Cupcake Liner Art

I found these super cute liners at Kroger pretty late at night and thought they'd be used as cupcake liners.Until I got that itch... You know that I MUST Modge Podge SOMETHING itch! So That itch inspired this! I love how it turned out. It has a really Great crinkled texture and too me looks like fancy wall paper =) lol..Fancy

What you will need:

Cute cupcake liners 50 Ct.- Kroger $0.53

Canvas- $3.00

Decopage/ Modgepodge

Brush 

Sideways sorry =(

 OH SO CUTE!

 Flatten Cupcake liner onto canvas

 Apply Modge Podge or generic version lol

 to the canvas and on top of liner

 Overlay and repeat

See my sweet helper <3

 Now let it dry!

 ENJOY!

 ITS FABULOUS!

Cock a doodle- doo

I have this crazy contemporary color pallet in my head.

The colors are  as follows:

Turqiose

Lime Green 

Grey

black

white

Coral/pink

I splash of purple

I wanted a chicken to go above my kitchen cabinets.

I started my search at a couple different goodwill stores, dollar stores, garden ridge, ect.

Nothing.. No cluck cluck

Now this chicken wasn't going to be like other chickens. It could look like other chickens,but remember my color pallet. I'm not going for the traditional farm colors So I planed on spray painting the poultry turquoise.

Then My wonderful Sister in-law suggested Ross

 She happened to be going and invited me to come. I declined, it was a busy day and my kiddos needed to have some mommy cuddle time. The Next day she showed me a picture of this chicken that was actually a rooster, but I didn't care whatev!! This crazy  rooster had all of my colors! So I raced over there early morning  Low and behold (like it was a surprise, it's kind of an oddball piece and was waiting for a crazy lady like me to pick it up) It was there on the shelf! So thank you sister in- law you rock!  I will have to save spray painting figurines for another time.

Here it is!
Cock a doodle doo! 

He's poseing with my daughters "tea party rocks"

Once again My choice in decor has left my Hubby scratching his head.

 Side note- we are in the middle of new constructions so he doesn't see my decor plan as I do... poor guy he's missing out =P and I know he will love it once its all in place.

The moral of this post is to stick with your ideas and decor dreams because you never know when you'll find that beautiful or bizarre  piece you were looking for.
The treasure hint is the funnest part...even with screaming children in the cart =/ 
LOL

Kooky Rooster cost $13.99 at Ross
I dont know if I saved money but my original plan was
A chicken $ ?.??
Spray paint $3.78 ish

Painting old mirror frame

This project gets a gold star!!! *

I have discovered this super Chic place called Good Will. Yeah it's awesome =D! So I stumbled upon this mirror. Its was "project" at first site!

Materials needed

Mirror or frame - $7.99 Good Will

Spray paint- $3.78 ish

Newspaper- FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Tape- already had it

Clean mirror of dust and spider webs =/

Stuff newspaper and tape in mirror to protect from the Spray paint

 Go outside it's a nice day! 
lay newspaper under and around (duh I know sorry)

 When I saw how amazing it looked after 2 sprays I was squealing with joy!
The neighbors probably thought we adopted a pig( I seriously want one, I had one as a kid) lol

 First initial coat done!
 then I looked in every angle and sprayed places I missed. 
Then I Waited an hour a did a light 2nd coat =)

 Isn't it beautiful!

Model Time!

Like I said so fun and easy! 
My hubby saw it and said it reminded him of his Grandmas refrigerator(?)
I take that as a compliment!

Making a yarn wig

My sweet daughter wants to be Strawberry Shortcake for Halloween. She's been talking about it since well August maybe even July. Her bday is this month also so of course she wants a Shortcake party. We are "making" her costume which really means we are making somethings and have found a dress on clerance that looks just like Strawberry would wear. It's been so fun. My sister-in law has helped so much! We all can't wait till she can try it on as a whole =D! 


Inspiration for this project is here and this lady did a great job! 

Here's what you need!

support panel Panty Hose

Spool of yarn or more we only used a little more than half

Glue gun

Scissors

Optional-beads and pretty things to decorate the wig. We used Glow in the dark beads =)

Place panty hose on your young padawan let her run around laughing and showing everyone how silly she looks.

next tie a double knot with the legs

Cut legs off!!!! oh my

Cut several strang of yarn at you desired length

take a small strand and tie in the middle

Start placing them on your model ( I also used a baby doll at first) 

 My hubby walked in mortified that I was doing this then had a good laugh

My willing Model distracted by Baby Einsteins

Carefully Hot glue (yes I hot glued the bundles I was so so careful) I put a bead of glue on the middle knot of each bundle

. 

So far so good!

This wig would make a great Aura sing costume!!!! Brilliant

So back to hot gluing the yarn bundles
You just keep going and going all the way to the front 
once done I cut some pretty shotty straight across bangs that I will fix later
after I took it off my model I glued like crazy under the yarn hair for reinforcement
I also filled in gaps with more yarn and glue
once done we added our pretty glow beads to random strands

We made big chunky pig tails 
Let the fun begin
She's thrilled that's all that matters =D

COST
yarn- $2.77
Beads-$1.70 ish
PANTY HOSE FREEEEEEEE
Total 4.47

Time 
a couple of  interrupted hours in front of HGTV and The princess and the Frog

Cheveron pattern painting! Who knew this would be so popular!?

Chevron

Chevron

Chevron

 Chevron

 

 

 

Here's My attempt at some Chevron Art (?)

Cute but then I remembered....It wont match my crazy color scheme sooooo

so I started over, kinda and painted a thin coat of gray then went crazy again....

My little helper =)

after I finished and all the stripes were dry I added some glitter paint!

imperfect but FABULOUS!

Yup she's an artist!

This is my sweet daughters Artistic masterpiece

 We had a blast and she was so thorough and careful I could really learn a thing or two from her.

We got this idea here  http://attackofthetwins.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-artwork.html  

 We plan making more for our future play room but I wanted one that would go with our downstairs color scheme. Which was A O K with our sweetie she approved the colors I suggested.

What you will need:

Canvas

Painters or Scotch tape

Paint of any sorts. We used general acrylic craft paint for the next ones we will use finger paint

Brushes, sponges, or little fingers =)

A cute kid to paint you a master piece

Use tape to spell out word

I decided to put down a base coat

Look at her go!

Beautiful

Helping to remove the tape

LOVE it =) Cant wait to do it again

Food.. Ya know I couldnt stop thinking about it

ITALIAN CHICKEN!!!!

So I happened to be on pinterest (what Im only on like 3x a day......) and I was looking for something yummy to pin. My family and I are temp.  living with our kids grandparents and cook a couple times a week. so I needed something yummy, fresh and would be enough for our family of eight!

This dish is very pretty, easy, and delish.

Here is the original Super awesome lady who blogged this recipe 

I added garlic powder, onion flakes, oregano, basil, thyme and added a lot more olive  oil 

What you need

Olive oil

Flour

 sugar

Small jar (drained)of Artichoke hearts

5-6 Roma tomatoes

GARLIC!!!!

Chicken breasts

MOZZARELLA CHEESE

Fresh Basil

and your added seasonings 

Grease a glass pan rub chicken with oil and seasonings

in a bowl add your flour, sugar, tomatoes, artichokes, seasonings

Top chicken with mixture from bowl

Bake at 350 for 40-1 hr

Take out 10min before done and top with Mozzarella

Pop it back in the oven

Once done top with fresh basil and there ya go!

We paired this dish with whole wheat linguini, pasta sauce and "bread sticks" My mom in law makes wonderful bread sticks, I tried and they just look like rolls haha