The Move- Part 1

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The Move- Part 1

I feel like we just did this. A couple of days ago I crept up into the attic and dragged out the moving boxes. As just about everything is approved and signed off on, and we are set to close next week, I have to accept that we need to pack it up and move again.  Believe me, I am overjoyed that we are finally going to be landowners, but packing up a home for the second time in less than two years isn't exactly a party, especially because we really moved into this place, filling every nook and cranny with our things.  Extricating ourselves will be a big project.  I'm starting with the front and moving my way back. It seems that I have acquired a few chairs since we moved here...

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Zipzicles - Reader Giveaway

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Zipzicles - Reader Giveaway

I saw these magical little popsicle pouches on Pinterest, and got a little frustrated that I didn't invent them myself. Seriously, how genius? Fill them with yogurt and put them in a school lunch (you could re-use a few times), make your own all fruit popsicles, or portion out apple sauce. I ordered a few packs to test them out and they are indeed amazing, so today I'm sharing my first two pop recipes, and I'm going to giveaway a twelve pack of Zipzicles for one of you to try out. Just leave a comment at the end of the post to be entered to win. I'll announce the winner next Wednesday, April 2nd.

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Testing The Waters

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Testing The Waters

I love working with tween girls...they say the funniest things. They are always so chatty and engaged, they are not yet too cool or distracted by themselves, yet they are not too young to focus their attention on something, take direction, and work through a problem. For this reason, I am testing out my first iteration of design classes with 4th through 6th graders in an after school enrichment at my son's school.  Here's my spiffy flier. If all goes well with this test run, I'll be able to open up classes to everyone soon!

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DIY Glow In The Dark Stars

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DIY Glow In The Dark Stars

Things are plugging away over here. Thank you for all the kind words about Wylie, and our big news last week. We have our big home and pest inspection today, one of the last major hurdles before we can finally call ourselves homeowners. The boys are starting to get excited about moving, and are already talking about what they want in their new rooms.  Jasper has this cool idea to keep his room white, and paint his ceiling black, for a scatter of glow-in-the-dark stars. I'm totally down with this idea, and I thought we could make it a little more like an art piece and a fun project if we made our own stars with polymer clay.  You can purchase glow-in-the-dark oven bake clay and a set of star cookie cutters at the craft store.  I am using 3M command strips to attach to the ceiling to set them off the ceiling ever so slightly, to give the impression that they are floating in the sky.  Here's the simple tutorial.  

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What's Really Going On

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What's Really Going On

I haven't been posting a lot lately, because we've been going through some stuff...good and bad.  For several months, my little guy, Wylie, has been complaining of headaches. Totally disturbing, right? We were forced to schedule an MRI, something that required him to be completely anesthetized, in order to find out if something was up with his brain. We had to take an early morning trip back to Oakland to have him put under for the scan.  It is not really all that fun watching your child with tubes up his nose, completely knocked out. The procedure went well, and much to our relief, about 10 minutes into our post-MRI ice cream party at Fenton's, his doctor called to tell us that the radiologist found no brain abnormalities. This doesn't explain the headaches, but I'll take it. As you can imagine, I've been operating at a high stress level. I got sick. Really sick. I'm still on really powerful antibiotics to treat a double ear infection brought on by a bad cold. I just haven't had the time to produce new project based content for Poppy Haus for the past few weeks, and I'm feeling a little melancholy about that.

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