Crown of the Sea

I’m on my way to Denver to visiting Mandy and Bailey (and also Matt and Maren!)! I am long overdue to visit my siblings so this is the first of two trips I need to make to see everyone. I had grand plans to visit Dallas and Denver during sabbatical but here I am with only 2 more weekends left. Where has the time gone?! No, seriously, it’s a real question. Where?

The last week (well like 3 days after DanyCon) I’ve been doing silly little mending projects that have been sitting on my sewing table for years. One of them was an old cloth all in one diaper that was leaking that I aimed to repair. I decided my original plan to repair them didn’t work well (plus I’m way past the diapering phase) so instead I turned it into a set of reusable swiffer pads. I also finished a very lightweight cloak that my friend started (she’d cut out some of the pieces). I mended one of Julius’ shirts and a unicorn headband my mom had bought for Patricia. Then two of my super cool art gallery panels fell down! So I had to repair those too. I also baked 4 mini loaves of bread and one full size one (which is in my backpack right now headed to Denver). All of this while on my third read thru of the ACOTAR trilogy. Not a spoiler: they hold up on the third read thru, I still adore them.

Things I still want to do while on vacation (not counting visiting Mark and Erin which we decided we need to do with the kids or they will not forgive us for seeing Finn and Ari without them): Make progress on Halloween costumes (probably should add deciding on Halloween costumes before that), work on Julius’ science birthday party, work on Patricia’s rainbow unicorn birthday.

Before I go into today’s tutorial (leftover from last birthday) I wanted to share a cute thing Julius did. Julius came home from school the other day super excited saying “the best thing ever happened today”. I was so curious to hear what it was, and he shared, “they had compostable plates in the cafeteria and sporks so there is less plastic waste”. I mused out loud about if my letter to the cafeteria manager helped, and he responded, “I have told the principal every time he asks our classroom what we can do to make our school better that they should get rid of styrofoam plates in the cafeteria. I think he finally listened.” I have never been more proud. I think it’s safe to say ‘mission accomplished’, I’m done.

So this tutorial is from Patricia’s mermaid party. You may recall that one of the activities was decorating crowns with ocean themed stickers. I made the crowns on my cricut (similar to how I made the valentine’s crowns).

Mermaid Crown

What you’ll need (for each):

• My cricut pattern here
• a 12″x12″ sheet of glitter cardstock

1. Use your cricut to cut out pattern, being sure to select glitter cardstock.

2. Size the crown on the child’s head by inserting arrows on crown front into slots on crown back.

3. Tape.

4. Decorate if desired.