penny still loves buttons.  I don't know if i should be offended that Mike mentioned that mine is "The floweriest of the bunch"

Mike's Alien Flower.

Honestly, there isn't much exciting to say about today's craft.  It was enjoyable to spend the time with the family together.  I love watching the girls focus on something so much having so much fun.  tomorrow, Iris starts school again tomorrow.  I feel like she has been off for an eternity now.  But tomorrow also starts my next venture, learning to knit!  Wish me luck :)