and they say “coming Nov. 8th”
October 31, 2012
But Angry Bird Han Solo is roaming the streets right now!
Yay! and finished approximately 1AM Pacific Standard Time!
Yellow rain jacket matches perfectly for wet trick or treating.
Oh, and check out what Mr. Man whipped up for his work costume contest:
and proudly won “Most Cumbersome” costume.
Which leads me to my next question:
Why the f*#$ am I making costumes when he can bust out something like this in a night???
Dad better start steppin’ up with the craft contributions. Mama’s taking a month long nap after this.
Happy Halloween! Don’t eat bad candy but have lots of fun!
a year without craft
October 29, 2012
Can that ever really happen?
So far in 2012, we lost a vehicle, a grandma and a little boy’s appendix, but while everyone is just great, it’s really impossible to lose craft.
We skipped town for xmas so these ornaments never really made it to a real tree:
a low key easter included some family greetings:
as well as some non-craft baked goods:
Yeah, I know. Not overly crafty for 10 months.
Well, Halloween is only a couple days away.
And the following photo probably doesn’t need any explanation:
Crap, I really need to start working on this stuff sooner.
Clock’s tickin!
Craft Dictator
December 5, 2011
It’s birthday crown time again folks. The preferred theme declared by almost 4 year old:
Team Umizoomi!
Yay! Awesome cute little math pattern cartoonies from NickJr. Totally doable!
I’ll get some plaid, cut up some triangles. It will be great!
Then 2 days before the boy’s birthday, we have: Mo Willems’ Pigeon?
Complete with bus and hot dog.
Yep, those crooked circles and drawings were the perfect items for a birthday crown. I really did want to make a Team Umizoomi crown. But after contemplating how long it would take me to get the details just right, I opted for a simpler crown. He really was only going to wear it for one day. And in the end, he was perfectly happy with our favorite pigeon in addition to a dinosaur tail thanks to Miss Running with Scissors.
How has life come to craft dictatorship?
Craft dictatorship has come from the fact that while I know that I have fiberfill somewhere packed in one of the 4 tiny closets in this place, I needed to buy another package with the fabric for the dinosaur tail or else spend 3 nights searching for it.
Same thing for birthday candles. I picked up another pack and somewhere there is a 4 candle hiding. Most likely I’ll find that somewhere around the 9th birthday.
Craft dictating happens because even though it’s been over 2 weeks, I’m pretty sure there is some part of Thanksgiving leftover still in my fridge.
Finally, craft dictation is neccesary because while you put all this time and effort into birthday planning, a little boy wants one thing and only one thing – to play on the ipad all the time:
December has come upon us and in addition to not starting any xmas shopping or decorating, I am completely unprepared and idealess about the whole thing. Mailing presents to family out of the state only moves any holiday deadlines for me up sooner.
While I continue to be in awe of all the awesome crafting for the season, I can’t help but wonder about the moms that make and blog about the utmost perfection of their creations and wish I could really be a robot. Then at least I would be able to get more done.
Xmas ornaments coming soon.
Me: “Well, what do you think about your crown?”
4 year old: “Well, it fits. But Pigeon’s missing the train and airplane.”
That last comment brought to you by Pigeon Love Things that Go.
A costume only a 3 year old could think up.
October 30, 2011
Who hasn’t been seen made revamped recycled or whatever any type of Harry Potter costume for fans of all ages.
The movies are too scary so we’ve never let him watch any.
The books are too long and I’ve never gotten around to reading him any.
What we do have is this:
I’m am so glad that Halloween is over because the month and a half plus I have been working on trying the figure out how the hell to make a Harry Potter Lego costume is time that I will never get back!
Does anyone else feel like Halloween is a nightmare for costume making? It’s like a wedding. You spend all this time planning creating for one day then it’s over and trashed.
Still, I am slightly amazed I was able to turn this:
With not a damn minute left to spare before Halloween.
Be safe and have fun tomorrow. We’re expecting to get rained on.
Here’s more Lego Harry Potter in real life, coming to a door near you!
Oh! And we can’t forget Hedwig!
more like angry hacky sack
June 10, 2011
So we got one of those ipads a while back and I am dead set on not spending any money on apps. I NEED those apple credits for music. But once my husband discovered the free version of angry birds, so did a certain little 3 year old boy. And hey, when you keep scrolling on one of the versions of the game, there’s a link to the Angry Birds plush website where you can buy them. Really, twelve bucks? “Mama, there’s a red one and a blue one and a green one and the black one……..” Then the light bulb goes off and I remembered that I needed to get around to making one of Care’s wonderful recreations and thank god she has a tutorial.
Only her tutorial requires an agreeable sewing machine and something about a free motion foot which I am pretty sure I can’t get for my model. Anyway, I wanted to make them smaller and I used felt instead of fleece. And instead of fiber I used rice as a filler. Which now I wonder if that’s a good idea with a toddler. I imagine little rice grains everywhere from a busted blanket stitch. Or it’s actually heavy enough to knock over other small objects.
This little guy will greet another little guy with his breakfast cereal. And more to come, just you can’t just make one.
Damn it’s late. Happy Friday!
Not a last minute Easter craft
April 22, 2011
There are these moms that work full time and then come home and cook and clean and raise kids and then blog about whatever they blog about. I think they are lying.
They either have maids, or nannies or stay at home husbands cause there is no way they have the time to sit around and blog with having to do all that stuff.
Our crafting has become less frequent and definitely takes weeks to complete than the previous “hey I can whip that up in a couple of days” kick I used to be on. And cards.
We seem to only be on cards lately cause I am not making little felt bunnies to mail to over 25 family members who may eventually just trash them away anyway.
But the “baby boy” is now bigger and everyday wants to “do crafts!” So while at daycare, they do daily art projects and everyday at pickup “Looky, I made” comes out of his mouth and a large painting/drawing is plopped into my hands.
What am I going to do with over a month’s worth or art?
We decided to send it to family for Easter.
Taking various pieces:
We used an egg shaped cookie cutter (you know, the one bought to make cool bento box lunches that I never got around to making) to trace eggs and then mama cut them out.
Little man used glue stick to glue eggs onto blank card stock (on sale 50 pack, 3 for $10, while supplies last @ Michael’s)
Then we cut up some of that annoying green grass ribbon for easter baskets and glued that to the card too:
Insert candid photo of boy taken on only sunny day in weeks at the park (I’m sorry, those photos with the Easter bunny are scary) and:
There goes 3 weekends of crafting out into the mail.
Well, it actually went out earlier this week but I didn’t get a chance to post until now, which title clearly states, “Not a last minute easter craft”
Perhaps not the snazziest card, but, hey, you can only expect so much from a 3 year old. I’ll get him whipped into shape for mass craft production eventually.
Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy!
“Don’t you be stealin’ me gold, lassie!”
March 16, 2011
I don’t know what the hell that is supposed to mean. I don’t know what a leprechaun says. Short of googling quotes from the movie, I already had to spell check leprechaun in the first place.
Anyway. Valentine’s day crafting was non-existent and my family is all “Hey, you have this little boy, right? Can we get some pictures?” So, after finding a leprechaun beard craft to go with the Dollar Tree’s hat (re-sewn to fit a 3 year old, cause all they sell are adult sized ones,) we have this:
Well, that’s the extent of it along with a repurposing of an old valentine’s day card idea with stamps,
It’s raining shamrocks over here!
Well, really it’s just raining. All the time.
Here ya go, Grandma. Thanks for keeping me on my crafting game with subtle guilt.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. May the luck of the Irish be with you all along with multiple pints of your choice!
URBAN CRAFT 
