Sarchix Finds

As I was surfing around today, I found this adorable tutorial by Geta at Geta’s Quilting Studio. She gives us easy directions on how to assemble this super cute notebook and pencil travel bag.  With all the amazing fabrics out there, the possibilites are endless on how you can make this.  Change the heart for a star and it could easily be made for a boy as well.  The handle construction is really well done as well.

I really need to dust off my sewing machine and try this one out!

Geta’s Quilting Studio - Quilted Notebook and Pencil Travel Bag

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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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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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I do like to cook, but only when I have time and not someone either saying “Mom, what’s for dinner?” or “Ewwww, we’re having that for Dinner?”

Over at WiseBread, I have found 3 really easy (and inexpensive) dishes that will be sure to make the family happy or at least not make faces at me when I tell them what we are having.

I plan on trying out each recipe with only minor modifications to suit the family’s various tastes.  Each sounds simple enough and for the most part I either have the herb/spices on hand or need to pick them up anyway.  There is nothing too exotic in any of these recipes but I’m sure if you hate something, it could either be eliminated or substituted.  For those who are vegetarians, I’m sure it would be easy to substitute the protein in the first two with something like tofu or beans and still by WAY yummy!

WiseBread – 3 Easy (and Cheap Dishes)

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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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As a mother of two boys who both LOVE Star Wars, it wouldn’t surprise anyone that we have a few lightsabers just “lying around”.  But they are plastic and well… I’d like to keep my house in one piece.

Kitten Muffin over at Filth Wizardry has taken a balloon lightsaber (as discussed here) and stepped it up at notch by adding a small LED flashlight to it.

Check out her site for some awesome pictures over time delay using these LED lightsabers.

Filth Wizardry - LED Lightsabers

Zakka Life – Balloon Lightsabers

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My daughter is a bit old for this, although I’m sure she’ll help me “test” this out but I do have girlfriends who have little girls who this would be perfect for.

One Pearl Button has posted this self contained, magnetic paper doll set complete with printable paper dolls and where to get all the cool supplies from.  She even tells you what scissors worked well for her and they are only a few dollars!

I love the “old” feel of the dolls that she has but this technique could be used on pretty much any simple paper doll kind of template.

Thanks to One Pearl Button for her adorable Magnetic Paper Doll Kit!

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I love bean bags, especally those that are hand made.  (OK and they are a great reason to buy fabric even if its in smaller portions!)

Chez Beeper Bebe has a easy and adorable tutorial on how to make these bean bags complete with templates for both the squares and numbers.  The steps are easy to follow and could be done either by hand or by a beginner on a sewing machine.

I plan on raiding my stash of fabric, hitting up the local Jo-Ann’s and get a quarter yard of anything cute (and on the sale rack) and some of the flour sack fabric I got from family, this will make a great gift to all the little kiddies in my family.  Educational and history, who can ask for more!

Chez Beeper Bebe – Counting Bean Bags

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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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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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