Being a mom of four keeps me pretty busy. So I Pinterest, Google, and craft in between cooking, nursing, showering, eating, and sometimes sleeping. This makes for great ideas, and a sleepy mom, but I don't care. I love it!
Since Riley just started kindergarten, I am new to being a "school-mom" (just my term, y'all may have a different name for it. Like I said I'm new to this! LOL), and having several teacher friends of my own, I know how important a little happy and some volunteer time are. I wanted to make something sweet for her, and something I could possibly sell on the side as well.
I have seen these cute burlap door hangers around town and on Pinterest. I wanted to make one for my house and then I thought one for Riley's teacher would be nice. Now I've been so busy making these for others that I haven't thought about what I want on my front door!
This is the one I made for Riley's teacher. Everyone at his school loves it and I've actually gotten a few orders for more!
I made this one two sided, so she could use it longer
A little side note: the cheap $1 plastic, party table cloths really help protect your table and make for an easy and cheap clean up. Plus, if you're really savvy you can use half of it at a time and make it last longer.
We have been really busy crafting for a conference coming up at church, and I haven't had much time for crafting at home. (Pics of those little projects will come after the conference has started. I don't want to spoil the surprise!) So while I was making these footballs late one night, I forgot to take pics of the "how to" part of these door hangers. I PROMISE, the next one I make I will take step by step pics and post them.
I did not paint the brown on the football, I just bought brown burlap and painted it. However, I painted another one, that I forgot to take pics of, and I had to paint it brown because I made it two sided and my paint bled through, and I think I like that better.
I have tons of ideas of other things to make and am working on designing more two sided ones. If you have any ideas or suggestions on these please feel free to post them!
(I am also working on a set of volunteer coupons for moms to give to teachers, but I haven't perfected them yet. I promise those will be up on the freebies page in a few weeks.)
Now on the the farming part.....
In all this hullabaloo of back to school, and crafting, my dad called and said has decided he wants to raise cows again. Just a few little calves to start off with. This reminds me of my days in grammar school because we did this when I was a little girl. We'd have to get up early in the morning and fix a bucket of milk for the baby calves, walk it down to the barn, and feed them before we ate breakfast and got dressed for school. This was not always a pleasant experience (I got kicked in the chest once), but still, they are fond memories. (at least I didn't have to muck out the stalls!!) There's just something about the fondness of petting a baby calf, even letting it suck on your fingers, and watching that little thing grow into a big ole cow!
So, when Daddy said that he had a two week old calf that he was having to bottle feed I loaded the kids up and we rode over to my parents' house to let the kids see a baby cow up close, and "help out" a little. (and I do mean, a little-they didn't hold on to the bottle too much because the calf kept bucking it, but it was fun!)
Meet Chick-fil-A!!
(A friend called her that, in hope that mom and dad would "eat more chicken" and it's stuck. lol!!)
even baby Jude got to meet the calf!
Riley and Cecily talking to her.
Finn wasn't too impressed. I think the idea of petting something bigger than our dog had him a little spooked.
So, that's all from here, for now. I know it's all over the place today, next time I'll try to have it a little more "together". Check back next week and hopefully I will have some of these projects marked off my list. (Yeah right, I'll have added more, and you know it!)
