Week One - Craft

Coming up with a craft project is harder than it looks.  I had a thought that trying to replicate one, would at least help me get my feet wet in the crafting world.  

I have been a full time professional since I was 18 years old (going to school full time, and raising two high spirited kids, along with a husband I couldn't live without), this will be my first time at the age of 32 as a housewife.  My husband and I have been married for 10 years (11 years this April), and together for almost 20 years.  We have a son that is 7 years old and a daughter that is 5 years old.  I always wanted to be a stay at home mom, but couldn't make it financially work for our family.  Now I have no choice with my current employer letting my entire department go at the end of January, I'm jumping in and going to give this a try.  For once I will be able get my own homework done before my kids come home from school (no more 2:00 am study nights).  I will be able to volunteer in my kids classrooms, and focus more on their homework after they get out of school.  No more rushing to get their homework done so that I can get dinner going, kids fed and in bed on time, so I can start my own homework.  Oh to go to be with my husband at a normal time of night would be LOVELY. 

So, I decided to try creating more in my new found free time and trying my best at being a "Homemade" mom.  I hope to look back on this and laugh, but right now I'm scared to death that I'm going to super glue myself to something and have to wait until my husband gets home to rescue me.  This should be interesting....

For week one, the very first thing I learned on this very simple craft is "glue gun" will be my friend and life saver.  My next big purchase will hopefully allow me to have much easier crafting success the rest of the year. Not only does tape not stick to the things you want it to stick to (including itself), it collects all the friggin' dog hair that I thought was vacuumed up.  My allergy doc would be very disappointed in my house keeping right now.

I decided to go with a simple fun craft that will help the whole family remember all the good times we will have in 2014, called "Best of...2014".  This year will come with many challenges that we will have to overcome so at the end of 2014, we can at least look back and say, "yep we survived it and had a few laughs in the process." 

Pretty much all this project/craft requires is a mason jar, some card stock (I used a recycled Christmas card), and some fun permanent markers colors.  Oh, and glue gun.  If you don't have one, some wrapping tape would work (I used tape, but will not use tape again in the future - only my kids seem to be good with tape).

Here is what my "Best of... 2014" jar looks like. 

This is where I got the original idea from: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/b1/30/1b/b1301b6db02137a7b1087d22b6493e04.jpg