Some snapshots (and a video) from the past week…
Here’s Mio admiring the Christmas model village they had on display while we were shopping at Michaels. She kept saying “sugo-i!” (Japanese for amazing, wonderful, awesome, basically anything that is impressive and knocks your socks off.) We had her repeat it for the video below:
Can’t believe Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner! The holidays are my favorite time of year. ♥
I felt like doing something crafty this weekend, and set out to find some containers to store my makeup brushes in on my vanity. I love mason jars, but wanted to make them a little more unique by giving them some color. I found this tutorial online and decided to give it a try! It was pretty easy and a cheap project requiring few materials.
Note that once the jars are colored using this method, you can’t use them for drinking/eating, nor put water or liquid in them or they’ll start peeling on the inside. They’re great for putting electric tea lights in for entertaining and event decorations, though, as well as for storing dry non-food items in as I did here.
Additional DIY from this past weekend: I loved these eyeshadows until they shattered during travel a while back. Saved them by re-pressing them using a few drops of rubbing alcohol, a tissue and a coin!
This time of year is gorgeous with all the beautiful fall foliage. Dan took some footage of Mio last weekend enjoying autumn, and created this sweet video! (Make sure to watch in HD!)
I love that Dan can create these beautiful videos that we can look back on when Mio is older to remember how she was in her younger years. I’m sure she’ll love to watch them, too! (If you missed the one he made this past spring, you can find it here.)
Mio’s showing so much personality these days! She’s so quirky and is always making everyone around her laugh. Here are some priceless moments that we’ve captured in the past week…
These last couple ones aren’t comedic moments, but they’re still cute so I threw them in. 🙂
Something I’ve always wanted to do with my children is bake with them. Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved baking cakes, cookies, and all kinds of treats for the family. (My mom was much more the cooking type so I did all the baking in the house from an early age.) I always imagined that baking together would be a fun way for mothers and daughters to bond and have fun in the kitchen together, and now that I’m a mom of girls, I am excited about fully indulging myself in such fantasies, whether my girls will like it or not! Mio’s at an age where she can understand and follow most directions, is curious and interested in doing grownup things, and usually eager to help. It was rainy earlier today, and I thought it might be the perfect opportunity to stay indoors and try some mommy & me baking for the first time together! The project? To make red bean buns shaped like Mio’s favorite characters! I’d never actually attempted this particular recipe before, so in hindsight it was probably a little too ambitious and involved for our first collaboration together… but I really wanted to produce something that Mio would love!
Though I of course ended up doing most of the work, Mio had a lot of fun being involved and helping with some of the steps here and there, and of course she excelled in the role she loves most — eating the finished treat! I’d say our first baking experience together was a success. I’m looking forward to many more countless baking adventures together with my sweet daughter(s)!