tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68301160781844201122024-03-21T06:17:57.946-07:00Clearwater CottageClearwater Cottage is a blog focused on home-keeping, child-rearing, teaching, reenacting, crafting and organizing.Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-46370783530665439942020-03-24T12:16:00.000-07:002020-03-24T12:29:24.266-07:00The Revolution Event 2020It's Revolution Time! Don't worry, we were just recreating the one that happened nearly 250 years ago. This was Cassandra's first Colonial era event, and she loved it!<br />
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I love this event so much, there is such a wonderful sense of community among the reenactors and the spectators. We always love being able to catch up with our friends that we haven't seen in months or sometimes years. And the best part is the kids learn about history while playing! Carolyn simply LOVES to come to the events and dress up, it's as good as dressing up as a princess and going to Disneyland to her!</div>
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This year our camp had so many kids! We camp with the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers and they have been so wonderful at handing us down lots of clothing and shoes! Thank goodness too, because she grows out of her stuff so fast, she barely gets to wear it to an event before it's too small.</div>
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You can tell the kids didn't have any fun at all!<br />
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And once I got Cassie to sleep, she slept great! The trick was, she likes to fall asleep somewhere dark and quiet, which was hard to come by. Although our tent was dark-ish, it was right near all the commotion. But in the shade of the trees, away from the crowds I was finally able to soothe her to sleep and then she slept right through all the action in camp!<br />
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My friend Heather brought the game graces for the girls to play and Carolyn even allowed her to teach her! It's a fun game where you toss a hoop back and forth using the two sticks.<br />
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Don't think I forgot about the battles, there were two each day. I attended some of them, others we completely missed because herding a 3 year old can be tricky, it's a miracle we make it to most daily events on time!</div>
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Here are the Crown Forces before battle.</div>
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Our handsome British Marines<br />
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Off they go, about to get shot and land in goose poop!</div>
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Why yes, Cassie did sleep through the battle, including cannon fire just like this!</div>
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We didn't have the best seats for the first battle, but here is some of the action I was able to capture.<br />
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Our friends and allies The Jolly Boats/Royal Navy.<br />
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After the battle Ben demonstrated how to remove your lock from your musket and clean everything.<br />
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And resumed his role as loving Daddy.</div>
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And we had some friends come visit our camp.</div>
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We had an even better view for the dusk battle - Rebel Butts!<br />
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Lots of spectators came over to cheer on the crown forces!<br />
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In this battle the British were caught "off guard" and were socializing right before they were attacked.<br />
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New day, new outfit! Of course this was by accident, we arrived in camp to discover we left Carolyn's gown at home air drying in the garage after needing an emergency wash job. Good thing we have such nice friends that were willing to loan her a gown!<br />
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We attempted to go to the church service being held, but due to the wardrobe mishap and a tantruming toddler, we arrived right as it was ending. Here is Ben dragging Carolyn on our way.<br />
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So instead we did a walk about and got to visit some friends, Carolyn found a blanket of their things on display and gave a cooking demonstration to some visitors.<br />
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Another day, another battle!<br />
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I loved that these girls were tending the wounded.<br />
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Time to celebrate, victory!<br />
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More camp activities, this time rolling a hoop!<br />
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A popular activity in camp is training up future soldiers!</div>
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Even the girls enjoyed enlisting in the army!<br />
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Our boys looked so handsome!</div>
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But could anything be cuter than this?<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-69000698649979696852020-03-01T08:21:00.001-08:002020-03-01T09:08:17.148-08:00What's Cooking in the KitchenAfter six years of living in our home with the honey oak colored cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms, we've decided to pull the trigger - of our paint sprayer that is! We're taking the project in small, manageable steps since we are doing it all ourselves and only when we have enough free time on a weekend to get things done. It's tricky with small children and a very full schedule, but it's going well and I'm so happy with the results!<br />
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The first place Ben decided to start work on was this bank of cabinets, it was a large area with lots of doors and drawers, but nothing too tricky. So he took off all the d&d's and began sanding, I jumped in with helping prime and paint the framework when possible. Then Ben sprayed the d&d's outside.</div>
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Buh-bye ugly florescent lights!</div>
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The ugly box light over the sink had a surprise for us, a nice big hole that would need patching!</div>
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But wow did it already feel so much bigger and OPEN in the kitchen!<br />
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Unfortunately there was a lot of drywall that needed patching and the whole box inside where the florescent lights were needed texturing. The good news is we had a fabulous little helper!<br />
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She even brought her own tools!<br />
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I decided I wanted to hang pendant lights above the now open counter area. So we devised a way to figure out their placement and the length we wanted.<br />
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We took the light junction boxes and taped them to the ceiling then we hung paper plates with a bottom circumference the same size as the future pendent lights. This allowed us to move them around and figure out exactly where we wanted to place them.<br />
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Then the guys cut the holes for where they would mount them.<br />
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And they cut the holes for all the new LED can lights.<br />
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Then they applied "mud" or joint compound to the ceiling to give it that lovely orange-peel texture that all the houses around here have.<br />
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We didn't want the rest of the house getting messy so they hung up lots of plastic.<br />
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And because we removed all the lights in the room they had to get creative when the sun went down!<br />
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Such a great team! I'm so lucky to have such great guys!!!<br />
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Then came wiring! We connected the new pendent lights to the same switch that the light over the sink is on.<br />
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Helper always at the ready!<br />
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Hooray the new pendent lights are up, we have light!!!<br />
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Running the wires was tricky because of all the support rafters, they had to go up and over and in and out of the itchy insulation, but they did it!<br />
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And look at that result!!!<br />
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Now the plastic could come down, dance party!!!<br />
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It already felt so different and like a whole new kitchen!<br />
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But they didn't stop there, to make the box where the lights were look like it was supposed to be this way my dad encouraged us to add molding. And then it all needed painting.<br />
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And I couldn't let him go home without installing my new hood for over the stove. The old one was a lovely shade of yellow that could not stay once the cupboards got painted white.<br />
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Ooooo white!<br />
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The box claimed one person could install it on their own, hahaha! Yes, with their EZ mount brackets it could rest in place, but really this job definitely needed two people to get it done.<br />
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Then we had to stop work for an important wedding! Geeze Ben, why don't you get dressed up next time you get married!<br />
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Another progress shot for you.<br />
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A few weeks later we decided we had enough time to do another section.<br />
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Yay more progress! I've also been making progress updates on my Instagram stories and even have a story section all on our progress saved on my profile, you can check that out here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/clearwatercottage/">@</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/clearwatercottage/">clearwatercottage</a><br />
Just look for the little circle called Kitchen Reno.<br />
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And that's where we have left off for now. We still have a lot more to paint and I have dreams of building a cover to go over the hood to make it look like a built-in. We'll get there, maybe by the end of summer we'll be all done.<br />
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I found these cute little puzzles for only $6.50 for 12 at <a href="https://www.orientaltrading.com/eric-carle-s-brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see-puzzles-a2-13720649.fltr?keyword=brown+bear+puzzles&directSearch=true">Oriental Trading Company</a> and I bought them on a day when they were offering free shipping and then I used these perfect printable tags at <a href="https://koriathome.com/free-brown-bear-brown-bear-valentines-day-cards/">Kori at Home</a>.<br />
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Here is one assembled, with a banana for scale. Pretty cute, and my 3 year old enjoyed doing all three puzzles with a little assistance.<br />
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Carolyn is so proud of these and can't wait to give them to all her friends! I hope they all enjoy receiving them, and hopefully their moms will appreciate not having more candy. What do you like to pass out, toys or candy?</div>
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This year I have two little ones to prepare Valentines for! My newest daughter Cassandra is only 6 months old and gets to participate in the ritual of passing out Valentines to her music class! I was inspired by a friend of Carolyn's who passed out little finger puppets at her first Valentine's Day, we still have the little piggy finger puppet and she still plays with it!</div>
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Cassandra's class has children that are one years old, toddlers, so I knew candy was definitely out. I wanted to choose something that would be safe for little ones to play with. So of course I went off to Target! I found these cute little finger puppets in a four pack for $5, this works perfect for me because there are four children in her class, but if you have more children to shop for there are lots of other options available on Amazon or Oriental Trading Company.</div>
