I Had a Free Afternoon? I Made Something?

I can't believe it. This is more rare than an eclipse happening twice in one day.

I had a free afternoon. I almost forgot what a free afternoon feels like!

At 2 pm I made my own coupon organizer and finally got everything ready for future shopping trips.

Then I got my daughter from tutoring at school by 3 pm.

Little son and daughter had no games/practices or anything.

Silence in the house for 2 hours while my youngers played at the park from 3:15 to 5 pm.

My husband and son had baseball practice at RVMS and were done early by 4:30 pm. They went out to celebrate at Chuys because my 12 year old maintained his high honor roll GPA for the first progress report of the 4th quarter.

Then my high schooler son texted me and asked for a ride home at 4:30 pm because baseball practice ended early.

4:30 pm and I don't have to be running and driving around until 9 pm? I am in shock.

My 7 year old son made his own dinner by 5 pm. Yes peeps, MADE HIS OWN DINNER. He heated up 5 frozen taquitos and sat down at the table with a glass of milk.

Whoo hoo. (jumping into a break down routine here)

Then my hubs went upstairs and took a nap for a couple hours.

Then my high school son takes my 9 year old daughter on a BSD by 6 pm, a brother sister date. My daughter got a BSD coupon for her birthday yesterday. They both rode their bikes to the Fry's area and went to Carls Jr for dinner and were gone for a good hour.

So what did I do from 3 to 8 pm?

I sewed! I crafted! I altered my top from Old Navy that I got two months ago so it would fit me better. Then I took the leftover fabric and added other leftover fabric and made my daughter a bohemian style skirt. I am nearly done. I even made a fabric flower clip to go with it. Pictures to follow soon.

So crafting and no cooking for a family of 6, no running around, no driving and rushing, no homework, and no one knocking on my door and bothering me this afternoon. Even my dog snoozed all day.

It was really nice. Everyone did what they wanted to do today.

What do you do with a free afternoon?

Lucky Late than Never

So this is supposed to be a craft blog, and I barely post anything crafty here...blame the time game on that one.

So here is some tidbits from my March Lucky decorating. I kept it simple: changed out the jars in my soda crate hanging on the wall in the lobby. Every month it has a different look and theme. This is March's look. The top row has thrifty paper crinkles that I made myself from lunch bags. The second row has wheat berries and cupcake lucky charms inserted. The bottom row has green polka dot scrapbook paper and chipboard letters that I had on hand spelled "luck." The top of the shelf: I shopped my house and put them on there:

I collect vintage Ball jars, and change up things inside them all the time:

Plus my favorite decor item is my gumball machine. The month of March had the thrifty shredded paper cut from a lunch paper bag, crunched up, thrown it, and added some shamrocks I had on hand:

I let my kids use the cupcake shamrock toothpicks I had leftover and they stuck them all over the place. Here is a few in my antique milkvase with the new sprigs of spring grass growing it in, from wheat berries:

I added a bit more green on my piano. I have two antique milkvases on it, and I am always trying to come up with ideas to fill it up with something cute. The weather got weird in Feb and Mar: superhot, supercold, superhot, supercold. I decided not to plant my mints in March and temporarily put them in the vases for instant lucky green:

This thrifted makeover shelf has something new hanging from it or on it every month. The month of March had my lucky star charms I made last year hanging on it:

So that's it. Very very simple. Being a busy mom who lives in her car only allows me a tiny bit of decorating in the house lately. Keep tuned in for April/Easter decorating that I did.