Handmade Gifts #1 - Money Pocket

My sweet neice, Maggie, turned 6 today. I made her a little drawstring bag and embroidered her age on it. I put 6 dollar coins in the bag to make a perfectly lovely gift. I hope she likes it!

A Sweet Daisy Party

The girls arrived home from their first week in the Daisy class at our Waldorf pre-school to a celebration fit for new daisies...

For Kai...

I do believe this is my girls' first love letter...to their dear friend Kai who was sick on Wednesday and missed class. Nola and Kira directed their photo shoot, chose their favourite picture and have instructed me to put it on their blog. My goodness, how times have changed.

Hi Kai, I love you Kai. I want to play with you all the time Kai. These flowers will help you feel better soon. I love you Kai. See you on Monday. From Nola and Kira xx

Crafty Birds - Kid-made baby gift

Using fabric markers on plain burp cloths, the girls and boys made sweet gifts for baby Molly.

This is Nola's gift - a mummy with a baby inside.

Party Hats for Molly

To celebrate the birth of baby Molly, Willie and JT and Nola and Kira all decided weeks ago that she needed a birthday party. These 4 friends (all 3 years old) created the perfect celebration for their new little sister and friend.

Of course, I was delighted to sew felt party hats. The kids made cards and decorated burp cloths. We ate tiny cupcakes and sang happy birthday.

Welcome Molly!

Birthday Celebrations

We had a birthday party last week - really an entire week of birthday party especially for me.

I was surrounded by all of my very favourite people - my girls, my hubby, and my folks. It was filled with a spectacular cake, special nature finds, hand-made cards and a fancy new camera.

I feel thoroughly celebrated! 

Red, White and Purple

We cut, glued, scrunched, and wrapped, and headed off to the parade...

Happy Dancing People

My beautiful flower girl

photo by Collin Hughes

Easter

Lovingly-Made Party Hats

We all know my love of home-made party hats...

I have been lovingly making my girls' party hats for the last three years in my own little crafty bubble. Naively, I had no idea that there was a whole world of parents making pretty party hats. I feel so understood!

Petite Productions

The Middleton Family

Inchmark

Alannah Rose

So many ideas, so few birthday parties a year...

My Happy Girls

Recycled Sweaters = Valentine's Kitties

For Valentine's I made kitties out of felted wool sweaters. To see the girls' happy little faces and joyful squeals made every stitch worth it. They took off running down the hallway with their kitty tucked under their arm - it was a precious moment.

K is for Kira

N is for Nola

For more embroidered fun I made hearts using a tutorial from Woolnest.

Tucked inside the pouch was a scroll that Eric made of special words for each girl... 

Nutty

Observant

Loveable

Artistic

Kooky

Inquizative

Rambunctious

Affectionate

The Big 3: A Pond Birthday Party

For their third birthday party Nola and Kira asked for purple fish, butterflies and a frog... a pond birthday party was in order.

I kept the cake simple with cut-outs of the girls from the invitation.

I made party hats with Holley's cute paper characters.

There were many copies...

Attached to the light fixture was a pink pom-pom extravaganza complete with fluttering butterflies.

The kids decorated butterfly wings with crayons and sparkly paper.

A pond party has to have a pond. Eric and I made this one out of 3 yards of felt - it covered the entire room and the kids loved it!

At the end of the party all the kids 'fished' for their party favor...

Purple fish - I lovingly hand-sewed 20. Phew.

The guests put their fish in little to-go boxes...Thanks for Coming!

And a huge thank you to Russ Loyd for many beautiful pictures.

Happy butterflies - my favorite! xxx

The Big 3: An Invitation to a Pond Birthday Party

How do you combine your daughters' very specific requests for a birthday party with purple fish, butterflies, and a frog? We had a pond party!!

The girls' super cute invitation was desiged by the uber-talented Holley Maher.

Holley also created our sundae party invitations, which I'm told still grace many Nashville fridges.

Sunday Sundae - Ice Cream Party

We welcomed the coming of summer with a good old-fashioned ice cream social. I never knew how much fun 20 kids under 5 could be. I can't wait to do it again next year!