Towels, Towels and more Towels - take 2

St. Patricks Day Towel - found the shamrock towel for $1 then added the fabric!

Valentine's Day Towel - 3 tier ruffle - love, love, love  how cute this turned out!!

Containers & more

The Homework Bucket -  Several years ago when our 3rd daughter started school and afternoon homework sessions became our normal daily fight.  I gathered a few things and put them in this bucket (originally it was made to hold picnic supplies).  I was tired of sending the girls off to get a pencil or paper or something to write on and then they would never return thus delaying our "session". So I gathered everything together in one place. This has saved so much time & hassle looking for things.

Our bucket contains: dry erase boards (behind the clipboard), clipboard, paper, dry erase markers, erasers, glue sticks, scissors, pencils (although I think those have wandered off again), calculator, etc.

The Hair Bucket - one day while getting girls ready for school I kept having to send them off for different things (brush, hair ponies, the right color flower) thus missing the bus, again! UGH!!!  So I noticed the homework bucket which gave me an idea.  I also needed a place to contain the flowers too.  The bucket has butterflies punched out all around the top. I ran a ribbon through the butterflies to have a place to put bobbie pins and the flower clips.  It also helped the handbands stay in place as well. Then we added the every important pony tails of all sizes, detangler spray and brushes.  I like that I can move it were ever we need and also tuck it away in the cabinet in the bathroom.

The Playhouse

A couple of weeks ago, my youngest daughter asked to get the playhouse out.  This requires setting up the card table (which is buried in the garage) and then digging through the linen closet to fish the house out.  At times I would try to interest her in others things to play with so I didn't have to go through all the hastle.  But this year being the year of  "adjustments" (aka learning to live without my oldest at home), I've found myself thinking "she's only 10" she is still little :)  So we dug the house out.  I remember the little girls spending their days playing in that house- filling it with baby dolls, blankets and books.  The girls would request lunch in their house and wanted me to place it in front of the tv so they could watch a movie in their house.  I really do have to say I have missed seeing it out.

Valentine's Day

Breakfast at the White House this morning!  Heart shaped cinnamon rolls with strawberry milk :)

We even tried our hand at Valentine Hair today!  Aneka was so excited to show it off! kaylie's comment when I offered to do her hair "I have a pink shirt on -I'm good"!

Aneka's Scratch off Valentine's - she is so excited for today! So sad last year to make valentine's for the girls to had out at school :(

Towels...Towels...and more Towels

Okay I have to admit my latest obsession has been making cute hand towels for my kitchen. Here are a few that I have made ;) Let me know what you think!

Brownies in a Jar.....

SO I needed a cute & quick Visiting Teaching gift. I had been wanting to make the popular "cupcake in a jar" But I didn't have the time to make cupcakes, so I looked around to see what I had on hand - a pan of brownies, chocolate frosting & mason jars


So I cut a large brownie into 4ths and smooshed into the jar, frosted with chocolate frosting & added sprinkles. Then of course I had to "Jenifer-ize It".

I found these little forks when I was looking for something else...I thought these would be great for my daughters up coming High School Graduation Open House Party for little appetizers. But oh my goodness do they look so cute on these jars!!!

A tale of Modge Podge & Tiles...

This tale starts about 3 years ago...I love to decorate the house each month for different holidays. I wanted something that I could display on the kitchen counter yet be durable to the many messes that seem to happen in my kitchen ;) I had recently purchased come cute paper napkins for an upcoming holiday & thought those are too cute to use. So I went to the oval office (my craft room) that's where I do my best thinking/creating.

My mom showed me when I was little how to cut pictures out of a magazine & modge podge them to a decorative board to create a wall hanging. I made one with Holly Hobbie on it! So I looked around to see what I had in my stash that might work. I had some left over tiles that I had stamped/embossed on to make coasters for mother's day. So I put them all together {Modge Podge + napkin + tile = really CHEAP & Cute decoration). The picture I have above is of just a few of the tiles. I really do have 12+ whenever I see napkins now I think that will make a cute tile =D