Kid craft: Snowmen on a mason jar

It is a very cold day here and perfect for painting snowmen with the 3 (almost 4) year old.

How to make Sock Craft Snow People

While the little grands are visiting we decided to make some crafty sock people.  The 6 year old was able to make hers entirely by herself and the three year old did all the stuffing and gave directions on how he wanted his decorated. 

Happy Valentines!

It's OK


To eat my Valentine chocolates before "the day" got here!

To stand still on the back porch with a cup of hot tea

breath deep

and relish the love of family.

It's OK, really, it is okay.

Snow fridge.

Well, techinically it is a refrigerator, but say snow fridge out loud with a musical lilt...it's funny.  While photographing my living room for the open house blog, a glaring white fridge in the back ground was not what I wanted to see.  So, a quick make over and tah-da... decor.  Literally, in less than 5 minutes he appeared there.  It helps that I had a stash of round and strip magnets on the side out of view.  A piece of orange construction paper, a strip of red tissue paper and a couple of green buttons attop peel and stick magnets make this a welcome guest.

Snowman play

Last winter my 4 yr old grand was here during a light snow.  The snow wasn't the good snowman making kind, but we managed to make a few little fellows grouped together on the patio table.  She thought they looked like they were waiting for birds to come have a picnic.  So I gave her some plates and plastic utensils to set the bird picnic up.  She put a handful of birdseed on the plates and we delighted together as birds came to eat.  Later as we sat in my home office she asked for another snowman on the window sill.  So we opened the window and made a little fellow that fell against the window as we closed it.  She played most of the afternoon setting up different scenes on the window sill.  My favorite was the little battery operated candle that gave the appearance he was tying to get warm through the window pane.  That's the one I posted on 4/10 Cold- photo a day. Here are a couple of others from that day.

I have bird friends and we'd like to come in to warm up?

We put out a bird feast, just waiting for the party to start!

Would you like to play?

Awe, you're cute!