Bazaar Preparing and New Hair!

Each time I've gotten my hair cut recently I keep going shorter! Yesterday was no exception and is the shortest I am going! I decided that I needed a new cut for the Craft Bazaar so I went to my favorite salon - Salon Del Sol. My usual hairdresser (Nikki) wasn't in, and I can only go when I have someone to watch Adeline so I got Becky. She understood what I was looking for and did great!

Here are a few more items I've made for the Bazaar this Saturday and I shipped off more ETSY orders today! I was also asked to do a Fall Open House in November, I'm still thinking about that one. But it's definitely going in the right direction!

24 Crayon Roll up

Small bins with vinyl butterflies

Finger Paint - Washable Finger Paint Bold Colors

We finally got a chance to use the finger paint I got Adeline. I needed Alan home so that someone could take pictures!

Adeline really liked the texture of the paint and exploring the way it felt on her fingers and on the paper. It is a little too watery like the mess-free paint, but it works and didn't smear too badly.

Here are some pictures of Adeline and I playing in the paint:

After finger painting it was story time with daddy before bed.

So serious

There's a smile!

Adeline loves to read books

Finger Paint - My First Crayola Mess-Free Fingerpaint and Paper

Adeline did her hand/foot prints several months ago when she was still in daycare and some of the older babies (12 months) got to do fingerpainting. I've been waiting to do fingerpaints with her and when I went to Target to pick some up, I found this - My First Crayola Mess-Free Fingerpaint and Paper. So I picked up some regular Crayola Washable Fingerpaint and a pad of paint paper along with the Mess-Free Fingerpaint.

I was so excited I decided to try it after dinner since she was already in her high chair and semi-dirty. I decided I wasn't impressed with the Mess-Free Fingerpaint and Paper. For several reasons:
1 - The pattern on the magic paper is too dull, it is not as bright as the package shows.
2 - Since the pattern is repeating, unless you paint an actual figure it just shows the the pattern. And since this product is 2+ maybe it is a little too old for Adeline, but I don't know many 2 year olds who can draw/paint actual figures and not a bunch of blobs.
3 - The paint is too watery, needs to be a bit thicker so it doesn't smear as bad and cause the blob effect. I even tried to paint a few little things with it and it looked horrible since the paint was too watery.

I have a couple recommendations to Crayola - the "paint" dries clear but isn't totally clear. Maybe it would be better to have more color to the paint so you can see where it goes down then it can dry clear. That would probably make it a lot easier on little ones to understand what they are doing. The pattern paper...I think it would almost be better to have a solid color background.

Overall I would only recommend this product to older children that can fingerpaint clear drawings (houses, stick figures, etc.), any other child would be disappointed I think in the blob effect showing just a repeated pattern.

Here are some pictures of Adeline and I playing with the Mess-Free Fingerpaint and Paper:

Hum, what's this?

That looks gross mommy!

Come on and paint daddy!

And smear paint everywhere...

Disclosure: I was not given anything or reimbursed for my review of the above product. All opinions are my own.