My Craftin Lull is Over

As much as I love to craft...sometimes I just need a break. All my free time has been spent packing for camping, camping and cleaning up after camping. This week during a brief moment of silence I heard a little voice calling out to me....and lone and behold it was my sewing machine. There it sat in the corner of my room just begging to come out and play.  So I immediately got down to some serious crafting business.

I've been wanting to jump on the felt food frenzy train for a long time and now that Ashtyn is almost two I thought it would be a good time. I sewed up a brown "paper bag" and began filling it with some yummy goodies. Here is what I made so far....

A paper bag lunch complete with a ham and veggie pita, ripple chips and some cookies for dessert

Everything you need for a perfect smore...well except the fire

WOODEN PLAY SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS

So I'm definitely jumping on board with the wooden play toys trend. I figure the less plastic in everyones life the better. Although silly me I put a plastic button on this craft...oh well, I couldn't find what I was originally looking for so I had to compromise.

I'm in the process of making Ashtyn a little wooden kitchen (stay tuned for pics) so I've been wanting to make her some felt food and wooden accessories to go along with it. I originally saw this idea on another great blog called Homemade by Jill, and thought that I NEEDED to make Ashtyn a set of these.

I had the spools on hand and circle pieces but I didn't have the dome shaped pieces for the top of the shakers. Then I got an idea....I could use buttons....a white and black one. Then I took the negative of a letter sticker and stenciled the S and P on with non toxic paint. I love how they turned out. Oh and I can't forget the rice I put inside to make the shaker sound.

I think Ashtyn will like playing with these and salting her food just as much as her Grandpa likes to salt his....hee hee.

I was happy to find this cute wooden thing a majigger at Michaels yesterday to hold Ashtyn's S and P shakers!!