bukaroo bib/vintage hankie bib

i am really excited about this one.

my mother-in-law made me a couple of bibs when trey was a little baby.

they are made with a hand towel and a bandanna.

i used them all the time, and thought trey looked like such a cute little buckaroo in his bib.

i decided to give them a try because they looked so easy and would make great gifts for this gift giving season.

easiest thing i have ever made!

then i had an idea.

why not use a vintage hanker chief to make one for a little girl.

i have a few vintage hankies and i found this little hand towel at the dollar store with a sweet little picnic embroidered on it.

i put them together and made "the vintage hankie bib."

 so sweet for a baby girl.

the hankies i had are definitely smaller than the bandannas.

they will for sure fit a baby...i am not sure about a toddler.

now i just need a little girl or a buckaroo to use these bibs.

i would take either thank you.

All you need is:

a hand towel

a bandanna or hankie

Fold the hand towel in half.

Lay the point of your bandanna on top of the hand towel.

Only about 6 inches of the bandanna will be on top of the towel.

 Stitch right next to the edge of the bandanna only on the parts of the bandanna that are touching the hand towel.

So when you are finished you will have stitched a big "V" shape.

Here's how I made the vintage hankie bib:

My hankie was fairly small so i cut two inches off the top of my hand towel, then zigzagged the top to keep it from fraying.

Then made two pleats to make the towel not as wide and to make it a little more girlie.

Pin the point of the hankie onto the hand towel.

There was only about 3 inches from the point of the hankie to the top of the towel.

Then sew the hankie to the hand towel just on the edge of the hankie again making a "V" after you have sewn.

 All done!

You roll the top of the hankie down and then tie it onto your sweet baby.

bear will you marry me?

around here we love to watch BEAR GRYLLS MAN vs. WILD.

trey likes it just as much as we do.

his favorite episode is when bear is in the mexican desert.

bear had caught a snake and needed fluids to stay alive.

Bear pee's into the snake skin, ties the snake off like a balloon, wears it around his neck, and later drinks it to stay alive!!

This year Trey wanted to be Bear Grylls for Halloween.



Here is Trey as Bear Grylls with a pee snake around his neck :o)
(post edit-ok so i posted this post then headed down to do the dishes...while doing the dishes i realized some might think there is really pee in that balloon...its just water :o)

here is the video clip if anyone is interested :o)

you know you are.

a thriftful photo shoot...

my cousin brittani asked if i would take a few pictures of her for her senior photo's.

so we headed to goodwill to see if there were treasures awaiting us there.

i found this old picnic basket...it just needed a little spray paint and...

it was perfect in these photo's to give them a little pop of color.

we also found that purple pencil skirt...it is too cute on her!

not to mention that pretty little pocket watch necklace that brittani snatched up at goodwill as well...

brittani's eyes are the most amazing color!

here are two vintage hats i found at a garage sale for $2 a piece.

i love this brown one...

here is that locket again!  love it!

we has such a blast taking these photo's.

thanks to my sister emily and cousin bailee who helped babysit while we romped around in the woods and open fields to take these pictures.

goodwill has treasures that are just waiting to be found.

it's a perfect place to get stuff that is inexpensive for fun photo shoots!

have a great weekend guys!

katniss for a day....

my brother's name is justin...but we call him "juice".

he is just 15 months younger than i...and he is a hunter.
everybody loves juice.

i have always wanted to go hunting with him.... but have heard that he just runs anyone into the ground that hunts with him. being the stay-at-home mom that i am, i have always been apprehensive to go.

after reading "hunger games" this year, i wanted to go more than ever, and knew i would regret it if i didn't give it a try.
i have recommended the "hunger games" series to several people.  of course they always asked me what it's about.
i do my best at explaining the books, but apparently i think the series is about something a little different than everyone else.


 about a month ago my sister-in-law margo called me on the phone.

"hey i read hunger games and loved it!  i just have to tell you, it was nothing like your explanation though!"

"what do you mean?"

"well you said it was all about hunting, gathering, and survival and stuff."

"it is, isn't it?!"

"no, it is not at all!"

we were both really laughing by this point, because we both realized that i like the books for different reasons than most people i guess. 

i love that katniss has a bow and arrow, that she is a hunter, that she spends her time wondering the woods, that she is strong, that she is a survivor, and most of all that she fights for good.

i'll admitt it....i want to be like katniss.

so this year i asked my brother if it was ok that i tag along with him on his bow hunt for elk.

this is me at 4 something in the morning out in the middle of nowhere.

we weren't hiking for even an hour when my husband came up beside me and whispered "are you thinking about you being katniss?"

i had to admit that i had just been thinking about it.

nerdy?  yes. 

do i care? no :o)

here is the photo of our hunting group.

my brother juice, one of his good friends from high school dave, my husband, and i.

i was just there for two days, but i honestly loved every minute. 

i don't have a bow, so i tagged a long with my little video camera. 

 this video is the first day when i heard the elk calling for the first time.  my brother is telling me to get into a position where i could stay for awhile and wouldn't need to move.

this was also right before we came into a huge heard of elk...as we got closer i started to smell something that smelt terrible...later i found out my brother's friend dave had sprayed my back and boots with elk urine.

thanks dave.

after we came into the huge heard of elk, we couldn't get a good shot, so we tried to circle around and cut them off. we just barely missed then by like a minute!

it was very exciting!!!

i told my brother that i am in for next year!

who knows...maybe i have been good enough, santa will bring me my own bow this year :o)

he would have to throw in a good pair of hunting boots as well.

i already asked him for a new bottle of my favorite perfume and a new pair of boots(not hunting boots), so we'll just have to wait and see i guess :o)

halloween candy men...

we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch.

