Sometimes it's hard to find a dinosaur shirt for girls. I know that might sound pretty crazy but it's true. It was a great day when I stumbled across Freezer Paper Stenciling. It's easy and quick and a great way to make personalized items, especially if you want to make a tshirt for your kids using freezer paper as a stencil. To start, gather a roll of freezer paper, Tulip Soft Fabric Paint, an iron, a paintbrush, and a tshirt or other fabric surface to paint. Step 1: Draw or print out the item that you would like to use as a stencil on the freezer paper. You can print … [Read more...]
She’s a Big Girl Now.
The time has finally come for us that Princess Newbie is done with her baby highchair. She kept climbing out of it (and in it). So it was no longer safe to have around, as it was. We asked our parents to get her a booster chair for Christmas but they all kinda balked at it. You could tell they had toys in mind for her gifts, not a booster seat. This is the chair before: This is the chair I picked out when I was pregnant with Princess Girly Girl, six years ago. I knew I wanted a wood chair so it would last through all my kids and hopefully be saved forever. That's the … [Read more...]
Peg Doll Nativity
This is a great Nativity to make for your children to play with and much cheaper than the plastic ones from the big box stores. I made this one for about about $6 using fabric scraps that I had on hand. Here's a tutorial for making peg dolls sans fabric clothes. If you want to make these, come back to learn how to make the faces and then add fabric clothes using your glue gun. Unless you're the Pioneer Woman because I heard she doesn't even own a glue gun! Oh the travesty. How does she survive? … [Read more...]
The Black Friday Mission.
I am a Black Friday shopper. To say that I celebrate thanksgiving is but a part of the truth. Thanksgiving is like Christmas Eve, the moment of great anticipation before you rip into presents the next morning. To the real bargain shopper, it is pay dirt. The BB gun is to Ralphie in The Christmas Story as Black Friday is to pure frugalistas. Everyone else out there on Black Friday is just wearing a pink bunny suit. Many comment that Black Friday is not worth the $20 of savings. If I only saved $20, I would consider it a great failure. 2002 was my best Black Friday year so far. I became a … [Read more...]
Tutorial: How to make dipped strawberries
Chocolate covered strawberries are my delight in life. My mother in law had some last weekend when I visited but I only got one before I thought they had all disappeared. Really I found the rest of them in the way back of the fridge before we left. So the sad news is that I only got one. The good news is that I know how to make more and now you will too. First you need Almond Bark. I know you can buy the little tubs now that you just microwave but this is pretty much the same thing and you get a huge hunk of it for the same price as the little tubs. The most important thing that I can … [Read more...]