This was so fun to make! It's a dough made from water, salt, and flour, shaped, and baked for an hour until hard. The rest is up to our creativityto create and paint whatever we want!
My kids are into the Angry Birds and I painted this one for them...isn't it cute? This was done just cutting out circle shapes with cookie cutters. Some other shapes we made were stars, Patrick Star is a fun one to paint on this one, and some of my kids even broke out the Christmas shapes.
This was a fun day full of creating and painting. You'll love this recipe to do with your kids!
Another idea we had was to make heart shapes, and hang them from some sturdy twigs in a vase and call it our Valentine's tree...
Have fun with your art!
Dough being made
They were excited to get their hands on it
cutting out shapes is always fun
Before heading to the oven
Painting is the fun part
We used empty egg cartons to hold our tempera paint
Bella was excited about her Angry Bird
Me too...
Here's how to make your dough...
Ingredients
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Mix flour and salt well. Gradually add water,
stirring with a large spoon. Finish mixing with hands. Knead until
soft and pliable.
Roll out on floured surface about 1/8 inch thick.
Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheets. (If you're making ornaments with your dough use a toothpick
to make a hole in the top of the ornament for threading string.)
Bake at
325 degrees F (165 degrees C) until hard, about 1 hour. Decorate with
paint and varnish to preserve.
Our family has been on the debt-free plan for awhile and only months away from being completely debt free! It's an exciting way to live and love what Dave Ramsey has to say about envelope budgeting. I was bucking the envelope system for awhile because my husband said I should do it... lol! But, I soon realized, I did need to... and desperately so, with all these children of ours and their growing needs! Plus, I will have to say, I've found some amazing, gorgeous fabric, envelope systems, on Etsy, that caught my eye and can't wait to share it with you! If you're going to be organized, get organized with style!
She has so many others to choose from but I just love how cute this was! Look at the beaded and button closure!!
Here is and example of the envelopes that fit inside that you can label as your budget allows. It's perfect! You must check her out over at Saving Money in Style.
This is going to be my next purchase, girls!
I cannot wait... the hard part is just figuring out which one I want! No more paper envelopes, for me, even though those work just fine, too.
For us, our envelopes are for: restaurants, entertainment, clothing, homeschooling (educational supplies), make-up/hair, and groceries...
The whole premise of the envelope system is that you take your allotment for the week (or whatever your pay period is), figure out how much money you want for each envelope, and put the cash in. Money from each envelope is used just for what is was allotted for; when it is gone, it's gone! You don't overspend and you stay within budget. Those envelopes that don't get spent can stay in there to build upon, or can be put into a savings account. Each pay period it starts over again and you replenish your envelope system.
It's easy, effective, and a great way to be organized.
For more on budgeting your finances with the envelope system, check out Dave Ramsey's website, here.
Here is to getting our finances together using the money envelopes!
What do you think about the money envelopes? Leave a comment if you've used them or plan on using them...we'd love to hear!
It's time to organize our purses and I have a giveaway I know you'll love!!
This is going to be fun because I think I'm not alone when I say that keeping our purses clean is not an easy task! It is a catch-all for all my kids' stuff and a trash can, too; from gum wrappers, dirty, sticky pennies, to used wipe-ups. I've on occasion had to use my purse as a place to hold my son's dirty diaper until I found a trash can! And not to mention that the dirty diaper was interwoven with all my stuff in my purse that wasn't harnessed well.
Well, I have the perfect purse organizer for your purse from the Clever Container. Clever Colleen sent me one for review and for me to give to one of you!
Girls, you are going to love it! I got the pink one and it's so cute. It fits everything you need for on the go.
Check these images out of my organizer and how it fits into my purse for perfect organization every time!
There are nice compartments for everything you might need to take with you. Pens, your lip gloss, cell phone...you name it! Handles allow me to pull it out and transfer to a different purse with ease.
Here's a bird's eye view of the inside before I filled it; it's a nice size; even has compartments on the inside!
Holds wallets, your sun glasses, Ipad and Kindle, side pockets and inside pockets, too!
My Ipad fit in here perfectly and here it is nestled in my purse
Here is another bird's eye view but with it all snuggled in my purse; perfect fit with plenty of room, yet, room for more if needed.
