My First Attempt at a "Snippet" Sampler

I'm trying to think of something to make for my

granddaughter Vivianna for her upcoming 17th birthday.

 

I can't think of anything and then I thought of a sampler.

I call this a "Snippet" Sampler.

It's little snips of lace, ribbon, papers, felt and fabric.

I added some buttons, a washer and some charms.

 

 

I put all my "snippets" on 1 1/2 inch muslin squares with felt on the inside.

I still need to sew it onto something.

I think it's nice.....

but I'm not sure if my granddaughter will like it????

Here's hoping!



Viv's Jr. Prom

My second oldest granddaughter went to her Jr. Prom on Saturday.

I can't believe that she's that old already.

I remember when her mom and dad went to their Sr. Prom.

 

Anyway,

here are some pictures of my beautiful granddaughter.

 

 

and here's a picture of her with her sister and brother, Liv and Jesse.

 

 

and then Fatima, Vivianna, Jesse and little Jesse

 

 

I think Jesse and Fatima have 3 great kids!!



Grandbabies

Yesterday was my oldest Grandson, Anthony's, 5th birthday.

I can't believe he's getting so big!

Here's some of the party pictures.

 I finally got to see Isabella!

Isn't she beautiful!?!?

 The Birthday boy blowing out his candles.

and the 2 older granddaughter's, Vivianna, Sabrina and Olivia, with Mallory.

More Spring Break Fun!

I saw this super easy idea on Pinterest and the kids really seemed to have making their own crayon art.  The pin came from the blog Whatever...

I had a bunch of boxes of crayons that I bought for .20 a box before school started and I had some canvas on hand so we were set.

We just used and 8x10 canvas and a box of 24 crayons fit perfect.

I hot glued the crayons on and gave the kids the heat gun

and here's what they made.

and Ta Da!

Vivianna, Mallory, Olivia and Jace with their crayon art.

Beautiful, fun, easy and cheap!

Oh yeah!

Having Fun on Spring Break

I have been meaning to try to make our PlayDough for a long time. 

Jace LOVES playing with playdough and I needed to think of something for the kids to do since they ended up with 13 days off of school for spring break. 

So the Jace, Mallory and 2 of my grandaughters, Vivianna and Olivia got busy.

  The kids did the measuring and picked out the colors they wanted and I cooked it. 

 It literally takes 5 minutes to make a batch of playdough. 

Quick, easy, no mess and fun....that's what I like!

I got the recipe off of Pinterest and it was posted by

Musing From a Stay at Home Mom.

Thanks Erika for the recipe and for a few minutes of my time

 and hours of fun for the kids!

The Girls Kiddie Swap Packages

Vivianna and Olivia were so excited to get there Kiddie Halloween Swap packages!! They came over last weekend and it was all I could do to get a couple of pictures.

Vivianna's partner was Chasen. Look at how creative Chasen and his mom Donna were in the packaging. Everything was in this cauldron with tulle wrapped around it. All of the kids were like, "Wow!" Make sure you go to Donna's blog and check out her pictures of everything and her parties that she has planned for kids. You will be in awe!!

I couldn't get a picture of everything, but there was a really cool cup with glitter and stuff in it, a bobble head witch, candy, and all kinds of little goodies.

Vivianna LOVED everything!!

Liv's partner was Carter and his mom Megan.

Olivia had these cute little rolls in her package that were filled with goodies.

She also got her favorite sour candies, a kit to make her own cards, fingernail polish, barrettes and lots of other things.

Sorry I couldn't get pictures fast enough with all the little hands grabbing stuff to look at it.

Here's what we sent to Chasen and Carter.

This is what I made for Olivia's partner.

Mom said he likes Thomas the Train so I made him a Thomas Tote Bag.

This is the pirate bag for Vivianna's partner Chasen. I love this fabric! I hope both of the boys enjoyed their packages as much as the girls did!!!

Thanks for a wonderful swap Chasen, Donna, Carter and Megan!

Water Fun!

Last night my kids and grand daughters decided to play water slide. The kids put a hose up on the top of the slide and a sled full of water at the bottom of the slide and then the fun begins. Pretty ingenious!

Vivianna

My 11 year old grand daughter

My Ezie

My Mallory

Olivia

My almost 7 year old grand daughter

and finally my little guy,

Jace

It was only in the high 70's here when they were playing. I bet this would have felt really good for those people in the 100+ places.

A Busy Weekend

We had a pretty busy weekend. Earl and I watched our grand daughters from Thursday night until yesterday afternoon. All of the kids were so good! Here are some pictures I thought I'd share of our weekend.

My son Jeremy and his girlfriend Amanda took me to the hospital to see little Jesse. This is a picture of Jesse and his momma, Fatima.

Here is me with Jesse
(You won't see many pictures of me on my blog, don't laugh!)

My two grand daughters and my three having fun in the sprinkler.

Papa being sneaky with the hose

He's so onrey!

Little Austin had fun in the little pool.

and finally the toads that the kids played with all weekend.

They finally did set them free yesterday afternoon.

We had a busy, but fun weekend! It was nice to have the grand daughters, but just as nice when they left! It seems like I had dirty cups and freeze pop wrappers everywhere. After the girls left Mallory was back over the neighbors house, Ezie had a friend over, Earl had to work and I did some weeding in my flower gardens.

I hope everyone else had a great weekend!