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I designed these little cards on my computer and I made you a free printable so you can make your own Wild About You Toddler Valentines too!</div>
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Supplies You'll Need:</div>
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As I was taking this pictures Carolyn came in with some dandelions to give me, such a little sweetie!<br />
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Alright back to the cards, first you'll want to cut apart your cards and then use your puppet to mark the sides of their neck where you'll want to wrap the ribbon. I decided not to mark this on the cards in case you choose a different sized puppet.</div>
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I went to punch the holes for the ribbons and discovered that my hole puncher didn't reach far enough in, while looking for an awl or ice pick I discovered my meat thermometer which looked nice and pointy so I used that to easily poke my holes.</div>
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Then insert your ribbon through the holes. I found 15" of this ribbon that I picked up at the 99cent Only Store to work perfectly.</div>
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All you have to do now is tie your finger puppets on and sign your child's name. Here they are all tied up!</div>
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I packed them in a little basket with a ribbon so they're ready to pass out at class.</div>
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Cassie was very excited about the valentines!</div>
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You can download your own printable pdf copy of the card <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m8p8ZYVJbKKUWaNj61YKDsibeVu7cfrq/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. I hope you find this fun and helpful!</div>
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Carolyn just loves Princess Leia after having seen select clips from the movies (we have not shown her the entire film yet) and being told stories of her from her father. She also loves Chewbacca and R2D2! After finishing adapting a jacket for Ben's costume I was left with one day to whip this up, so I did quite the speed job. And although it's not perfect, I'm happy with how it turned out, and most importantly Carolyn loved her costume.</div>
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So how did I make this costume? I started off by reading some other blog posts about how other moms created theirs. Here are my two favorite references:</div>
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Based off of these suggestions I used this peasant dress pattern to get an idea for size and shape, but also had Carolyn lay down on the fabric/paper patter to double check my size before I cut the fabric.</div>
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Here is the shape I cut, with the fold going across the top of the arms/neck hole. I sewed the side seams and arm seams. Then I hemmed the sleeves and bottom of the robe. I also created a drawstring channel around the whole neck that opened inside the front, so the strings would just dangle down.</div>
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I wanted to add the hood so I traced one of Ben's jacket hoods (that way it would be extra big).</div>
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Ben helped me make the belt by cutting the shapes out of shiny silver card-stock, I hot-glued them to a silver ribbon and I safety pinned it to her waist to help keep it on for a whole day at Disney.</div>
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I created the headband using black felt (it's what I had at home) cut into 3" diameter circles and by braiding long strands of brown yarn. Then I just hot-glued the braids as I wrapped them in a spiral on the brown circles. And hot-glued them to an old brown headband I owned.</div>
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We found they had a shop with all toys that looked handmade, so even though we'd gone for Ben and my birthdays we ended up buying her a present, because we just love how special it was to her and she'd been so good and put it back after looking at it without even asking to have it. So here you have it, Leia holding Leia.</div>
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I think her absolute favorite part of the day was getting to meet Chewy, everyone thought she'd be scared of him but I believe she saw him as a giant teddy bear!<br />
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Lucky girl got to ride the Milennium Falcon ride twice, because we had to do a parent swap so someone could stay with baby Cassie. She delighted in it!!!<br />
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Cassie was going to be a Yoda, but sadly mommy ran out of time to crochet her a little Yoda hat. But she enjoyed sleeping through the park, it was a thrilling first trip for her! Ha!<br />
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Look, I was there too!<br />
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To complete the space theme we had to ride the Astro Orbiter!<br />
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It was a fabulous day at Disney, a great way to celebrate another year God has given us!<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-65353815564925064312019-09-16T06:40:00.000-07:002019-09-19T07:42:44.642-07:00Carolyn's 3rd Birthday - Tea Party for ToddlersMy sweet little girl just turned three years old. As you probably have already guessed one of her favorite activities to play is tea party. Therefore it was an easy decision to plan this year's birthday party as a tea party for all her toddler friends and family.<br />
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Here is my little sweet heart, she had the best time at her birthday, we really did make her dreams come true and it made me soooooo happy!</div>
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Let me show you some of my favorite parts of the decor and tell you about how I did it.</div>
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We ended up serving tea to 20 girls and boys. I rented long child height party tables and plastic chiavari chairs from a local wedding and party company. I actually had to call around a few places to find one who had 20 white chairs and they even had 10 pink chairs (so I rented a few of those in case of last minute attendees). I also rented the white table cloths and pink table runners from them too, which really helped fancy the whole affair up.</div>
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For the center pieces I raided my reenacting supply of silver tea pots (tip: you can find tarnished silver pieces at thrift stores for pretty cheap, and it doesn't even take that much work to make them pretty and shiny using either baking soda & water or silver polish). I filled them with flowers that I bought from Trader Joe's and arranged myself. Set them on paper doilies and arranged faux pearl necklaces around them.</div>
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I found these darling plastic doily chargers at the 99cent Only store for six in a pack. And designed these little place cards on my computer using clip art. The hard part was actually finding tea sets that the kids could drink out of that wouldn't break the bank. I lucked out and found several box sets in different themes at TJMaxx on clearance so I scooped them up. We only used the teacups and saucers along with the matching tea pots, even though they also came with little plates.</div>
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As guests arrived we sent them over to the hat and necklace station to decorate a hat for the party that the could also keep. I asked a couple of friends to help man the table and be in charge of the hot glue gun and it went really well!</div>
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To set-up this table I just bought around 10 bouquets of assorted flowers and ribbons from the Dollar Tree. I also supplied the table with feathers from Hobby Lobby, thinking the boys would not like flowers on their hats. Well they surprised me and the kids mixed and matched everything, we even had a four year old boy sporting a pink sunhat! The boys also loved wearing the faux pearl necklaces I bought off Oriental Trading Company. The girls sun hats also came from Dollar Tree and the boys fedoras came from Ebay.</div>
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Ben printed me this sign on his work printers and we found the mirror at a thrift store, it was black but we painted it white for the party and eventually it will be incorporated into Carolyn's new playroom.</div>
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Another activity to keep the kids busy was a coloring station that I set up. I found some cute coloring pages on the internet and printed them out and put them on clipboards so they wouldn't blow away.</div>
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Of course Carolyn's playhouse was open for business as an activity, and boy did it get a lot of attention!</div>
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This is what that side of the yard looked like all together. We also included some adult chairs knowing it's easier to interact with the kids when you can sit down at their height.</div>
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Speaking of adults, every toddler comes with a chaperone! We set up some grown-up tables on the other side of the yard in the shade so they could enjoy lunch too.</div>
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Back to kid entertainment, we were concerned with more kids than a preschool class we were going to have some kids getting bored while waiting for the festivities to begin. Luckily our neighbors were getting rid of this old coffee table, we attached our (thrift store) train set using removable poster putty to help it be like a train table you'd find in a waiting room or book store. It was super popular and held up great! Since our patio was turned into the tea party area we just moved the furniture out into the yard and borrowed the large umbrella from my parents. Never be afraid to borrow supplies for a party!</div>
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The final waiting activity I had for the kids was this bean bag toss game I found on Oriental Trading Company for only $15, well worth the money so I didn't have to make something!<br />
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You can't have a tea party without tea, inside the house (where the children were not running around) I set up my dining table with every tea pot I owned and some borrowed ones too! For the grownups I purchased these adorable paper teacups, they even came with saucers!</div>
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As is typical, I waited till the last second to set out the food and totally forgot to take a picture of it! We had scones and mini muffins from the grocery store, cucumber sandwiches, pb&j sandwiches, turkey and cheese sandwiches, Costco's Chinese chicken salad, sliced strawberries & blueberries and grapes. I tried to server foods that resembled tea fare while also being kid friendly, the salad was meant for the parents but guess what, the kids devoured it too!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIS_8jrqXeB6tNys3pPesRONEHHYJBSFkHnt5qnIaWTQpHrtrW8oFXNuHG4MQXk1zhKI3C8msDF1YfJYpeV8kpPCtwbs06b3JCG-3HDSGOSGOMhAgheeqZN6yb15g3zaaHzNI6vassCTpa/s1600/IMG_9766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIS_8jrqXeB6tNys3pPesRONEHHYJBSFkHnt5qnIaWTQpHrtrW8oFXNuHG4MQXk1zhKI3C8msDF1YfJYpeV8kpPCtwbs06b3JCG-3HDSGOSGOMhAgheeqZN6yb15g3zaaHzNI6vassCTpa/s640/IMG_9766.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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I actually bought two cakes, yes bought - even though I would have LOVED to make Carolyn's birthday cake I knew my limits on what I could accomplish and so I reluctantly gave up baking the cake and bought this beautiful one from Albertson's- they referred to it as the Fondant Cake.<br />
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I didn't just buy one cake though, here's my secret I learned from weddings. I bought a second cake, a large sheet cake from Costco. We sliced and plated it while the kids were busy playing and then after we sang happy birthday we started passing out the slices to the kids while they were still sitting at the big table. It all flowed so perfectly!</div>
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I decided to skip the bag full of candy and lots of cheap toys and instead purchased little necklaces for the girls and spinning gizmo wrist bands for the boys. I found these adorable tea pot party favor boxes, probably intended for bridal showers, that they little favors fit in perfectly!</div>
