Surviving Summer Break

It has been awhile since our last blog post because we have been gearing up for Back to School. This weekend is Ohio's Tax Free Holiday as well and I think it is the best time to get all of your BTS shopping done. We have a few cute things coming soon plus tons of new arrivals coming in weekly. On to our projects! The first one is making flowers that can be hung from the ceiling or stuck to the wall made out of tissue paper. First you need to decide what colors you want to use. Katem went...

This summer is just flying by! I'm hoping you are enjoying the longer days as much as we are. While I was worried about how our schedule would go I can say for sure that project time is one activity that never gets missed. This week we made bracelets for Katem, her AG doll Kit, and her Bitty Baby doll Claire. Here is how we did it: First we gathered our supplies Katem picked out these fun buttons that came in four colors. We also tried using monofilament but switched to elastic thread so the bracelets would be stretchy. If...

Welcome back! I hope you all are enjoying your break and have had a chance to do some of the projects with your little olives. We are going to go through two projects today so let's get started! Our first project took quite a bit of time but the end result was so cute! We created Dahlias out of paper and cardboard. Katem has hers hanging on her wall above her bed and I took three to the store to use as wall decoration. We used the following items: Cardboard, bowl, pen, scissors, cardstock in three colors, paper cutter, hot...

This next project is a great way to get ready for the fourth. We made Windsocks and then hung them up on our front porch. Here are our supplies First we threw out the tops of our cans, cleaned out our cans and painted them blue. While we waited for the first coat to dry we measured and cut our streamers. We decided that we needed four red and four white streamers for each windsock. After two more coats of paint our cans were looking good. Next we used the white paint to put stars on our cans. Katem was...

This week's project is probably the biggest one we are going to do and proved that planning is super important! We used the following items for our project We ended up using fishing line instead of twine and we also used my Cricut for a step later on, you totally can do what we did without one though. I mentioned before how planning is important. I bought a crate that was too big, we wanted the American Girl dolls' waists to line up with the top of our stand. I didn't take pictures of this part because I was just...