Mom's turn: Homeschool Craft Fair

Today, Teeny and I had a “home ec” day – or craft bizarre! She has been working diligently on knitting a scarf, because I told her when she finished she could make the matching hat. And voila, the finished product and the hat was started as promised. Of course they are in her new favorite fashion colors of pink, black, and white – what better way to be stylish for the winter season! Now…if we only had a ski trip planned since the weather never quite gets cold enough in good ol’ south Louisiana to wear the fabulous set!

Next, she worked on special Halloween treats for the children she babysits in the neighborhood. She’s so thoughtful it makes my heart burst!

She handpicked “big” candies for each one along with plastic toys to match each of their likes or dislikes (taking special care not to scare one little girl in particular). Then we made the “itsy bitsy spider” tags so she could remember which bag was made for which child as they came by in creepy costumes.

After that, we started working on cards for her friend’s present. Her friend was turning sweet 16 and has a boyfriend who is away at military school. So Teeny thought the perfect gift would be a beautiful glass pen and ink set to go along with some hand made love note cards since she’s always writing to him. She worked on these for two days deliberating over colors and patterns (not too girly) and sentiments (no too smooshy or lovie) and came up with five gorgeous cards;

a simple "hello" with lots of layers:

bonjour

thinking of you, handpainted with a special water coloring pen:

thinking of you

miss you, embossed in shiney gold:

miss "u"

key to my heart, using an old cell phone charm she had been saving for "something", and this seemed perfect:

key to my heart


friendship

all stamped with Hand Stamped on the back in her signature Japanese style, of course. Her friend told her that is was her favorite gift! What a sweet compliment for all of her hard work.