I encourage you to check out the Clever Container and check out all that Colleen has to offer. There are containers to help us get organized in virtually every room in our homes as well as when we're on the go. What really makes the Clever Container, so cool, is that they don't just sell product to keep us organized, they actually give us tips and ideas on all the different things you can do with each organizational tool.
Here are some other fun items from Clever Container:
colorful containers to hold your important papers
I absolutely love this! If you ever need to take filed papers on the go, you'll be in style with this file tote
This versatile, cute item harnesses many different items. It has a place to label your items as well and includes the hardware you'll need to hang over your door.
Perfect for the car! Keep everything organized and where you want it...
Making homemade goop was so fun for our homeschooling family. But you don't have to be homeschooled to have fun making this! With just a few ingredients, you can transform equal parts of glue and water with Borax and a couple drops of your favorite food coloring and you've got something fun to play with for hours.
Here's How...
Supplies Needed:
Borax
Elmers Glue
Food Coloring
There are two components to slime. There is a borax and water solution
and a glue, water, and food coloring solution. Prepare them separately.
Mix 1 teaspoon borax in 1 cup of water. Stir until the borax is dissolved.
In a separate container, mix 1/2 cup (4 oz) white glue with 1/2 cup water. Add food coloring, if desired.
After you have dissolved the borax and diluted the glue, you are ready
to combine the two solutions. Stir one slime solution into the other.
Your slime will begin to polymerize immediately.
The slime will become hard to stir after you mix the borax and glue
solutions. Try to mix it up as much as you can, then remove it from the
bowl and finish mixing it by hand. It's okay if there is some colored
water remaining in the bowl.
The slime will start out as a highly flexible polymer. You can stretch
it and watch it flow. As you work it more, the slime will become stiffer
and more like putty. Then you can shape it and mold it, though it will
lose its shape over time. Don't eat your slime and don't leave it on
surfaces that could be stained by the food coloring.
These are my best finds for getting organized. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! There is a little bit of everything for organization in every room of the house...
I love an organized bathroom and love the added shelf for more room to organzie
organizing our purses! We need this!!Source: bhg.com
this is my all-time favorite item. This handy bag is a organizer to be used for anything. But the best use for it is for our purses. It can be used as a purse organizer. Made of felt and beautiful, too! Source: etsy.com
I thought this was a fun item for the main hub of the home on the coffee table for easy to find items within reach. Source: bhg.com
I really like the element of separating out the wooden utensils and love the small one for the brushes...source: bryn alexandra
Isn't this fantastic! We've just recently put all our home movies onto dvds and cannot wait to do this to complete the look of our home movies! What a great idea! Source: chez larrson
How's your organizing coming along? I just loved these ideas and couldn't wait to share...
These are my favorites for the weekend for you. These are tried- and- true recipes by, yours truly, and my whole family licked their plates clean! I know you're family will love them, too! Try them out, let me know how you like them...I'd love to hear!
Crock Pot meals make dinner time easy, but I've found most of them to be boring; not so with this recipe! Creamy gravy beef with carrots, peas and mushrooms, topped with buttery mashed potatoes. Yum! Click here for the recipe!
This is loaded baked potato soup form a slow cooker! You're whole family will love this recipe...creamy potato soup, topped with bacon, sour cream, scallions and cheddar cheese! Click here for this cozy, comfort food.
These Chinese egg rolls are perfect for kids! Filled with savory veggies (kids won't be able to tell) and wrapped in a fried egg roll wrapper. Serve with sticky rice and a fun sweet and sour dipping sauce and you've got a delicious meal! Click here to get this amazing recipe!
Monster chocolate chip cookies, stuffed with crushed Oreos; does it get any better? Click here to get the scoop on this recipe
Ever run out of your favorite pancake syrup? Whatever...check out this amazing homemade, better for you, pancake syrup that you can make up in a snap! You'll never go back to high fructose syrup laden syrups again! Click here for this recipe
What's better than delicious oatmeal cookies than adding some mini M&Ms? Nothing! Check this recipe out here
This homemade apple bundt cake is so delicious! I served this to my bestest girlie friends with some hot coffee and we all went crazy! You'll want this recipe. It's moist, filled with apples and drizzled with a cream cheese frosting...yes, I have the recipe! Click here
Who can resist cake pops? I made these because of my love for Starbucks cake pops...mine are even better! Try these out for yourself and click here for the recipe
This was so fun to make! It's a dough made from water, salt, and flour, shaped, and baked for an hour until hard. The rest is up to our creativityto create and paint whatever we want!