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To make sure I knew who did and did not get their favor, and also so they each knew it was okay to take one in case I couldn't tell them, I printed little tags for them and used my Silhouette to cut them out.<br />
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Blue teapots for the boys and pink for the girls. We also had a couple of babies attend, so I found some adorable little teething toys for them. The tags helped make sure everyone got the right gift.<br />
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Now it's time to shift gears and see how this party went! So I've got another party secret, I totally hired an entertainer. At first I thought it was a big splurge, but then I realized that so many other components of this party actually cost more than this, and OMG she was sooooo worth the money!!!!</div>
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If you live in Southern CA I HIGHLY recommend you hire Musical Munchkins with Ms. Cindie! We love and adore this teacher, we take weekly music classes with her. All the parents watching the show were amazed at how well she engages the children.</div>
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As I said, as the kids first arrived I had them decorating their hats, then after a half hour it was Musical Munchkins time. This allowed all the kids to trickle in and all be present for our special tea time lunch. They were so excited when it was finally time to come sit down at the table set just for them.</div>
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I led them in a repeat-after-me prayer and then explained the buffet line plan. I would call them by age groups, starting with the youngest 0-2, 3-4, 5+, and their parents would help them fill their plate and come back. I had a mom assistant help me fill the tea pots with room temperature caffeine free berry tea.</div>
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I intentionally bought small teapots that the kids could pour but sometimes they liked to be waited on...</div>
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Birthday girl was too busy to even give me a smile.</div>
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Ben really wanted to cut the cake with his sword, I said No...</div>
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My sweet dad plated all the cakes so they'd be ready for quick distribution.</div>
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We gathered all the kids back at the table to sing Happy Birthday.</div>
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And that was how we made our sweet little girl's 3rd birthday wishes come true!</div>
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I hope this helps other moms out there planning birthday parties. It wasn't the easiest birthday party, I didn't just walk into the store and buy everything with a character face printed on it, but it wasn't that hard either. And honestly it was all done in love and way worth the effort. Please feel free to ask me any questions, I'd love to help you too! These are the special days I've been waiting so much of my life for and I'm just soaking them up!</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-61288501399353626372019-07-16T15:58:00.001-07:002019-07-16T15:58:38.332-07:00A Unicorn Birthday Party for a Special 3 Year OldCarolyn's best friend Olivia turned 3 years old a month before her, so Carolyn got to witness the fun and amazingness that is a big birthday party. I've got to say, my friend threw the most awesome unicorn themed party for her sweet little daughter and I can't wait to show you it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This party was rocking it's Unicorn theme! She had everything you could think of:</div>
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<li>Unicorn Cake</li>
<li>Unicorn Backdrop</li>
<li>Pastel Treats - cotton candy, chocolate dipped pretzel rods, and caramel corn</li>
<li>Unicorn Bounce House</li>
<li>Unicorn Face Painter</li>
<li>Unicorn Headbands for guests</li>
<li>Unicorn Pinata</li>
<li>Unicorn Goodie Bags</li>
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Her decor was amazing! She told me that with her sister's help she cut all of the flowers and other paper decorations out using her Cricut.</div>
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I loved the way you could tell the difference between the boy and girl bags! She handmade each of those bags too.</div>
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And here is the sweet little Birthday Princess!</div>
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These two have been inseparable for the past year, they want to see each other every day!<br />
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The big highlight of the party for them was getting to ride the unicorns. We did have to share with the other children, but it was tough getting them off!</div>
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Of course getting their faces painted was good motivation to get them to share the unicorn ponies! Now they could BE the unicorn!</div>
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They were just a little big obsessed with their new looks. HA<br />
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Did I mention the face painter also made balloon animals? You'll never guess what animal they both requested!<br />
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When we finally pulled them away from the ponies there were other fun things to do, like the sand pool!<br />
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And the Unicorn bounce house!<br />
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This is the best picture I got with their 3rd best friend Sofia - the daddies nicknamed them the 3 Amigas!<br />
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Gotta check out that unicorn face again!<br />
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And then it was time for Unicorn Pinata! At first the girls were very apprehensive about the idea of hitting the beloved unicorn. They really wanted to ride on it instead.<br />
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It was quite the little girl attraction!<br />
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They were way to gentle with it, so of course we called in the birthday girl's older boy cousins to take care of business.<br />
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Now not to give away my friend's secret, but she totally got this amazing cake at Sam's Club!!! My jaw hit the floor when she told me!<br />
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Somebody loved being the center of attention, while all the other little somebodies were dying for some cake!<br />
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Such a cute little family!<br />
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It was such an awesome party, I hope it gives you some great inspiration for your own unicorn themed party! Happy Birthday sweet Olivia, we love you!</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-52443446011685309632019-06-28T06:53:00.000-07:002019-06-28T06:53:59.205-07:00Playhouse MakeoverA little over three years ago (when I was pregnant with Carolyn) our neighbors across the street decided to get rid of their old playhouse, and gave it to us for FREE! My favorite word! Weeellllllll, there was a reason it was free, it was very much weather/sun beaten and needed some love. We had full intentions of fixing it up, but a certain little lady entered the world and we forgot all about it. Happily she doesn't mind what it looks like and has loved playing in it, but we decided we'd waited long enough, time for a playhouse makeover!<br />
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The playhouse was the perfect project to test out our new paint sprayer. We bought it with several future projects in mind: bathrooms, kitchen, and all the doors in the house are going to be painted a nice clean white; I'm so over this 1980's honey oak. My dad even gave us his old air compressor to get the ball rolling!<br />
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Take some last parting looks at the old house, actually I wish I'd taken pictures earlier, the front two windows had been so sun damaged that they were crumbling apart were broken in parts and kept falling off the house. Ben had to build new windows out of wood.</div>
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Here's a list of the paint colors we chose to go with, now please please please don't judge me on these color names, never in a million years would I have picked them out based on this, I just liked the colors, okay:<br />
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<li>White Primer: <b>Zinsser Bulls Eye 123</b></li>
<li>Grey/Beige Interior: Behr Premium Plus Exterior Satin Enamel - Natural Grey</li>
<li>Blue Siding: Behr Premium Plus Exterior Satin Enamel - Skinny Jeans</li>
<li>Grey Roof: Behr Premium Plus Exterior Satin Enamel - Night Club</li>
<li>White Trim: Krylon Acrylic Latex Enamel in Satin Indoor/Outdoor (came for free in our garage when we bought our house)</li>
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The paint sprayer we are using is the <a href="https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-HVLP-and-Standard-Gravity-Feed-Spray-Gun-Kit-HDK00600SG/203497812">Husky HVLP and Standard Gravity Feed Spray Gun Kit</a>, it came recommended by Ben's uncle who is a professional house painter, this was our first time using it and we were quite happy with it, for the playhouse Ben used the standard gravity feed spray gun.<br />
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The first thing we did was give the whole thing inside and out a coat of primer. We chose to go with the Zinsser Bulls Eye 123 because of it's reputation for being good for wood and plastic. It did great on the plastic, but the wood was coated in a stain that keep seeping through the primer, so my husband had to do several coats on the spots that showed.<br />
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Ben started with a little test spray on the outside but then quickly decided it would be smart to work from the inside out.<br />
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To save himself from having to tape and paper off the whole house he simply held a piece of cardboard under the edges of the roof while he moved around painting - it worked perfectly. Also you'll notice at this point he he let me talk him into wearing painting mask, his original plan to was to wear an actual gas mask (probably from WWII), but apparently it was really hot in the sun...</div>
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The next two steps were painting the siding blue and the trim white (trust me, even though the primer makes it white already this really stepped it up and finished it off).</div>
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Also, you'll notice that the entire playhouse is sitting on top of cardboard. That's because originally the playhouse had no floor, my brother sweetly gave us some leftover laminate flooring he had, so Ben built a little frame for it to sit on top of to help keep the dirt out. Well, he never actually attached the house to the foundation, so we just lifted it right up and put the cardboard between the two!</div>
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Looks like a brand new play house, right!?!?!</div>
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We bought some cheap paver stones from Home Depot for a little over $1 to create a nice little path, Carolyn loves hoping from step to step.</div>
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I had several friends comment, "I didn't know the playhouse had a bay window!" That's because it just disappeared before and now it stands out beautifully!</div>
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The playhouse was quite popular at Carolyn's 3rd birthday party (post on that coming soon). </div>
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I'm so proud of my husband Ben for doing all the hard work and painting this baby up (I was 7m pregnant at the time so I didn't want to be near all the paint, and also I was on Carolyn keep away duty). It's amazing what a little bit of paint can do!</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-51114640455445172602019-05-28T05:00:00.000-07:002019-05-28T05:00:00.413-07:00How to Make A Toddler Sized Mary Poppins White Dress Costume - The Easy WayDid you know my darling daughter is obsessed with Mary Poppins? I believe the obsession is going on 10 months now, it was the first movie that she actually loved and requests to watch over and over, along with constantly listening to the sound track. For Halloween I dressed her up as Mary Poppins in her traveling outfit, you can see that adorableness <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/11/mary-poppins-costume.html">here</a> and there are links to how I made that costume for her.<br />
