2 crafts & 2 little girls {for DaddyBoy}

First, I'll show you what I've been working on.
You know I have a problem.
I like to make stuff.
So first I made this.
Let's call it a WAR EAGLE WREATH!

• 6 spools of wired ribbon from Michaels {3 of each color}


• a 12" wreath form {$2.99}


• a coupon from the Sunday paper {or two}

Just tie a BUNCH of bows and voila... you're done!

I alternated the rings of the wreath to make it "fuller". Once all the bows are tied you can trim the ends and adjust your wired bows to make them all look pretty. I dug {in the scorching hot garage} for my AU Christmas ornament. It just has a big AU {no santa or anything} but couldn't find it. Instead, I decided I'd stitch out a tiger to accompany the bows. But I think it'd be cute with or without him! Anyway, you oughta give it a try {and please show me if you do}! I got the idea from here. If anyone is expecting a baby it would be really cute with an assortment of pink or blue bows too!

When I was at Michaels searching for my ribbon... I ran into these 2 "spooky" stinkers. Dad gum they're so stinkin' cute I couldn't resist. They're in the fall flowers {towards the front of the store where all the fake flowers are}. They're called "Fall Birds" and on sale this week {reg. $4.99}. I paired them with this {this one is 18"}...
which was also in my garage but covered in a baby blue boa from when JM was born. I stripped the blue boas off and added 2 black boas {which I bought at a local costume shop for $3.99... they're $12 or $15 at Michaels so I can't recommend you buy them there}. I used fine gauge wire to attach the boas and 1/4" white elastic to attach the owls. This one took 1/2 as long as the bows and the bows didn't take long. The owls come in 3 different colors. I decided on white for mine. If I had a money tree I'd buy about 6 owls and put them all the way around.

And wouldn't you know when I got it all done I realized my door is black and it may not even show up. Do you think Justin would mind if I asked him to paint the back door just for the "Halloween" season so I could hang my black wreath? Hmm... probably not!

I was on the phone with DaddyBoy while in the carpool lane at preschool today and I was telling him what the girls were up to in the backseat and how the Raiger had on a "B" crown. He said, "snap a picture and send it to me!" Well, I snapped a picture and I'm going to show DaddyBoy and the rest of the blog nation...

Paige told me that she played with toys at Mother's Morning Out. Morgan interrupted us...
"Paiger, I go to big girl school now. It's called preschool. And we have to learn stuff!"

Still contemplating a move... I'll let you know!