Thank You Gramma Mary

Many many months ago Gramma Mary sent Lydia a sparkly purple chandelier. Lydia has been delighted with this chandelier and finally convinced her dad that she needed it! Hanging on the wall. We found the perfect place for the chandelier right over Lydia's kitchen ;)

Play Table

Apparently Lydia's babies have been needing a table to eat at. I was unaware of this so we used our imagination and the coffee table became Lydia's babies kitchen table. PERFECT! She has spent many many many days cooking, setting the table, and then feeding all her babies ;)

Kitchen Sink Part II

Finished with cute little washcloths! 

Lydia LOVES the kitchen sink! 

Oooohhhhhh what's behind the curtain! 

Flowers to pick

Flowers for mom! 

The kitchen sink moved to the basement with the rest of the toys!!!!!!

Flour and Sugar Canisters

We had a mini crisis at our house a couple weeks ago. Lydia was baking up a storm in the basement and she realized that she did not have any flour! Or sugar.

She tried hard to convince me that she needed Mom's canisters in the basement (really little girl there is no way I am letting you have containers of flour and sugar in the basement!).

I tried hard to convince Lydia that the empty yogurt cups in her bucket of toys would make perfect flour and sugar canisters.

Lydia was unconvinced and had to settle on boxed cake mixes. (Which is what we use 75% of the time anyways!).

The next week we made flour and sugar canisters for the play kitchen. Happiness!

DeAnna's Little Project Part 1

Everybody needs a project. I have been wanting to make a play kitchen - just looks like fun to me! But the logistics of said project have kept me from doing it.

I did find this little night stand and thought, "OH I could make just a little kitchen sink". Lydia already has a play kitchen so I am doing this kitchen sink really just for fun and keeping it super cheap. (The child does not need another toy!)

I sanded the nightstand. Let Lydia pick out the colors for the kitchen sink (I was thinking lavender would be pretty...). Lydia thought "watermelon" - also known as hot pink - would be ideal. We needed a contrast color and I decided that to keep the cost cheap (and use up craft supplies at home!) we would go shopping in the closets at home. Whoohoo - there was a bright purple. Perfect!

Compliments of an old dance recital costume - I had silver paint. With glitter! Lydia is super excited about a glittery faucet!

The faucet is the letter L  and some random wood peices that look like a handle from Michaels.  

The nightstand shelf was having some challenges holding the hot pink paint. After multiple coats and sanding, the old paint was still shining through just a bit. SO back to the closets I went and found some neon green paint. Did some sponge painting (well, no sponge in the house so I did paper towel painting!).

Seriously can that get any cuter????

And then Lydia's favorite part: flower pots. Seriously how fun for any little girl!

Think these are going to be paper toweled painted with some neon green too (and touched up a bit!). 

Stay tuned! The project will be finished soon ;)

Bow Tie Felt Pasta

How cute!!!!!!

Tea Bags

Seriously toooo cute! No play tea party can be complete without tea bags!!!!!!