Projects projects projects

I seriously think Prudent Baby is becoming one of my favorite blogs to visit. Jaime and Jacinda have lots of really cute (and often VERY inexpensive to create) projects for little ones. I've made a number of the craft items that they have listed tutorials for.

The following tray is loosely based on the DIY Tray tutorial that can be found here. I made it for my cousin's baby shower. The tray retails for $3.99. I got it for $1.99 because some wonderful stranger came up and handed me a 50% off coupon. YAY for the kindness of others! First I painted it with 3 coordinating paints (I just bought little tubes of acrylic paint, they were like .59 a piece at Michaels. I bought some stickers that would go with the paint to spell the baby's name, plus some Winnie-the-Pooh rub-on transfers. If you have absolutely NO artistic ability, these babies are a LIFESAVER! I got the transfers at JoAnn's. So I applied the stickers and the transfers, then sprayed the whole thing with a clear top coat. I think I sprayed 3 layers of clear.

After the paint was nice and dry, I stacked the other gifts I had purchased for the baby on the tray and tied it off with some ribbon. Puckey added the Husky from her own collection of toys. She's so sweet.

A fun contest!

Moving this one up so you all remember to enter....

You all know how much I love to win stuff....and I want to share this fun opportunity with my readers. You know, cause if you win, you might share your prize with me your favorite blogger...

Visit the Tip Junkie to find out how YOU can enter her 12 Days of Junkie contest...

While you're at Tip Junkie, check out her Mom-Preneur Shop-a-Thon as well. There are a lot of talented mommas out there!

There will be 2 winners each day for 12 days!! So, if you enter and win, and you just can't use the prize you win....I'm just sayin'!

Enter now!

October = Fun

I have been pretty lax on my blogging lately. So now I'm going to hit you with a great big post full of lots of pictures. Because I know you can NEVER get enough of my cute family.

There's also a short history lesson at the end. I promise, it's short, and pretty interesting too!

Puckey can go from sweet and smiley

To Grouchy

To downright scary in 2.3 seconds!

(I left the red-eye in because it just makes the picture that much more "scary")

My weak attempt at outdoor fall decorating

But God ALWAYS out-does me!

Puckey, it's a Pumpkin Patch, not a PUPPY Patch!

Nans and Jib picking out a pumpkin

Jibby in love...

Daddy and Jib with her cool white pumpkin

Sometimes they're HAPPY...

Sometimes they're sad...

Bubber is always known for his keen fashion sense...

(note the knee high socks & shorts combo)

Bug, Me, and Nans after completing our Mini-Caramel Apple project

The finished product

Puckey looking longingly at the apples...

The coffee mug my sweet friend Susan gave me for my birthday

(It says "A friend loves at all times... Proverbs 17:17)

Hangin out with Daddy on the couch

This is how we found Puckey and The Jib sleeping last night before we went to bed

(What you can't see is the total havoc they wreaked in the rest of their room)

And last, but certainly not least, it's "That 70's Dinner"...

Boy do I ever L-O-V-E my 70's Pyrex.

Oh, and because I have a million and ten things to do tomorrow (of which I'm hoping to get at least two accomplished), I wanted to write quickly about this because I found it interesting and thought you might too.

This morning, while waiting on the guy from the phone company to hook up our "new and improved" phone and internet service, I was listening to R.C. Sproul (he does a radio program called "Renewing your mind") and heard this little tidbit of information about the "birth" of Halloween.

It is common knowledge (at least I think it is) that Halloween (Or "All Hallow's Eve") falls the day before "All Saints Day". What I didn't know is that All Hallow's Eve has origins in the Roman Catholic church! Apparently, from what R.C. Sproul said today, in the middle ages the members of the Roman Catholic church believed that the surest way of keeping Satan away was to make fun of him. They believed that if they hit him where it hurt the most (his pride), that he would do just as the Bible says (Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7, NIV) and leave them alone. The people would dress up in ridiculous costumes mocking the devil, not because that's how they thought he looked, but because he is described as this in 2 Corinthians 11:14 "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light".

I thought that was rather interesting to know. Another thing that I found interesting is that on October 31 ,1517, Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the door of a Wittenburg, Germany church. This list is said to have been the start of the Protestant Reformation, which changed Christianity forever.

See, my blog is fun AND informative, all at the same time! Aren't you glad?!?

This is SO stinkin' cool!

Even though I hate hard-boiled eggs, I am totally going to have to try this, if only to amaze my kids with my coolness...(WARNING, this guy swears once near the beginning of the clip, so you might want to turn the volume down a bit if the kids are around)



Fortunately, my kids like hard-boiled eggs, so at least they wouldn't get wasted.