Totally-Fun Tuesday #1

Crayon Making

My kids love melting and making new crayons!

We actually made heart crayons around Valentine's Day.

I re-used old baby food jars to melt the crayons in. You can find ice molds and fun plastic candy molds to fill to make new fun crayon shapes!

Target usually has fun, seasonal molds like this one in their $1.00 section!

I would suggest putting the baby food jars in a pot of hot/boiling water. Then, I pour the

melted crayon into the molds. (Caution: This part is NOT OKAY for your children to do.) I know that some silicon trays are made to be put into the oven. I have not experimented to see if these trays would do well in the oven. (I might experiment with one on a really low temp. and see how it goes.)

My kids love unwrapping crayons and sorting them into the appropriate colors. Sorting things by color, shape, or size is a good skill for younger children! For older children, you can talk to the about how a solid can turn into a liquid by heating it up! (Okay, that was just the teacher in me!)

Happy Crayon Making!!

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Make-Over Monday

I was looking at patterns one day at Hobby Lobby, when I came across this purse pattern. The pattern actually suggested that you use a pair of pants as the fabric.

The making of this purse happened way before I started trying to repurpose clothes on my own! (without a pattern)

The pattern I used was Simplicity # 2597.

It was a fun and easy sewing project. I went shopping for a pair of kaki pants at my

local Goodwill. I think I might have paid around $4.00 for the pants.

The pants were in a great/almost new shape.

Plus, there are several other cute purse patterns included in this pattern also!

Pants Before:

(Sorry, this is a really bad picture!)

Purse After:

Happy Monday!

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Summer Schedule

I am going to start trying to organize my blog a little bit this summer. I have come up with a routine schedule that I will try & hopefully be able to keep up! I think that if I have a set routine and/or agenda that it might make it easier to blog more consistently. (I am not yet promising this throughout the busy, hectic school year!) We will see! :) So here is what I am thinking so far:

Sunday--Might be my down day?

Make-over Monday-- repurposing

Totally Fun Tuesday--fun ideas to do with the kiddos

What I'm Working On Wednesday--my projects

Thankful Thursday

Feature Friday --I see awesome stuff

in blog land and want to share some of my favorites!

Sun-sational Saturday--- this one is open for

anything fun and summer like!

What do you think? I welcome any suggestions and/or ideas!!

6th Birthday Party

My 1st baby turned 6 a couple of weeks ago! Of course, like I said with my 3 year old...It is bittersweet! I remember holding him and cuddling with him like it was just yesterday! It is almost scary how time flies so very fast! This past year has been a year of many "firsts" for him. Here are a few!

First year of Kindergarten..

First time to play a real organized sport..soccer

First time to perform on stage for school plays...

First time to go on field trips...

First time to ride on a school bus...

First 'real' school pictures...

First report card..

And there will be many more 'firsts' to follow!

Here is a picture of the cake I made for Landon's 6th Birthday. He wanted a Mario cart birthday cake. I think this turned out pretty good! It was a very crazy morning with alot of stuff going on at once! I am just thankful it turned out with all that CRAZINESS going on!

Crocheted Newsboy Hat

I crocheted my first hat! It was really not as difficult as I thought it would be. I added a crocheted strip and buttons to the front of the hat to make it into a hat for a boy.

I found the pattern here!

I made this hat to give as a baby gift to our Music teacher.

She should be having a baby boy anytime now!

She loved it! It made the cutest/sweetest little baby gift!

I'm Back!!

I'm Back!!

Sorry, I have neglected the blogging world!

I have been so very busy ending the school year.

I have 2 more days...but my

many projects have pretty much come to an end! YAY!!!!

So with that said...

On to a NEW POST!!!

Picture collages

By this time in the school year I have taken tons of pictures of my school kids!

In Kindergarten, there are so many photo opportunities!

So at the end of the year, I put together a picture collage for each child. Each collage is personalized with pictures of them and their classmates.

This weekend I worked on putting together 19 collages! I have used the same picture program the last 2 years to create these collages.

So..you are probably wondering what program I used?

I used Smilebox.

I got to talking to a couple of teachers about Smilebox the other day. The really fun thing that I wanted to share...is that if you go here....

and if you are a teacher...

You can sign up to receive a free premium annual

subscription to Smilebox.

This is one of the FUN perks of being a teacher!!

Ok...so your not a teacher...

You can still register and get the basic Smilebox for free!

I would love to show you a picture of these awesome collages that I made..but I do not share photos of my school kids on line. So you will just have to go and check out all of the neat things that you can create on Smilebox!

I was not paid by Smilebox in any form or fashion for this little advertisement! I just LOVE the fun stuff you can create on there!