Grape Juice and weekend craftiness

Ha!  This weekend I got my craft on!  With a little help from Fabulous Friday/Super Saturday and some ornery starlings.  I will apologize for picture quality...have yet to get a new camera so I am still using cell phone pictures.
When I got home from work on Thursday, I was met with some depressing news...

The evil little starlings had been having a feast in our back yard.

  Oh and the real kicker...I am relatively certain that these are the same little beasts that we LET build a nest in our attic, poop all over our rain gutter and cars, and in general be a loud obnoxious nuisance.

Nice way to repay our hospitality!

So Aaron and I clippers in tow went outside to survey the damage and determined that we would have to harvest early...that is if we wanted to harvest at all. Next year I am investing in netting and maybe a nice bb gun.  We lost at least 1/4 of our crop to those darn birds.

We wanted to wait until the first frost to harvest...then they would have all been ripe

Yummm....this is just the first batch...all in all we got nearly three gallons of pure sugar free grape juice.  All right that is not entirely honest...you know me I WILL be adding sugar ;)

Super cute fabric flowers that I made for some undisclosed Christmas gifts...I have lots of nieces!

Cute little wooden pumpkins...

makes me want to get out all my fall decors

Isnt' this head band soo cute!  I made it!  Me!  and bonus the flowers can come off to clip in hair all on their own!

New pics to put up in the kitchen...when I get that wall up I will take a pic of it and post...we painted the wood and mod podged these pics...you can't see but the temple pic is personalized with our names and anniversary and the Christus pic has a scripture on it.

Cute as a Button!!

Pioneer Fun Day #3 Sewing Lesson--Cute Button Headband

Ok.  I stole, yes STOLE!, this idea right off of another website.  I lifted the idea right off of her site and put it on my own.  I have only changed one thing~ the girls in the pics.  And the buttons used.  And the technique is probably lacking in finesse and accuracy. and oh well you get the picture...

Step 1: choose your buttons and measure out a strip of elastic.  I used the girls heads to measure and made sure that the elastic overlapped so it could be sewed together.  Ended up using about 19 inches of elastic per headband.  I chose black elastic because I know my girls and white elastic would end up dirty way too fast.  Took the girls with me to the store to pick out buttons.  If I was more crafty I would have already had a ton, but I only have the random buttons that come extra with a shirt or pants or whatever...cuz the clothing manufactures have so much faith in their workmanship that they KNOW you will be needing the extra buttons, or else they are saying "ok.  here you go clutzo we know you are going to end up ripping the buttons right off so we got your back."  If they only knew that I am WAY too l-a-z-y to reattach the stupid buttons that come off, cuz I usually end up ripping the pocket buttons off cuz I am a clutzo....

Anyways buttons were on sale at the store MY lucky day 50% off!!! so we got TONS!  More cute headbands to follow....good thing my girls LOVE wearing headbands.  Let them each pick a package of buttons then I picked a few and then I noticed that there were some specialty buttons for .50 cents a pack on clearance so I picked a few more and then a few more.....ended up coming out of the store with like $10 of buttons and $3 of elastic.  I measured out about 11 inches of headband and had the girls each line up their buttons (11 inches worth).  The website that I STOLE from recommended gluing the buttons onto the elastic so we did this with just Elmer's glue.  (I figured that it would dry clear and any excess would just flake off...well it worked ok, but Sariah didn't like the end result and I think I agree next time we'll just line them up and go from there.  The buttons didn't seem to want to stay attached and ended up falling off  which is fine cuz they are going to be sewed on anyways, but kind of a pain...ah well  live and learn

  Each of the girls was already able to thread a needle-THANK YOU MERE'S-so I just gave them a quick review and away they went.

sewing fun!

I let Leah play with the camera while they were sewing and these are some of the shots that she got...

I did get to teach the girls how to know their thread...pretty cool trick I learned from a wonderful Sister in an previous ward.

Mommy messy hair and all..but as you can see by the buckies we are having Fun!

Sleepy girl with her mi-mi...yes we still have a mi-mi, but at least she's potty trained.

Here is my youngest sporting the finished product...pretty cute if I do say so myself...well of course she is, but so is the headband.