Okay - so I have been doing more crafty stuff - I just haven't been posting it. So this morning I finally downloaded the pictures I've taken, and here are some of them. This first one - not so wonderful or cute, (I mean the craft is not so cute - the boy of course is adorable) But the boys loved doing it. We made spiderwebs out of coffee filters. (They have hung them up all over their rooms.)
The next one was my favorite. We made Halloween Banners. Riley's is hanging from his bed and it says "Spooky" - and Wesley's is decorating his headboard and says "Halloween". I loved these so much I'm going to do them all year round. Thanksgiving ones are already in the works.
I did most of the cutting - but the boys picked out the papers and placed them in what patterns they wanted them, and then picked out the ribbon, as well as stamped the letters on them.
We even made one that said "BOO!" to give to mom!!
Then last Saturday I spent around 4 or 5 hours at a place I'd never been before. (And will be going to again.) Lori and I went to "Crafter's Corner" and had a ball making Thanksgiving decorations. We made "Gobbles"!!! While we were spending hours chatting and sanding and staining and painting and glittering and glueing - the boys were at home doing there own "craft." (Does Cub Scout Boats count as crafts??) They painted and glued and sanded and all the same basic stuff that Lori and I did, so it must be. And Riley's boat did fantastic in the "Raingutter Regatta" on Tuesday night.
Right now we have some Costumes, and a couple different kinds of Ghosts in the works for this weekend. But after that - maybe I should slow down on the crafts a little.
(Of course although they are sleepy - they aren't complaining either - in fact I seem to get more complaints about NOT doing a "crafty" something as often as they would like. So maybe I won't slow down until they start complaining about doing too many crafty things.)
