St. Patty's crafts

These are my St. Patricks day crafts I did. I have never decorated for this holiday before but I have so much fun making things I thought, why not. I didn't want to go overboard, even though I could have. I had so many ideas but I don't have a lot of places to put things, except my mantle and a shelf. When Porter makes my entertainment center I'll be able to decorate that. These are my Lucky blocks. These are so much easier to make than cutting out letters.I love my four leaf clovers. I cut them out and added bead board, then I painted them, sanded them to rough them up, then I glazed them with the leftover glaze we had from our house. I also did a bigger four leaf clover but I didn't add bead board. I didn't like how it turned out. I mod podged sparkly green paper on it with a rainbow and a pot of gold. It looked too childish for my taste. Brynlie loved it and would carry it around with her so she could look at it. Which proved that it was childish. So I might take off the paper and put it on some cardboard so the girls can decorate their room with it and then I'll put different paper on the board.

Funny pics

Valentines Day we have a family tradition. Porter and I have never been out for Valentines day our entire marriage. It is way too hard to find a babysitter so we started a family dinner tradition. We always make a fancy dinner and decorate and have a nice family time. This year was a little different. We still did the dinner thing but because of my lack of planning it wasn't fancy and there were no decorations. I also messed up on the timing of dinner so the girls ate before me and Porter, so while we were waiting for our food to finish cooking, Brynlie decided to get dressed up and wanted to pose for some pictures. The poses she was picking were cracking me up. I really don't know where she gets some of these. The one looking back is a total Hollywood pose.

The picture of her laying on her back looks like one that could be in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. I don't know what we are going to do with this girl.


This last picture has to be one of my favorites. She was going for the serious look here.

Sunday my sister-in-law Cassie threw my mom-in-law a surprise birthday party. She did a Beatles theme so she had these cute little mustaches for the kids. So of course I had to get some pictures. Rylie actually wore hers for quite a while. Porter has been growing his beard for a few months, which is why he looks like a mountain man. He was going to shave it, but the girls don't want him to.

Easton wasn't happy about the mustache, but he looked so cute with it.

More crafts

Once again I did some more crafts. These pictures are horrible but I didn't feel like taking different ones. I should probably stop taking pictures at night but that is the only time I can craft cause the kids are in bed. I really like how my 'xoxo's turned out. These are probably my favorite valentine craft that I did. Everyone has a really cute Temple picture but I have never had the money to go to one of the classes to make one and the one that I really want is about $200, so I have to improvise as usual. This temple picture was free to make since I had everything already. You can get the temple pics from www.lilluna.com She has almost any temple pic you could think of with the saying " I'm going there someday" so cute for a young women project. She also has pictures without a saying. You could also take your own picture but this was a lot easier. I put the picture on my photoshop and changed the color from black and white to sepia and added the text 'Families are Forever'. Then I got a board and routered the edge, painted it, printed out my picture and mod podged it onto the board. I like how it turned out. Even though I would love a really big Temple picture, this will have to do for now. Now I'll have to start my St. Patricks crafts.