Make a Dry erase board

Okay so here's a project that was super easy to do.
I picked up a picture frame at a yard sale. You'll also need a sheet of card stock, you could use lined notebook paper.

Remove your glass and trace it on your paper, cut your paper. I wrote the days of the week on mine, just so everyone can see what's going on for the week.

Put your glass back in the frame, add your paper, and the back of the frame, hang. There I told you it was easy.

Glitter dividers

I made my first video today. I hope you enjoy it. Share and pass it around.  Glitter planner dividers: http://youtu.be/WxD2lyL2FW4

Mommy needs coffee

Good news I can walk on my broken foot again, the down side the house needs cleaning. My husband has done a great job doing both of our jobs, and keeping the home running. Now that I'm up and moving it's time to give a good cleaning. My crafting has had to take a back seat :-(
This morning I woke up to get to work. Time to get a cup of coffee and get started. What do you mean I don't have coffee creamer?

I like this one, it's just caramel, but sometimes hard to find (they like to add vanilla ). Well I was out, so I made some up.

All I needed.
A jar
Measuring cup
14Oz sweetened condensed milk (one can)
1 3/4 cups milk (I used whole milk)
2 tablespoons of caramel ice cream topping
Put the sweetened condensed milk, milk and caramel in jar. Put the lid on the jar. Not hard so far right? Ok here's the hard part, are you ready? Time to shake, shake, and shake. Done

Now time for my cup of coffee, and then get to work.
This website  http://fun2bfrugal.com/homemade-flavored-coffee-creamer has a lot of different flavors to pick from.
I love this creamer and now I'm ready to get to work.

Mom is this trash?

I love making books. This is one of my favorites, it’s quick to make, and you can use reclaimed material. I used scraps of construction paper, cereal box, and some thread. But you could use just about anything. My kids can make this, well besides the cutting part.

I cut the cardboard down to about the size of the paper. I do a final cut so I’m not worried about it being to big.
I folded the paper first. Then the cover by its self. Put the two parts together. I used an awl, but you can use a nail, a needle, anything sharp. I went with a super easy two hole.


Ok time to thread, are you ready?  Start from the inside, go through the top hole all the way through to the outside, then back through the bottom hole into the middle again.  Then just tie the two ends together.

Using my cutting mat, I trim the edges to make it looks nice. You could use sand paper at that time to smooth the sides. You could round the corners.


4 done in maybe 15 minutes. My kids love to get new "special books ", this would make a good gift, and so much more.

Mom can we play slip and slide...

Slip and slid down the stairs that is. Well that's what it felt like anyways. We live in the woods, so our steps always seemed to be damp with some kind of film. Not nice stuff, not at all. We tried grip tape but after about a week or so it would come off. Was I cursed? My dad came to visit and we got to talking about it. More me tell him to be careful. My dad has worked construction most his life, why I didn't think to ask him before is beyond me. He gave me the best idea.
Paint your steps first, while the paint is still wet cover with sand. After the paint is dry brush off the extra sand, and put another coat of paint on it. How easy is that? Now we may have to do it again at some point, but I'm sure it'll last longer then the other stuff.
I thought I would share this with everyone.

Yes it's very red lol

Mom can we make chicks...

Ok again maybe more my idea, but they've been bored and needed something to do. I had this great idea in my head, but it didn't come out as great as I had thought. There was a lot I had to do, and not as much for the kiddos to work on. But I'm still going to share, maybe you'll come up with a better idea, or maybe your kids are older so they can do more.
I started by cutting out little feet, a beak and a small square for it to seat on.

Then got out my trusty hot glue gun and put them together.

Part one done. Now I took a fork and wrap the yarn around it.

After I got a pretty good amount on there, I just wrapped another piece around and tied it around to hold it in place.
Here's the part that was a pain. I had to take scissors to cut all the hoops of yarn. Then its hot glue time again

Here is our family of chicks. I think I'm going to come up with some type of bowl that looks like a nest for them to seat on the kitchen table.

Mom can I have milk...

My little one's use to love milk, but with them starting school it seems like they are always trying to fight a cold. As soon as I hear a cold coming on I hate that question, because I would take them off milk. The kids were great about it, but I know they missed it. Well I got the idea to try soy milk. You should have seem my face when they LOVED IT!!!! My son can be kinda picky. So I wanted to share with you how we make soy milk... Don't tell anyone but it is so easy.
First Soak a cup of dry soy beans in water over night. Drain water off
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Take one cup on beans and 3 to 3 1/2 of water and blend, and blend. You want to see all the beans cut up to small pieces.

Stain off the liquid from the parts of beans.

OK this may have been a bad time to take a picture. It won't all look like this all the time, it will run out like water. I found this really cool bag somewhere but cheese cloth would work too. You want to ring it out to really get everything good out of it.
Repeat and repeat until you are out of beans. It takes me three times.

You'll see that there is a froth that floats on top. I take a spoon and remove it. Well most of it anyways.

Now put it in a pot and start heating it up. You need to be able to dissolve sugar, and mix in some vanilla. Do you have to add that no, but my family likes it. I add about 1/2 cup of sugar, and a good splash of vanilla, but make it how you want it.
Oh a helpful hint if you go to an Asian market you can get the soy beans so much cheaper.
So mom can we have milk, is no longer a question I fear. Problem solved.