My kids are into the Angry Birds and I painted this one for them...isn't it cute? This was done just cutting out circle shapes with cookie cutters. Some other shapes we made were stars, Patrick Star is a fun one to paint on this one, and some of my kids even broke out the Christmas shapes.
This was a fun day full of creating and painting. You'll love this recipe to do with your kids!
Another idea we had was to make heart shapes, and hang them from some sturdy twigs in a vase and call it our Valentine's tree...
Have fun with your art!
Dough being made
They were excited to get their hands on it
cutting out shapes is always fun
Before heading to the oven
Painting is the fun part
We used empty egg cartons to hold our tempera paint
Bella was excited about her Angry Bird
Me too...
Here's how to make your dough...
Ingredients
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Mix flour and salt well. Gradually add water,
stirring with a large spoon. Finish mixing with hands. Knead until
soft and pliable.
Roll out on floured surface about 1/8 inch thick.
Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheets. (If you're making ornaments with your dough use a toothpick
to make a hole in the top of the ornament for threading string.)
Bake at
325 degrees F (165 degrees C) until hard, about 1 hour. Decorate with
paint and varnish to preserve.
Our family has been on the debt-free plan for awhile and only months away from being completely debt free! It's an exciting way to live and love what Dave Ramsey has to say about envelope budgeting. I was bucking the envelope system for awhile because my husband said I should do it... lol! But, I soon realized, I did need to... and desperately so, with all these children of ours and their growing needs! Plus, I will have to say, I've found some amazing, gorgeous fabric, envelope systems, on Etsy, that caught my eye and can't wait to share it with you! If you're going to be organized, get organized with style!
She has so many others to choose from but I just love how cute this was! Look at the beaded and button closure!!
Here is and example of the envelopes that fit inside that you can label as your budget allows. It's perfect! You must check her out over at Saving Money in Style.
This is going to be my next purchase, girls!
I cannot wait... the hard part is just figuring out which one I want! No more paper envelopes, for me, even though those work just fine, too.
For us, our envelopes are for: restaurants, entertainment, clothing, homeschooling (educational supplies), make-up/hair, and groceries...
The whole premise of the envelope system is that you take your allotment for the week (or whatever your pay period is), figure out how much money you want for each envelope, and put the cash in. Money from each envelope is used just for what is was allotted for; when it is gone, it's gone! You don't overspend and you stay within budget. Those envelopes that don't get spent can stay in there to build upon, or can be put into a savings account. Each pay period it starts over again and you replenish your envelope system.
It's easy, effective, and a great way to be organized.
For more on budgeting your finances with the envelope system, check out Dave Ramsey's website, here.
Here is to getting our finances together using the money envelopes!
What do you think about the money envelopes? Leave a comment if you've used them or plan on using them...we'd love to hear!
It's time to organize our purses and I have a giveaway I know you'll love!!
This is going to be fun because I think I'm not alone when I say that keeping our purses clean is not an easy task! It is a catch-all for all my kids' stuff and a trash can, too; from gum wrappers, dirty, sticky pennies, to used wipe-ups. I've on occasion had to use my purse as a place to hold my son's dirty diaper until I found a trash can! And not to mention that the dirty diaper was interwoven with all my stuff in my purse that wasn't harnessed well.
Well, I have the perfect purse organizer for your purse from the Clever Container. Clever Colleen sent me one for review and for me to give to one of you!
Girls, you are going to love it! I got the pink one and it's so cute. It fits everything you need for on the go.
Check these images out of my organizer and how it fits into my purse for perfect organization every time!
There are nice compartments for everything you might need to take with you. Pens, your lip gloss, cell phone...you name it! Handles allow me to pull it out and transfer to a different purse with ease.
Here's a bird's eye view of the inside before I filled it; it's a nice size; even has compartments on the inside!
Holds wallets, your sun glasses, Ipad and Kindle, side pockets and inside pockets, too!
My Ipad fit in here perfectly and here it is nestled in my purse
Here is another bird's eye view but with it all snuggled in my purse; perfect fit with plenty of room, yet, room for more if needed.
