Chirp Chirp

Boy, you take one week off from posting and then it becomes another and then another and here it has been more than a month since I posted anything in this little space.  Sorry friends and family!  I didn't make a New Year's resolution, so I hereby resolve to be better about posting (course, we all know what happens to resolutions...but I'll make a good effort!).

Christmas is over but I am still going to post some pictures of some of the craft projects the girls and I created over the holiday break.  Love the handmade touch on our holiday mantel!

Decorating the Christmas tree.

The tree themed mantel this year.    I saw the tree branch with hanging ornaments idea in a magazine and wanted to try making one here.  I love it so much that I am working on some non-Christmasy decorations to hang on it for the rest of the year!

Another use for the girls' watercolor paintings.  This time I cut trees out of the paintings and the girls added glitter to them, and to the toilet paper roll tree trunks.  I am keeping these up a while longer too.  I am such a sucker for watercolor paintings (especially ones done by such talented artists :-)

The tree on the left was made by hot gluing multicolored yarn to a cardboard cone from Michaels.  The middle tree was sewn together out of an old, felted sweater.  No idea where the wooden tree came from!

Another cardboard cone at center that the kids painted.  Willow used a snowflake punch and then glued the snowflakes around the "tree".  This one is a keeper!  Two more poorly sewn felted trees in front.

Willow-- always funky.  I swear she is going to be a fashion stylist some day....