Guillermo Grillo Torres

First, let’s start with some “before” pictures from before we moved in, when we were having the house inspected, and some from this first few months we were here too.

Coming up soon (I hope!): A new bedside table to replace the little white one and some fun projects in the corner where the bassinet will go once the new baby boy gets here!Oh my goodness, did Kennedy ever love making these!

She was still talking about how fun these were to make a week after they were done, so I knew I had a winning craft on my hands.. OK, so they’re not really the cutest things ever, but they definitely won me some “fun mom points” and that counts for something.I’m always on the lookout for fun, relatively easy crafts that we can make together, and if it involves recycled materials, all the better!.Here’s how we made them:.

We started out by making the base out of newspaper, packing tape, and a couple of sticks from the yard.. We scrunched and wrapped the paper in tape around the stick until we had a pumpkinish shape..If you’re having trouble locating the pumpkin shape in this picture, don’t worry.

Kennedy and Chris are here to help.. We mixed up a solution of roughly 1 part white glue to 1 part water.. Kennedy got herself set up on the kitchen floor with some newspaper and paper towels strips and then got to work.

She dipped each strip in the gluey water and smooshed it onto the pumpkin shape.A sparkling creek..

The first frog spotting of the year.. Isn’t he cute?.What signs of Spring have you seen lately?It seems like I own about 8000 different storage baskets, boxes, bins, etc.

It also always seems like the ones I have are never quite right.So I buy more, also either not quite right or just waaay too expensive.. Until now!.