Rainbow breakfast

This morning I felt like I wanted to do something cool for my kids.

I had seen someone make rainbow cupcakes.

I thought well why not rainbow pancakes.

I am sure someone else has thought of this before me

BUT

I was so excited to make them.

I put some pancake mix (about 3 or 4 spoon fulls) into a snack size ziplock bag.

To my dismay I wasn't going to have enough mix to make the pancakes, too.

I kind of knew this in the beginning, but I thought I had flour.

WRONG

BUT

I did have cake mix. I added some cake mix in there.

Way Super Duper Good!

I am just saying.

Moving on to this beauty.

I cut a small whole in the corner of the bag,

made some cool rainbow shapes,

and then cooked it as normal.

I was a little bummed that I could not see the rainbow shape when I flipped

the pancake over, but it was fun.

My kids thought I was cool.

So I would say this was a success!

CTR Notebooks

I have been teaching some great 8-10 year old girls ever!

Since we are studying the Book of Mormon this year

I have invited the girls to read the whole book by the end of the year.

To help them log their reading I asked them to write

down or draw a picture something about what they read.

They kept saying they did not have a book to write in so they

would bring their reading on a sheet of paper.

I had an idea to help them keep everything in one book.

I got this little guy at the dollar store.

Found some scrapbook paper lying around, printed CTR (silhouette helped),

and cut the paper to the right size.

Some tape or glue and a few minutes later you have this

Here is the front inside.

I made one for each girl.

They were thrilled.

They have all read the last two weeks and showed me their progress.

This was their treat.

I am excited what they have to share this coming week.

St Patty Fun

My husband is an ultra nerd. Well an ultra language nerd.

I am Mexican and like all Mexicans, you go back enough

while doing genealogy you find that you are Spaniard.

It so happens my ancestors are from Northern Spain.

If you go back far enough you find that the Celts went around and conquered stuff.

Therefore, I am Celtiberian.

Now I can celebrate St. Patrick's day with some Celtic pride.

I am really short....

Maybe I am part Leprechaun, too?

Earrings are so in

A year ago I started making flowers for fun. I wanted to do something to make some extra money. I went from making felt flowers to poly satin ones. I started selling them to a local shop and then at craft shows. The following picture shows me at my very first show.

I really didn't know what I was doing, but at that time I thought I was so COOL!

I still think I am cool!

I was so excited! I thought I had cool things.

I am so grateful for that day. I have always pushed myself to make something "new."

If anything the new would be new to me.

I have really loved how the burnt poly satin flowers look.

I decided to make them in ring size after I started making flowers for 18 in dolls.

The rings led me to EARRINGS!

CUTE!!!!

I know I made them, but they so rock!

Let's just say that I am looking forward to making more colors.

State your love

I have seen the cutest state art on different blogs and online.

I have often said to myself,

I LOVE THAT!

I wish I could buy everything I see/saw.

My husband is in school and I do not have that luxury.

One day.

Anyway moving on from my pocket book.

This is what I made with my new favorite toy!

I got this beauty because of my Santa-in-laws.

Yes, he still visits me.

I have been good.

Two Christmases ago my husband told my in-laws that he didn't want a big gift. He wanted me to have this under the tree instead. I did not know this until after Christmas morning.

I about died when I saw it. I was so afraid to use it for about a year.

This past Christmas I got vinyl and heat transfer paper.

So for the last few weeks it has become a close friend of mine.

Since Sillie and I have become BBF's (maybe I will give it a better name)

we have made a few cool things.

Including this:

Tah-Dah!!!!

It also made me finally put things on my wall, with nails.

It has a home.

I love my wall art.

Canvas $4.70 (HL coupon)

Images $0 (online)

Vinyl $0 (Christmas)

I love my Silhouette!

(My mother-in-law, too, she believes in my crafts)

(She also really makes me feel like they are the coolest thing she has ever seen)

P.S. GA is my hubby and AZ is me

Fail

I am so sad.

I just finished a project that I was so excited about doing.

I FAILED!

Sigh........

I wanted to make my kid's some Valentine's Day shirts. I bought them each a black shirt or onesie. I decided to start on my infants onesie, first.

I had this great idea to dollie paint hearts on the girl's shirts.

This is what my inspiration was.

I found these really cute, smaller hearts, at Target for like a buck.

I had all of my supplies ready.

2 Dollies ($1)

Fabric paint (leftover)

Sponge (drawer)

Onesie ($4)

Cost $5

Fun: Priceless (so I thought)

My template and what I wanted it to look like.

Came out "OKAY" not what I wanted, but I was "OKAY" with it.

BUT

THEN DISASTER BROKE LOOSE!!!!!

What you are about to see made me SAD!

The paper got stuck to the shirt, too much paint.

I have tried a few things, but I am still working on removing it.

So so so so ......x1 million sad.

I think I will leave cool art to my heat transfer paper via my silhouette.

PS

She is still going to wear this onesie. I will fix it.

Spray Paint is my friend

I love shopping!

Who doesn't like finding something useful and cool?

One if my favorite places to shop is at my in-laws house.

They had this old chair in their garage.

My father-in-law had it next to the trash can and I asked if I could have it.

So now I was a proud owner of an ugly faded kid chair.

May I say, "A PROUD owner!"

A Little bit of ugly never scared me

My friend the spray can and I had a job to do.

We made ugly into my son's favorite new chair!

Look how pretty, or um cool (if you're a guy).

My son was so HAPPY!

Project total $4.50

PS with the leftover paint I colored his bookshelf.

Two for one fun!