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We've had Disneyland passes for the past year, but they'll be expiring soon and every time we'd see Mary Poppins in the park she'd be dying to meet her. She just loves playing dress up and wearing the little princess dresses that she owns, but that Halloween costume was just too hot to wear to a day at Disney. I knew that before our passes expire I HAD TO buy or make her the white dress that MP wears in the chalk painting scene - which is the one she always has on in the park.<br />
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Well, I searched and searched the internet for new and used toddler sized costumes but the best I could find were the ones on Etsy - but lets be real here, I could not justify spending that kind of money on a costume that she'd only wear once. (Except I should have known better, she hasn't only worn it once, she's worn it every day for the past week since I made it and there is no end in sight).<br />
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Therefore using some creative hacks I made a dress, but not entirely from scratch. You can make one too, and honestly even if you can't sew, I'm pretty sure you could make this entire thing using a hot glue gun!<br />
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The real secret here was that I DID NOT SEW THE DRESS! I totally cheated and bought the dress on clearance for only $10 at Burlington Coat Factory. And I was actually able to whip this whole costume out in only 2 days! Here is almost everything I used to make this costume:<br />
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<li>White Dress</li>
<li>White Hat (from Dollar Tree)</li>
<li>White Shoes</li>
<li>2 Pieces of White Craft Felt</li>
<li>1 Piece of Red Craft Felt</li>
<li>12" of Piece of Chiffon (cut off the bolt)</li>
<li>12" Triple Layered Lace</li>
<li>12" Single Layer of Lace</li>
<li>1 spool of 2.5" Red Satin Ribbon</li>
<li>1 spool of 1/4" Red Satin Ribbon</li>
<li>1 spool of 1/8" Nylon White Trim (I can best describe it as satin rope)</li>
<li>6" of Piece of Tule (cut off the bolt)</li>
<li>1 package small roses</li>
<li>10" of velcro (not pictured)</li>
<li>Red and White Thread (not pictured)</li>
<li>Glue Gun (not pictured)</li>
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I began by cutting off the flowered waistband from the dress and measuring how much red ribbon I'd need to go from one side of the zipper around to the other side.<br />
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Then I trimmed the ribbon to give it a nice point in the middle, the ribbon is folded in half to make sure it's nice and even. To keep the ribbon from fraying I melted the raw edge using my lighter.<br />
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Next I cut small pieces of the white nylon and taped them to the belt. Although after I held it back up to the dress I realized that I needed to spread them out more, I suggest an inch between white stripes.<br />
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To attach the white ribbon I chose to whip stitch them in place, but honestly you could get away with hot gluing them. Make sure to use tweezers so you don't burn your fingers though!<br />
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Then I pinned the tripple layer lace in place, folding it every 1/4" to give it pleats (ignore red/white ribbon placement - it was after this I decided to take that apart and spread them out more).<br />
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Here is a close up of the pleating, I started by pinning the raw edge at the collar of the dress, went down and pinned the center right as it touched the red belt. Then I added the pleating on both sides to make it fit.<br />
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I decided that the dresses needed some form of sleeves, but you could totally skip this step and the dress will still look great. The real Mary Poppins has full length sleeves with red ribbon at the bottom. I didn't think this would be comfortable for my two year old so I opted for loose flowing sleeves made of chiffon. They were pretty easy to add too. I started by folding my chiffon in half and placing a sleeve pattern piece on top. I was prepared to wing it and just cut this shape out by hand when I remembered I had this piece available. I happened to already have this dress pattern on hand but honestly the shape is really simple - the top reminds me of a bell curve (think grading scale from school), then it's two inches wide straight down, and a straight line across the bottom.<br />
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After it was cut out I melted the edges of the whole piece using my lighter to prevent fraying. Originally I was going to hand sew a rolled hem to the sleeve, but I chose the shortcut way so I could get some sleep. Yeah it would have looked prettier, but I look prettier without bags under my eyes...</div>
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Then I folded each sleeve in half and sewed down one side.</div>
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Then I used a basting stitch to gather the top edge of the sleeve.</div>
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I pinned it to the inside of the dress and hand stitched it in place using a back-stitch only going throuigh the lining of the dress so it wouldn't show on the outside.</div>
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The final step I totally forgot to take close up pictures of was adding the little red bows all over the dress. There was no measuring here, I just eyeballed it. I took that 1/4" red ribbon, cut pieces about 6" long and tied them into little bows, then I pinned them periodically around the dress, adjusting as needed based on the way the dress flowed. Then I used my red thread to stitch them from the inside (totally could have cheated and used hot glue here too though). To see them pretty close up just scroll to the end of the tutorial section.</div>
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Next up was the hat, this one was so easy, I simply hot glued two little roses on each side of the hat.<br />
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I took the tule, folded it in half length wise and found the center of that - that spot went directly under her chin then wrapped up to the top where I tied it loosely. The tail of the tule I then left fluffy in the back of the hat. Now I used a light whip stitch to attach everything to the hat, but two spots ended up ripping out during our day at the park, so I ended up emergency attaching them with safety pins. You could try hot gluing it to the hat, but be warned the glue will come through it so press with caution.</div>
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The next accessory was the spatterdashes (aka spats) that went on top of her white shoes, technically the real Mary Poppins wears white boots with these on top, but it was way more cost effective to buy her little white dress shoes. To make the faux buttons I traced a dime on the felt 10 times - 5 for each side, and cut them out.</div>
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Then I pinned them down one side of the white felt to see how I liked the spacing, they are about 1" apart.<br />
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Then I wrapped the felt around my daughters leg, positioning it to overlap at the top and separate at the bottom.<br />
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The felt was baggy around the ankle so I added a tuck on the inside of her leg.<br />
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Then I pinned the Velcro behind on the backside of where the faux red buttons are and along the line where it would match on the other side, notice it is not a vertical line on the right, but this is how it fits the shape of her calf. The top half of the picture is the outside of one, the bottom half of the picture is the inside of the other one. For me the trickiest part was reversing the placement of everything from right to left leg.<br />
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I removed the red circles to sew the Velcro in place, then I simply hot glued them on. You could totally cheat all of this by hot gluing everything.<br />
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This is how they look closed and ready for use. I planned on only having my daughter wear these for pictures, assuming they might get hot and itchy, but she surprised me and wanted to keep them on the whole time. After a day of walking around in them I did notice that the back portion of her spats got a little dirty, they didn't drag on the ground but still they managed to pick up a little dirt, not bad though.<br />
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They looked quite cute on her, and really completed the look!</div>
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The final accessory I made were faux lace gloves. In the movie they look like they are fingerless, but the Mary Poppins in the park has short fingers on hers. To make these work for a toddler I totally simplified. I took 6" of lace and poked the red ribbon through one side of it, gathered it up a little bit, then I tied it onto her hand. The secret here is to bust out that handy lighter again, I melted the tips of my ribbon to make them nice and point - easy to poke through the lace holes.<br />
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I simply tied the bows on the inside of her wrists. This was one of those accessories I thought she would want to take off, but again she surprised me and kept them on almost the whole day!<br />
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The last accessory I ended up buying pre-made for only $13 on Amazon (well worth it) was the parasol - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DFUU868/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">here</a> is the link to that. It came in quite handy for giving us shade while waiting in line for rides, and wasn't too obtrusive because it's kid sized!<br />
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Now for some glamour shots of my little Carrie Poppins - a name that has stuck since Halloween!<br />
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And of course we had to recreate the carousel scene!</div>
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This costume was so much fun to create and I just love how much she loves it. I'm really glad I chose to use a pre-made white dress as the base, because that has helped it be extra sturdy for the daily use it is now getting and made it so much more doable for me as a busy mom. Please feel free to ask me any questions if I did not explain these clearly enough, I'd be happy to help!<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-16470572606047125462019-05-10T16:30:00.002-07:002019-05-11T09:29:49.904-07:00Mother's Day Gift - Key ChainEvery Mother's Day I like to give the grand mothers a special gift from my daughter. Her first year I typed out a little poem and added her painted foot prints in the shape of a heart, last year I typed out I Love You with a clip art flower on some sturdy card stock and then let her water color to make it special (she was very into water coloring at the time). And this year my sweet husband realized that we could take a skill that she's good at, putting beads on a pipe cleaner and turn it into a special gift - enter the personalized key chain! This is a great last minute gift that you and your kids can make too!<br />
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As with all good crafts it started off with a trip, or two, to the craft store. Our first store while it carried lots of jewelry making supplies and beads unfortunately did not have the all important letter beads. Luckily Michael's had my back, and we bought everything we needed there. Again, smart husband did a quick check to make sure we had enough of the particular letters in the package and checked them until he came to one that did, we were making two key chains - one for Grammy and one for Grandmo. Make sure to count your letters and if need be, buy a second package of letter beads.</div>
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<li>Letter Crafting Beads</li>
<li>Nylon String</li>
<li>Key Chain Clasp</li>
<li>Decorative Beads (make sure get ones with a large enough hole for the nylon string)</li>
<li>Decorative Tags that say "Made With Love"</li>
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I started by laying out my key chains till I was satisfied with their pattern.<br />
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Then I cut the nylon string about 8" longer than I needed. I also melted the ends of the string using a lighter so they wouldn't fray.<br />
