I’ve been craving to craft lately, but with a very needy newborn it’s proven more difficult than I anticipated. Luckily my husband had a few days off work and since he was home to care for the baby I decided to do a little family project. I love to document the growth of our children in our life and decided I would make a little art for the hallway incorporating that.

So I hope you all are having a great Valentine’s day!
This year, both my kids are older and there were no organized exchanging of those cute little valentines.  However, my daughter and I made some for her to pass around to her friends.  They were a big hit at school.  We had only made 30 of them and when she got home she said “Mom, we totally should have made like 50!”   I’m so glad they were a hit.
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We made several cute, gorgeous and even funky hairbands with a few supplies leftover from other crafts, a few purchases at a dollar store, and hot glue! Check them out!

Kacie and her friend, Kyra, had a product market at school today. They decided to make flavored lip glosses to sell. Look how cute the turned out! I love how they colored the labels differently.News today is that they sold out pretty quickly! I’m not surprised, they made me one (lemon berry flavored) and I’ve been using it since last Friday night!

Wanna see how they made them???

Ok, ok… corny title…
Kacie is learning to sew.

Today she worked on a pillowcase.

She had a little help from me.

But mostly she did it all by herself!

I think she did great and we’re even going to buy her a brand new pillow…

For her new pillowcase!

That project spurred an interest in sewing school supplies, so we found this handy little tutorial from Kirin Notebook for a reversible notebook holder. Kacie’s making one her own, but I finished one up for my precious and adorable niece Katie.  Isn’t she just too cute …