Valentines, Arts & Crafts, and Scrapbook Friday

Yeah... I forgot to post on Friday, and then we went out of town over the weekend and I'm just now getting enough energy back to blog.
We went to Redding on Saturday morning for a wedding of someone who use to work with Matthew. It was snowing when we went over on all of the mountains, but we didn't have to chain up. On the way back they made us chain up IN THE RAIN before we went over Buckhorn and it was less snowy at the top than it had been the day before. *sigh* Matthew's getting really quick with the chains though! He said he was going to ask me to time him, but he forgot. lol
Anyway, it was a quick trip, but we had fun seeing his family and going out on Valentine's day. We'll be heading back over in a couple weeks for the ski trip, so that made the fast trip easier.

So let's see... Friday both kids had Valentine's parties at school, and I went to both. It was fun, but exhausting! After school they decorated these cookies that Nana had sent for R (he was nice enough to share with M). Buzz (with a Peter Pan dagger??) and Cinderella...

Here they are up close...

Both kids LOVE arts & crafts. M would do them all day long if I let her, and R enjoys them too (although he often gets in trouble for something like coloring on the floor and doesn't get to do them). I've been having major issues with the set up though. First of all, the storage doesn't work very well and it get's SO MESSY that they can't even see what they have, and second, my dinning room table has pen all over it that I can't get off.
What I really want is for Matthew and FIL to build this (very quick PS sketch, Matthew actually has it drawn out in 3D with measurements and such)...

Two 8' (I think) bookshelves, with a long desk between them. I want to fill the shelves with these buckets and baskets from Land Of Nod for the kids stuff, and I figure I can keep my cookbooks, some picture frames, and other stuff on there too.

Then their stuff would be organized and they would have a place to do their projects. My table wouldn't get ruined, and they wouldn't have to clean up if they are in the middle of a project when it's time to eat.

But, I'm still waiting on that, and the art stuff was driving me nuts today, so I went to work on it... This is SOME of it, I really should have taken a before picture, it was nuts!

I tossed a garbage bag full of stuff. I pretty much only kept Crayola washable pens, and the nicer colored pencils and crayons.

Two hours later, here's what it looks like now...

I also made a list of things that should go in buckets and things that should go in baskets for when I do get my shelves built. :)

In cleaning it all out I discovered that there is no paper left. None. There's my good card stock, but no construction paper or white paper for the kids. And I only found 2 coloring books. They have tons of pens, crayons, colored and regular pencils, stickers, and tape (thanks Santa! ...M's a bit of a tape hound), but no paper. I told M she could ask for some for her birthday, but I think I might have to buy her some before then.

Hopefully it won't be too much longer before Matthew gets the shelves done. Then I plan on filling buckets with all sorts of fun things that won't fit in the drawers now. I can't wait, I know M will just love it!


I'll end my post with my LO from Friday's new releace: It's a re-do of a page I did a while ago that I just didn't love. I like it much better now. "5"

full credits

This was done with a new colab that Britt has out with Fluffy Bunny Feet Designs and Jeni Hopewell called Tiny Dancer. SUPER cute kit!!!