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I realized that I needed something at the bottom of the key chain to make sure the beads didn't fall off, so the "Made with Love" tag got promoted to this position. I tied a knot on the end making sure to leave enough tail to tuck into the first two beads.<br />
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Carolyn was easily able to string these beads together and delighted in the fact that she was making these for her grand mothers.<br />
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Of course, even though I laid them out in order the moment I wasn't looking, because I was tying the knot on the next key chain, she got things a little mixed up.<br />
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The good news is, she didn't mind when I took off the out of order beads and started passing them to her to do again.<br />
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After I tied the knot at the top of the key chain I had a lot of extra string so I threaded it through as many letters as I could.<br />
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Then I trimmed it down and melted the end again, and tucked it into the last two beads.<br />
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And that was it, in less than 20 minutes we had two completed key chains for Mother's Day gifts!<br />
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They are a nice size, not too big and chunky but will look nice with their keys.</div>
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They will make a nice presentation in these jewelry boxes.<br />
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I hope both grand mothers like their gifts!<br />
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Carolyn was so proud and excited that she made these! I know she'll be delighted to tell them all about their personalized key chains.<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-47272313479351519212019-04-12T07:31:00.003-07:002019-04-12T07:31:37.230-07:00Easter Front Porch DecorI love changing up my decorations for each holiday, so it should be no surprise that I include Easter in this. The inside of my house is lightly sprinkled with Easter fun, but it was time to add some to my front porch!<br />
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Every fall I used to make my husband loan me one of the hay bales from his archery range, finally he decided to just give it to me, thanks honey! So my starting point was my permanent hay bale, but if you have a bench that would look quite cute too, and my crate and lantern that have been staying year round also lately. You can see how I first added them this fall and decorated them <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/09/fall-front-porch-decor.html">here</a> and again for Christmas <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-at-cottage-christmas-home.html">here</a>.<br />
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We live on a tight one income budget, so I have to be creative about my decorations, that's why I love shopping at the Dollar Tree (this is not sponsored, I just go there way too much). This is my haul from my trip:</div>
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<li>2 bags of large metallic eggs</li>
<li>2 sprigs of greenery</li>
<li>2 springs of pink flowers</li>
<li>1 roll of metallic basket filler</li>
<li>1 burlap bunny</li>
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I started by spreading out the faux floral branches and overlapping my green with my pink.<br />
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So they look like this:<br />
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Then I put my first bundle upside down in the lantern.</div>
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The next bundle will go right side up.<br />
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I also added some of the metallic eggs, but at this point it just didn't look quite full enough.<br />
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Instead of going to the store to buy more flowers, I decided to stuff some of the clear packaging in the back of the lantern to help the flowers stay up and make it look more full. No one will ever see the back of my lantern so this is a handy hack.<br />
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The next step was the crate. I unwound the roll of metallic basket filler until I had enough fluff, I literally left the rest of it still on the roll and just tucked it under. When it's time to clean this all up it will make it much easier to roll it back up and pack away. Add a few eggs and the bunny and I'm done!</div>
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This whole set-up took me around 5 minutes to do, even with my sweet 2 year old helping!</div>
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Now my front porch is bright and cheerful, ready for Easter! I'm quite happy with the way it came out and the fact that it only cost me $8 to do it.</div>
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Previously I've also shared how I've decorated inside my house for Easter, here are some of my favorite ideas:<br />
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<li><a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/03/dollar-store-fuzzy-bunny-mantle.html">Fuzzy Bunny Mantle</a></li>
<li><a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/03/easter-tree.html">Easter Egg Tree</a></li>
<li><a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/04/egg-tablecloth-weights.html">Egg Tablecloth</a> Weights (so your tablecloths don't blow away outside)</li>
<li><a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/04/he-is-risen-burlap-banner.html">He Is Risen Burlap Banner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/05/easy-cardboard-picket-fence-decoration.html">Cardboard Picket Fence</a></li>
<li>Check it all out in action in a previous <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/04/our-easter-celebration.html">Easter Celebration</a></li>
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I did a little poll on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/clearwatercottage/">Instagram</a> Stories and asked "Have you started decorating for Easter yet?" I couldn't believe it, the answer was 100% no! Why not??? I like to enjoy the bright colors for at least a few weeks! That was a few days ago, and with Easter a little over a week away I hope you feel inspired to bring some bright colors to your house in preparation of celebrating this special day!<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-3621972964559260902019-02-13T07:51:00.000-08:002019-02-13T07:53:12.857-08:00Valentines Day Bubble GiftI'm so excited to get to make little valentines for my daughter to pass out to her friends in her classes. We actually get to pass them out twice, once in her pre-preschool class and again in her music class. And seeing as she's my first child I get to do this for I'm over the moon delighted, I'm sure one day the novelty will wear off. But for now I'm all about that crafting!<br />
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I want to pass out a non-candy goody for the kids so this year I chose bubbles! Then I designed this simple little tag that I could tie to the top of the bubble wand, I love that the tag won't fall off while my daughter passes them out.<br />
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These are the supplies I started with. My plan was to use my Silhouette cutting machine to cut out the tags to make it extra easy. I bought a 56 pack of bubbles on Amazon for only $14, here's the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C1K137R/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">link to them</a>. Then I used some bakers twine (purchased at Christmas time in the dollar section at Target) to attach the tags.</div>
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Now in all truthfulness, my silly Silhouette and I got into a big fight and she only ended up cutting one sheet out for me! The rest she decided she couldn't read the print and cut feature, so I ended up cutting them out by hand and using a hole punch over the heart. Boy was I glad I chose a simple shape!</div>
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She was so excited to get to give these to her friends and carry around her little basket! I find a simple basket with a ribbon is an easy way to take it up a notch and make it easy for little hands.</div>
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The free version I have for you does not have Carolyn's name on it, I left the area blank so you can have your child sign with a colored pen or you can use photo editing software to overlay your own child's name.<br />
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My #1 tip for buying toys for kids is to aim to get toys that they will continue to play with over time and not outgrow within a few months. As long as it is safe for the child (no choking parts) I've often times rounded up on the age appropriateness of toys so that she can "grow into them." This has worked really well for me and it's been fun to watch my daughter learn to play with her toys in different ways as she grows.</div>
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I'm not a huge fan of toys that light up and make sound, but I made one exception with this toy and I'm so glad! It plays 8 different songs and you can compose the pieces by adding the different instruments (each side has a circle button with an instrument on it) one by one or there is a side that plays all the instruments. As a two year old she will bust this out and dance to it!</div>
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I didn't know I wanted one of these till my cousin gave it to my daughter. This is a do together toy, because the handle is hard for young ones to pull, but oh how she loves it! It is so great for practicing identifying animals and their sounds.</div>
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Another gift I didn't know we needed so soon was wood blocks, I figured we'd get these when she was older. No need to wait!!! At 6 months she was in heaven every times she knocked down a tower that I had built for her. Make sure to get a good quality block because you don't want your child putting cheap paint from China in their mouth, and kids love to chew on wood. This is one of those great toys that will get a lot of use over the years, as a matter of fact we were playing with them this morning!</div>
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These rings that she's playing with are actually meant to be stacked on a stand. Being a little baby she was too young to have the stand so I took that away till she was older, but boy did we get good use out of the rings! Here we're having a science lesson on density and seeing if wood floats. Okay really we're playing with the rings in water, but hey it was a great activity! Now that she's older she loves stacking her rings on the stand too! And the company that made them, Plan Toys, I love them! High quality stuff here! If I get a choice of a toy made out of wood or plastic, I love to choose wood.</div>
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This was a sweet hand-me-down that we got from a friend, I can't seem to find it on Amazon so you might want to find something similar like this <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">S<a href="https://www.amazon.com/d/Pretend-Play-Toys/Step2-Sports-Tastic-Activity-Center-Playset/B074HN2DL2/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1544400619&sr=8-13&keywords=step2+slide">tep2 Sports-Tastic Activity Center Playset</a>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She got so much use out of this thing, and it really helped her with learning how to stand and then climb. It also made a handy water slide toy in the summer.</span></span></div>
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This is literally her the moment we put her in it on Christmas morning, she instantly LOVED it!!!!</div>
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Now at 6m old she couldn't sit up on her own without falling over, so for the first month I would always put a pillow in behind her to help support her, but from then on she ruled this little house. She also used it to pull up on and learn how to stand. She's gone through phases where each of the different activities on it has been her favorite, from playing peek a boo with the window, to surprises in the mail box to playing with the activity board. Oh and she loved opening and closing that little door. I love that door is super safe and won't pinch little fingers.</div>
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It even can hold two toddlers comfortably. When we have friends over I like to bring it out on the patio for multiple kids to play with. </div>
