It's been a long time!

It has really been a long time since I posted.  We have been crazy here at the house with college graduation and now moving. So, blogging has been put on hold for a little bit.  Sorry and thanks for your support!!

Cardboard car mat

This is made from the box that our bottle water comes in.  I just painted it, sprayed it with a finish and let the children enjoy!!!

Cardboard Dragon Boats!

So I saw some cute cardboard boats   here on Ikat bag.  They looked like so much fun. So I made some for my boys.  I layed out a towel and let them go to work with the markers.  They loved it and were so excited to show their dad when he got home!!

Dinosaur Cake

Roarrrr!!!

I love making my children's birthday cakes.  This year my little boy was really into dinos, so he wanted a dinosaur cake.  I used two square pans, pouring half of the cake mix into each pan.  A tip I love to use when baking cakes is to line the bottom of the cake pan with wax or parchment paper, then spray the whole pan with cooking spray.  It make everything come out so easy.  When cakes are done and cool, in between the layers I like to put a filling, for this particular one I used a fat free pudding cup.  I then iced the cake with the chocolate icing.  For the volcano I used rice crispy treat formed by using a funnel, I also indented the top. Then I iced it with the chocolate icing. For the little lake I made blue jigglers.  I put a candy fish underneath the jiggler.  The hill next to the volcano was a chololate candy covered with icing. And the little rocks were just chocolate candies.  I used a plastic bag filled with green icing, snipped the corner and just started making the greanery. Also, with the redish icing made the lauva and the wording.  Add the dinosaurs and there you have it a dinosaur land cake!

Cutest little boy bed!

So, I just had to show off my little boy's new bedspread. It was made by my mom, I must say she is very talented and did a fabulous job. We have found that if you need to purchase a lot of material, such as for bedspreads, the most inexpensive way is to by sheets. We usually just purchase the flat sheets from Walmart. You get a ton of material for your money. The front of the bed spread was made from a brown flat sheet, muslin and spraps for the cute bears and trees. The reverse side was an off white sheet with some pladish lines in it. She also used the shapes of the bears and trees to quilt the beadspread, so cute! I love the cute little deco pillow made to match! She even made the sheets for the bed.

Quick last minute Valentine's Gift or Early Start for Mother's Day

This was a quick gift we put together for my sons teacher.

Supplies:

• container (I used a washed glass yeast container)
• beans
• popsicle sticks
• garbage ties
• ribbon
• tissues
• muffin papers
• double sided tape
• water color paint
• suckers
• Foam
• stickers

First we decorated the container with heart stickers. Next, tie your ribbon around the top. Then, pour some beans in the container.  Next, we made our flowers.

For the tissue flower I used one tissue and folded it in half then half again. I cut all the edges so there were no folds, then I gathered it and secured it in the middle with the tie.  Next, start separating the tissues forming it into a white carnation. To secure it onto the popsicle stick I just wrapped the tie around the stick until it was secure.  You could also hot glue.  Then I just painted the tips of the edges red with water colors. 

For the muffin paper flower:  I used a yellow, a white and a pink.  I folded the yellow in half and cut off the whole middle part (the part without the crimping) and a little bit of the crimping.  Then I double sided taped it to the stick and loosely wrapped it around and secured with tape.  The white, fold in half and cut out the middle. Secure it with tap onto the yellow and loosely wrap, secure with tape at the end.  The pink, fold in half and cut out a little bit if the middle.  Then I also cut on the folds, so there were two pieces, I secured wit tape onto the white and wrapped around. 

Next place your flowers into the container. Add you pick or tag (mine was this laddy bug book mark made from a foam kit) the insert the suckers along the base.

Baptism handouts

So, I can not take credit for the poem and the sad thing is that I don't know who the author is.  But I really liked it so I designed a couple different handouts that we are giving to our primary children at their baptism.  There is a girl one and a boy one.  Just print them out on cardstock or matte photo paper. Then glue or double side tape on an old dirty penny next to the paragraph about it and then a nice new shinny penny next to the paragraph about the shinny penny.

Girl

Boy

*These are so two fit on a 81/2 by 11 paper (tip: minimize margins and print with best quality)

2010 Primary Music Outline

I am giving these to my choristers and pianists.

Primary: "Reverence 5"

To help remind the children to be reverent in primary last year our primary president made a cute sign, I can't remember exactly where she got the idea.  I was telling my sister-in-law about it and she wanted a copy.  So here is what I came up with.  Just print it off on cardstock, cut out and glue or paste onto a tongue depressor/craft stick. How to use it: Introduce it to the children, explaining what each finger/picture mean (eye: eyes looking up front, arms folded: keep hands to self/fold arms, lips: mouths closed/no talking, ear: Ears ready to listen, shoes: feet still and on ground). Explain that when the sign is raised then they need to do those things, the sames goes with when a leader raises their hand in a five.  The goal is for the leader to be able to hold their own hand up and the children quiet down and be reverent.  I think we reminded the children what the five things were with the sign for about a month or two. Then we would just use our hand and it works great! * Tip for printing: click on image and print. Works best if you reduce margins *

In Need!

It seems like there are so many people in need right now.  But with the devestation in Haiti, their needs are brought to the spotlight.  Here are ways that we can help: Check with local schools and churches many are having drives and clothing donation boxes right now.  Also contacting the American Red Cross or the United Way and finding out ways to help.*** Always make sure you trust the place you are donating too, it's sad but there is fraud out there.