Girl Scout Door Hanger - For Cookie Sales

My sweet little girl and her Daddy went to sell Girl Scout cookies.  Did I think that they would come back having sold 106 boxes? Uh no. He travels....a lot.  So, I knew I would be the one having to deliver all 106 boxes.  Great.  With my toddler this would surely be fun.  So I tried to have everything orderly so we could be as proficient as possible. One thing I did make that I thought would help our delivery was make these little "we missed you" door hangers. They were easy and simple enough. Last thing I wanted to do was have to do this outing more than once.  But in the end I was over the moon she was happy that she had sold all the boxes, made the multiple sales, and had the interaction with adults to help her speaking abilities. 

Update 2013: These are now available in my Etsy shop. I sell these here on my site. Contact me: mspaytonjones@yahoo.com and I will start your order.

We also made thank you notes that I thought were adorable.  We saw this version of the idea here. Again, with the same theme of proficiency I added a place for the buyer's name and amount owed. I used a thin tip Sharpie to fill it in. I left space on the left side to hole punch so it could be threaded though the ribbon for the boxes that were together. This did not work out. The cards were too bulky for the tied boxes. Thankfully, the thank you note slipped easily between the ribbon.  Orders that had four or more boxes were put into gift bags. The thank you note did get tied to the ribbon and those looked cute.

100th Day of School Shirt

I can't believe it is our second year celebrating the 100th day of school.  My baby is getting so BIG! She thinks she is a teenager at the age of 6.....just look at her posing.  I think this is her model pose??? 

Last year I did this for her Kindergarten's100th day. But this year we did freezer paper stenciling. I got the idea from here. It is really easy if you have a cutting machine (Silhouette is what I have). It makes it easy and quick. If not you can do it the old fashioned way with an exacto knife.

Cut stencil using Silhouette machine or with exacto knife. 

  

Iron paper on the inside of the shirt. This is to keep any paint from bleeding through. 

Iron on stencil to the right side (shiny side down).

 Paint all the tally marks.  I did two coats because they were dark colors.  The paint bleed through a tiny bit on the red and one of the other colors but it was only really noticeable to me.  I explain the whole freezer paper stenciling a little better on this post.

Voila! Custom 100th day shirt!

Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas!

Chirstmas In the Virgin Islands

Christmas was a little different this year. We we went to the Virgin Islands. Here is what it looked like from the road above going down to our resort. Down below to the left where the beach is is where the resort was. Our room was right on the water with ocean views and the beach right outside. So nice when you have kids. 

 The girls enjoying the ocean.  Payton's favorite part was that she got to wear summer clothes!

Emmy didn't really like the sand on her feet.

 After she brushed it off she relaxed.

There wasn't a lot of touristy things to do on the island....but there were the beer drinking pigs. I was desperate. We were there 8 days and there is just so many days you can lay on the beach, so I thought what was there to lose? Here is Payton buying the "non-alcholic beer" for the pigs to drink. She thought she was big time.

Here is my husband posing for the picture, not realizing the pig was about to snatch the beer from his hand.

T.J. and the baby were not quite expecting the beer to spew.  The baby loved it!  She laughed and laughed.

The pig guzzling the beer. He did it in about 3 seconds....literally.

When he is all finished he spits it out!  Crazy!

Payton was too scared to give the pigs the beer so my husband lifted her up to see him in his pen.

Here is T.J. trying to touch the pig's snout.  Did you see how big that thing was?  He is crazy!

Payton enjoying the water.

Emmy in her Santa hat on Christmas day.

 

Sisterly love.  They loved this hammock.  It was just below our room.

Santa hats for everyone on Christmas.

Payton in hers.

We did Christmas before we left at home.  Emmy loved the tree.

Milk and cookies.

I tried to get a good picture of the girls reading "The Night Before Christmas" but Emmy was not having it.

My Little Owl!

Isn't she the cutest owl EVER! 

I love Pottery Barn costumes.  They are usually kind of pricey but they really do have the homemade look I am after.  I wish I had all the time in the world to set around and sew but two kids keep me BUSY! I've never regretted a costume I've bought from Pottery Barn so I feel like that is justification enough for the price.  Ha. Ha. By the way....I still have Little Red Riding pictures to post and I did make hers since the price was too steep for me to fork over for that one and I L.O.V.E. how it turned out.