Arts and Crafts

I have always liked arts and crafts, but since my children have been born there hasn't been much time for that sort of thing. Now that they are getting older, I find they are better at entertaining themselves, leaving me more time for arts and crafts!

Of course, most of the time there are many other things I could be doing, but taking some down time to work on arts and crafts seems very therapeutic for me. I made probably 200 bead bracelets a couple of weeks ago. Some with turtles in memory of Silas, and some with butterflies for a little girl in town fighting cancer.

Now I am learning how to make bows. Someone pointed out, that had I had girls, I would already know how to make bows. With September coming up (childhood cancer awareness month), I want to know how to make different types of bows (in gold of course, the color for childhood cancer awareness). Tonight I made 3, two were successful, one was not.

I packed away Silas' clothes the week of his funeral. I know that sounds soon but I wanted to do it while my mom and sister were here. We packed one bag full of things that I wanted to save (couldn't part with), and one bag that I would save to pass to my nephews when they get big enough (they were all just born this year!). Anyway, now I am using his dresser for an art supply cabinet. I will mostly keep my things in it, the boys have their own art supplies in the "school room".

As a side note, Jason asked me recently, "why do we call it the 'school room'? We do school everywhere except in there!". I told him, it was the school room because we kept school books and supplies in there. He wasn't totally satisfied with that answer, he wanted to come up with another name for the room.

Maybe I should post some photos of my attempts at arts and crafts here. Not tonight, I am too tired. One of these days I should though.