Valentine's Pinterest Party & Bookclub

On January 19th, I hosted our bookclub meeting at my house. Since we had made such great stuff at our last Pinterest party, we decided to make this one a combo bookclub/Valentine's Pinterest party!

Kelci's project was decorating a candle with scrapbook paper & twine.

Brooke's project was a heart wreath made from strips of scrapbook paper.

Molly's craft was a canvas painting. You put stickers on the canvas & then paint over the stickers. When the paint is dry, peel the stickers off & you've got a saying. I didn't let my paint dry long enough & so mine didn't turn out so great :( and therefore, I'm not showing it to you!

Mom's project was a cute red wreath that we decorated with hearts & beads. I made mine very simple since the wreath itself was already pretty flashy! (The white candle in the middle is my candle from Kelci's project.)

And my project was wooden block picture frames made with modge podged scrapbook paper & magnets.

Here we are with all our projects!

After we were done discussing the book, eating & making all our Valentine's crafts, we went outside & let the kids play. Alex insisted on taking Clark for a ride in his car he got for Christmas.

And Hannah went rollerblading.

Next time, Molly will be hosting bookclub & we'll be making spring/Easter crafts.

Pinterest Party

Last Saturday, I had my mom & sisters over for a Pinterest Party. We all picked a Christmas craft project & brought enough supplies for everyone to make it. Each craft was very different & they all turned out great!

And it was a lot of fun!

Kelci's project... a modern Nativity scene

(Mine is the one on the left with the headless Mary.)

My project... a Merry Christmas sign

(Mine is the one on the bottom.)

 

Mom's project... a Christmas tree plant stake

(Mine is the bottom left. There are 6 because Hannah made one too.)

 

Molly's project... Joy

(This is mine.)

 

Brooke's project.. Beach Christmas ornaments

(This is mine hanging on my Christmas tree. It has sand from the beach from our family vacation this summer at Santa Rosa Beach.)

 

 

I also had a 2nd project which was Santa ornaments. You can see them in the bottom right hand corner of the picture above. I got busy cooking & forgot to make one though. I have all my supplies so maybe I'll make mine before Christmas.

 

After making all our crafts, Mom, Brooke, Kelci & I went on the CASA Christmas Home Tour in Sienna & Sugar Land. We toured some beautiful homes, one of them was over 11,000 sq feet!

 

I always have such a great time when I get together with my family! And this time was no exception! It was so much fun & we ended up with some great Christmas crafts! We will definitley have to do this again next year! 

 

 

 

O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree

The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we put up our Christmas tree. Addy was all into decorating the tree & was singing O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree the whole time!

Alex just wanted to put the star on top. That's all he really cared about!

 

And then the very next day, I bought a new tree! A much taller tree than our old one. So we had to undecorate the old one & then decorate the new one. But we didn't have enough lights! And the star wouldn't fit on top.

 

So after 4 trips to Hobby Lobby (to get lights, return lights that didn't work, get more lights, & to get mesh ribbon to make a bow for the top of the tree) we got it decorated. And I just love it!

 

And I love this picture of it too!

 

On December 1st, our Elf on the Shelf made his arrival.

 

Alex named him Tiny (his first suggestion was Alex, lol, but I told him that might be a little confusing if both he & the elf were named Alex) and Addy agreed, so Tiny it is.

 

We also started 2 new traditions on December 1st (both ideas from Pinterest.) I wrapped up 25 Christmas books & we've been opening & reading one every night. We're also opening one bag from our Advent calendar each night.

 

 Each bag has either a Christmas craft or activity for the kids to do.

 

One night it was Make Popcorn & Watch a Christmas Movie. The kids snuggled up in Nick's lap while they wathced Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer for the very first time. It was a big hit!

 

One night the bag had snowflake ornaments in it for the kids to paint & glitter.

 

And one night it had snowmen sticker sets in it.

 

So the Christmas tree is up, the house is all decorated & the shopping is almost done. And now we're just enjoying the Christmas season, one day at a time.