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The adventures of Cuddle Puppy

[ Posted by krista Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:45:52 GMT ]

The day before the trip

This morning it has been a busy one packing and preparing.

If You do not know the whole story yet, then I will fill you in.

My husband Jason and I are going on our first semi-vacation together. The reason this is big is that we do not get out to travel alone togethr. So when the chance came for him to go to the eclipse con in Santa Clara, California, we sprung for me to go to. Even tho this is work for Jason we will still ahve travel time together and also dinners and evenings (if he does not end up working). We will be leaving with his coworker/long time friend and his wife too. While the guys attend the Eclipse con, us girls will be traveling around the area to different places, sightseeing, and appreciating the area. 

I felt terrible to go away from my boys. This will be the longest and furthest I have been from them ever.  I decided to at least let our oldest, Trace, feel that we are thinking of them and that we love them (Dannon being too young to understand). So I thought it would be fun for both us and Trace to have cuddle puppy go with us on our trip to explore with us and meet new people and then to Blog about it every day so that trace can read the adventures of cuddle puppy every night to know mommy and daddy are thinking of him. 

this is Trace

So back to today.

This morning was a little off with trace being sad that we are leaving. But he perked up a little when i told him he could give cuddle puppy a bath to get him ready. Cuddle puppy is now clean but WET!

Dannon with the wet puppy 

 Trace telling me to put him in the dryer

And now for the first adventure. 

Wishing you were here... err.. i mean... wishing I was NOT here!!

 HOT HOT HOT!

Posted in Kids, Total Random Blogging, General News | Tags California, Clara, Con, Convention, Cuddle, Dannon, Dog, Dryer, Eclipse, in, Kusnier, Puppy, Santa, Trace, Travel | no comments | no trackbacks

Good idea to add to the recon work

[ Posted by krista Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:15:43 GMT ]

I just came across this blog that someone pointed out in a comment and i read about how she made fabric blocks.

see the article and blog here 

Picture BY: nikki on http://craftnerd.blogspot.com 

I think this will be a great idea to add to my cache of things to do for the month of recon!!! 

Posted in Kids, Homemaking, Month of Recon, Craft, Sewing, On the Cheap | Tags blocks, Kids, Recon, reconstructing, Recycling, sewing | no comments

Reconstructed clothing : Vest from pants

[ Posted by krista Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:17:24 GMT ]

Trying once again to dress my younger one.

So many resources for fabric in our storage. I found lots of sleep pants, almost too many for my son to wear one a day for a month!

So now to make something else that he might need. I know he needs a little bit better looking clothing than the p.j.'s and cutsie baby stuff. I thought i need to start manking him something that is a little more grown up and kid looking., not baby.

I thought to myself that a vest could be the best thing because he has a lot of shirts that have that food stain that i cannon get rid of and a vest can cover that very well and extend the life of those shirts.

Now i start the easy vest from fleece sleep pants

Posted in Kids, Homemaking, Tutorials, Craft, Sewing, Fashion/Clothing, On the Cheap | Tags Clothing, Kids, Pants, Recon, reconstructed, tutorial, vest | 1 comment

Reconstruct clothing: Extending kids clothes

[ Posted by krista Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:24:56 GMT ]

Now that the weather is changing my two boys need to get a winter wardrobe. Right now there are a whole bunch of hand-me-downs sitting for my little one but his size is only fitting for my oldest's old summer clothes. Now I have been going through all the clothes trying to make some of those summer clothes a little warmer to wear.

Posted in Kids, Homemaking, Tutorials, Craft, Sewing, Fashion/Clothing, On the Cheap | Tags Clothing, Kids, Pants, polo, reconstructing, revamping, shirt | 3 comments

Duct Tape Diaper Cover

[ Posted by krista Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:42:39 GMT ]

I have been experimenting again!!

Wanting to cut some costs around the household i have decided to use cloth diapers. I figured if we did that and only used disposable diapers when he goes for a sleep or when we are out we could be saving around 30$ a month. That is a nice extra payment toward debt..

Yesterday i made him some cloth diapers with some soakers which i will be showing how to make but i wanted some plastic or vinyl coverings so if he leaks through it would not get all over. I tried making one out of vinyl that i had from a pillow case cover but it ripped from my son playing..

I had nothing that was any thicker, until i thought of the old technique of making fabric out of duct tape.

This is all experimental so i will keep an update on how the cover does.

Step one. Make some duct tape fabric.

Posted in Kids, Craft, Sewing, On the Cheap | Tags cheap, craft, Diaper, Duct, Kids, tape, Tuotrial | 1 comment

Geotrax toy review

[ Posted by krista Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:41:02 GMT ]

For a couple months now we have been potty training our oldest boy. It has been a long challenge and he has been going through potty charts and rewards. For his first reward we got him somethinghe had seen on on a recorded show that was recorded last year. It was the geotrax train system. Looked kinda cool. I looked online for a starter pack and it led me to get him the grand central station.

He loved it! it was awesome. it is easy for a child to put the trax together and they are not confusing. He liked the idea that the train can be played with off the trax too so he  drive it all around the house following it.

The remote is so simple for kids too. A lever that goes back and foward only to control the train so nothing difficult. All the tracks, roads, and whatknots are compatable for this set so you can get the skyscraper that has the roads and it will hook right up to the grand central station that has the tracks.  Very resonable priced too. so you can collect them all overtime and they will rarely get board with it. It is good for kids that are older too. I know my boy will probably play with this for at LEAST 3 or 4 more years (I HOPE!)

But be stocked up in the AAA batteries. It is not a battery eater, unless it is played with a LOT! almost all the individual stations have sounds and motions on them but those do not kill the batteries that bad. It has been almost a month and the fire station is still going but we change the batteries every 2-3 weeks on the train's engine because he uses it a lot.  

The only big complaint is that i have to buy these online so when i do not know when he fills up his potty chart it makes it hard to go out at the last minute to the store to get it i can;t find it.

But so far i have found a decent selection at toysrus.com 

Posted in Kids | Tags geotrax, toys, train | 1 comment