I encourage you to check out the Clever Container and check out all that Colleen has to offer. There are containers to help us get organized in virtually every room in our homes as well as when we're on the go. What really makes the Clever Container, so cool, is that they don't just sell product to keep us organized, they actually give us tips and ideas on all the different things you can do with each organizational tool.
Here are some other fun items from Clever Container:
colorful containers to hold your important papers
I absolutely love this! If you ever need to take filed papers on the go, you'll be in style with this file tote
This versatile, cute item harnesses many different items. It has a place to label your items as well and includes the hardware you'll need to hang over your door.
Perfect for the car! Keep everything organized and where you want it...
Making homemade goop was so fun for our homeschooling family. But you don't have to be homeschooled to have fun making this! With just a few ingredients, you can transform equal parts of glue and water with Borax and a couple drops of your favorite food coloring and you've got something fun to play with for hours.
Here's How...
Supplies Needed:
Borax
Elmers Glue
Food Coloring
There are two components to slime. There is a borax and water solution
and a glue, water, and food coloring solution. Prepare them separately.
Mix 1 teaspoon borax in 1 cup of water. Stir until the borax is dissolved.
In a separate container, mix 1/2 cup (4 oz) white glue with 1/2 cup water. Add food coloring, if desired.
After you have dissolved the borax and diluted the glue, you are ready
to combine the two solutions. Stir one slime solution into the other.
Your slime will begin to polymerize immediately.
The slime will become hard to stir after you mix the borax and glue
solutions. Try to mix it up as much as you can, then remove it from the
bowl and finish mixing it by hand. It's okay if there is some colored
water remaining in the bowl.
The slime will start out as a highly flexible polymer. You can stretch
it and watch it flow. As you work it more, the slime will become stiffer
and more like putty. Then you can shape it and mold it, though it will
lose its shape over time. Don't eat your slime and don't leave it on
surfaces that could be stained by the food coloring.
These are my best finds for getting organized. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! There is a little bit of everything for organization in every room of the house...
I love an organized bathroom and love the added shelf for more room to organzie
organizing our purses! We need this!!Source: bhg.com
this is my all-time favorite item. This handy bag is a organizer to be used for anything. But the best use for it is for our purses. It can be used as a purse organizer. Made of felt and beautiful, too! Source: etsy.com
I thought this was a fun item for the main hub of the home on the coffee table for easy to find items within reach. Source: bhg.com
I really like the element of separating out the wooden utensils and love the small one for the brushes...source: bryn alexandra
Isn't this fantastic! We've just recently put all our home movies onto dvds and cannot wait to do this to complete the look of our home movies! What a great idea! Source: chez larrson
How's your organizing coming along? I just loved these ideas and couldn't wait to share...
These are my favorites for the weekend for you. These are tried- and- true recipes by, yours truly, and my whole family licked their plates clean! I know you're family will love them, too! Try them out, let me know how you like them...I'd love to hear!
Crock Pot meals make dinner time easy, but I've found most of them to be boring; not so with this recipe! Creamy gravy beef with carrots, peas and mushrooms, topped with buttery mashed potatoes. Yum! Click here for the recipe!
This is loaded baked potato soup form a slow cooker! You're whole family will love this recipe...creamy potato soup, topped with bacon, sour cream, scallions and cheddar cheese! Click here for this cozy, comfort food.
These Chinese egg rolls are perfect for kids! Filled with savory veggies (kids won't be able to tell) and wrapped in a fried egg roll wrapper. Serve with sticky rice and a fun sweet and sour dipping sauce and you've got a delicious meal! Click here to get this amazing recipe!
Monster chocolate chip cookies, stuffed with crushed Oreos; does it get any better? Click here to get the scoop on this recipe
Ever run out of your favorite pancake syrup? Whatever...check out this amazing homemade, better for you, pancake syrup that you can make up in a snap! You'll never go back to high fructose syrup laden syrups again! Click here for this recipe
What's better than delicious oatmeal cookies than adding some mini M&Ms? Nothing! Check this recipe out here
This homemade apple bundt cake is so delicious! I served this to my bestest girlie friends with some hot coffee and we all went crazy! You'll want this recipe. It's moist, filled with apples and drizzled with a cream cheese frosting...yes, I have the recipe! Click here
Who can resist cake pops? I made these because of my love for Starbucks cake pops...mine are even better! Try these out for yourself and click here for the recipe
