Friday Favorites #89

Happy Friday Foxy Friends!  We made it, for whatever reason this week was a little slow for me...but we're at the weekend now and I know it's just going to zoom by, don't all weekends seem to do that? As always here are some things that have been my favorites this week.

In case you missed it on the blog this week:

Monday : Let's Talk - Entertainment
Tuesday: Styled By Someone Else - I let my kids, Mr. and Sister pick what I wear
Wednesday: Dreamer
Thursday: Monster Wreath Tutorial

Some pictures in my life lately...

Last week I took my first AMP cycle...who knew you could actually do pushups on the bike while riding...holy cow what a workout!

The kids did mostly great at the dentist, but I have definitely decided Mr. is taking them from now on, he always does great with them and they never cried. Mini Fox cried a bit, so I had to pretty much hold her down, insert sad face. But good news, no cavities. She loves this giant tiger, she calls it her "good girl" when I told her we were leaving she said, by good girl, be good until I get home.

I thought we were doing good with her sitting on the chair...nope..do you see the TV up there? Cool right?

Baby Fox had a friend sleep over last weekend, see Baby Fox's legs up like that? Yep...totally me, Mr. thinks it's super creepy that we can sleep with our legs up like that...

But wait...Mini Fox does it too...haha...three peas in a pod. And can she have any more stuff in her bed? How does she sleep?

Quality pool acrobatics last weekend in the pool.

 I know everyone and their mom has talked about this already, but I just had to mention it, This Is Us...like seriously, I can't even. So freakin' good, and I wanted to cry about a bazillion times. I made Mr. watch it with me on Wednesday night, and he said he called that twist ending half way through the show...what?! He does that all the time, smart guy that one. Can't wait to see the second episode...addicted already. OH and can I mention Milo Ventimiglia, freaking amazing actor.

Each month Beth from Our Pretty Little Girls, Meghan from The Adventure Starts Here, Stephanie from Wife Mommy Me, and Whitney from Work it Mommy host a Rewind Friday where we showcase the best of our blog. Today I decided to go with something that I wrote last year, my Summer to Fall Transition: Ankle Booties...I'm still obsessed and I hope that you are too!

 

 

 

Some videos I've been loving lately.

Seriously guys this guy is so talented and then he has his sisters sing with him...what a talented family! Obsessed with this song I tell ya.



And just cause I love it so much, here are the ones with his other sisters.

 

Linking up here

 

Monster Wreath

Happy Thursday! I thought since it was Thursday I would do a Throw Back Thursday Post and repost an old post, so all of you new readers can get the awesomeness of this wreath. I am going to change it around a bit, since I've learned a bit since I originally wrote it.

What You'll Need:

Styrofoam Wreath* mine was 16in diameter, but this will work for any size.

Styrofoam Balls, 3-Inch* (mine came in a 6 pack, the ones that came in two were too small) 

White Foam Sheets* I would suggest getting it at Michael's Crafts (found in the kids craft section and are only $0.89 each)

Green Tulle Roll 6 inch 100 Yards*  Since making this tutorial I guess the price of Tulle has gone down? If you can't find 100 yds, then you can do what I did below, go to a fabric store and buy some tulle on a bolt...

Fabric for the bow, I bought a 1/4 yard, but I could have gotten away with just buying an 1/8, if you can do that (it was about $2)

Toothpicks

Black paint and paint brush

Glue Gun*

Good Sharp Scissors*

*Some of the links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase from one of these links, I may receive a commission on the sale of the product. By purchasing through Foxy's Domestic Side, you're helping me continue creating fun things for this space.

 

         

Directions:

Step 1 -

Paint the eyeballs. I used some plastic cups to hold them so they wouldn't roll away, I know I'm clever like that.

I painted small-ish circles (I tried making them really big, but it made them look really awkward and strange, good thing I had some extra!)

Step 2 - 

Let's cut the tulle up!

Here it is still on the bolt - rather folded up by the person after I got it from the bolt.

So I took it off the bolt and then started to "roll" it up, I wasn't thinking long term and just randomly started to roll it up, but when I was finished and had cut everything I realized I should have rolled it to the size that I wanted to make it, so I would make the "roll" 12-14", mine ended up being 16" and I had to cut a lot of it away in the middle so you would be able to see the teeth.

Here it is all rolled up, 16" width, but remember you're going to do something shorter 12"-14"

I cut them into 4 even sections and the last section is going to be about half the size of the other sections. The reason being is that tulle comes folded in half on the bolt. So when you cut them into strips, one side is going to have a fold, so when you unfold it, it's going to be the same size as the other strips.

The section on the very right, you can't really tell, is smaller then the other sections.

Okay, now you're going to make your strips, since you've "looped" the fabric, you want to cut both ends to make your strips. So cut both sides as shown below

Here's the stack of tulle strips. At the bottom of this pile, those strips have a fold down them middle.

Step 3 -

Okay, now the "fun" part, if you consider this part fun?

Now you have to tie all of these bad boys to your wreath. I did the square knots (right over left, left over right)

One down, 50 million more to go, okay not really, but you get the point.

You're going to want to line up the knots in the middle like this

To get the fluffy look, every once in a while, you'll want to push the tulle together like this

So that those line of knots go away and it looks like this:

So keep knotting away, and keep pushing it together every once in a while

It's starting to take shape.

So this is where I failed. I did not have nearly enough tulle, but I made it work, I just spread the tool strips out a bit, again I was just eager to get it done and used what I had.  Notice the center of the wreath, it's really cluttered and you wouldn't be able to see the teeth like this.

So I gave it a little trim

Oh that's so much better!

Next for the eyes, insert toothpicks in the wreath and the eyes, I hot glued the eyeballs to the toothpicks. The Styrofoam wreath is pretty dense, so I didn't think they would fall out.

Next up the teeth. You could probably use just 1 foam board, but I didn't want to freak out by not having enough, since they were $0.89 I bought two, but you could definitely do this with just 1 board. Cut the foam board to fit the wreath, cut out your teeth, I just used a triangle pattern. After you cut them out, then hot glue to the wreath.

Almost done!

Now for the bow tie. Cut out two strips, my larger strip was 16" (there's that 16 again) long, and about 2.5"-3" wide (this is up to you), and the smaller strip was about 4" and 0.5" wide.

first you're going to want to fold in thirds, just so that the two ends meet in the middle.

Then we're going to do a fanfold of sorts

After you fold, grab your small strip to wrap around the middle

Glue the center strip together, and here you have your bow!

And now for the finished product! I took this picture at night, so ring you see is the light coming from inside of the house, I couldn't get a picture during the day.

And that my friends is all there is to it! Easy Sunday afternoon project. So get to it and make yourself a monster wreath and make all of your neighbors jealous!

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