Fabric Rosette Pins

Sometimes it is so hard to stay away from the hot glue gun! 

 My latest project involves no other than that and a strip of fabric.  I wanted something to dress up my tank tops a bit so I decided to make a fabric rosette pin.  Actually, I decided to make three fabric rosette pins.  During these long, hot, summer days tank tops are pretty much a staple for me and so I thought it would be nice to have something to jazz them up a bit.  I was pleased with the results!

 

Here's how I made this super easy pin:

 

First I created the rosette as shown here.  Then on the back I glued a circular piece of felt and then simply added the pin.  I was sure to place the pin high enough on the back so to allow the rosette to fall right when pinned to clothing.  Easy enough, right!

 

I decided to try this on my handbag as well.

 

  

 

 Also, on my daughter's handbag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So cute! We just love them.  Nothing like a little easy, breezy, summer bling!  

 

Getting ready for the Holidays

Well, Thanksgiving is over and the merry holidays of December are well on there way.  We celebrate Christmas in our home and the children are all geared up and excited to be seeing decorations and lights appearing all over the place.  I should have been more on the ball with decorating our home last weekend but I just wasn't.  However, I have managed to place a few festive ornaments around our home.  I saw a great picture somewhere on the Internet of tree ornament chandeliers and thought it was a great idea.  So great, in fact that I had to make my own.  I had pictured them hung about the house differently in my head but in the end this seemed to work. 

 

 

Our bay window still needs some TLC but for now I think this will do.  The kids are happy and really, when it comes to holiday decorating, they are the ones I aim to please.  This weekend we plan to do the tree and of course we will add festiveness to the rest of the house.

 

We still have much more to do.  I wish we were already done but isn't that what makes up at least half the holiday is preparing for it?

Do you decorate for the holidays? Is it all done? And what is your favorite part?

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DIY Drop Cloth 'LOVE' Sign

Hey!!!
 

Hope everyone's doing well!
 

It's incredibly busy around here this time year with all the school and after school functions and activities.  Lily's in gymnastics and doing super well this session and the boys are doing great on there first ever season of soccer.
 

Anyway, I wanted to share a project I just finished.  It was a super easy project and took me practically no time at all which is probably the only reason why I got it finished!  It's inspired by the many DIY LOVE signs I see.  I've been thinking about an original one for me and where I could appropriately fit one in my home.  Finally an idea came to me and it is as simple as drop cloth and white craft paint.  Here's what I ended up with:

 

 

Super simple but I really LOVE the way it fills that space!

I literally just ripped the drop cloth to size, pinned it to the wall, wrote a chalk outline for LOVE and then painted it. 

DONE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's it!! Thanks for stopping in!!

 xoxo

I link up with these fabulous parties!!

 

Giant Ginger Cookies

I just found out this morning that I had to do some baking for the kids annual bake sale tomarrow.  I usually whip together some brownies real quick and call it good, however, my husband suggested switching it up this year and maybe doing some cookies.  Sooo, I thought maybe my ginger cookies that I do every Christmas would fit the bill for the bake sale this year.  It's a really great recipe that I get from a popular cook book and all I do is tweak it up just a little bit and my family just loves them. 

 

First I mixed up the dry ingrediants (except for the sugar).

 

Whip up the shortening for about 30 sec. ( I used butter flavor).

 

Add the sugar and blend it well

 

until it looks about like this.

 

 

Then add the eggs and molasses and blend it well again. 

 

Fold in the dry ingrediants and mix it until it's blended well like dough. 

 

Make into 2 inch balls

 

and then roll in a plate of sugar and set onto an ungreased cookie tray 2 inches apart.

 

 

While I was doing all this our cat, Mischief, decided to settle into the little hamper I keep in the kitchen. I had to take his picture because I think that he's just too cute and I wanted to share.

 

 

Thanks for that, now okay,back to cookies.  After they bake in the oven for about 10 or 11 minutes they should come looking like this

 

 

 

This batch of cookies came out pretty good.  My family loves them and hopefully they go over well at the bake sale.  My husband brings them into work every year and they are a hit so I'm hoping for the same reslult here.

 

 

 

xoxo

 

The little tweaking I did was to add 2 teaspoons of ginger insead of 4 and I used allspice rather that ground clove simply because it's what I had. 

Happy Baking!

 

DIY Junck Jars

We have a junk drawer in our kitchen and quite literally it IS a junk drawer.  You could find everything from twine and ribbon to Lego's.  I've got a bad habit of picking up stuff off the floor when I vacuum and just tossing it in the junk drawer until later (which usually never comes but once or twice a year!)  Well, I went rummaging through this drawer earlier in the week and this is the mess I ended up with.  I thought, OK, enough, what can I do?

 

 I've been wanting to make some decorative jars for my office area down stairs and thought that project would work great for what I need here.  I dug through our recycling and came up with these jars. I thought the bigger ones would be good to put stuff in and still be able to get it out.  The smaller one would be good for things like tacks, screws, curtain hooks, and things like that.

 

 

I took some craft paper that I've had around and hot glued it to the jars.  Then decorated two with ribbon.

 

 

I think that they turned out pretty cute for my first time trying this but I think maybe they will be better with the caps spray painted white and some labels.

 

 

Here they are on the window sill going down to the basement. 

 

A little more organization is needed but for now not a bad start.

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Do you have junk drawer in your house? Does it ever get out of hand and what crafty ideas do you have to solve your junk drawer dilemma?

 

 

Zucchini; stuffed pepper style!

A friend of ours brought us over some fresh zucchini from her garden.  We love fresh vegetables in our house.  Sadly I don't have enough steady sunshine in one area to grow a good vegetable garden of our own.  At least we have great friends that will bring us over some fresh veggies through the summer from there's.  Anyways, on top of bringing us some wonderful vegetables she also gave us a great idea for how to cook them.  She suggested cooking the zucchini stuffed pepper style.  Just slice them length wise down the middle and scoop the seeds out. Stuff them with whatever you would stuff a pepper with like rice mixed with spaghetti sauce.  Bake them until the zucchini is cooked and cover with cheese if that is what your family likes (and that is totally what our family likes!)

Let me tell you, these stuffed zucchini came out soooo good! Where has this dish been all my life! It needs a little tweaking to add a little more flavor but all in all this is an awesome summer recipe.  Yum!