What's for Dinner?

Monday
Spaghetti with meatballs


Tuesday
Rice and Beans with turkey sausage


Wednesday
Buttered noodles with grilled chicken


Thursday
Tomato Soup and grilled chz sandwiches


Friday
Fish sticks and mac n Chz




Now those sound like some healthy dinners. ;-)




Hugs,


Cherie

Baby Shoes

Lately I have been seeing the cutest baby clothes and wondering where all this was when I was pregnant with my children. My SIL is pregnant with her first child... A little girl!! And the girl in me wants to spoil this child with handmade clothes and blankets to be swaddled in. Too bad my sewing skills aren't that great to make clothes, but there is a learning process.

I did make my first pair of booties that I gave to a co-worker's daughter. 

I found the easiest pattern that even I could work with.

The pattern called for shoe leather or some felted sherped something or other for the bottoms, but I thought this is a BABY let's make them warm and cute, so I used MINKEE inside. Ohhh the softness.

What do you think?

Let me know if you would like the pattern, I am sure I can find it somewhere in the mess that is currently my crafting area.

P.S. Did a bit of retail therapy tonight with the Family. Got some new tools and 2 new dresses! W00T!

Germs, Germs and More

Kids sick, I think I am coming down with something. Headache for 2 days. Don't think I am going to get anything done this week. 


House is a mess. Nothing getting done, except lots of laziness.




Hair cut tomorrow. FINALLY!


Hopefully I will be more productive this weekend. 

Corsage

Hello my sweets,


 A few days ago I found a great flower corsage tutorial on Holidash by NotMartha that I also added a alligator clip to it so that I could wear it in my hair.
Here is what you are going to need:

• one piece of felt (michael's, or a nice piece of wool felt)
• pair of scissors
• a pin
• alligator clip
• piece of cardboard
• pinking shears
• Fabric- tac

First, you go to Michael's with all intent of just getting the supplies for this project and then realize that you are missing other stuff for the MILLIONS of projects that are running through your head. Then realize that they are having a 40% off sale and realize you are DOOMED because you took your 17 year old with you who is trying to redo her bedroom. DOOMED.


Ok back to business.

Get all cutting done. You are going to cut three 1.5 inch strips, two 1.25 inch strips and one 1 inch strip of the felt piece that you have. Then cut out 2 circles, one about 3.25 diameter and one about 2 inches. I used two glasses as my measurements. You will also need to cut a 2 inch circle out of the thin cardboard.

Watch out for the cat's tail while you are cutting. If you donot have a cat, then no worries for you. ;-)

You will need to cut each strip in to square of the same size as the strips. So get comfy and start cutting.

Each of those squares will need to be cut into a leaf shape. One thing I did did learn while doing this is that you will need a smaller pair of scissors to cut the 1 inch squares into the leaf shapes. Put on some good music,  and get yourself a glass of your favorite beverage to cut your shapes. Makes the time go by faster.

Now you will need to put 2 dots of Fabric tac on each leaf bottom to make your leaf. Some of the tutorials say to use a heavy pot to hold them down. So that is what we tried. Didn't work to well for me. I had to put some beads in my pot to weight it down as you see above. Don't make fun. It worked for the big leaves.

While these are setting, you need to create your base. Place your cardboard circle on top of your larger felt circle. Clip around the sides of the felt so that you can glue it to the cardboard circle. I used hot glue for this part. Then you will need to hot glue your pin and clip to the smaller felt circle. I also added a small rectagle of felt to cover up the bases of the clip and pin. You can tack that done with Fabric-tac. Now hot glue that smaller circle to the felt/cardboard circle you just finished. You want to cover up the cardboard.

When the leaf shapes are set, you get to glue them to the circle base. Glue the 1.5 inch petals around the edge of the base, positioning them in about 1/4 inch into the circle. Start with the larger petals in one circle, then the medium petals and then the smaller petals. Once all that is complete you will need to get out your pinking shears to cut out a 1 inch circle to place in the center of the flower. Then this is where you are going to get glue all over your hands, as I did. Cut a thin strip with your pinking shears. I thnk mine was about 3 or 4 inches. Though I didn't measure it. Sorry. Now take that and roll it into a circle. I had to tac mine ever so often to get it to stay together. Place that in the center of your flower.

Now try it on the nearest person to you.

Linking Up!

I am linking up today over at Remodelaholic. Go check out everyone's creativity!




Cherie

GONE Baby Gone! Part 1

My current adventure is removing the carpet off of my stairs, which we started two weeks ago. 
Here is the before picture when we moved in.

June 2010

They looked nice those first few months in the house. Then 3 cats, 2 teenagers, 1 boy, all of us working in the  garage, playing in the yard. The carpet took a turn for the worse. Cleaning it was not working and vacuuming everyday week was not easy or fun. You broke into a sweat just carrying the vacuum and bending over to use the attachment. (Goodness, that sounds like an info-mercial)


Sooo, one day Handsome Man saw the wild look in my eye everytime I walked by the stairs and finally told me to go ahead and do it. (he knew it was killing me, just aching in my bones to see what was under there.)

All the pulling in the world that I was doing, wouldn't allow me to pull that carpet up. OOOHHHHH, Handsome Man! Help!


Do you see what I see? 


Look at those beautiful stairs. Bull nose pieces, though I am not sure what type of wood, looks like Pine.  All this was under that NASTY carpet.  I got to do the real work of pulling the MILLIONS of staples and tack boards (which didn't want to come out no matter how much you pulled and kicked and tried not to use any bad words that the 6 year old will tell you is bad and you shouldn't say that).

After that I needed a break. I was tired and sweaty and in serious need of something to drink rest.

It is gorgeous! now the fun work begins.

To be continued in Part 2...

Starting out!

Here it is, 2nd of February, 2011. After reading many, many blogs and being truly inspired. I have decided to take the leap into blogging.
A leap into believing that one can do this. That one can open up and show the world what they have to offer and see what the world brings back.
Running a house with both parents that work, 2 teenager girls and a rumbustious 6 year old little boy is a chore in itself. No, I do not have it all figured out nor do I want to. I think it makes life more fun to be on the roller coaster, though I do wish some days that it wasn't sooo bumpy or would simply slow down so that I could relish in the joys of raising my children.




Come back to visit me, Handsome Man, Lizard, Mack and Monkeyman for our ongoing adventures in life.

Cherie