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By 1 1/2 the little yellow arch was making it difficult for her to use the slide, so we simply removed it and saved it for future little babies - easy off/on. By the time she turned two it had been removed from the nursery to make room for bigger toys, but that hasn't stopped her playing with it. She still loves to go in her "little house."<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-33474343248222856042018-12-03T06:00:00.000-08:002018-12-03T06:00:03.894-08:00Christmas at the Cottage - Christmas Home Tour 2018I'm so excited that we have an extra week to celebrate Christmas this year! There's nothing like the cozy feeling you get with all the twinkle lights glowing along with a crackling fire. Last night Carolyn and I snuggled up with blankets and pillows in front of the fire place and read Christmas stories. Oh these are the best memories, and I will cherish them for as long as I live.<br />
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Welcome to my home! If you saw my <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/09/fall-front-porch-decor.html">Fall Front Porch</a> post you'll recognize certain items are being reused. I love that I can fill my new lantern with different decorations to transform it for the seasons. And yes, poor Ben has still not gotten his hay bale back for his archery range.<br />
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As you first enter the house this is the welcoming sight you have of our family room. For the first time we bought a fake tree! Of course it's almost as tall as our ceiling, so now our special angel will need a little adjustments to fit, although that will come after her head is repaired because Carolyn got a hold of her and accidentally broke her head!</div>
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The piano is ready to sing Christmas carols! This year every time I try to play and sing Carolyn comes and takes over. I don't think she likes my singing, and to be fair I have terrible pitch...</div>
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I have an obsession with woodland creatures (have you seen <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-woodland-nursery.html">Carolyn's room</a>?) so you'll see them sprinkled around. We've also gained a new decoration painted by Carolyn herself - the cute little house!<br />
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We were hesitant to set up Ben's train track around the tree this year, but we gave it a test run and Carolyn's been very careful. We also brought out her Duplo train so that she could play train and she knows the difference between toy and decoration.</div>
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Carolyn's sweet little rocking horse looks so nice in front of the tree! Maybe later I'll get to get a picture of her riding it in a cute Christmas dress.</div>
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Lucy kept following me around as I took pictures, I just love how she looks like one of the stuffed animals! All of my old Build A Bear stuffed animals have become Carolyn's and you can see the very full basket of Christmas books next to them.</div>
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Little secret for you, I used to use a strand of regular white lights that you had to plug in on my garland. But last year I came across the battery operated kind at the Dollar Tree, it took two strands to stretch across my mantle = $2, and I love that I don't have a power cord dangling off to one side anymore!</div>
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To the left of the fire place is what has turned into Carolyn's corner. We normally have a tea party set up on this table, but for December she gets to have her Little People Nativity Scene to play with. Every time we read a story with Jesus in it Carolyn goes running to it to grab her baby Jesus, it's the cutest!</div>
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Last year I added this beautiful new table runner to my collection and an Advent wreath. I always wanted to have an Advent wreath because I have such fond memories of my mom reading the liturgy at home on Sunday night before dinner and lighting the candles. I think it's so important to remind children about why we are celebrating.</div>
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Beyond the table you can see my Grandma's hutch has changed for the season. Now it sports my Grannie's Christmas village that she brought back from South Dakota one year, they're all hand painted by a lady in the town she grew up in!</div>
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Ben used his special printers to print me some beautiful backgrounds this year! Again, I'm loving those battery pack LED lights! No more dangerous power cords dangling down with a curious 2 year old! For the Santa house and workshop on the top shelf I just used a tea light in each.</div>
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The decorations don't stop in the family room, on the shelf in my hallway I have this gold pine cone tree that I made (<a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/12/pine-cone-tree-topiary.html">here's the post</a> where I taught how to make it). Flanking it on either side are more of my Grannie's special decorations. I love unboxing them each year and thinking of her. In her last few years living in her house, my mom and I would come over and set up all of her decorations. I still remember where everything goes 15 years later!</div>
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Even the guest bathroom gets some glowing lights!</div>
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Carolyn was delighted when I told her we were decorating her room.</div>
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I let her choose the towel and potholder at Dollar Tree. I wanted her to choose this lovely sparkly poinsettia design, but she chose Santa. It makes sense that's what a 2 year old would want... Hohoho!</div>
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Last year I bought this little Christmas Tree there too, along with the ornaments and star! The skirt came from Hobby Lobby though, because I felt the ones at Dollar Tree were a little too cheapy looking, yeah I know, shocker. But seriously, a whole tree for a $1, yes please! And each of those ornaments are so cute!</div>
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And a child friendly light solution! I had bought this Christmas lights necklace at JoAnn's to wear, but decided this was the safest option for Carolyn's tree. She can easily push the button to chose between flashing lights modes - love!</div>
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As I sit down to write you this post from the kitchen table, here is my view, it makes me feel so happy!</div>
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Lucy would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!</div>
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I hope you enjoyed my little tour of the cottage. You can view previous Christmas Tours; I have one from 2014 <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2015/01/christmas-house-tour-2014.html">here</a>, our previous rental house <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2013/12/christmas-home-tour-2013.html">here</a>, and our apartment <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-in-apartment.html">here</a>.</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-7187779888321919502018-11-20T07:40:00.000-08:002018-11-22T07:26:39.086-08:00Thanksgiving Table Decor and Friendsgiving 2018Every year I hold a small Friendsgiving potluck with my friends. We love the special time to get together and catch-up. I also love an excuse to set up a pretty table. This year I let Carolyn help me with the table decor.<br />
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How did my sweet little two year old help me you might ask. She collected the beautiful fall leaves! This is a traditional decor item my grandmother always liked to use for Thanksgiving, and I didn't even know it until my mom saw my leaves, jogging her memory, and told me about it! The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.</div>
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I also was quite fortunate and found this cute box of felted wool pumpkins on clearance at TJ Maxx. You could easily sub in those real tiny pumpkins that they sell at the grocery store or make your own! I actually had plans to hand-make tiny pumpkins but time escaped me...</div>
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Point of story, this is totally a simple table decor that you can make with your children too! Carolyn felt so honored to have <i>HER</i> leaves displayed on the table.</div>
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My napkins were another clearance find that I picked up at Target at the end of summer and have been waiting patiently to use. Technically they were sold as a summer item, but I think they look lovely with the cranberry tablecloth. The gold chargers I picked up at Dollar Tree several years ago, but they seem to reappear every year at this time of year!<br />
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The candle sticks were my Grannie's, along with the cute fake leaves/flower rings that go on them. And the center piece was a sliver creamer (to a tea set) that we found at the thrift store. Thrift stores always seem to sell tarnished silver for cheap prices, which I don't get because with a little elbow grease and they're beautiful again! I just stuck some fake flowers in it to make a small bouquet.<br />
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I don't have many pictures from the evening, but I did insist that someone snap a picture of Carolyn rolling out her first pie crust.</div>
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She also enjoyed helping me fill the pie.</div>
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I followed the apple pie recipe in my Martha Stewart Cooking School book, everyone said it was so delicious! Good ol' Martha! She also gave a tip in her book, she suggests you line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil to catch the sugary liquid that might drip from your pie while it's cooking - genius!!!! I folded the corners of mine up to make a makeshift baking tray so it would be easier to lift out...<br />
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And finally, the picture of the FRIENDS for Friendsgiving!<br />
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The answer is the Cornucopia was great and the Turkey was terrible!!!!<br />
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I did the cornucopia first and we had a nice afternoon together. I forget what the recommend age level was on the package but I knew that with my assistance she would be able to do it - they are just stickers afterall. I punched out the shapes from their foam sheets and peeled the backs, Carolyn stuck them on the horn of plenty. The only directions I gave her were where to put pumpkins. I also stuck the centers on the flowers before giving her the assembled flowers to add. Does it look like the perfect picture? No. Did we both enjoy doing together? Yes!<br />
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Now, for that deceitful turkey! On the surface it appeared to be just as simple, but that's a lie! I noticed there was a pattern in the feathers and I thought this would be a great opportunity to practice making a simple pattern. So I punched the shapes out but did not remove the backings, that way we could fix any mistakes.<br />
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Immediately things went downhill. To my horror I discovered the feathers were all different sizes and even angled for the left and right side!!! I can handle having things not placed perfectly, but the rest of that I couldn't handle! So of course I needed to step in and help, and even as an adult this was frustrating. Meanwhile my husband was in the kitchen behind me trying not to explode with laughter at my frustration. OCD mommy much??? Of course, at this point I did notice that the package said ages +5. Excuse me packaging people, I think this craft needs a much higher age number!<br />
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I mean seriously, they actually left out the orange piece in the middle for the head - but I didn't realize that till halfway through when I finally looked at the picture...<br />
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Success!!!! And it looks super cute!</div>
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Carolyn was so proud of her projects!</div>
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After all this, would I do it again? The coreocopia yes! The turkey - egh maybe, but only becuase it's cute... Lesson learned, don't just impulse buy, examine the package more carefully!</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-4670217868304061252018-11-08T08:39:00.000-08:002018-11-09T07:18:00.872-08:00Easy Meal Planning CalendarHow is your weekly meal planning going? At this time of year we tend to feel overwhelmed with all the holidays coming up trying to plan out all of our meals and thinking about all we have to do. I have a system to share with you that I've been using for over a year now and can highly recommend for it's easiness and flexibility.<br />
