BRACAU 27 BLOG'S: Creating

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Our Day

Today there was:

reading. By ourselves and with good friends.

sprucing up of the nature table and adding a new addition to it (the beautiful postcard)! There was also some serious dreaming of things that would be great to have for our nature table being done by this mama. Oh, the possibilities!

time spent outside. Though due to the high temps and humidty not nearly as much time out there as we would have liked.

and time spent creating things for a very special persons birthday on Friday!

And so begins the week leading to Dave and Grace's birthdays. A week filled with wonderful preparations and ending with lots of cake!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Welcome

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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Our Splendid Napkins

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A little over a year ago we made the decission to switch from paper napkins to cloth. We picked up a couple of packages of white dinner napkins from Williams-Sonoma (thanks to Dave's discount there) and have never looked back. It has been a great change and I wish we had done it sooner! We also purchased some napkin rings from an artisan on Etsy so that we could easily tell whose napkin was whose thus allowing each one to be used more than once.

In an effort to make telling the napkins apart even easier (in addition to hiding the stains that some of the napkins had) we decided to tie dye them! Earlier this week, the girls and I headed to the craft store where we picked up a super easy tie dye kit and we got to work. They would choose a pattern from the direction sheet, I would put the rubber bands on the napkins and then the girls worked their magic.

We ended up letting them sit for just about 48 hours before we removed the rubber bands to reveal how they came out. The results were far more fabulous than we could have ever imagined!

Grace is holding the peace flag that we tie dyed (before further decorating) to send to our friends the heart rockin' family! It will be going in the mail on Monday!

Ever since I posted these pictures on Facebook we have gotten so many compliments on how the napkins turned out! I really can't take much credit as all I did was band them. It truly was the girls doing! They did a great job, truly enjoyed it, and had a blast opening each one up! The other question I have been asked is how we got them to be so vibrant. Aside from turning an almost five year old and an almost three and half year old loose on them, we also used the dye as soon as it was mixed up, and we let them sit for almost 48 hours. The directions told us that the longer they were allowed to sit the brighter the colors would be, and clearly that seems to have been the case! It had not been my intention that they would have sat that long, but I sure am glad that is what ended up happening!

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Evening Rhythm

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A few weeks ago we changed the evening routine. After a good few weeks of endless trips up and down the stairs to calm down the party that seemed to be taking place in the girls room at bedtime each night, Dave and I decided that we needed to change things up. Instead of putting them to bed when we think the girls are ready we now put them to bed when we know they are ready. This one change lead to a few other things changing (like the TV staying off from the time we make dinner until after the girls go to bed) and brought with it a lovely new evening rhythm. Some nights we play games, some nights the Legos are brought out, some nights the dollhouse is played with, some nights everyone finds their own thing to do, and some nights (like what's pictured above) it's all about creating. The evening mural was one of those simple projects that turned into something so much more. They easily worked on it for over an hour and could have kept going except for the fact that there was some serious yawning and eye rubbing going on. The simple act of getting out some paper and crayons, of seeing what each person would contribute to this lovely mural was enough to quiet the sillies and let the girls become ready for sleep. Once they were done creating for the night it was up to bed for stories and snuggles. It truly is delightful how one simple change has lead to even more love, peace and joy in our little world!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Building

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Since last Saturday it has been all about building around here. The girls have always loved building with the Duplo's. Earlier last week Grace found some small Lego's and had shown a real interest in building with them. So much so that David took her out on a special trip just to go buy a set of small Legos all her own! From that point on, not a day has gone by where she has not created something with them.

And today it has been all about Connectagons! The Fairy Connectagons have definitely been a favorite since Grace recieved them as one of her Christmas gifts. And of course, if you are going to build with fairy themed connectagons you must be dressed up as a fairy (or at the very least, a princess)!