Toddler crayons!

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted... Guess I've been on vacation from blogging!

I've been on the search for good toddler crayons but they are just so darn expensive to buy! So I bought 2 boxes of 24 crayons for $0.99 each.

I peeled, sorted and broke them and put them into the muffin tin. Melted for 9 minutes, stirring every 3 minutes. I think they would have turned out better (more swirly and pretty) if I hadn't over-stirred.

Right now I'm just waiting for them to cool. Here's hoping my muffin tin makes it out alive :D

Hair Do Day for Cats & Ponies

There have been a lot of blog entries going around Pinterest the last while on how to detangle doll/pony/Barbie hair. I recently dug some My Little Ponys and some long hair cats out of the shed.  I saved them all these years knowing I would someday spruce them up for my own children. Morgan is still too little to appreciate these gems, but I thought I'd clean them up anyway! Maybe the big girls will enjoy them when they come over to play!

Here are some before shots (But they were already dunked in hot water, I forgot to take a true before pic):

And this one, as you can tell, was always my favourite! Her mane is VERY well loved… I was worried how it would turn out:

I didn't have baby oil or fabric softner, so I just used a LOT of conditioner. Washed them up in hot water, left conditioner in their hair for 5 minutes or so, and rinsed it out while combing (and I mean combing over, and over, and over again…).

(Didn't use the olive oil, they turned out great with just conditioner!)

Yellow hair Pony got a tiny trim to fix her split ends before she could get braids in! :)

A little blow drying, a little curling, and voila! They look so great I want to play with them myself…!!!!

:)

More Baby Leggings!

I finally found colourful knee socks… Yippiee!! I decided to make more leggings for Morgan. Now that she's got a fluff-bum I want her to have more instead of always wearing pants… Let her show off her cute diapers!

I made these ones differently and I already love them 100% more than the first pair! And if you thought the first pair was easy to make you won't believe how much easier this way was!! Literally all I had to do was cut off the foot and sew a zig zag stitch around the end. Can you say 2 minute project??

The best part of this may be that each pair of socks only cost $1.25! So I have a few more pairs to make (I bought 3 pairs) but basically this is so sweet!

I think she may be the cutest baby in the world. Look at all that leg chub! <3 Nope, I'm not biased. I just speak the truth! :D haha

(Don't worry, I acknowledge just how many freakin' adorable babies we know and how many kids I know that I used to say the same thing about!)

WIth all the time I have to spare from this quickly project I even had time to write this post BEFORE baby goes to bed. WOW!

… And now off to cook supper. Have a great night everyone!

Dolly Diaper

Well, this happened last week actually, but I'm just getting around to posting now!

I went to fabricville in search of bamboo fleece to make diaper inserts. Instead of finding the bamboo, I found the cutest PUL material in a new diaper making section! Ugh!!! I said to the first lady working there "I would never make my own diaper"... But by the time we left I had a whole bag of materials!! I'm such a sucker . . .  lol

But seriously, look how cute this material is:

Well I came home and started searching BBC and pinterest right away for tips and tutorials. I came up with a moderate plan, then I made a pattern and got to work with making a practice dolly diaper! I figured I might as well give it to my nieces to play with . . . It'll be a LONG time before Morgan need toy diapers :)

It turned out moderately ok, I will make a few more before I use the good material!

Now here's he funny part: I had to practice making a pocket diaper, but I thought to myself "the girls are going to be confused when their dolly diaper has a big hole in it, so I'll make them an insert"

Family Board

This week is going to be interesting . . . I am going to try to stick to a cleaning schedule for me and a nap/sleep schedule for Morgan. Eek, not my forte.

So I thought I'd make a family white board. I took a photo frame that we were NEVER going to use and used scrapbook paper to cover the inside. Then I put it together and voila! Instant white board, but way cute, yes?

And here it is with the beginnings of our weekly schedule:

Now the only thing to figure out is how to stick to a schedule? lol. At least it's pretty.

Saturday Night Bean Bags

Tomorrow morning we are having the youth at our church lead games for the younger kids. Yay! Should be lots of fun. One of the games is bean bag toss . . . and as I was planning for tomorrow it occurred to me: we don't have any bean bags! LOL

Minor detail.

So off I go to the sewing room. I love scrap projects, they are my favourite kind of project. This is also great because I've been wanting to make bean bags for Morgan for a while now! I made a set for Silvia's 1st birthday, so it was a great reason to get busy!

I was in a bit of a time crunch, as I started this at 9:30 pm tonight, so instead of doing a neat and tidy whip stitch, I cheated and did a messy, ugly straight stitch with the machine. Ick. Someday I will seriously regret this!

So here are the 'front' sides . . . lots of funky fabrics!

'Back' sides, also lovely.

Let the fun begin <3

Is this post really about spoons?

Last night was a long night. A very long night.

Little miss was waking up every hour and so was I. We are both stuffed up, me more than her, and morning couldn't come quick enough! She is also finally at the stage where she sleeps like a big kid- doing the starfish and stretching as far as possible with her little limbs! Cute but it makes me sad! What happened to the little bundle who fit in the crook of my arm? *sigh*

Well it took great effort to do anything today. I was fearful that my sluggish ways would reflect on our day. In an effort not to provide boring company for Morgan, I pushed through and tried to keep busy!

We went to the park and to say happy birthday to Nanny Linda! Then we cane home and made a pseudo quilt for the kitties (as part of a new plan to try and keep Duncan from sleeping on our heads...). We also got groceries. This is where I got excited...

I set out to buy baby spoons with metal. Morgan will now let me feed her of it's a metal spoon(!) I couldn't, however, bring myself to spend $6 on the playex one I found. I figured it was a lost cause (after all, most people want plastic). Then I saw the cutest pack of mini spoons in the real cutlery aisle! Yay! (Yes, really, this is what I find exciting)!

(Hard to tell but the package was uber-cute too!)

She played with them at supper. They were a hit :)

Can't wait to serve something that needs a spoon, maybe we'll have applesauce for breaky tomorrow!