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Out of the mouth of Chance…

October 9, 2008 in Chance, Crafts, Family with 5 Comments

This conversation happened on our way up the porch to our house after I picked him up from school today.

He saw our pumpkins on the porch and here was our exchange:

Chance: “Mommy… black paint and white paint makes Asian!”

Me: “Um… actually Chance, black and white make gray, not Asian. Asians are people like you and me.”

C: “But the punkins are like you, me and Daddy… and we’re Asian.”

M: “Oh… I guess you’re right then.”

*pause as I open the front door*

C: ”Well… maybe Daddy is not a punkin because he is white and I’m more Asian than him.”

That’s when I bent down and hugged my Asian child to try to muffle my laughter.

I do NOT make this stuff up.

But can I say that I’m glad he doesn’t say most of this in public… though I guess it’s public now that I blogged it.

Pumpkin Painting Craft Supplies

October 9, 2008 in Chance, Crafts, Family with 1 Comment

I received some emails asking about my last post, so I thought I’d post about that post:

We used acrylic paint (Delta Creative Ceramcoat brand — it was cheap) in black and white from Craft Warehouse.

It’s not waterproof… so only paint with this if you are going to put your pumpkins in a covered area. It washes out, but it may be smart to cover your children in a garbage bag with the head and arms cut out or just have them paint in their undies. Chance is pretty clean, but he DID get some on his shorts. I’ll let you know if it doesn’t wash out… but I’m sure it’s fine.

I had Chance paint on top of his place mat, which actually took some time to scrub out because it’s not a totally smooth surface. If I were to redo it, I would have either laid out newspaper or just let him do it on the table so it wiped off easily.

I also bought the cheap foam paint brushes (for $.33) so that we didn’t have to clean up too much. I used one of my smaller regular paint brushes for the detail work on the big pumpkin, but kids don’t need that. Just OCD perfectionists like me

Anyhoo… we’ll most likely wash the paint off the pumpkins in a couple weeks and carve them. I’ll let you know how that goes. Yikes.

Any other suggestions?

Painting Pumpkins

October 8, 2008 in Chance, Crafts, Family with 4 Comments

After a long day of work and forward planning (mostly for my maternity leave), I came home to spend some quality time with my only child (I can only say this for 30 more days).

We painted the pumpkins we got last Sunday. I’ve never painted, carved or known what to do with pumpkins… so it was a first time for Chance AND me. It was a crafting adventure.

Chance loved every moment. Here are the pictures:

Sweet boy!

He loves to paint… the WHOLE pumpkin white

I was letting the white of the eyes dry before adding the pupils. Looks freaky, I know.

Here are the finished pumpkins. They may not be perfect… but Chance got to paint

Pumpkins: $5

Paint & Brushes: $3

Craft Time with Chance and ONLY Chance: $$$-PRICELESS-$$$

Bridal Shower Invites

June 12, 2008 in Crafts with 3 Comments

My sister, Renee, is getting married in less than a month here. SO EXCITING!!!

We 6 bridesmaids are throwing her a bomb-diggity bridal shower. Kira, who happens to be the only one who lives in California, seems to be getting the brunt of a lot of the work… so I decided to take the invites off her hands. Plus, as most of you know, I just like the artsy fartsy stuff.

Here they are – the FRONT:

And here’s the BACK with important personal information blurred out: