Tuesday Crafties

I am so excited to share this project with you today!  I know it's a day late, but I think it's worth it.  But first with a little story.  A few weeks ago at the library we discovered the felt board.  It was nothing special, you can see it below along with a very cute baby playing on it.  

See?  Nothing too special or inspiring, right?  But after I saw how much fun she was having on it I realized I could totally make a felt board at the house. Once the idea of the felt board got in my brain, it took on a creative life of its own.  Here's what I came up with:

I made it with material I had around the house and used scrap fabric and felt to make an alphabet, made a set of shapes in primary colors and a few flowers and animals to make it special.

Want to make your own?  Stay tuned--I'll have a how to post up tomorrow!  

Some Photos of Our Recent Adventures

Here are a few pics from our recent comings and goings...

The weather has been beautiful and we have been going on play dates at the park.

I finally got a hair cut.  Won't let it go that long between cuts again.  Eek!

Our first plane ride--momma did it solo and it was a success!

Grandmas sends the silliest and cutest outfits in the mail!

New spring shoes.  Don't pay attention to the lack of polished toes.

Spring fever means bright colors.

Spent a rainy day taping up art work trying to decide what to frame and hang.

We are learning to color.  It might be this mom's dream come true. 

We are lucky to have a really nice public library.
Three whole walls of board books and a felt board.  Baby heaven.

I have been waiting 10 years for red jeans to come back in style and probably
15 years for tight roll jean to come back and all in one season!

Speaking of things looked forward to...I bought this jean skirt with little
heart buttons the day we found out we were having a girl.  Dream come true.

How has you week gone?  

A Little Trip to the Old Hood

A few weekends ago we made a quick trip to Indy to visit friends.  It was a great weekend letting little miss get to know her Indiana family and getting caught up with dear friends.  One night we spent the evening cooking and hanging out with our old next door neighbors Jack and Chels.  Chels is the amazing owner of Plundered Patina.   

In addition to being a vintage scavenger Chels happens to be the best cook I know.  She made this amazing homemade lasagna with fresh basil and roasted tomatoes from their backyard garden.

Little miss loved hanging out.  But she is pretty happy anywhere she can munch on some O's.

We had such a great time hanging out, telling stories, drinking wine and eating delicious food!  And we were so glad that A got to meet two very important people to us.

Baby Bites

We are still trying out all kinds of new table foods.  She still loses patience before she can get enough in her tummy so we usually put out a balanced spread of table food and let her work on it until she gets frustrated or bored and then we top her off with some pureed veggies.  

This is still such a fun phase!  To my surprise she really digs beans--not just green beans but black bean and lentils.  What a surprise!  She also really love white fish like cod and tilapia and could and would eat her own weight in green peas.  She also loves holding a chunk of pineapple and working little pieces off with her little teeth.  And running out of potatoes on our tray nearly caused a riot the other night at dinner.  We haven't quiet embraced spaghetti but we like mom's homemade vegetable pasta sauce.  For the most part we cut up what we are eating and she gives it a try.  

Honey garlic grilled chicken, sweet corn and strawberries

Black beans, peas and cheese

Veggie lasagna, avocado, green beans and strawberries  

Peas, cheese, blueberries and white grapes

Over the Weekend

Most of our weekend was consumed with projects around the house and elsewhere.  We were busy, busy tidying the yard, changing out the batteries in the smoke detectors, cleaning, organizing and general spring tidiness.  However after church on Sunday we took a little family outing to the flea market to check out the goods. 

There is a metal salvager that always carries new and unique finds.  This month he had these vintage red sign letters.  Of course he didn't have the letter I wanted but they were still so cool!  

There were some cool crates--they were naturally over priced but pretty none the less.  

We found a few vintage suitcases.  And I thought about picking them up and refurbing them to put on etsy, but I have to limit my projects you know :)

T really loved this set of vintage bikes.  I have to admit they were very cool but upon closer inspection needed a lot of work.  Plus in Indy I used to ride my vintage bike a mile to the gym and a mile back and those vintage bikes are a work out and not always in the best way!  

I snapped a pic of this vignette because I just really loved the pic and cards in the open box and I wanted to remember this a good way to display things you love or want to keep like little notes.  Pretty, huh?

And since there is probably a large majority of you that just tune in here at ye ol blog for baby cuteness.  Here is a picture of me and my little treasure hunter that T snapped of us.  

We didn't find anything that struck our fancy (except maybe a corn dog!) but it was fun to get out and see what was out there and get a bit of fresh spring air.  

How was your weekend?