april showers bring may flowers?

i thought april showers brought may flowers?

in my little corner of the world there are a few flowers

but by golly gee, it seems like all april has brought

are more may showers! 

the gloomy weather only means one thing to me:

i must find creative ways to entertain two little girls indoors

i was browsing online and saw this necklace which zoe happened to spy over my shoulder

and immediately told me she had to have (like mother like daughter i tell you!)

using supplies on hand

and to satisfy the taste of one very girly girl and one not so very girly girl

we decided to make our own versions

we used wooden beads, fabrics scraps and string

we strung the beads onto the string (which was the girls favourite part)

 and tied the string of beads to 2" wide strips of fabric

the length of strips depend on how long you want the necklace

i also didn't bother sewing the edges down of the strips because i liked the look

of the frayed edges

tada! didn't take very long at all

the part that took the longest was the girls choosing their fabric

they kept changing their minds and asking me for fabric designs that i didn't have

(side note: though mommy has a lot of fabric, she is not a fabric store)

zoe finally settled on a pink fabric with flowers

and pia blue fabric with rockets

and best of all, they wear them everywhere

even to bed!

i think because they made it themselves, they love them just a bit more