11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven: to celebrate a holiday

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fun with a New Train Set From Daddy!

In case I haven't said it recently, my husband is amazing. He spent all morning and afternoon setting up and playing with this Christmas train set with the kids. I'm the luckiest lady around.... :)

I hope your holiday season continues to be filled with light and goodness as ours have been. Thanks for listening!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

I Heart Face-Painting!

It's really not that hard. We copied THIS photo, and even though we didn't have quite the right colors, we just mixed and matched and added some of my expensive eyeliner, and everything worked out fine.

We also did some emotion shots, which the kids love to look at and mimic!

Surprised....

Sad...

Happy!...

And happy candy-eating!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Halloween Time!

The kids' grade school here in Mexico had their Halloween carnival last week, so I thought it would be timely to post pictures in case you are looking for inspiration. For even more homemade costume ideas, go to the article I wrote for Social Moms dot com.

So what are YOUR kids going to be for Halloween?

Here are the twins in random giraffe costumes we just happen to have collected from thrift stores over the years...

My favorite part was their makeup. The 16-year-old girl was disturbed and asked why I painted their faces like girls and that they look at Cindy Lou Who....

The 5-year-old boy was dressed in a borrowed clown costume and his brothers shoes. Again, I had fun doing the makeup. There are so many options for clowns. He wanted to be a happy clown, but I think eventually he became tired of doing the photo shoot...

Here, the 9-year-old girl shows no resemblance of her beautiful self in her skeleton makeup...

Her cloak was also borrowed...

The 11-year-old boy, who is currently obsessed with science, appropriately chose to dress up as Einstein. We borrowed his lab coat from the town doctor. We got this idea from my sister, who wore the same costume 25 years ago, and is now, in reality, a scientist....

And finally, we have Baby Hippo. He wore skeleton sweats we were given, but it was nearly impossible for me to apply his makeup with him squirming around. This was the best I could do. And when he looked at himself in the mirror, he whined and said, "Carey!"...

And here they all are together. Sorry, but this was the best photo I could get. What kind of a photographer am I?...

Thanks for listening!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Ten Ideas For Homemade Halloween Costumes

{Twin A on Halloween '10}

Today I'm writing over at Socialmoms Dot Com. From typical costumes such as clowns and hobos, to the more unusual, like Einstein or a bunch of grapes, come on over HERE to get some fun, frugal ideas for Halloween this year!