Homemade Bowling Set!

We have been having SO much fun bowling today with the new bowling set I made for the girls. In October I saw this great idea over at The Terrys, to make a homemade bowling set using Gerber Puffs Containers! I thought this was such a great idea, and got busy saving up puffs containers and recruiting old containers from friends!I was so excited to finally have 10 containers! Then I just peeled off the wrappers and washed them out. After they were clean and dry, I filled them with crinkled up heavy paper to give them added weight and hot glued the lids one. To give them the red lines to make them look more like bowling pins, I just used a red sharpie to trace the three grooves in the containers.

Molly is getting pretty good at knocking the pins down, and Nora is enjoying crawling into them. :) How fun are these! Head over to The Terrys to see her great idea!

Giraffe Cake!

OK, I promise this is the last cake for awhile. I think I found another hobby, hee hee, as if I need another one! I am LOVING cake decorating, it is so fun. I made this giraffe cake today for my friends birthday. We got together for dinner to celebrate tonight. She loves giraffes and used to collect them.

Practice Cake!

My awesome cousin Alicia is letting my Aunt Amy and me make the small cake they are going to cut at their wedding! Seriously! We are SO excited!!! Here is the practice cake we made today. The pink flowers are not the ones that will be on the cake, they were leftovers I had from the card table house, and are just on there to get an idea what real flowers would look like. The blue ribbon is her wedding color, and the beautiful cake stand was my Grandma Weebers.

Sippy Cup Cutification!

After I saw this great idea to design your own sippy cup from Sew Can Do, I just knew I had to make one for Nora. So I printed off my coupon and headed to Hobby Lobby. It was SO easy to make, and I am in LOVE with the possibilities. Here is the paper I put in for February. :)

"Almost" Wordless Wednesday!

It was Molly's turn to be the "Superstar" this week at preschool. She was SO excited to take her pictures and stars to school to show her teachers and her friends. And yes... I was "that" mom who took her camera to school to get a picture. :)

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Nora's Nightlight!

I have a million little projects and crafts I've been doing around the house, so you may get sick of these posts, but I was excited to share a few of the things I've made.

Even though the picture isn't great, I LOVE the night light I made for Nora. I used my Michael's coupon and picked up a Design-Your-Own Nightlight kit. The front of it is sticky, so I just peeled the paper off and stuck this black and white polka dot fabric (to match Nora's room) onto it, then I just trimmed the excess fabric (all but a half inch) and wrapped it around the back. I did hot glue the edges just to be sure it laid nice. Much cuter than the old yellow night light she was using.

Hot Chocolate Gift!

With the thermometer reading -15 degrees this morning, it was the perfect time to make some hot chocolate. Which reminded me of this fun gift we received. It is homemade hot chocolate in a nice disposable travel mug. It was in a clear bag tied shut with a ribbon.

Here is the fun disposable mug filled with homemade hot chocolate, you can get these by the plastic/styrofoam cups at the grocery store.

Then inside the cup in a plastic bag was the hot chocolate, so you just need to pour out the mix and add hot water. YUM!