Holiday Crafts

Although the Pea is still too young to really know what making crafts or baking is, I still want to do some fun stuff with her this season. She will surely eat the art supplies and put sugar cookie dough in her hair but at least I can share our holiday spirit with friends and family and say Olivia "helped". Does anyone have any holiday craft ideas or yummy recipes they would like to share? I think we are making construction paper turkeys and apple crisp this November. I would love to hear from you!

Here are the super easy instructions on how to make this cute and funky turkey centerpiece. Have I ever expressed how much of a holiday nerd I am?

Getting crafty.

I am currently a stay-at-home mom and I have decided that I cannot let my creativity and all the projects I intend to do go wasted because I just spend my days tending to Olivia and my free time just disappears and I do not have much to show for it. Laundry, walks, play dates, trips to Target, reading, cleaning, etc. are productive and necessary things but I must manage my time better because there are many things I want to make! I want to make headbands and hair clips for Olivia, I want to make her some felt dolls, and I also want to begin her 1st year scrapbook. I'd love to make her some dolls made out of organic felt, but I cannot seem to find any in any colors other than some tan felt on a super random website. If you know of any, spread the wealth! I have a photo of a doll I made on a whim in San Francisco. I wasn't super picky about how I made her and I made some mistakes but she is still pretty cute:

She is made of felt and filling, with sewn on buttons and a painted face. Her name is Clementine and she sat atop the wonderful wood built-in bookcase in our sorely missed apartment with its beautiful bay windows on the super noisy Geary Blvd. amidst Chinese markets and Russian bakeries. Siiiigh.