FAll Fun~Blessed Nest

Are you ready for Halloween fun? This year we are all playing dress up....My husband is going to be the Joker from Batman. I will be little red riding hood. My 6 year old Holly Hobby and my 4 year old a lady bug. My neighbor asked why we didn't do a theme and all dress up together. I said, "well it just shows you that we all have very different opinions and ideas." Dare we infringe on someone elses creative concept. Oh my!

We've been having fun with Halloween this year. We just like to giggle in our family and have a bit of fun. My Mom was a kindergarten teacher for years and gave us a cute little idea for a craft.  If you need some fun things to do to occupy your little "treat" before the big night tomorrow, try this.

Get sticks of any sort. If you don't have Popsicle sticks use sticks from the garden. Use stickers are draw, decorate 5 little pumpkins and attach them to the sticks.

Then have your children memorize the poem below.

They can entertain as they treat. FYI my girls make stick puppets year around to act out stories during our story time! It's a great way for your child to memorize poems and stories.

When my 4 year old needs something to do, we put paper, stickers and scissors in front of her. Sophie is learning to write on her own. I think she is a little young but she loves to copy words ( or try). I encourage her self starting attitude...she does the best she can. She asked me to write the word "scary". After I gave her the word on a sheet of paper, this is what she came up with.

Enjoy your day and the many blessings of time spent with family and friends!

 Love to the moon and back,

 

 

Blissfully Domestic: Creating~ Crafting

Today Tabitha ( age 6) is Blissfully Domestic

Last week my 6 year old daughter was rushed to the ER once again. Her sneezing and coughing tends to go into her chest right away and she has trouble breathing. They used to call it croup when she was under age 5 but now they are leaning towards Asthma. So, the nurse told her, no school for you today and eat lots of ice cream. Well she held me to that. We went easy on the ice cream; dairy is not the best when you have a cold but we did the no school thing! We left out the 3 R's in our home school routine and let her play all day. My sweet little girl has a lot of energy and does not play sick well. She wants to play.

I needed her to stay mellow so we got the bright idea to pull out the sewing machine. Those of you who know me, stop laughing! Be nice! I don't sew. Heather is the creative genius in our Blessed Nest family and sent Tabi and me a sewing machine last year. The only problem is that my studio is in Southern CA and her studio is in Lawrence , KS. She can't pop on over and give us a lesson. I did manage to remember how to thread the thing so my daughter had fun creating and crafting on her sick day.

Tabi did all the sewing. She had so much fun. This is what she created. I'm so excited for her! All though she was sick, she had the energy to pose with her new purse!

 

Remember it's a complaint free week around here.

Love To the Moon and Back,

A page from my Blessed Nest brag book~

I’m taking the opportunity to “brag” about my business partner and sweet friend Heather. I love  the story below, written by Heather and I think it describes best her artistic story, the love for her Grandmother and her creative inspiration.

 

“So, I guess I'll start with Dar, because it all really started with her.

Dar was my maternal great-grandma. Her given name was Grace (which she always thought was "silly") but for some unknown reason an aunt started calling her Dar as a child and it stuck.
Picture a mixture of Lucille Ball, Martha Stewart and Mother Theresa. And since I only knew her from the perspective of an adoring little girl who soaked up every ounce of nurturing I could get, she became the roll model of my heart and hands. She was my idea of perfection. Sometimes I even think that there is such a thing as genetic memory, like the first time I smelled lilacs wasn't the first time.
But I digress. Dar was a seamstress, a knitter, a cook, a baker, a gardener, a story teller, a back rubber, a boo boo kisser and a total nut. But her greatest talent was her ability to make each of us great-grandchildren feel like her favorite at some point. Of course, I always knew the truth... but I would never tell the others for fear of hurting their feelings.
For a long time as a young woman I had a hard time trying to live up to her image, wanting to be her. But then I realized that the things about her that were in me were gifts, not burdens, and that I would do my best to be a woman that she would want to knit with or laugh with rather than trying to duplicate her (as if anyone could). I do, however, copy one thing that she always did... I stitch a little xoxo onto the edge of anything I make for someone I love. And I really believe in what she taught me... "every stitch a loving thought".

Heather has gone on to sew everything from wedding dresses to baby clothes. She’s worked as a stylist in Manhattan, NY and honestly could be getting paid the big bucks styling for TV or movies. She was the owner of the Interior Design company in CA, Pillow Talk.  I jokingly suggested when Martha Stewart went to prison that she should show the world who the “better” women was. You know take over the position. Because yes, she bakes, crafts, knits, paints etc! It never would have happened because she won’t brag about herself. That’s why I’m writing this post!  Instead, she has followed her love; her love of nurturing friends, moms, well everyone. 

Our story….

  In 2003 I was struggling with finding a way to comfortably breastfeed my new baby. What Heather came up with was the Nesting Pillow, a nursing pillow that answered all of the needs of a mom (form, function, style, safety, ethics).

Blessed Nest was founded in 2004 by Heather Anderson, who used her experience in childcare, design and sewing to create a gift for her friend,

Having spent my pre-mom years working in the children’s clothing industry, I knew right away that the Nesting Pillow was something that would be a big hit with moms everywhere, so I encouraged Heather to take it to the world!

Love to the moon and back,