NAMI Postcard Exchange

We joined a postcard exchange with some NAMI buddies. Here is Lillian working on her postcards. We used painters tape & watercolors.

Here are the finished cards. Phoebe used paints, but her process was too messy to catch on camera:

Here are some of the cards we received today:

Bits of goodness kitchen swap 2010 (10 items received)

Bits of goodness kitchen swap 2010 (10 items received)
Originally uploaded by DDN and friends

Look at all the goodies I got in the kitchen swap from bits of goodness!

Easter Bags

The Easter bunny is finally going to make an appearance at the Navin household now that Lillian is 3 (this age rocks!!) Instead of baskets that would go unused the rest of the year I decided to make Easter bags for the girls. Lillian's is the red & Phoebe's is the green. Lillian's has since had a button added to it- the button she picked out when I made her come along to purchase some craft items. Somehow Lillian picked the most expensive single button ($1.59). I'll update with the button later...

5 Little Monkey (Puppets)

So, here are the monkey puppets: I think I'll package them with a few dried bananas for fun.

Crayon Wrap

For the upcoming Easter swap I will also make a crayon wrap... here is my inspiration:
http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2009/01/crayon-roll.html
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2007/04/25/on-a-roll/

I decided to make mini rolls for on the go. Here they are:

Puppet

Well, here we go again. I have joined another swap- the Easter swap. I'm hoping to put the goodies received into the girls' Easter baskets. And I've decided for this swap I'm going to make puppets for one of my slots. I saw puppets at our pediatirican's office that I thought I could make and then found the picture here: http://images.landofnod.com/is/image/LandOfNod/3710122_AnimalPuppets_F108?$zm$


Here is the first attempt to make the monkey (which I figured would be the easiest)
I obviously need to trim the strings and I think I should probably top-stitch it but even with those things it's not quite as I had hoped it would be.

I think I'm going to look into making a chick using this as a guide