RicRac ROSE BOWS

Some how hair bows around this house just seem to disappear and at $3-7 a pop I have resorted to making my own. They range from levels of easy to easier or I just wont try, like I said they just run away anyways. My mom had given me some leftover RicRac awhile back and I have been trying to decide what to do with it and here is what I came up with….

Needs:
Glue gun
RicRac
Felt
Clips
Beads
Scissors

Start with a good amount of glue in the center of your felt...

Continue to glue around the base in a circle and secure into place...

Cut around the rose and then cut a circle of felt and glue the clip onto the back...

Add any FUNK you would like...

Great Deal

I found these items at Savers Monday this week, the candle holder was $ .99…

And this wonderful thing was ½ off making it $1.50 (by the way the placemats were a Savers Monday find a while ago the set cost me $.99 aren’t they cute?)...

Lets get started merging the two, I painted the wood a nice light blue color… …

After it dried I took some sandpaper and roughed up the edges a little and detailed it with some cream colored paint…

I finished it all off by attaching it to the candle holder and displaying it in the kitchen with a cute little bird…

Centerpieces for under $1

A friend asked me to make centerpieces for an end of the year music recital so my mind started racing with ideas until she told me her budget $0-$10 mind you this was for one serving table and 30, yes 30 serving tables. That is impossible RIGHT??!!

My community is still being built so I took my WONDERFUL husband to the dumpsters and had him diving for items we could use. YES, he does think am a bit out of my mind but he plays along. I found some empty paint cans, and some Styrofoam, I guess I should say “my husband found” them. So all I had to buy were the sheets of scrapbook paper & EVERYTHING else I had just lying around.

Look what we came up with…


With the cans I covered them in paper and tied a ribbon around them. I used the big cans for the serving table and the small for each individual table.

I took and cut up the Styrofoam into rectangles, spray painted them black, added glitter, and then attached the wording.

They ended up costing me NO JOKE…...$0.25 per centerpiece. NOT BAD!!!

Fiesta

As you can see from our menu board yesterday was our FIESTA!!! We enjoyed our own

Cinco de Mayo Party

at our home yesterday evening. It was full of fun, friends, and FOOD. WAY too much food!!

I wanted to share my moms enchilada recipe just because it's so easy and too yummy not to.

My very favorite Green Chile Sauce!
4 Boneless Skinless Chicken breasts
1 ½ bars of Cream Cheese
1 can of diced green chilies
½ finely chopped onion
2 tsp of cumin
Pinch of Chili Powder
½ cup of shredded cheese
1 large can of green sauce
Tortillas
Salt to taste

Boil the chicken breast until done, drain and shred them. Add the softened cream cheese, green chilies, onion, cumin, chili powder and mix. Scoop out mix into tortillas, wrap, and place into a pan. Smoother the tortillas with green sauce, sprinkle the cheese and bake at 350 degrees for 45 mins. I usually make them in the morning before the kids are up and leave them in the Fridge until cook'en time, it make for a very simple meal!

ENJOY!!!!

What have you Re-done for me Lately

Now this pretty little lamp was a little more $ than I usually go for it was $3.99 but I could see its potential.

A little spray paint, and some detailing, turned out pretty good!

I saw these babies on the savers self for .99 cents and I knew I had to have them. I couldn't wait to hang them on our wall.

Paint, modge podge, and roughing up =...

The Case of the Missing Cheerios

Case #ABC

The date was April 24th, 2010 when a faint giggling sound was heard in the upstairs master bedroom. At that approximant time the two children of the house were to be having quite time so I, the detective, went to investigate and here is what I found...

A FULL family sized box of Cheerios had been dumped and spread over the entire bedroom. I question those at the scene and fingers were pointed in all directions. I had to crack this case. Who was the instigator, who got the box out, and who decided commit this heinous crime?

After much intense interrogation, I finally got a full confession from one of the culprits, Brinley got the box out from the upstairs food storage closet and Owen committed the crime. Because of her full confession I let her off easier and made her help clean the awful mess (which she promptly fell asleep doing.)

However the ringleader got a more severe punishment he was put behind bar for the next few hours (okay just so you know it was nap time, he did fall asleep he didn’t just have to serve out his sentence awake;)

I was able to salvage the remains of the bedroom (thanks to a good vacuume!!!)