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This month I participated in my first craft show. I have not been involved in a craft show since I was a little kid and I would help out my mother and grandmother with their craft shows. My mom would let me make my own crafts to sell.  I wanted to sell the book I wrote with my sister with some related items. I really like the look of crafts made with old book pages. For this craft show I made some signs and bookmarks from old book pages.  It was a great craft sale and I had so much fun with my helpers, my mom Little Man and some friends. 

Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. I have participated for 10 years now. The goal is to write 50,000 words in one month. it is challenging, some people use October as Novel preparation month, taking the time to prepare their project for November.  I am going to participate again this year, mostly just writing for myself, I'm not working on anything serious right now (our second installment of the Tidy Planet Adventures is in the editing phase right now!) This month I am also participating in my first ever craft fair.  My vibes for this month is very much about books and book related crafts. I am going to share some crafts made from book pages and ways to make your own books in my next post and if you're going to participate in Nanowrimo, good luck on your word count.  Happy Novel Writing Month

One of the great things about crafting with the kids for over 10 years now, is that I have amassed a fair amount of craft materials. After we make a craft and the kids play with it or display it for a while I like to save any craft materials for a later date or recycle any paper or cardboard that we can't use again.  This weekend we put up our Halloween decorations, no surprise we go all out for the occasion. Hubby asked me to make a sign for the entrance of our  haunted graveyard. I went through my craft supplies and found this wood arrow. I used this for my gender reveal for Little Miss back in 2017. It was already painted in black chalkboard paint, I gave it a quick paint refresh to cover the words, then added the words 'ENTER IF YOU DARE' in gold vinyl.  I nailed the arrow to a piece of wood, sprayed the sign with a coat of weather proof spray and set it out to add to our decorations. It looks great and I am glad that I was able to...

 Well, I did it, I made a Halloween countdown calendar! I got started a little late, ideally, if you start on October 7th  it will take you to October 30th.  But if you start it later, you can eat more Chocolate all at once, which is not a bad thing! I picked up a couple of Advent Calendars from Walmart (yes, they're out already!) I chose ones with dark colors that I could easily change to Halloween themed. I chose simple Halloween colours, black, orange and yellow. Tip: paint very light layers and wait until the paint is dry before adding another layer, so you don't go through the cardboard.  I painted a simple pumpkin and a haunted house for the kids countdown calendars. I used the back of the paintbrush dipped in paint to add the numbers after the paint dried.  The kids loved their calendars, they were even surprised that the chocolates were in Christmas shapes so I guess I did a good job making them...

Halloween is big at our house! Over the years the kids have loved playing trick or treat with their toys and dressing them up in little costumes. These are two crafts that we made for the kids to play Halloween with their toys.  We made this trick or treat street set-up last year for Little Misses Little People. We played with this setup for a long time, definitely the whole month of October. It was easy to make and decorate. It is also easy to store (fold up) when you're not using it and it is recyclable when you're little ones are done playing with it.  This craft is a little older but it's a classic. We made these dress up masks for Little Man's Transformers. He was very much into Super Heroes at the time. We used egg cartons and paint to make these Super Hero masks. The egg cartons are the perfect size for little toys, it worked well for these Transformers but it would also work for Little People or other figurines.  ...

It's October! Halloween month! Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays, I love decorating for Halloween and the cozy spooky feeling of the season.  Over the years I have shared many Halloween craft ideas. This year I thought I would go over some of my favorite Halloween crafts that we have made over the years. The first one is Halloween Magnets . We still have some of these magnets, the little vampire guy magnet lives on our fridge year round.  I remember these magnets being a lot of fun when the kids were at the age to play in the kitchen while I was preparing supper. This craft adds a cozy fall feeling to the kitchen and since it is interactive, the scene is everchanging and a  This Halloween  photo booth  idea is a classic activity, it works for parties but also it's fun to do at home on a spooky Halloween night with the family. We made most of the props ourselves, combined with some costume accessories we had a lot of  picture op...

Two years ago I shared a post about Little Miss liking to match her dolls, not much has changed in two years except that now she likes to match her stuffies. I have used the idea that I posted in Twinsies a few times since I posted it in September 2020. For these matching outfits I used a dress that my sister-in-law bought Little Miss as a vacation present this summer. Unfortunately, the dress was too small on top but fit perfectly as a skirt. It just so happened that the top of the dress fit Little Misses favorite unicorn. My Mom made the skirt happen. She is a much more skilled seamstress than I am, it took her about 15 minutes to cut and sew the skirt. She used some of the material from the top to make a wide band and added some elastic. We left the top as is, it was a perfect fit for the unicorn. I was happy that we were able to use the dress after all, it is a great vibrant tie-dye pattern. It has become one of Little Misses favorite skirts this su...