Air Conditioner Cover

My husband made this awesome cover for our air conditioning unit.  It was a must have with 3 young children who play around it in our back yard, and a 20 month old boy who kept wanting to touch it.  Now he doesn't even remember its there!

  It turned out awesome.  It will be easy to store during the winter months as well.

mini French Bread Chicken Alfredo Pizza's

This is what I made for my family the other night and they were a huge hit.

This is what you need:

Alfredo Sauce

Grilled chicken: seasoned anyway you like, diced

shredded mozzarella cheese

red onion: optional but highly recommended

fresh diced tomatoes: not from a can

small french bread rolls: these ones can be found at Sam's Club

Put the pizzas under the broiler on the middle rack and melt the cheese to your likeness.

Wood Star for July: Door Wreath

My handsome husband cut and put this together for me....thanks to this idea I saw.  It was super easy and inexpensive to make and is just what I wanted to make a statement on our house for the month of July.  

We are so blessed to live in America!

 And yes, I made the banner as well.  

Chevron July 4th Banner: Stars and Stripes

 Here is a sneak peak at my newest banner coming to my etsy shop!  It's a smaller version of my regular banners because this one is meant to be hung above your front door.  My front door is getting ready to display one!

Ruffled Knit Maxi Shirts

With the beginning of summer upon us, my girls and I were in need of a new summer skirt.  So I made us all a ruffled knit Maxi skirt!  They turned out super cute and the girls LOVE the ruffles.

The cost was only $15 for knit to make all three of these skirts.

I used this tutorial as a guide.....with some minor changes of my own.  They were very simple to put together!

Transition Door Wreath: for your front door

 What?  A Transition Door Wreath?  What is that??

For me I decided it would be a wreath or Letter in this case, that I could hang on my front door while transitioning onto the next Holiday or Season.  Take this year for example......Easter came and went in March and I was not going to keep my Easter Wreath on the door any longer.  It was driving me crazy. And here in Utah you can have spring and winter weather all in the same day during the spring months.

So I made a Transition Wreath.  Something that does not have any Holiday or Season theme but is still cute and functional.

I bought a Giant Letter from Hobby Lobby, painted it and then made the Chevron Tie out of some fabric I had on hand.  Ah, I am feeling much better already!

 I do not know about you but I think I am more excited to transition into spring and summer weather now!

Lalaloopsy Cake

My daughter turned 6 this past week!  I can not believe where the time is going!!

She requested a Lemon Cake this year as well as a Lalaloopsy Cake so this is what I made for her:

2 Yellow straws and a paper banner with Lalaloopsy's on them.

Fast and Simple and so cute too......she was very pleased.

It was a Lemon Cake with a Strawberry filling in the middle.

The leftover Easter Sixlets were the perfect colors to finish off the cuteness for the top.

Monster Cake

My son and my husband celebrated birthdays a while back and we had a BIG monster party for both of them.  This is the cake I made for the party:

Thanks to this cake HERE for the inspiration I was able to put together a fun cake.  For the eyes on my cake I used Ritz crackers dipped in Orange Chocolate melts and added the candy eyeballs to the top. The mouth on my cake is just paper. Super easy and fun to make. This cake was a chocolate cake with Orange Cream Frosting.......yes it was super good!

Paper Sack Bunnies

I just had to share these adorable Paper Sack bunnies that my mother-in-law made my kids for Easter.  How cute are they?!  She filled them up with sidewalk chalk and treats and the kids loved them!

Thanks Nancy!

Spring Mantel: He is Risen Banner

 My Mantel has been decorated for a few weeks now and I love it.  

I am super happy with my new addition this year: My HE IS RISEN pennant banner.

I made it from paper pennants, sticker letters and some yarn.  It fits perfectly on my picket fence.

 All of the other decorations are from years past.  

Fabric Bunnies, Wooden Blue Bird, Fabric Easter Eggs , Fabric Carrots

Spring MOSS Wreath

I have fallen in love with the look of Moss this spring.

So I decided to make myself a Moss Wreath.

 If you like the Easter Egg Felt Banner you can find ones like this one HERE in my etsy shop.

 Here is the back:

My hotty hubby helped me make some frames out of some wood, some wood glue and brackets.  I was able to make 2 large frames for $2.00 total.  BONUS!  I bought sheet moss with a 50% off coupon, some pink burlap for 50 cents and again using a coupon I added the cute nest as well.

Happy March! : St. Patrick's Day Mantel

I am so happy it's March....

spring is right around the corner!

Since Easter is also in March this year (dumb I think) I didn't want to put up a lot of green stuff since it will come down as fast as it went up.

 I love my picket fence!!!  I use it all the time.  It was a great place to hang up my rainbow banner.

The banner: I took my 2" round paper punch and punched out circles from paper scraps and then taped those to some bakers twine.  That's it.

 The Leprechaun Hat is from last year.  And of course with every rainbow there is some sunshine so I took my green sunshine frame that I hang in my hallway and put it here.  PERFECT!

HAPPY MARCH TO ALL OF YOU!!

Celebrate Dr Seuss

Dr Seuss has a birthday coming up on March 2nd.

and to celebrate I added these fun new items to my shop.

go check them out!

A Set of Cat in the Hat clips

 A Cat in the Hat fabric pennant banner

Stuffed Green Peppers: Philly Cheese steak Style

Oh my. Oh my.

These little things were so so so good!

Both my husband and I lived near Philly Pennsylvania for a while and feel in love with Philly Cheese steak sandwiches.  We are back west again so when I saw this recipe I just new I had to give it a try.

It's one of our favorites now!  yum

Just simply saute some thin slices of roast beef, onions, garlic and mushrooms in a pan, then put that into your peppers and stick that into the oven to cook.  Add some cheese in the last few minutes to melt and enjoy!

Easy Last Minute Game ideas for Classroom Valentine's Party

I am in charge of the Valentine's Day classroom activities in my daughters kindergarten class.

Thanks to some ideas that I found on Pinterest, I was able to put together a couple of fun games and activities for the kids.

Pin the lips on the teacher:

found this idea HERE as well as the lip printable.

I decided to put the teacher's faces on a poster and then laminated it.

One side has a girl teacher, 

 the other side has a guy teacher.  

Cupid's Arrow Practice:

 found this idea HERE.

I changed it up a bit by making a poster with three different sized heart cutouts that the kids can shoot the arrows (Q-tips) threw. You simply put a q-tip in a straw and have the kids blow on the end of the straw and the q-tip shoots out.

Color your Mustache/Lips: Class Photo Idea

with lips and mustaches being so popular right now I thought this would be fun for the kids.  I drew up lips and mustaches and copied them onto white card stock.  Each kid can color and cut out their shapes and tape them to a straw.  I plan to take a whole class picture with the students and the teacher in these.  It's also a fun take home project for them too.