Jan 28th, 2010 Posted in Things to do, cute, food, kids | no comment »
Who doesn’t love marshmallows?
Meaghan over at The Decorated Cookie shows us how to decorate these lovely little houses for your ghomes or fairies, depending on the creatures that happen to inhabit your homes.
I know my daughter will love to setting up these “fairy” homes but I’m not sure if they will survive the day due to her brothers and the fact that they are made completely out of marshmallows and fondant. All I need is a set or two of some fine tipped edible pen/markers to do this. I can’t wait to see what the kiddies come up with. But the real question is, how many houses will be completed and how many will be eaten as “mistakes”?
If you have the pens that are food safe, this would make a spectacular rainy day project. If you don’t have fondant just hanging around, could I suggest maybe a roof made of construction or left over scrap booking paper and tape.
Leaving this around too long could be a “bad” thing since marshmallows are mostly sugar but this could make a very cute cake or cupcake decoration or a decoration for a table-scape. How cute would this be for a baby shower?!?!
If you do this, I’d love to see the pics!!!!!!!
The Decorated Cookie – Marshmallow Village
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Jan 24th, 2010 Posted in BRILLIANT, kids | no comment »
We are in the early planning stages of re-doing our 4 year old’s bedroom to make the transition from “little kid” to “big boy”. I painted his room blue (with left over paint that I really liked) before he was born and its been a very nice room so far. Our whole family seems to have a preference to blue, except the little guy loves green. Heck, the kid wanted to name our dog Green when we were picking out names.
FangleTonics shows us how to paint a Glow in the Dark wall! They use either flashes from a camera or an LED flashlight to “draw” on the wall. In two minutes, its “blank” and ready to be drawn on again. It glows green. How perfect it is for my son!
Now, according to the directions that FangleTonics offers, they used white primer and phosphorescent paint to achieve this effect but I wonder if I used a color under it, would it effect the glow-y-ness or not. Rust-Oleum makes glow in the dark paint that can be picked up at HomeDepot or ordered at Amazon.
If I can’t change the wall color to anything other than white, I might just paint the trim in the same green as the glow in the dark color.
Either way, this room is going to be so cool when I’m done with it!
FangleTronics – Glow in the Dark Wall
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Jan 22nd, 2010 Posted in food, kids, recipe | no comment »
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Jan 20th, 2010 Posted in kids, sewing, tutorial | no comment »
Ok, I’ve been on a kid toy kick lately but how can I help it when these are so dang cute!
My four year old loves spelling things out, especially his name. (Don’t know where the heck he got that from. Not from me in the least.)
Happy Together has the directions to make these fabric letters in both capital and lower case. Make them into a banner or let the kids spell all kinds of things (or both). The possibility are endless!
In the directions, she shows batting (like for quilts) as the middle of the fabric “sandwich” but later she uses felt. I love felt and have tons of it on hand.
Happy Together gives you the steps and the templates to make this easy project that is sure to be a hit with the young ones!
Happy Together – Rag Quilt Letters
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May 7th, 2009 Posted in food, funny, kids | no comment »
My kids love it when I get funky with their food. They are huge fans when I make “squidapusses” (hot dog cut to look like a octopus) and when I saw this over at Plum Pudding, I’m sure I’ll be making this over the weekend.

Sure it looks funny but that’s half the idea!
Like making “squidapusses” the creativity occurs before the hot dog is cooked.
Head over to Plum Pudding to see how it’s done.
Plum Pudding – Spaghetti Dog
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Apr 23rd, 2009 Posted in crafting, flowers, kids | no comment »
My daughter LOVES fairies! I think she wants to be one.
When I saw WeeFolkArt.com’s post on these little faerie items, I thought of her.
First we have a simple felt flower fairies. They are just too cute and seem simple to make too. It might be something good for her to practice her stitches with.

The second one that they offer is a fairy flower carpet. The base is felt and the flowers are silk.
If my daughter ever cleaned her room, I would make this for her in a second!
The best part of this one, is you can make it to your own desired size, limited only by the number of flowers or amount of felt you have.
Wee Folk Art – Flower Fairies and Flower Faerie Carpet
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