Wednesday, July 20

Girls Cars Shirt

My girl LOVES Cars!! She loves the movie, loves playing with cars, talk about them non stop, has renamed my car Lightening McQueen and calls her daddy's car King. The only problem is the stuff is marketed toward boys, I have yet to come across girls Cars clothes. Well I fixed that problem by turning a boys shirt into a girly version for my gal. What's great it you can do this with any cool boys shirt!
 This may have been the fastest refashion I have ever done. I didn't take step by step pictures but it is really simple to do. I just turned it into a basic halter top, using the bottom hem as the neck tie. I just cut off the sleeves, then cut the back off in a slight scoop, making sure not to cut the front. Then I cut a straight line across the top in the front, folded it over, sewed a straight line across the top to make a casing for the neck tie, added the neck tie in and it was done. The great thing about t-shirts are you don't have to hem or do anything fancy, just cut them and they are good to go.
 Scarlett insisted on wearing it the second I finished it and would wear it everyday if I let her.
 I must say, she looked pretty darn cute zooming around the yard on her scooter in her Cars shirt.
 Now I have to keep my eyes peeled for good deals on boys shirts so I can transform them for this little lady.
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Tuesday, July 19

Kitchen Tour

I have been meaning to take pictures of our kitchen once I finished painting but it never seemed to be clean when I thought about it. I finally got around to cleaning it and taking some pictures, so for those of you interested in seeing our completed kitchen here it is!
 I painted the inside of all the upper cabinets a satin black to match the chalkboard painted ones and they go together really well.
 The inspiration for the color of our cabinets was this vegetables sign that I have hanging above the counter, I love it. It doesn't look like it in the picture but the greens do match in person.
 I think there are two types of people, ones that have naked fridges and ones that cover every inch of theirs with pictures and magnets, I fall into the second category.
 Here's what the chalkboard cabinets look like with the rest of the kitchen painted.
 I'm having fun looking for little decorations to go on top of the cabinets. I have my Marilyn Merlot's sitting up there in a picnic basket I found at the Goodwill.
 The wall between the cabinets is also chalkboard so we can decorate the wall for holidays or write little love notes to each other.

And because our cats are a bit on the spoiled side, Bella has a water bowl next to the kitchen sink for her drinking pleasure.
So there you have it, it's a bit cluttered and wild and hardly ever clean but just the way I like it.

Friday, July 15

Ruffled Sun Visor

I was looking through the create it yourself section in Joann's and came across sun visors for $1. I was pretty excited to find a pink one, so I picked one up as well as a few other things for future projects. Then, because I tend to put projects for myself on the back burner, my poor little visor sat there until I finally did something with it two months later. I spent $3 total on my pink ruffled visor and it took me about 30 minutes to make, now I can't wait to wear it!
 I like the combination of pink and brown together so I picked up some brown satin ribbon to use on my visor.
 I started by adding my trim piece. I cut one end, ran a lighter over the end to keep it from unravelling and started gluing it down. I worked my way around to the other side, cut it off and melted that end too. I used a washable fabric glue to hold everything in place, it seemed to help the ribbon conform to the shape of the visor.
 Next I made my ruffle and flower. I just hand folded the ribbon into ruffles, held them in place with a few pins, then ran it through my sewing machine straight down the middle. My flower is just a simple gathered piece of ribbon that I tacked in place with a spot of the fabric glue.
 I glued the ruffle down first and when I felt it was secure, I added the flower to top it off. Once it was dry it was ready to wear.
I am a terrible model but here is a shot of what it looks like on, I love the girliness of it.

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Wednesday, July 13

Zucchini Eggs

It is an ongoing battle trying to find foods that the kids like. I feel like as soon as I have it all down, their taste buds change and they cringe when try to feed them what was once a beloved favorite. During the ongoing battle to try and incorporate more veggies in their diet we stumbled upon a winner, zucchini in eggs. The kids don't even detect them and they are tasty. We just grate them in the pan and cook them right along with scrambled eggs, I always add a little shredded cheese to top it off. These are the happy faces of kids eating their veggies, they just don't realize it.
Some others that work great are pureed cauliflower, although not many people tend to have that on hand, and diced bell pepper. We try to sneak shredded spinach in there sometimes but they usually spot that one. Do you have any favorite veggies that you like to add to your eggs? 

Monday, July 11

No Mess Finger Painting

A few nights ago we were attempting to make dinner and the kids were going crazy, I knew it was time for an activity. I didn't want a big mess to have to clean up so I tried something a little different with our finger paints. I took a Ziploc freezer bag, put a piece of card stock inside, squirted a few globs of finger paint into the bag, zipped it shut and gave one to each of the kids. This is pretty the only way we will be finger painting from now on.
The kids were fascinated watching me set up their bags and were so excited when I handed them theirs.
Taylor squished his around with his hands and Scarlett used her fingers to trace around in the paint
I was surprised how well we the paint moves around in the bags, I had just as much fun with this as the kids did.
Once they started getting bored I pulled one last trick out and got down our cookie cutters to use as "stamps". They left perfect impressions in the paint and the kids always love playing with the cookie cutters.
When we were finished it was so easy to clean up, no mess and the kids didn't have a spot of paint on them, Yeah!

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