Painting Greek Style: Edible Finger Paint

Many weekends I get so busy and forget to really spend time with Addy. Work doesn't end on Friday. Dinners, church activities, house work, grocery shopping, and just life  happens and before I can take a moment to just "play" with her,  the weekends over. Sunday night comes and the guilt arises in me and I always say next weekend I will do better. As a working mom I live daily with a bit of guilt due to not being able to be with her more. Talking to other working moms I realize I am not the only one! So to do better, I am making a list of activities to plan and do with Addy. Here is one of those activites.

This is for all you working mom's out there. An activity that is easy, fits into snack time, but I warn you it is a super mess. Hey!.. you can't have fun with out making a little bit of a mess. Let loose and enjoy the time!

Edible Finger Paint- Watch out we have an artist who loves to eat!

Very simple ingredients:

Greek Yogurt (I used Vanilla Orange Cinnamon flavor)

Food Coloring Gel (Drops will work too)

Small multi-purpose containers

 Today we used a paper plate as our canvas

  

Addy got started before I could get a clean picture of her :). She started off doing really good dipping fingers and smearing.. oh i mean "painting".

Once she had her first taste it was all over she painted, ate, then finally started licking the plate.

Viola!

Surprisingly, the clean up was not a huge task. The color came up very easy. Hang your art work up to let dry over night! Great thing about the Greek yogurt is that it has the same consistency as regular finger paint it just take a bit longer to dry.

I have been on the look out for similar activities.. Let me know your ideas!

Thanks for sharing a play day with Addy.

Michel~

Proud wife and mom.

Country Vintage 50th Birthday Bash

Somehow I managed to changed my alert ring to a tone that seems a little spooky to me. A few weeks ago I woke up hearing that noise in the middle of the night and saw the huge reminder of birthday's coming up. Thank you google calender for reminding me in enough time to get a party together for my mom's 50th birthday and thank you for getting my wheels turning to where I didn't sleep for the rest of the night trying to get it all planned before morning :).

So the planning began with a few emails sent out for any helpers to partake in the planning. Between our family and my mom's close friends this party was done with little cost to everyone involved.

Vintage party banners were made by Tracy at The Lively Lady shop on etsy. She has an amazing talent for sewing and this was her first go at making one of these party banners. The banners were perfect!

Scrapbook flowers were used for a different look instead of fresh flowers. Being in Texas right now and due to the scourching heat, all the beauty of flowers are shriveled up to a crisp. We did manage to find a few buds in the garden to have floating in the tops of the teacup serving trays.Last but not least, a party isn't a party until you have a birthday hat, pompoms, and a photobooth. Everyone was a good sport with the photobooth considering the 104 tempature outside. Tutorials on DIY vintage photo booth and scrap book flowers to come!

I love this party because it was simple and was set up to match who my mom is...well..one side of her. As the guest arrived, I sat back and had to chuckle. We had sweet pretty dessert table and seeing grown biker men grab cupcakes off the table was a site. I see a Harley Davidson theme party in the future just for you Jim :).

                                My favorite photo taken of the day! My mother's family!

Michel~

Father's Day: "I love you when..."

Say it for them card (or photo book, collage, etc)

Father's Day has come and gone but finally getting this up. Addyson and I had just one hour to get this together. I do not suggest a one hour slot for this project on anyone. I might have gotten more smiles if we did one scene a day :), but we both survived and it actually was a lot of fun (besides the constant tough-a- war of the bow on her head).

From day one, my husband has been there for us through thick and thin, especially for our baby girl. So what a better way to let him know how much he is loved by having Addyson tell him herself. It started out with just a simple card idea then grew to many other scenes and in to a mini photo book.

Hope you enjoy

Just a few of the shots we got!

 Addyson did a great job, or as best as a 7 month can be. I suggest have fun with the photo editing. I thought at first it was too much but looking at it now it just makes it interesting.

~Michel

Proud wife and mom