A chinese Wombat!

The making of a Wombat.....

First you need two helpers to lick the beaters

Second you need to bake five different cakes including 2 cupcakes

Third a whole lot of chocolate icing

and a few assorted candies

and viola!

Try to guess what it is going to be before you get to the bottom! I made this for my daughter's best friends 13th birthdayStarting to come together now!!

Did you guess right?! This is Bruce (Fred) the Platypus

Ok so his legs were a little big, but not too bad for my first platypus!!!

( which by the way I managed to whip together while our 3 neice's were here visiting for a few days.. which brings the total to 5 children ages 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, to work around!)

God bless those mom's of large families. I salute you all

Be my Valentine

Around our house we have to make our valentines day gifts. This year was a hard one, I was torn between a photo rubik cubes and these.... fabric covered notebooks.
I chose the fabric covered notebooks for a lot of reasons, one being my sister in law shared with us a great idea of a "card notebook" instead of giving cards you write your own to pass back and forth, the other frugal me wanted to stop wasting a hundred notebooks, and use binders instead for our lists, and notes back and forth!
So here we are with our plain yucky looking binder...

Any fabric will work, cut larger than the binder, cut out the corners so they fold better....And voila! One pretty binder:)For added neatness, I coverd carboard peices and coverd them with fabric as well. On this one ( Our card binder) I added Bible verses in the front cover, then a picture o fus printed on fabric for the back cover, using the glue gun, I attached it to cover the raw edges of the front fabric.

Here is our pile of binders now:)

It was so easy I am thinking I am going to use this for our May long weekend group craft!

Humpty Dumpty

4th birthday!

It started with an egg! Using an egg that resembles a kinder egg, but has a white front,

I started my humpty! Using some left over flannel fabric I sewed arms and legs, Using white left over fabric I sewed up his hands and white collar. Then fabric glued them alltogether. It ended up that I didn't need to glue anything to the actual egg, which was a nice surprise!
Here he is with his face on:) Sadly the only thing I could find to put his face on was a dry earse marker! So after all that the egg couldn't be eaten afterall. Don't worry after Humpty fell off the wall they had fun with the surprise inside!

The wall! I cheated, becasue we were heading away for the weekend, I needed to find a way to assemble the cake at the hotel. this wa sa great alternative to a loaf cake. We iced the tray with green icing to help the "grass" stick around the wall!

We iced the jelly roll, which is really hard to do, with chocolate icing. Using boxes of bridge mixture, we built the wall. We left a spot on the top of the wall for Humpty to sit, we then used green colored coconut for the grass, and voila, one humpty dumpty cake ready for a very excited 4 year old!

A play mat for the 4 year old, quilted along the roads with dump trucks on the back.

For the soon to be three year old ( who also opened up some gifts this past weekend) He received an airplane play mat, quilted in a control panel pattern. Go Diego Go! With 1 yard of fabric I was able to make a pillow case for the lad, and a matching sleeping bag and pillow for his litle blue dog! All the better the fabric was on sale for $7.00/m!

Wreath Making Time!

My mom and I had the great opportunity to go to a class on wreath making.. and here are the results!

Here is mine:Here is my mom's:

I enjoyed myself so much I made one for my mother in law!

Clean craft

I know! I couldn't beleive it either but it is true. there is such thing as a clean and easy to do craft for kids!here is my little guy showing you how easy and clean it really is! We tried this craft before dinner one night to help keep the kids calm and out of my hair! A dear friend of mine gave me this idea so thank you so very much to her:)

Here is what you do, take a piece of cunstruction paper, any color will do, a glue stick, a pen and some uncooked noodles. We used macaroni noodles.

Write a big letter on the paper, whatever letter you are working on, then have your child trace the letter with the glue stick, then give them a handful or a small owl full of noodles and have them stick the noodles on the line.

Not only is this great fun, but it helps them with a ton of different motor skills and letter recognition. In the bottom left corner you can see my daughters creative flare, a happy face with a tongue.

The ideas are endless, and when it dries you can just crinkle the paper and the noodles fall off ready to use tomorrow night:)

Have fun!

The Chair

This one was alot of work. And really unless you get your fabric super cheap I don't think it is much cheaper than the cheap ones you can buy at Walmart. However, I did have a lot of fun making it and The boy does love it, it is his reading chair in his room. or his ship when he is a pirate, or his punching bag when he is mad at his brother, or his singing chair... the list is endless:)
You also have to be prepared to make more once you have finished yoru first one. As soon as the kids find out you can make them , they are sure to find a fabric that would be perfect in their room!
And really now that I have a full size pattern cut out and ready to go, the next two should go faster:)