My Creative Awakening!

Well, this mama is far from creative. This mama gets a break from her little chicks RARELY ...which is quite fine...but what a wonderful time I had making candles with my two good friends here. We made some wonderful smelling and beautiful candles to give as holiday gifts. It was so much fun! We are going to let our kids help decorate the jars, which will be fun for them as well.
It was very easy to make these candles and such a treat to have adult female time for those 3 hours.

So, next time we are going to make some gifts in a jar. Have you heard of these? I have found so many great recipes. We will be making cocoa in a jar, minestrone soup in a jar, and mexican dip mix in a jar. These will go into mason jars that we will decorate with Christmas ribbon and material. I am making gift baskets with these, homemade ornaments, and the candles...and for family, adding a picture of our girls. So this will be my next girl's time. Yeah! I can't wait.

This creativity thing is really much more fun and rewarding than I thought....and I must say I am really into the Christmas spirit this year...not worrying about what is on everyone's list and making sure I spend the exact same on each person. I am having so much fun being frugal...who knew?

And...we are going to make Christmas candy and cookies..this will be with the kids though. Should be fun as well! I must really be turning into an adult now. :) I guess that is what 4 kids will do to you. :)

Holidays are coming!!!

Fall is in the air this Monday morning. My air is off, my windows are open and it is Beautiful outside...just in time for Halloween. Woo hoo! We have a busy week too. Wednesday my girls get to get dressed up and go to Alivia's school carnival. They are going to be soo cute and it is going to be freezing here...probably in the 50's...cold for us.

Friday is Halloween and we do go Trick-or-Treating. I know some people are against this, but we do it and have a ball. We have a big neighborhood, that is very spread out...so we pull the girls in our wagon and do a block or so just for the experience. The girls get way too much candy just from that. Then we hand out candy to the kids who come to our house. The girls love to help do this as well. And, I got a bargain at Sam's club on a felt pumpkin filled with candy for 4.88.

Halloween makes me excited because it means the start to the holiday season. I ordered the supplies today to make homemade candles. It is a major bargain as well. For all of my candles, probably about 50 or so it will cost about 50 dollars. This will make gifts for several people and I will keep a bunch of them too because I LOVE candles. The site I ordered from is candlescience.com. I can't wait to make them. I HOPE they are easy to make...or at least not too difficult. :) My sisters, mom and I are going to try it together. I ordered 15 different scents...mostly holiday ones because I love the spicy holiday smells...just puts me in the holiday spirit.

Crafty mama...

That sure doesn't describe me at all...but I am going to channel my inner craftiness for the holiday season. Oh yeah... Mama needs to save some dough this Christmas. So, what am
I learning to make...soy candles. I burnt one for the first time the other day and I paid $5 for a 6 oz one from the farmer's market. I can make them for about $2 per candle for 16 oz....add a cute shade and there you have it. We will also get a family photo for grandparents...and my friend is teaching me how to make a beautiful beaded bracelet. So...I can give some useful, great, inexpensive gifts to people without breaking the bank.
I am still brainstorming to see if I can come up with anymore ideas....SIMPLE ideas because I have no creative ability!!
I am proud of myself though... Also, I will be making my girl's costumes for the 2nd year in a row. Last year they were way cuter than any of the store bought ones of the past and this year will be just as cute. They are going to all be m & m's. Way cheaper than the $30 costumes at the stores...and it keeps Lexi from wanting to be a Princess for the umpteenth time.