(you can tell from this photo how much lucy adores trey...though she is way too stubborn to ever admit it.)

while we were there, my little lu fell in love with these halloween candy men.

they were too cute!

i let her buy one, and told her we would figure out just how to make them so we could make some at home.

here's what we came up with:

we put the candy in bowls so the kids could create their candy men exactly like they wanted.

the kiddos loved these halloween treats!

these would be great for teachers, kids in your sunday school class, or close friends that will be trick-or-treating at your door!

make them, they are fun!

our yurt

we love to camp.

but, the oregon rain is already in full force!

so this time we decided to try something new.

ever stayed in yurt?

they have them all over in oregon but they are always way booked out.

i had been checking a few times a day for a couple of days, when i found a friday night open on the oregon coast so i hurried and booked it.

they kids were so exciting upon arriving to our little yurt for the night.

i got a lot of hugs and "good jobs for getting this for us mom" praises :o)

apparently they had forgot about the fact that i forgot our sleeping bags and added a good 30 minutes to our drive.

i was so surprised to see that the yurt had lights and a dial heater!

it also had plug-in's so you could bring your laptop and watch movies if you wanted...or a fan to help you sleep.

lucy spent a lot of time coloring at the little table...

and jumping on the bunkbeds.

the skylight is awesome and can be opened.

we were all nice and warm in our little yurt and the lights were turned out.

i could tell the kids were asleep and so was my husband...it always takes me a lot longer than everyone else to fall asleep.

i was laying there on the bottom bunk thinking about how much fun we were having when i heard a growling sound.

my heart started pounding and i figured it was nothing...when i heard it again...it was coming from outside of the yurt right where i was sleeping.

i yelled/whispered to my husband "something is growling outside and i am not kidding!"

he jumped up and went to the window...

there were 6 raccoons on our porch trying to get into our cooler.

they were growling and fighting.

now you would think that when they saw us looking at them they would run away...think again.

they were not afraid of us at all and we could not get them to leave!

 we were banging on things, yelling, and beeping the horn on our car alarm.

finally we grabbed the broom and made a plan...my husband flung the front door open and ran out with the broom...it scattered them long enough so he could grab the cooler and drag it in.

seriously i had not idea how mean these animals are...and how scared of us they are not.

they hung around our porch forever and eventually found a trash bag i had hung up on a porch pole.

i had nightmares about it all night!

the kids had woken up and were pretty scared as well.

then while we were trying to go back to sleep, my husband decides to browse the internet on his phone and read up on raccoons.

i told him so please stop reading at the part where "raccoons can tear of siding to get into houses."

the next morning we headed up HWY 101 just for fun.

there were so many cute little towns.

one of the little towns we stopped at had this cute little "Life Jacket Loaner Station."

oregon is so wonderful!

 

the rain did not let up the entire trip!

we didn't want the weather to stop us from having fun so we found a little store, purchased some ponchos, and found a little public dock to fish from.

trey is seriously the coolest kid ever.   he fished from that dock forever in the pouring rain and didn't complain about it one bit! 

we usually spend our

 weekends out and about.

there are  many times where it would just be easier to be a little lazy(sometimes we need a lazy weekend though) and hang around the house, but we have such a great time as a family getting away and experiencing this life...i am so grateful that my husband and kids are always up for an adventure!

what are your favorite things to do as a family...i am curious to know!

blogger down...

my internet was down all week!

it was rough i tell ya!

i don't have much to share, except for a few photos from my second photo shoot for my sister's senior photos i took yesterday.  i have never really taken photos like this before...so it has been fun messing around.

enjoy!

we had a heck of a time getting those balloons in and out of the car!  good heavens!

i bought that headband for lucy like a year ago from forever 21...lucy won't wear it...my sister kyped it right off my dresser on our way out.  emily you thief!  i love it on you though!

last week when my sister came up for our first little photo shoot she didn't have bangs...right before we left she decided she wanted bangs for for her pictures...so i cut them for her just for the photo shoot...i have been giggling about it ever since.

she is rockin a pair of my favorite shoes and you can check out the eyelet trim belt i made in action :o)

man was there a beautiful sunset going on behind her.

have a wonderful weekend!

go do something fun!

dear grandpa jess...

you moved 3 hours away.

remember how i used to bring you a huge stack of books and you would read every single one to me?

well, my mom has started taking notice to the fact that i must be really be needing some time with my grandpa.

let me tell you what happened yesterday...

 i was painting my moms fingernails with my purple sparkly nail polish.

my mom said to me,

 "lucy that nail polish is so beautiful, just where did you get it?"

that's when i said to my mom,

 "from grandpa jess...it is the same kind he used when he was a little girl."

that's when she knew i really must be missing you.


with love,

lucy