Perhaps some of you may remember the header image above, not to mention the images below…..

…and all of my non-stop talk in that post, about how much I LOVE COLORS!!  It was a post called ‘It Takes a Village To Make a Mess’ and can be found in the December archives.  So what were we making that day??………….

One of the gifts the kids did for their paternal grandparents for Christmas, was this apron set.   We found the denim aprons right at our favorite place….Michael’s Arts & Crafts.   Then, we just picked up acrylic paints in the colors we wanted.  Their grandparents are both FANTASTIC cooks (they even make their own pastas), and take turns in the kitchen cooking, or cook together.  So we thought this idea of an apron set, with the kids hands and feet prints, would be cute for them. I only took photos the night we did feet, which was first.  The kids had a good time, and never stopped smiling and giggling.

This past Sunday was a very special day in our family; it was half of our family’s birthday!! Our triplet ‘babies’ turned 6!

As I probably mentioned in our oldest daughter’s birthday post a couple of months ago, birthdays are celebrated in a big but different way, in our family. Basically, no one works or has school, and we spend the day together, discussing and celebrating our loved one’s life in the ways that feel right to us. Every family is different, as we all well know.  For us, annual parties with piles of presents never sat well with us.  It just wasn’t what we wanted to do every year, as much as we LOVE to plan celebrations. … (READ MORE......) | 1 Comment

Be fore-warned.  There are LOTS of photos in this post.  And the reason is simple:  Me and my camera were having way-too-much-fun, and we couldn’t help ourselves!  (Not that we tried.)

This is the other craft I bought supplies for weeks ago. I saw this neat idea in Family Fun Magazine called Bloomin’ Buttons, and if you happened to read this post, then you know how I feel about buttons.  So….one way or another I was doing this.

I just happened to have this lovely Cyclamen plant (see photo below) that my father and brother brought me for Christmas. (Wasn’t that sweet?) Yes, it’s still alive. A little research described… (READ MORE......) | 2 Comments

(8/2011 UPDATE: This craft was done & blogged in 2008. Now in 2011, with so many crafters owning Silhouette and Cricut Cutters, this craft is easier than ever!)

Finally we got to this T-Shirt project we wanted to do! I got the idea from our Family Fun Magazine that we have a subscription to, and I knew the kids would be all over it.  If you click on that Family Fun link, it brings you right to the directions for this craft, but I think most of it will be pretty… (READ MORE......) | 2 Comments

Here we are at the end of ‘April Vacation’.  We decided to go with the town schedule this week and take the vacation week as well.  But really, either way it’s not much different than any other week for us, except when we take time off, we don’t do any work books.  Family Devotion time, and learning through living life and all we do in it, IS school to us.  And then the kids also have their books to work with.  To them, they only think of the work books as real ‘school’, even though their entire days are just as educational.  So tonight, as it approached ‘pajamas and teeth brushing time’, Michael wanted to encourage the kids to help it… (READ MORE......)