Friday, January 13, 2012

Craft Time!

Well....since I hardly ever post on the blog anymore and the last two posts that I have done have been heart breakers I decided to share some pictures! 
 We are practicing on Phoenix drawing stick figures.  He gets really into it!  We also flipped the board over and did the alphabet big and small and he knew every.single.letter he even said most of them before I started writing them! 
 Parker and Boston enjoyed themselves too!  They got REALLY into drawing this time!

 I asked all the boys to hold their pictures up in the air so I could take a picture with them and Phoenix wouldn't hold it in front of him, Parker complied with my request, and Boston wanted nothing to do with a picture!

 We also made these plaques to hang up stairs.  These are another craft I did with my silhouette machine!!!  I painted the blocks to begin with then I cut the words out of vinyl then painted around them then put the final letters on and painted around them!  Then I peeled them off, sanded and voila!  they are more antique in real life than they look in the photos!  I love how they turned out and the boys helped!  They love to use 'tools' and help trow things away!  These are gentle reminders as their parents what we think is important in every day life-help keep us on track :)

Seriously!  Look at this thing!  Daniel finished the Firetruck for the boys room and I am AMAZED!  I don't know how in the world he does it!  It is a mix of paint, charcoal, chalk and personalized!  He incorporated: est. 2006, Alleman Fire Dept., 1040!  There is so much detail in here I need to get some great pictures of it to show it off!  I still think he may be missing his calling ;)  he is available for hire! ;)

2 comments:

Ashley said...

I love those signs! I'm still amazed at how you guys find time to do projects like these...do you not sleep?!?!

Jon & Jennifer said...

love the fire truck, he is really missing his calling! turned out fantastic!!

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