Holy Busy Beavers Batman Pt 1

I have been MIA in blogging the past few days because 1) my children have been driving me up the wall with their age appropriate inability to listen and to also throw magnificent tantrums and 2) because of before mentioned episodes, I have been finding much solace in knitting and those precious 2 hours of solitude in the afternoon.

But despite these circumstances, we've been finding lots to do to keep both insanity and boredom at bay.  In this post I will focus on our sparkly dragon craft!

On construction paper  drew a dragon for each, cut him/her out and then let the kids swab glue and shake glitter on them.  I was a little worried that stick glue wouldn't work the best, but it actually works better because then you don't have to fight with globs of glue that will neither dry not stay on the paper and get slurpy all over your dining table.  :D

Note the circle around Little Miss' picture.  I told her that she should draw around her dragon and add some pretties.  As she starts coloring she says "I'm drawing around her!" and indeed drew a giant circle around her dragon.  Ah, if only she followed my directions this perfectly all the time.  :D

Wall hangings

Yesterday afternoon Monster Bean, Little Miss and I made wall hangings!  I got the idea from another Usbourne book (they're amazing!).  First I cut poster board into rectangles for the kids and then 2 smaller squares for mine.  Then after they decided what theme they wanted to do for their pictures I began to cut out shapes from construction paper (except for Little Miss, she wanted to do it all by herself!).

Here they are hard at work

Here are our finished products (well mine and Monster Bean's)

Lots of fun and definitely a project that can be done over and over again with different themes!

Summer Vacation Day 2

Yesterday I wasn't able to do much because I had some weird sinus thing going on.  At least we were able to go the Y and the library, but then my day went downhill from there.  I'm not sure if chlorine got into my head and made me all bleh, but I'm glad it's over.

The craft we were going to do yesterday we finished this morning after breakfast.  Yesterday they decorated their crabs and the hubby traced their feet on construction paper for me.  This morning I made their flipflops and then they helped direct where everything should go on the window.

It's our summer window!  Too bad we don't actually have a beach....

Yesterday my order from drugstore.com came in and I was excited to bust into my new products this morning.  I've been on the hunt for some natural/organic makeup and soap/lotion for the kids.  We've been using Burt's Bee's on the kids but I wanted an unscented lotion because sometimes the lavender on both kids makes my head hurt.  On my internet researching Drugstore.com was rated pretty highly as a great place to find organic products for a good price.  The other thing I have been looking for in my makeup is something light and more like a tint than a full on foundation.  But the problem with doing that, is when I do break out it isn't pretty and then I feel like I need to put a mask on to cover it all up.  On Drugstore.com I found organic products and then I filtered them by best rated and based my buys on customer reviews.  Which honestly kept me away from a few products that sounded awesome....but the reviews were less than stellar.

So here's me, blemishes and all with my new makeup.  I'm pretty satisfied with the light coverage and how my breakout doesn't seem so bad under it.

My 'foundation' is Organic Wear Tinted Moisturizer in light-tan (I like the color combination picks as I'm not quite as tan as my genes would suggest but I'm  not that pale either), I used GeoGirl mineral powder over the moisturizer and then a bit of Geogirl shimmer dust on my cheeks and Geogirl mascara.  Something I realized right away is that in just a couple of applications I achieved what 10 applications of my current 'lengthening mascara' does.  I'm also hoping that this mascara doesn't bother my eyes like most mascaras/eyeshadows do.  I also bought a leave in conditioner/styling cream that I will have to wait and see how it goes.  If I can find a product that I can toss in my hair and go and it looks good then I'll be pretty happy.  I feel that no matter how much I straighten my hair, because of the length and how it falls, the ends are constantly flipping out which drives me crazy.  Also I discovered on Monday that I can do beachy waves with just gel, so that makes getting ready even quicker.

And to continue on with my beauty/fashion blabber, here's my outfit of the day!

Last night I made Pansit and I was a little wary of using the wok.  Mostly because I hate cooking with oil because I'm constantly burning myself.  So instead I used a frying pan which worked out pretty well.  We used pork ribs which meh because some of them didn't cook as evenly as the rest of them which was frustrating.  Everything else came out great though.  I did have to laugh because the hubby bought Oriental flavored Ramen and when he mentioned this I teased him that it didn't matter because you don't use the seasoning at all.  Yes I realize it's a Filipino dish and it's funny he bought Oriental Ramen.  :D

This afternoon we'll be making spray chalk for outside and hopefully running about!

At home summer program

To keep everyone from going stir crazy at the house during summer vacation, I put together a weekly plan of activities.  I'm really glad I did, it was a lot of fun this morning and took up the perfect amount of time before lunch!

Our plan for today was to make windsocks and fly them outside.  It may be cold but it was definitely windy enough!  We didn't get much time outside because it started to sprinkle and it looked like it might get worse so we headed back inside.

I cut tissue paper into large squares, let them color all over one side, glued a thick white paper strip to the top, glued it in a circle, cut long slits and attached it to a dowel with yarn.  They had a lot of fun with it and definitely got a kick out of running around waving them in the air :)  Hope the rest of the week is just as fun!