We went over to our dear friends the Sylvesters home for a little
Christmas celebration. It was so fun to just have dinner, hang out. and
let our kids play together. They always have so much fun. The kids even
got to make a gingerbread manger. It was fun for the older kids....The
twins were not that interested. LOL There was even a brown man acting at
the pooper scooper behind the manger. Yeah it got kinda out of hand.
LOL So funny. The kids also made ornaments.
The finished product!
ornaments
these are some cute aprons and hats that their girls got.
Somehow all the little kids ended up with no tops on. LOL
I'm sure you mom's out there have seen this craft. I have wanted to do it for a while and finally had an afternoon that we needed a craft to keep us busy. It is basically using old crayons and baking them in muffin pans to make your own colored crayons. Here are how ours turned out....
First we took off all of the paper.
An exact o knife helped speed things along.
Then we separated them by color.
Then we put them in the muffin tin in whatever color pattern your little heart desires! :)
Then we baked them. I think we did 240 degrees. But I found as long as you watched them it probably didn't matter what temp you bake them at. When they were melted I took them out and put them in the fridge until they were solid. Maybe like 20 or 30 minutes.
When they were ready they literally just popped right out.
Well I finally tried one of those cute T Shirt dresses I have been seeing. I came across someones blog and theirs turned out so cute I thought ... " I can do that ". I did and lets just say it was not perfect. I learned a few things that I will have to do differently the next time. Here are a few pics of them after I got done making them. They were in such a good mood I just had to take some pictures.....
They were laughing so hard. I love it when they are both in a good mood.
Sophie
Emma kept running to the corner where the flooring is not done of coarse!
Hopefully the next ones will be sewn a little better and fit a little better.
They are so cute! But the best part is I know who made them! My good friend Shana has a knack for being crafty. She made one of these for herself when she saw how much they were to buy $175! Yikes! Well she sure did a great job. She got tons of compliments from friends and everyone told her she needed to sell them. Well she is going to give it a go. I'm sure they will sell so fast she won't be ready for it. Please check out her blog for more info oh and by the way her prices are awesome!!
Ethan needed some new storage for his soon to be room because there is no closet. I saw this cute small dresser drawers at Ikea and thought that I could do something with it....Here is what I did.....
Here is how I did it.....
This is a photo of the Ikea drawers before
I first painted the whole thing white. After it was all dry I cut out some NY Yankees symbols out of contact paper and arranged them on the front of the drawers. NOTE....make sure they are on really good or else the dark paint will bleed.
Then I painted over the contact paper with blue paint....2 coats.
After it dried completely I peeled off the contact paper. It did bleed a little bit which I touched up by hand with some white paint.
Here are a few things that I have come across that I really want to try to make.......
Cake pops!!! They are soooo cute! Its cake dipped in chocolate and decorated....
I found them on the Bakerella blog. Here are some of the ones she does.....
I also found a really cool tutorial to reuse a wooden bowl. I found it on the Oh So Crafty blog here is a pic of what it looks like when it is done.....SO cool.
As many of you know we are remodeling our house and will be moving up into the 3 bedrooms upstairs hopefully soon......I have all of this stuff to decorate the girls room but I dont really have bedding that will match if we get 2 cribs so I found this tutorial on how to make a dust ruffle for a crib....maybe Ill try it.
And now for one of the coolest things I have seen in a while ..... Its made out of YARN!!! I love it and hope I get a chance to try it out....I found the tutorial on the Pickles blog.....
http://www.pickles.no/whirl-it-lampshade/
When Ill find time to try all of these things out ..... I dont know! But I will for sure take pics and post them if and WHEN I get to it......
Well when you have such cute chubby babies you cant help having a photo shoot once in a while....we are gonna use some of these for the website....we also took some pics of my cousin Ashley....What a good model!!
Well I have been working on making some things for the girls and I got so carried away I am going to start selling them. My sister is having a purse party and I will have them there.... Here is the info....
Purse Party
Hosted by Jessica Fox
May 16th
6-8 Pm
1220 W. Brister Dr. (approx. 5400 S.)
Murray Ut, 84123
Rsvp to Jessica 801-694-3605
(0r just let me know 801-694-6431)
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Sophie is in the first one that I made. It looks white but it is pink and white, the pink is really soft.
http://sew4home.com/projects/bed-linens/355-stylish-baby-nursery-crib-dust-ruffle-
