Pumpkin Craft

We went over to our Pastor and his wife's house for lunch on Sunday and Mrs. A did this fun craft with Liesel.  Liesel really enjoyed it!

The Dancing Pumpkin Man

Liesel was very proud of it

She had some help putting it together & drawing the face etc.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I haven't done that many crafts with Liesel. This is only the 2nd craft she's really done and the first to hang on the fridge!  Lately I've been getting some more fun craft ideas so hopefully as the rain/winter weather starts to come we'll have some more crafts to do! :)

The Nursery

It has taken me awhile to get the nursery put together for the kids.  I wasn't sure how or what to do to combine both a girl and boy look.  Fortunately  the curtains are yellow and I've been able to tie in Isaiah's quilt with that but as to the wall decorations I wasn't sure what to do.  I had bought two beautiful painted bird pictures from a friend of ours (which I love) but still need to get them frame etc so I haven't put them up.

When I was at a thrift store a few weeks ago I found five framed pictures of the Old-Fashion Winnie the Pooh.  As soon as I saw them I feel in love with them and got them.

 I figured these are the perfect solution for now and when the kids get older and are in different rooms I'll put the other pictures up.  Hopefully by then I'll have the pictures framed! :)

Here's what their room looks like now.  (I'm planning on putting a photo collage above the dresser.)

Zayah's side

Liesel's side

Their cozy little room!

2 years and 4 months later...

Yes, its true it has really taken me that long to get frame put up in the hallway. So now that there, there I need to get photos printed to put in them! Either that or make up stories about the people who "come in" the frames!

Christmas Decorations

As a newly married couple, celebrating Christmas together for the first time, I realized we didn't have that many decorations. We are pretty much starting from scratch, which I have to admit has been fun. My DH didn't have any decoration but then again there are very few bachelors that would decorate their home for Christmas. I did bring up some ornaments that were given to me throughout the years. As a couple we did receive a few Christmas things and the most meaningful one is the Christmas tree skirt that my Grandma made for my DH and I for our new home. If you look in the picture you can see it. It is beautiful and something I know we will treasure for many years to come.

Since we have few Christmas decorations it has been fun coming up with different things to decorate the house with. Here a some pictures of the different things that I have done to add holiday cheer to our home. The theme I went with is "all natural!"

This decoration sits on my kitchen windowsill. All it is a mason jar filled with Douglas fir, cranberries, water, and a floating candle. I then added some more greenery around the base.

These candles are on the windowsill that is next to our kitchen table. (I really love having windowsills!!)

I added this basket of greenery to the inside of our front door.

This pretty green swag is hanging next to our front door. I would have liked to put right on our front door but I wasn't to keen on putting a nail in the door.

The little Christmas tree was put together from a big Douglas fir branch and then I put some red berries that I found on my walk on the little branches. The tree is sitting on a table on our front porch.

I also made a garland for the front porch railing. I'll have to post a picture of that later because my camera battery died so I wasn't able to take a picture of it.