31 Photos of May

Day 1: Peace

Day 2: Skyline

Day 3: Something you wore

Strep Throat = Snuggled under a blanket

Day 4: FUN!

National Star Wars Day....May the 4th be with you!!

Day 5: Bird

Anthropologie bowls

Day 6: You

Off to see The Avengers

Day 7: Someone that inspires you
Grant Achatz: Chef

Day 8: A Smell you adore
Gardenia

Day 9: Something you do everyday
Play Legos, Clean up Legos, Repeat

Day 10: A favorite word
A color that makes everything work

Day 11: Kitchen

Day 12: Something that makes you happy

Doing art projects with my kids

 Day 13: Mum

Mother's Day celebration

Day 14: Grass
Lots of Grass in my favorite new Children's Book

Day 15: Love
This area of my house that has kid's art mixed with family photos

Day 16: What you're reading
Magazines. Always. 

Day 17: Snack

Pirate Booty

Day 18: Something you made

Superhero Cookies 

Day 19: A favorite place

Beside Brandon

Day 20: Something you can't live without
My kids making me laugh

Day 21: Where you stand

Day 22: Pink

Had to choose two cause I really LOVE pink!!

Day 23: Technology

Day 24: Something New

The latest Pez dispenser in Ford's collection

Day 25: Unusual

Making Bug Ice Cubes for Delaney's class

Day 26: 12 O'clock

Collecting rocks out of the creek in Ellijay

Day 27: Something sweet

Vosges from Brandon. The very best!

Day 28: The Weather today

Day 29: A Number

Day 30: Your Personality

Cluttered, Messy, and Colorful

Day 31: Something Beautiful

And here is the list for June:

Our Summer Jar

It is summer time. We said goodbye to our classmates and teachers today. We also said goodbye to early mornings and structured days. So we made a "summer jar". We all thought of things we want to do this summer. Fun things. Simple things. Crafty things. Adventurous things. We wrote them down, cut them into strips, folded them up, and put them in a glass jar. Starting tomorrow, we will draw an idea out everyday and it will give us a project or a destination or an activity. The kids are so excited about it. 

I have a folder on Pinterest of kid's art projects I've been wanting to do so I took this opportunity to put those ideas into the jar. The kids had funny ideas like Delaney wants to make a cold, icy drink and sip it in the shade. I am thinking that day may be repeated a few times. Ford would put Legoland in the jar 30 times if we would let him and anything that has to do with him getting very wet....a pool, the sprinklers, water gun battles, etc.

A Super Celebration

Ford celebrated his 4th birthday with a Superhero themed bash. Here is how we decorated.... We made the buildings with black poster board and post-its. We used vintage postcards and taped them to the wall with painters tape so they were easy to remove. We made the gift bags with modge podge and superhero themed wrapping paper glued onto solid bags from Target. 

 We made the super hero pops with cardstock and scissors and tape.

 We made the tiny linen bags to hold pez candies by scanning in vintage batman images, printing them on transfer paper, and ironing them onto the bags. We handed out superhero pez as favors since Ford is a bit Pez obsessed. 

The popcorn cones are made by scanning in batman comics and printing in black and white, rolling them up, and taping. I had purchased these superhero cookie cutters from William Sonoma for Ford for Christmas and we never made them. The day before the party, I went on YouTube and watched a video on how to make Royal Icing and how to pipe cookies and they turned out great.

The cupcake toppers and wrappers are also from Williams Sonoma. I love the vintage look. 

Ford's favorite game is Bingo so he requested Superhero bingo. I made a grid and traced all the figures into the squares from his books. After coloring them in, I scanned them into the computer and tweaked them. We used batman themed confetti found at party city for our markers. 

We invited guests to wear costumes or superhero t-shirts and had a fun game of superhero tag on the roof. 

I made these wings for Ford and Delaney's shoes. I saw something similar on etsy but since I don't have a sewing machine I used thick felt and did the no sew version. 

I'll leave you with these pictures of Ford as the Avengers, courtesy of party hat masks found at Walmart in the party section.