Since having the girls though, I've found that I've had to come up with other ideas and things to do. Lately, I've been branching out into sewing and other crafts thanks to my set of Childcraft books. It's also out of necessity since you can't just run to Wal-Mart and get what it is you want. Plus, I need to keep the girls busy when we're cooped up in the house due to weather. So, here are a few projects we've done just in the last few weeks.
French Memo Boards - I took the girls to our local fabric warehouse, Happy Quilt. This place is awesome. Their fabrics normally run 3,000 Won/yard. They picked out the fabric they wanted and I bought some extra to do some cute dresses here in the next few weeks. These took about an hour to do all together, mostly because I did both of them at the same time and explained to Holly what I was doing every step of the way. Can't learn early enough to measure twice, cut once right? The finished product turned out way cute!
Cascarones are confetti filled eggs which are said to bring good luck to the person who's head they are broken over. We picked up having this tradition around for Easter when we were in Texas and it is just plain fun! Unfortunately, they don't have ready made cascarones in Korea. So, I took to the internet and figured out how to make them. Even though it was a multiple day project, they were pretty easy to do. Day one was tapping a hole in the egg to get the yolk out, rinsing and letting them dry. Day two was dying them and letting them dry. Day three was filling with confetti and sealing the hole closed with tissue paper. The girls helped me pick out the colors and make the confetti by hole punching some brightly colored scrap paper. It was a lot of fun!
Next up on the craft project list is making dresses for the girls with the fabric they chose for their memo boards and sewing curtains for my room.
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