Toilet Paper Roll Turkey Family

If you know my little Carlee, then you know how much she loves doing crafts! We have been searching for a couple of different Thanksgiving crafts she can help me with, and we finally finished the first one!

Meet our little toilet paper roll turkey family!

These little guys were super easy and fun to make!!! 

All you need is: toilet paper rolls, construction paper {brown, orange, yellow and red}, googly eyes, tape, and a hot glue gun. 

First, wrap each toilet paper roll with brown construction paper. 

Then, cut out your beaks and feathers. 

I had Carlee make a pattern for the feather colors, and she was SO excited that she made the pattern all on her own!! 

{Once the feathers are in a good pattern I recommend taping them together at the very bottom so they wont wiggle around when they are on the back of the turkey} 

Finally, just use your hot glue gun to secure the eyes, beak and group of feathers to your little guys! 

And there ya have it...a cute little turkey family for your Thanksgiving decorations!!

Cinderella Pumpkin

This is a very short and sweet post, but I HAD to show everyone the beautiful pumpkin my sister painted for Carlee. Amber has always been an amazing artist, I love her so much!!!

Crafty Monday

Good Monday everyone!!! I have been itching to get my hands onto some amazing craft ideas, and this past weekend I finally stumbled upon one...decorating a lamp shade with coffee filters!!!

I AM SO INTO STUFF LIKE THIS!!

I just knew I had to make this for Miss Bailee's room. Her room is painted purple, and is decorated with white accents so this little project is just perfect!! Carlee helped by handing me the coffee filters, and we worked on it together while Bailee took her long morning nap.

It is a very cheap, fun project to try if any of you moms get bored one afternoon!! All I used was a small lamp shade, 3 packs of 160 count coffee filters, a marker (so you don't burn your finger with the hot glue), and a hot glue gun (with lots of extra glue sticks). If anyone wants to know exactly how to make one just comment to me below this post and ill put up the easy directions!

coffee filter lamp shade

close up of the amazing texture

 As I was taking pictures of Bailee's new lamp shade I decided I needed to show off the rest of her little cute decorations. Her favorite thing right now is her little purple elephant that big sister Carlee picked out for her while she was still in my belly. She bops herself in the face with it while she tries to hold it, and obviously that is the funniest thing in the world...it makes her crack up!

her elephant

her butterfly mobile above her bed

her curtains

Well now that I have shown off all her decorations in her room, its definitely time to show off her!!! She is almost 15 weeks old already...I really cant believe it!!!

playing with her elephant

daddy time

sweet baby