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Let's start with what I'm using, a year ago I went to Staples and picked up this dry erase <a href="https://www.staples.com/Office-by-Martha-Stewart-Dry-Erase-Monthly-Calendar-44377/product_1894118">Martha Stewart Calendar</a>. I chose to go with a calendar that was sticky back because I wanted to have flexibility to where I would stick it, but a magnetic calendar would also be a great idea. I really like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Calendar-Magnetic-Planner-Refrigerator-Jancosta/dp/B071CWJJTC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1541691594&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=martha+stewart+dry+erase+calendar&psc=1">this one</a>. I went with the full month because I was worried that a week calendar would block me from planning in the future; I like to think big picture.</div>
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So how do I use the calendar? Once a week I sit down and write down my ideas for the next weeks worth of meals, if things change it's super easy to erase and move (or just draw an arrow). I also write down activities that will affect our dinner plans, but not all our activities because then I wouldn't be able to clearly see the meal plans. As I put each idea on the calendar I add the food I will need to buy to my shopping list. And that's it, done.<br />
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If I'm trying a new recipe I'll add the page number to make it easy to find on that day. I also tend to color code and mix up the colors each month, but that's just my preference, do what you think looks good.</div>
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On my old fridge I had it stuck to the side of the fridge, but when we got our new counter depth fridge (I talked about it <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/01/lg-24-cu-ft-counter-depth-french-door.html">here</a>) it naturally stuck out less and didn't leave me enough room to stick the calendar in the same spot. Therefore it got moved to the side of the microwave, which mostly works except when little hands reach up to touch it, luckily Carolyn is pretty obedient and leaves it alone.<br />
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And here is it's new home on the microwave.<br />
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On the fridge I have one of those little locker organizer magnetic containers to keep the dry erase markers and erasers in.</div>
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Some of my favorite meals to make are:</div>
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<li>Fajitas</li>
<li>Spaghetti Squash (recipe <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/10/instant-pot-spaghetti-squash.html">here</a>)</li>
<li>Chickpea Curry (recipe <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/05/chickpea-curry-and-rice-recipe.html">here</a>)</li>
<li>Sliders with homemade sweet potato fries</li>
<li>Salmon & Veggies</li>
<li>Pasta w/Veggies</li>
<li>Stuffed Bell Peppers</li>
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This really has been a great system for me because I used to mentally meal plan and then by Thursday I'd be stuck, I couldn't think of what I wanted to make for dinner and you know how the story goes, I'd look in the fridge and have no ideas so we'd eat take-out. Now I can look at the calendar in the morning and see if I need to thaw anything frozen or start something in the crock-pot. We eat way less take-out now and feel a lot healthier!<br />
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Sorry I don't have much more to say about it, it's simple and easy and gets the job done. :)<br />
Do you have any good systems that work for you? I'm always looking for good solutions to the daily tasks to make life easier.<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-61357213653116735012018-11-05T12:49:00.002-08:002018-11-05T12:50:07.523-08:00Carolyn's Trip to the Pumpkin Patch 2018<div style="text-align: left;">
I love all the fun activities of fall, in particular going to the pumpkin patch! This year for the first time we went to the Irvine Regional Park Pumpkin Patch with my lifelong friend Christen. It was so much fun, and Carolyn had the best time!</div>
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Oh the plight of having a mommy who likes her pictures, have to sit still for a ton of cute ones before going crazy on all the fun stuff!</div>
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She was mostly a very good sport!<br />
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They had this cute little hay maze that she loved, and I loved because adults could see over it to watch their kids.</div>
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We also went in this cute little haunted house, Carolyn didn't love it, but at least it didn't make her cry...<br />
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She enjoyed pretending to be a pig though!<br />
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We tested out her riding skills on the pretend ponies before doing the real thing.<br />
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Carolyn's very first pony ride, she LOVED it! Until the horse had an itch and shook, that she didn't love, but good news her ride was coming to an end so we were able to happily pet the pony then. </div>
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If you live in the area and haven't been, I recommend you go next year, it was so cute! We're looking forward to going again at Christmas time, the train takes you to see Santa!</div>
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I'll start with the hat first. I initially planned to buy a hat and stick some flowers and red balls on it. But for the life of me I could not find a toddler sized small boater hat in black or any other color that would arrive before November (they were all coming on the slow boat from China). So then I decided that since Mary Poppins' hat is quite wonky itself I would just make one out of felt and not worry if it didn't look perfect. Check out this amazing close up I found of Julie Andrews on set for Mary Poppins!</div>
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To make the hat I bought one large piece of black felt, a bunch of white daisies and a sprig of red ball Christmas flower thingies (sorry I forgot to read the tag for what they're called). You'll also need some black thread and a sewing needle.</div>
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I measured Carolyn's head and then found a plate with the same circumference (17.5"). Let me tell you, measuring the head of a sleeping toddler should be easy, but dude does she toss and turn that was tricky! Then I used a larger plate to make the brim, about 2" bigger. The inside circle will be the top of the hat and the big O is the brim.</div>
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Then I cut a 2" tall strip along the edge of the felt to be the sides of the hat. And that's it, all you need are these three pieces to make the hat!<br />
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I whipped stitched the sides of the hat to the inside circle of the brim, even if you're not good at sewing this is so easy to do, you don't even have to worry about it looking ugly!<br />
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If you're wondering what whip stitching looks like it's literally going through both piece of fabric repeatedly from the same side so that the thread wraps around.<br />
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Around and around we go until the whole thing is connected, then go up the center seam.<br />
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Next, whip stitch the top circle in place, remember Mary Poppins' hat is not flat it's brim is very wavy!<br />
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Then I plucked the flowers off their stems and stuck them around the hat until I liked their placement. I used wire cutters to snip off the red berries leaving 1" of their wire to have something to glue. Then I just hot glued everything in place and it was done! Boom, I literally made this in under an hour after getting home from an afternoon/evening at Disneyland! Because mom of the year award, I realized as we were on our way to the "Happiest Place on Earth" that the kids were supposed to wear their costumes the next day to music class and I hadn't made this, the bird or the skirt yet, WHOOPS!<br />
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Sooooo she didn't get to bring the bird with her to music class, but really who wants a toddler running around class with an umbrella? Yeah, happy mistake! But for the sake of pictures she still needed the bird umbrella, more felt please!<br />
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For the bird umbrella I grabbed my childhood umbrella (so it's a little bit shorter) and some more felt. I used neon green, yellow, grey and white. Ignore the black, I didn't end up using it. I also bought some teddy bear plastic eyes at the craft store, I made sure to buy the ones that are more slit-like, like a cat's.<br />
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I used the green as my base for the whole shape and I folded it over the umbrella handle to confirm that it would fit.<br />
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I traced my handle shape onto a piece of paper so that I would know the size I needed. Then looking at online pictures of the bird I sketched the bird over the umbrella shape. I traced this onto my felt and cut it out. For every piece I folded the felt over and cut two of each shape.<br />
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Then I traced my bird shape onto a second piece of paper and cut out the pieces separately. I used these to trace out the different pieces of the bird. First was the white portion.<br />
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Then I did the same with the grey for the beak. At this point I realized that I wanted my pieces to hang over the sides of the green, so I decided to trim down my whole green piece by 2mm so that it would be slightly smaller and the sides of the white and grey would touch when I went to sew it all together, otherwise I would have had this large gap with green showing the the middle that you see here.<br />
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Then I cut one layer of green feathers and another of yellow. Once I had all my pieces cut and fitting I glued them all using Tacky Glue, but you could also totally use hot glue.<br />
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Apparently at this point I forgot to take pictures, if I recall Carolyn had woken up from her nap and I was trying to hustle it all along. I used an awl (or anything sharp and poky will work) to poke a hole on each side to insert the eyes, and attached the provided backing. Then I glued little have circle pieces of white felt on to make the eyelid. Next I took black thread, doubled it up so it would be thick, and went around they eye in a large oval shape to add that extra touch. At this point I noticed that part of my felt was not staying glued so I added some more glue and gave it some temporary stitches to hold it in place while the glue dried.<br />
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Here's a side-by-side of the finished bird and the outline I drafted. Don't mind the scribbles, that's just my sweet toddler's handy work.<br />
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The final step was to use a blanket stitch to sew the two sides together, I did this by hand but you could totally do this on a machine, or if you really want to just glue both sides together along the edge (leaving the center open to stick your umbrella handle in).<br />
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A blanket stitch is a lot like a whip stitch only when you come back up you go through the loop your thread has made, which then makes a nice outline along the edge.<br />
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Simply slide your umbrella handle into the bird puppet and you're good to go!<br />
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Now that you have your Mary Poppins accessories, it's time to get dressed! Check out how I cheaply assembled my two year old daughter's costume <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/10/mary-poppins-costume.html">here</a>! </div>
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These accessories were super easy to make and hardly cost me anything, especially compared to buying them pre-made! What have you made for your own costume or for your kids?</div>
