Gift wrapping “arts and crafts”

December 25, 2016January 25, 2017Leave a comment

Being away from friends and family is hard, even more during the holidays. One way we try to cope with this is FaceTime. Thanks to FaceTime our boys are remembering voices and faces of our loved ones. So this year, as the mail carrier keeps dropping off packages at our home, I had to come up with a way for our boys to know who kept sending all these packages. So I decided to incorporate pictures to their gifts to help the boys understand who gifted to them. Here I go again. Coming up with more “arts and crafts” as my husband teases. Ahhh…I can’t help it! Ha. Hopefully this works and if it doesn’t well, I tried and had fun with my arts and crafts.

DIY Christmas Tree Topper

December 24, 2016January 25, 2017Leave a comment

Finding the perfect tree topper for our Christmas tree this year was a true challenge. I shopped around too much in stores and online, only to later find my way packaging and returning items because they just weren’t grand enough, well at least not to my liking. I wanted something big to fill in the empty space between the top of the tree and the 9 foot ceilings at our rental. Eventually, I just gave up and decided to make my own and woohoo am I happy!

It was actually quiet easy to do once I figured out what I wanted to do. I was originally inspired by this Pinterest post and went to Michaels for inspiration. About an hour of browsing the aisles at Michaels, it finally jumped out at me. Here’s what I used and how I did it…

Supplies :

Figurine/center piece of your choice.

Embellishments.

Floral foam used as the base and battery operated craft lights

Instructions :

Attach center piece using hot glue.

Add embellishments.

Add craft lights and blend them with embellishments.

Attach on tree, I attached it with skewers under the floral foam base.

Final look!

Viola!! A customized tree topper to represent my family. I’m so in love with how it turned out and already have too many ideas on how to tweak it next year by switching the embellishments.I would love to see how you all customize your Christmas decor. Tag me or send me pictures please!

Family portraits…nailed it!

December 17, 2016January 25, 2017Leave a comment

Family portraits for 2016 were such a success!! Last year we failed miserably at this, and we tried twice without a single decent shot. So this year I seriously did a happy dance after previewing the pictures and gulped down a celebratory glass of wine with mommy pride as if our kids were always this well behaved…wishful thinking at its finest.

At first, Sebastian, currently 2 years old and experiencing separation anxiety, struggled to unwrap his little body from mine but eventually loosened up and showed his true character. A silly, playful and energetic little human doing his thing as we all innocently pose for our family portraits.

Alexander, currently one year old, was a piece of cake! He sat there and smiled at the camera as if he’s been doing it his whole life. Well, technically he has but you get what I mean.

Okay, okay enough blabbering…without further ado, I present to you….my angelic little family, with a side of “panza.”