Ugly shirt re-purposed to cute dress!

So I have been working on dresses for one of my friend little girls and My two girls were getting a little jealous. So I spent the day making them dresses. I also have a stack of pillow cases that I have cut and are ready for finishing touches. I hoping that by tomorrow morning they will have 4 or 5 new pillow case dresses for this blazing hot summer.  I have had these ugly shirts for quite some time but haven't done anything with them so here it is!!

Ok here is the ugly shirt!
 I actually had two of these in different colors
 (sorry if you own this shirt it just isn't my style.) and below are the cute re purposed  dresses

And a Pillow Case nightgown. Which I believe is absolutely adorable!!! OF course the cute blonde wearing it adds to the night gown. It was super easy and I got the lace off of of one of the shirts i shrank out of!

Re-purpose fruit bags into scrub cloths!!

One of my all time favorite blogs Frugally Sustainable had this really great post the other day. She was talking about re-purposing old fruit bags into scrub cloths so i decided to give it a try and here is what I came up with. And it only took me a few minutes to make.

Here is my bag

Make sure all of the tags and plastic are cut off of it. Then tie a not in one end.

Sorry for the blurry picture. Next you turn the not inside and kinda make the top poofy. If that makes sense. Then give  the untied side a twist and repeat. So you just keep re folding it until you have just enough left to make a knot.

Add your finished not and then I just wraped the loose end around the ball again, but i guess you could just cut it off.

Note: I used this for dishes today and it was fabulous!! The only thing  was that it occasionally came unwrapped on me so I just kept shoving it back together. I think you could tye it each wrap instead of twisting and it would hold together better. Let me know if you try this. I would love to see what you come up with. 

Fun with Baking Soda and vinegar

Ok! I found another great idea on Pinterest! and it was a huge hit with my kiddos!  I did it a little different because my kids fight ALOT!  So I gave them each their own small plate of baking soda and I put food coloring in vinegar in ice cube trays and I cut a straw into thirds to use as droppers. 

Here they are patiently waiting for me to finish the picture so that I can give them instructions. 

Here we go drip vinegar into the baking soda! 

David thought this was great!

The girls had trouble usign the straw as a dropper so I gave them baby spoons

Evanny thought hers was soo beautiful.

After they were done they stirred it up and this si what was left. Gross!!

Then we decided to see if we could blow up a balloon with baking soda and vinegar. Guess what it worked!!! We put vinegar in the bottle and baking soda in the balloon then we put the balloon over the top of the bottle and dumped the baking soda into the bottle and the chemical reaction aired up our balloon!

Dress up the Livingroom: Project one

The apartment we live in has white walls. and we aren't aloud to paint or hang wall paper so instead of wallowing  in self pity  over not being able to paint I decided to do something about it. My first project was this cute way to display my kids art work! I am so happy with how it turned out except that i should have waited and has David hang the frames because they aren't really straight. Oh well! I left them anyway they still look cute! I may have him fix it later. :)

All i did was tear apart some old junkie frames I got from Wal-Mart  years ago and hot glued a strip of wire to them. Then I attached a clothes pin and my kids art work!  I plan to paint the clothes pins black but I didn't have time for that and I am impatient, I couldn't wait to hang them up!

A Crafty Day!

Today we did a variety of different things off of our list! The kids helped me clean the house super well a few days ago So I decided we would just have a craft day! 

Pizza Box oven!

Cut a whole in the lid.

Cover the whole with plastic wrap

Line the cut out lid and the inside of the box with aluminum foil and you are ready to bake! I forgot to take pictures of the baking part. Whoops! Oh well we are goign to do it again soon so I will add more later. :)

Then we researched Solar power!

Alexis was not into Soalr power research so we made a paper plate apple

Evanny saw that Evanny was doing something fun and jumped in

Alexis paper plate apple. :)

Bubbles!!

So i made cool huge bubble wands out of wire hangers and we made our own bubble solution! Yay right! Nope ti was  abig fail. :( and it was 105 degrees outside. But we tried.

Book shelf re-purpose/closet organization

 The boys room needed some organization help so I took things into my own hands and got out the drill!! I pre-drilled all the holes and screwed the boards to the wall! I was so proud of myself! LOL All I needed was to have David cut the shelves to size.

So where did I get the boards?  an old book shelf! you know the junkie press board ones from Walmart.  Well our was falling apart so I tore it apart and reused it I screwed the sides of it to the closet wall with the peg holes facing out and then i just used the pegs and shelves that were used with the book shelve. All i had to do was hang it up and then cut the shelves to size! Super easy and it turned out great!

So here is what there room looked like before.

And here is after!! So much better!

Tutus and fruit leather

Ok Tutus and Fruit leather is a weird combination but I had so many things to update because once again I got behind on my blogging but I had so much I wanted to share! so I combined these two !

I also found this idea on pinterest from this blog! a scrap material tutu. I think Alexis' tutu is beautiful!! and she liked ALOT!  I just cut the material into strips and tied it on a piece of elastic and voila! A tutu 

Now for the fruit leather!

First I put 4 cups of fruit in a sauce pan (I used strawberries and blueberries) and cook them  until bubbly.  I then put them in a blender and pureed the fruit.

Then I poured the pureed fruit on to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and then we placed them in our hot van! (yep I said van)  and we let it sit for 8 hours or so until it was dried. Then we cut ti into strips and ate it.  It was delicious!

the dried fruit puree.