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<b><u>Update: </u></b>Carolyn still passionately loves Mary Poppins so I decided to make her the white dress too, you can read all about how I hacked that together <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-make-toddler-sized-mary-poppins.html">here</a>.</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-16037699567643718562018-11-01T07:34:00.000-07:002019-08-27T14:49:04.156-07:00Mary Poppins CostumeYou could buy a Mary Poppins costume, but where's the fun in that? I made Carolyn's adorable little costume for less than $20 and the best part is that most of it she can wear again.<br />
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We've probably watched the whole film about four times, because we only watch it in short segments. Remember how I talked about not showing her TV till she was two, you can get the full explanation for why that is so beneficial <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/10/intentional-decisions-for-raising-baby.html">here</a>, well that's caused us to not be used to watching it during the day. So 15 minutes of TV watching is a lot for us when we actually think about it, but usually we're too busy doing other constructive things with our time.<br />
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Anyways, point of story she knows who Mary Poppins is and is utterly obsessed! We play a Spoonful of Sugar when we clean up her room and she loves it! So she was DELIGHTED to have her own MP hat and bird umbrella. And let me tell you, getting her to take the coat off was quite the battle because she wanted to stay Mary Poppins when she went to bed!</div>
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Everyone just loved meeting her when we went out trick or treating, here she was this very tiny toddler Mary Poppins.</div>
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If you've been a long time reader then you'll have seen this post before, but I wanted to share it with you incase you hadn't seen it, I was once Mary Poppins myself and Ben was Bert the Chimney Sweep, you can check out the pictures of that <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-costumes-past.html">here</a>.<br />
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Now onto business, the reason you're here, how YOU TOO can make your very own Mary Poppins costume!<br />
From head to toe here is everything she had on (minus the diaper of course):</div>
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<li>Iconic hat</li>
<li>White ruffled shirt with red bow</li>
<li>Purple skirt</li>
<li>Purple pea-coat</li>
<li>White Socks</li>
<li>Black Shoes</li>
<li>Umbrella with felt bird</li>
<li>Carpet bag (forgot to put in picture)</li>
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Let me walk you through each piece. The shoes and socks are Cat and Jack from Target, we already owned both so super easy!<br />
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The skirt was some blanket fleece I picked up from JoAnn's, I brought the coat in with me so that I could find the best color match. Then I just cut it to her height, you don't actually need to hem it since fleece doesn't unravel, but I can't stand an unfinished edge so I did. Then I just put some tucks in at the top and made it her size. It's literally held together with a safety pin in the back. If you don't sew, you literally could make this using nothing but saftey-pins on the inside and no one would know!</div>
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For the coat I was very strategic, I bought a pea coat that I thought was cute and she could wear again. I did some internet searching and found the most amazing deal on a used children's clothing website, $9 people! Now she has her winter coat for the next two years since it came in a T3! </div>
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Originally I was going to have her wear this cute little polka dot collared shirt that we already own (bought it at a used clothing children's boutique), but as luck would have it this shirt literally fell into my lap! At the <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/10/trafalgar-day-2018.html">Trafalgar Day Picnic</a> my friend came up to me with this shirt and a plaid skirt, she said someone gave it to her hoping that she knew someone with kids who could wear it. YES PLEASE!!!<br />
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I used some red ribbon that I already had to make the bow. Literally you fold it over on its-self and then wrap a small piece around the middle, then hot-glue together.<br />
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The bird umbrella and the iconic hat were the only parts that I had to craft, and they were actually very easy to do, I wrote a blog post all about it <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-to-make-mary-poppins-hat-and-bird.html">here</a>.<br />
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I love using what I have on hand and crafting the rest, and my favorite parts are things that you can get more use out of. I'm sure one day she'll beg for a costume off the rack at the store, but until then I'm going to enjoy making her these cute costumes! What creative costumes have you made?</div>
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<b><u>Update: </u></b>Carolyn still passionately loves Mary Poppins so I decided to make her the white dress too, you can read all about how I hacked that together <a href="https://clearwatercottage.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-make-toddler-sized-mary-poppins.html">here</a>.</div>
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-25415097674513876892018-10-30T16:09:00.001-07:002018-10-30T16:10:09.950-07:00Anza 2018Typically our Anza reenactment is held in the spring, but due to some health issues that our host was having we had to delay. Happily he is doing much better and invited us all up for some fun this last weekend.<br />
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As you can tell camp was not very large this year. Our tent would have been set-up too, so that would have made a grand total of two tents, but unfortunately it slipped our minds to ask the dog sitter if she was available. So we decided to come home, since it is only an 1.5 hour drive.</div>
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Ben was super excited to bring two of our Marines boys to join us this year, Andres and Leo's first time wearing green!</div>
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I had fun following them up the hill for part of the battle, enjoy the pictures.<br />
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Here's a group shot of all the boys when went out playing soldier + 1 adorable little girl.<br />
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She enjoyed pointing to lead the charge!<br />
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The British forces.<br />
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This Daddy just LOVES his little girl!<br />
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The boys took a break from fighting to enjoy some yummy lunch.</div>
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She was gifted this beautiful table last year by our friend Lee. This year his wife gave her the child sized porcelain tea set, she was in heaven!!!<br />
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At the end of the day we saw this column of men marching in, we wondered what they were up to.<br />
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They marched themselves over to Lee's house and gave him 3 cheers! He's such a wonderful man, we all just love him to bits! And to think, he bought this property just so others could come up and play on it!<br />
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Then it was time for the flag lowering ceremony.<br />
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We decided to take some last few photos of the boys in green.<br />
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I love that I caught the flash of the rifle in this picture!<br />
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Ben and I have volunteered at a lot of trunk or treats, sometimes it's a mile long line of kids and you just have to keep them moving. But if you're lucky you get to spend more time with the kids like we do at our church, so we thought it would be fun to bring in some games.</div>
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Enter: <b>Shoot for Loot</b></div>
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Ben decided to dress up as Robin hood, which then led to this whole theme. I picked up a suction cup bow and arrow set at either Dollar Tree or Target (I can't remember which) and it came with a glossy target. We attached that to a board to make it sturdy and set it up in his trunk. Then he went crazy with the theming, turning his trunk into the Sherwood Forest and adding the sign Shoot for Loot. We then put the candy he was passing out into a treasure chest.</div>
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The kids LOVED it! They kept coming back around, not to get more candy but to get to shoot the bow and arrow again. It was so popular, he brought it back at the following year's trunk or treat.</div>
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The following year I decided I needed an activity too. So I made a little pumpkin bowling game. It was super easy to make, I just spray painted some 2 liter soda bottles orange and their caps green. Then I hand painted some simple faces using black acrylic craft paint.</div>
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Here's my pumpkin fleet, nothing scary or mean looking here.<br />
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We brought a scrap piece of plywood from home to be the bowling alley and then used a folding table on its side to be the backstop. I borrowed a couple balls of different sizes for the kids to choose between. A small soccer ball worked best in the end.</div>
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This was an excellent game for all the little kids.<br />
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Even the bigger kids enjoyed playing it!<br />
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Lonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09225942193334861131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830116078184420112.post-57396880398796179412018-10-23T16:57:00.001-07:002018-10-23T16:57:44.778-07:00Trafalgar Day 2018<div style="text-align: left;">
This past Sunday we celebrated the British victory at the battle of Trafalgar. We had a wonderful picnic celebration in honor of Admiral Nelson. Please enjoy my photographic storytelling of the event.</div>
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This was Carolyn's 3rd time attending, and the 7th year for the event. She greatly enjoyed herself wandering around looking at all the plants.</div>
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The first thing we do upon arrival is have a delicious picnic. This year I was a terrible picnic hostess because of having house guests all week I was unable to shop and put it off till after they left. Conveniently Carolyn got sick and I had to stay home and tend to her while Ben recovered all four of our blue stools with new fabric - after 8 years of serious use they were giving out. Needless to say our picnic consisted of what was left in the fridge and pantry.</div>
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Everyone thoroughly enjoys taking it easy at this event.<br />
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Carolyn was delighted that I let her drink water from real tea cups!<br />
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The next portion of our afternoon was dancing, my favorite part! It was wonderful to have so many people interested in dancing this year, the most yet!<br />
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After dancing Ben opened up the archery range for all who were interested. He's the official range master since he actually has been ranked as a yeoman and used to run the archery range at a summer camp.<br />
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And then Carolyn received private lessons!<br />
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Ben also started an archers society, our friend Emily was the first to make her society green spencer!<br />
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Ben's brother Tim joined us this year and had a great time.<br />
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Carolyn made friends with this charming little statue.<br />
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Ben was working at the Printers Fair at the <a href="https://www.printmuseum.org/">International Printing Museum</a> in Carson, CA so we stopped by to visit him!</div>
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They printed custom shirts with Sam from Ben's school.</div>
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