Skull Shirt

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As most of us have, I've been going crazy pinning things on Pinterest. I found myself feeling a little bit unaccomplished because of my ratio of pins to actually getting off the computer and doing something creative. So, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and take up blogging again as well as create a new section called 'Pintertested' where I would actually try some of the things that I Pinned.

A few weeks ago I found this really cute cut out skull shirt idea. Well, actually I found a few of them, but this one in particular caught my eye because of the cute little bow that was tied in the top of the skull's head. The project descriptions were really easy to follow and the shirt turned out great. Below are some pictures from my 'Pintastic' creation....ok, I'll stop now...

How cute is my little model! She rocks the shirt all the time and proudly wears it as momma's latest creation.

Test Results: A Pinning Success!

Step 1: Create a Template


Step 2: Cut out, place on shirt and trace with chalk. Oh, I also cut out the neck and cut the arms off at a 45 degree.

Step 3: Draw horizontal lines across the tracing.


Step 4: Cut out and place on cute model! (When cutting I cut straight along the chalk lines, stopping when I got to the eyes and nose.)


Love her and the shirt! The bonus is that it is big enough to fit the both of us.


Bath Fizzies!

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For Valentines Day we got the girls little gift bags full of pink goodies including a nail file, lipstick pen and a pink lip bath fizzy. These bath fizzies are always such a hit with the girls. I have gotten them before and they always add an extra element of fun to the bath and make the girls (and bathroom) smell so good. This particular lip one made the whole bath pink and smelled wonderful.

As usual they wanted to go get more and as usual I said, why don't we figure out how to make them? I found tons of resources online about making bath fizzies (also called bath bombs).

Here are a few of them:
- Recipe from TeachSoap.com
- Recipe from Martha (Is there anything she can't do? She had me glittering everything this past holiday.)
- Recipe from MakeLotion.com (Simple Recipe)
- Recipe from ehow.com (This is the one I am going to try.)

Cool Video:

* I love the music during this one...get's you all pumped to make fizzies!

It took me a while to find the citric acid, but eventually found it at a local health food store. The last thing for me to find is the witch hazel. I hope to make them this weekend and post my outcome. Wish me luck!


POST PROJECT UPDATE
We made the bath fizzies! A few notes for the next batch.
  1. Make sure all ingredients are in powder form. I will ground the Epsom salt into a flower like consistency next time.
  2. Work with the die. We tried to make purple fizzies. Not sure that I added enough and the accidental addition of the yellow coloring probably didn't help the poop like color.
  3. Fragrance. The two tsp is a lot. I used essential oils (a combination of what I had laying around). I will be more prepared next time with enough of one smell. I might even try fragrance oil rather than an essential oil. (Etsy looks like they have some good suppliers of that Etsy Fragrance link. They also have citric acid.)
Overall, very fun and they fizzed when added to the bath. So mission accomplished.

New Year - New House - New Inspiration

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I just got an email from one of my biggest gardening inspiration - Love Apple Farms. She was already talking about Spring veggies! I can't wait. I need to figure out what I am going to plant this year. Gardeners.com has a really cool drag and drop application on their site that tells you how to plant what you want in your garden. Gotta get on this. I guess you can already start tomatoes, peppers and eggplants from seed inside 6-10 weeks before you place them outside. That should be good because I have a lot of preparing to do in my garden bed before I am ready to plant in the ground! I'll upload pictures later. Beautiful but needs a lot of work.

Which leads me to the other thing. I just moved! And while my new house is really nice it is overrun with weeds. The transition has been a little hectic, but the girls are doing great. I thought it was going to be a lot harder. It was definitely bittersweet for me to move from my old house. I lived there when I got married and brought both of my babies home to that house. We had some really great memories there. I am confident that we will also have great memories a the new house.

Work is moving along too. Just launched a new website this week: www.diggardensnursery.com. (Great client and awesome store.) I got a little store credit out of the deal and I can't wait to trick out my house with a cool terrarium and get some veggie starts for the garden. Looks like I have a few projects brewing. Keeping the positive vibes flowing towards greatness!

Over and out!


Halloween Fun On a "Sick Day"

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Today my daughter came home from school "sick". So we made the most of the day and decorated the house and did a quick and easy craft project.

House Decoration
I pulled out the decorations from last year which included 4 mini paper skeletons, a scary skeleton mask, some fake cob webs and some plastic spiders. Oh, and some fun window clings. We pinned and taped everything up. Now it really feels like Halloween. We don't get trick-or-theaters where we live, but at least we get to enjoy it!

Craft Project
I cut out the pieces of a jack-o-lantern and let them glue the pieces on. It was easy enough for my 3 year old and still fun for the 6 year old.
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