Grandma Dot Came to do Crafts with us

I adore my mom. I am so very thankful to have her. She had a sleepover the other day, and brought crafts! I made the corndog muffins for lunch, and well, they turned out passable. I think the reason MAY be that the box of mix was way expired...oops. Yeah, I need to check those things.

Win a Set of My Rope Crayons! February Giveaway

I sell my famous rope crayons on Etsy (wellll, they're not famous, but someday, I hope they will be. haha.)

Today, I woke up thinking... Hey,  I should do a giveaway! 

I will give a set of Rainbow Heart Rope Crayons to one lucky person who "follows" my blog, and leaves a comment. Join on my side bar to the right ----->

I will use high tech means to determine the random winner... (I'll have my son pick a number out of a bowl.) This Giveaway will run until the end of the February.. so comment!! 

Get one additional comment for "liking" my facebook page, 

Mommy's Craft Box on Facebook

and another additional comment for "favoriting" my shop on Etsy. :) 

Mommy's Craft Box on Etsy

Simply, put a comment for each task you complete, and get another chance at winning. Of course, if you have already done these tasks, add your comment that you already did it. <3

You know you want one!

Attached to a colorful rope, so you don't lose hearts

Just as pretty upside down

Look how much crayon you get? aren't they huge??

Avant Garde Winter Craft Show

You missed the winter craft show with Avant- Garde?

No worries! I'm also signed up for the spring show.

Which is at Wagner Country Inn again in Westlake

Avant- Garde Spring Craft Show Event

At this winter show, I  had been cooped up during the winter, and think I over filled my table a tad. Ha ha.

I offered:

Hair Wraps

Hair Feathers

Headbands

Necklaces

Feather Clips

Tshirt Bags

Sock Buns

8X10 artistic photos

Recycled Crayons

Button Magnets

Second Chance Barbies

and phew... almost done...

Knitted purses and keychain bracelets from Grandma Dot

gasp...

and Finally, some Hoodie Hats.

You can see my display of Clip on Hair Wraps. Very fun.

Feather Hair Wrap Clips were so popular this year, one of my best sellers on Etsy

You can see Tshirt Bags here. I'm going to be redoing my stash, and offering a revised version for the next show.

My sock buns were my most popular item at the show this time.

My Recycled Crayons are a big hit on Etsy, and got some good attention at this show.

Second Chance Barbies are dolls that I've rescued from the thrift stores, and given a spa day. I make clothes and jewelry for them, and usually put in a hair wrap. My clothes are cute and modest, and the dolls are like new after a good cleaning, and hair treatment.

Fun Button Magnets

One of my newest endeavors... feather clips (on bobby pins) This one is my most whimsical, with a bird on it! haha! most of them just had buttons or ribbons on them.

I found some pretty pendants and just had to make necklaces.

Hoodie Hats- thrift store rescues, hoods with an all cotton scarf attached

SIDE NOTE: Most of the display items, I got supplies to make from the Dollar Store, or found at the Thrift Store. good deal!

Almost Caught Up, Crafts and Chocolate, Tapi and Geese

I had to show off a Julie cupcake. She's a cupcake artist at our church. Her cupcakes are scrumptious.

This one is spumoni, and I enjoyed it with Bear Claw ice cream. 

i love the tail mark on the right side of this photo. haha.

on the roof

This wonderful little device is called a Tapi, from DreamFarm. It was only $5.95 plus shipping, and it turns any faucet into a drinking fountain! You can buy it here!

One of the cool crafts we did last month was painting with condensed milk! It sounded so weird, but I just had to try it. You just put in a drop of food coloring into a bit of condensed milk! Simple. It paints smoothly, and dries shiny!

We were at the claw machine at some random store, and Daddy tried to win some pac man for Gabey. He had it, and then the claw just let go. Cheat! I consoled the boys by offering them to make some pac man softies myself. I have so many Tshirts to work with. It was pretty painless to make the pac man shapes. They loved them.

Winter Outing and Free Visit to Science Center

It was a beautiful day. One reason was that the weather was perfect, with snow on the ground, but not the roads. It wasn't too cold either. Another reason was that Gabey had off school for MLK day. The best reason was that JEFFIE had the day off too! (oh so rare) The post office made him work non stop since last spring. I can probably count on one hand that he had a day off except Sundays. They called him in on ever off day, and made him work so much over time. This day off was fabulous. He decided to take us to the Science Center, because it was free that day. Now, I probably won't do it ever again on a free day, because it was so over crowded that my stress level went through the roof. Every time I turned around I was afraid I'd lost Gideon or Gabriel. Jeffie "adopted" Gideon, and I watched out for Gabriel. I hate crowds. Aside from that, we did have a really nice time, especially since we were together and all healthy. Thank you, Lord.

Before we left, I made some quick snow paint, so we could decorate the snow.

Jeff started a snowball fight with the boys.

Look at that form.

Yeah, hiding behind the car didn't protect them.

I love this guy!

Snow Angels

Our arrival to the Cleveland Science Center

There was a great place to take photos inside the Rapid Transit tunnel. The plexi-glass was colored. 

Rock Hall of Fame

Through the yellow glass

Mather Ship. We're going to have to tour this when it opens in the summer.

When we came in, there was a cool bubble demonstration, showing how the bubble would float in the middle, being held up by the dry ice. 

I packed the items to make our lunch, and Daddy bought fries, and drinks for himself and me.

I made sandwiches with humus and pumpernickel, my favorite right now. I was proud of being so thrifty, even though people may have looked at us funny.

Jeffie and Giddy enjoying sandwiches. 

I loved this funnel tube. It was so pretty.

This was an awesome music machine, made from PVC pipes. I seriously have wanted to make one ever since. You use the foamie paddle, and hit the round opening, and the pipes are pitched by size. it looked like a fun pipe organ.

Gabey and Gideon liked spinning these spheres. They made beautiful swirls.

Animation Cylinder called a Zeotrope. It would spin, and the tiny individual photos would show through the side windows and it would look animated. I should try making one. 

Rainbow making prisms were cool, but really hard to photograph. 

We stopped in the Bubble demonstration, which was way cool.

This was a treasured moment that I had to capture!

I love bubbles!

Thankfully, this sweet guy took it in stride when Gabey decided to lean all over him during the demonstration. HAHA, we were laughing so hard.

Bubble solution over dry ice! 

Dry Ice Mushroom

Annnd, the bubble popped.

She passed out a little bit of the dry ice bubbles for everyone to hold. Yeah, he didn't really eat it. Ha Ha.

Back to the Mather on our way to the car.

Jeffie using the dock bollard as target practice.

Key Building

Terminal Tower