30 - Ceramics Groupon Used

There's this super cute ceramics studio right near us.  And they offered a Groupon last year and we bought a class for two to go make something.  Kathleen and I took a Saturday and went to make pottery.  It was fun we are planning to go back maybe once a month and throw on the wheel and glaze our pots as well.  The price without the Groupon was super reasonable, the Groupon just made it more reasonable.   

Christmas ornament crafts 2016

This year we made salt dough ornaments.  Originally I was going to make cute santa from their hand prints but then I realized jones paint skills weren't really up to intricate details on santa.  (He can paint in a shape but not so good yet at making actually recognizable things).

So we just painted the hand prints (Thea even helped paint). We did do little snowman ornaments as well - where jones pressed circles into the dough and he painted them but then I did the faces. (Somehow I failed on getting a photo of the finished hands and feet but you can get the idea from the ones Thea is painting).

And melted bead ornaments were total fails - jones loved putting beads into the ornaments, but they didn't come out and when they did they were super wonky.  I only gave out like 4 of the best ones because they were terrible.

Anyhow this years craft project was fun for jones but maybe not the best two year old craft. 

43 - Thea's Stocking

I feel uber behind on blogging and my list, but yesterday I had a free hour and I finished up Theas stocking.  

I tried to use scrap felt I had.  I just made up the pattern.   The penguin was super simple.  I wish however I had made it fatter for her.  Oh well it's done before Christmas. 

26 - 5 Craft Projects party hats 1 of 5

For Jones's birthday I made party hats.  I made them with scrapbook paper, staples, Ribbon, and fringe.  Super simple super fun.  Kathleen helped.  Jones was not interested in wearing his but oh well. 

Back soon with a few other projects finished recently.