Which are you?
When I could eat Oreos (they were my vice, like I could eat a whole package without batting an eye) I was a cookie girl, I like the sandwich as a whole and no other way. Not dunked in milk, just plain and simple.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Cookie Or Cream?
We gave Baby Fox his first Oreo cookie a few days ago, and after three rounds, he's decided that he's...a cream first kind of guy.
Which are you?
When I could eat Oreos (they were my vice, like I could eat a whole package without batting an eye) I was a cookie girl, I like the sandwich as a whole and no other way. Not dunked in milk, just plain and simple.
Which are you?
When I could eat Oreos (they were my vice, like I could eat a whole package without batting an eye) I was a cookie girl, I like the sandwich as a whole and no other way. Not dunked in milk, just plain and simple.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
A Tutu For You A Tutu For Me
Remember this picture from Monday? If you guessed tutu, you were right! And now I'm going to show you how to make these simple girly fun skirts.
I have fully embraced that I am HAVING A GIRL in less then 5 weeks. I decided, hey what do all little girls love? Tutu's. Online I went and discovered they are pretty expensive to just buy. Off to Google I went. Turns out making tutu's is seriously one of the easiest things ever. It's a pretty close process to my monster wreath . I used this and this tutorial as reference, but ended up making it my own.
What You'll Need:
Tulle - 6in wideth (I got mine from The Ribbon Retreat, super cheap tulle in all colors and reasonable shipping) $2.95 per roll
Silk Ribbon -$1.99
Sissors - free
Cardboard box, or something to wrap your tulle around - free
Directions:
Step 1:
First you need to decide how long you want your tutu to be. I knew this was going to be for my newborn, so I figured 6 inches was enough, so you'll want to double that amount, so the final length will be 12 inches.
Step 2:
Start wrapping the tulle around your template. It doesn't have to be tight, or exact.
side note: If you can't find rolls of tulle, you can buy the tulle off the bolt from somewhere like Joann's, just follow my monster wreath instruction on how to cut a bolt of tulle.
Step 3:
Once the entire roll is gone, or however much you want to use, cut both ends
Continue this for the rest of your tulle colors, if you have more then one.
Step 4:
Cut the ribbon, I decided that I was going to make my tutu part 15 inches and then I added 12 inches on either side so I can tie a nice bow around her waist. So I needed a total of 39 inches or so.
Then I tied knots where my 15 inches started and stopped
Step 5:
Here comes to fun part, tying the tulle around the ribbon. The first few are awkward, but once you get in a groove it goes really quick.
For this example, I decided to double up on the tulle, and I combined the pink and white tulle.
a) layer the tulle together
b) create a loop
c) put the looped tulle on the back side of the ribbon
d) put the loose ends through the loop (the ends don't have to match exactly, but try to get it
close
e) pull tight (doesn't have to be too tight), and adjust so that all of the knots line up
Step 6:
Once you have a serveral knotted, you can push them together, however you want. If you push them together really tightly then you're going to have a more full tutu, if you lets small spaces between, you're tutu is going to be less full. Because I doubled up on the tulle, mine was pretty full, even leaving slight spacing.
And this is what it looked like finished. You can trim some of the bottom, to make it more even if you want.
Step 7:
Because it's so addicting and you realized that you cut up all the tulle and only needed about 1/4 of that much, make 3 more!
I ended up making the other tutus with just single layers. Along with the pink/white one, I made an all white one, and two grey and pink ones. I did one alternating the grey and pink and then I did another one where I did three grey and 1 pink (I did that mostly because I didn't want to waste any of my tulle and that's what I had, no I didn't count it out, I got lucky that that's how the numbers worked out)
And now my little girl is all set for her newborn photo shoot and being all girly, gotta love it!
The first tutu (pink/white one) took me about 30 minutes to make, that includes the cutting cardboard, and wrapping all three colors of tulle. Once everything was all set, the rest of them took me only 15-20 minutes to wrap around the ribbon. Obviously it would take longer if your waistband is bigger then 15 inches.
Now go out and make a tutu for your little girl, the girl next store or for your next baby shower, it's addicting, seriously. I think I'm going to make another one for Halloween.
I have fully embraced that I am HAVING A GIRL in less then 5 weeks. I decided, hey what do all little girls love? Tutu's. Online I went and discovered they are pretty expensive to just buy. Off to Google I went. Turns out making tutu's is seriously one of the easiest things ever. It's a pretty close process to my monster wreath . I used this and this tutorial as reference, but ended up making it my own.
What You'll Need:
Tulle - 6in wideth (I got mine from The Ribbon Retreat, super cheap tulle in all colors and reasonable shipping) $2.95 per roll
Silk Ribbon -$1.99
Sissors - free
Cardboard box, or something to wrap your tulle around - free
Directions:
Step 1:
First you need to decide how long you want your tutu to be. I knew this was going to be for my newborn, so I figured 6 inches was enough, so you'll want to double that amount, so the final length will be 12 inches.
Step 2:
Start wrapping the tulle around your template. It doesn't have to be tight, or exact.
side note: If you can't find rolls of tulle, you can buy the tulle off the bolt from somewhere like Joann's, just follow my monster wreath instruction on how to cut a bolt of tulle.
Step 3:
Once the entire roll is gone, or however much you want to use, cut both ends
Continue this for the rest of your tulle colors, if you have more then one.
Step 4:
Cut the ribbon, I decided that I was going to make my tutu part 15 inches and then I added 12 inches on either side so I can tie a nice bow around her waist. So I needed a total of 39 inches or so.
Then I tied knots where my 15 inches started and stopped
Step 5:
Here comes to fun part, tying the tulle around the ribbon. The first few are awkward, but once you get in a groove it goes really quick.
For this example, I decided to double up on the tulle, and I combined the pink and white tulle.
a) layer the tulle together
b) create a loop
c) put the looped tulle on the back side of the ribbon
d) put the loose ends through the loop (the ends don't have to match exactly, but try to get it
close
e) pull tight (doesn't have to be too tight), and adjust so that all of the knots line up
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| I have orange nails because when I asked Baby Fox what color I should paint them, he said orange. Who am I to deny him his favorite color |
Step 6:
Once you have a serveral knotted, you can push them together, however you want. If you push them together really tightly then you're going to have a more full tutu, if you lets small spaces between, you're tutu is going to be less full. Because I doubled up on the tulle, mine was pretty full, even leaving slight spacing.
And this is what it looked like finished. You can trim some of the bottom, to make it more even if you want.
Step 7:
Because it's so addicting and you realized that you cut up all the tulle and only needed about 1/4 of that much, make 3 more!
I ended up making the other tutus with just single layers. Along with the pink/white one, I made an all white one, and two grey and pink ones. I did one alternating the grey and pink and then I did another one where I did three grey and 1 pink (I did that mostly because I didn't want to waste any of my tulle and that's what I had, no I didn't count it out, I got lucky that that's how the numbers worked out)
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| I did end up trimming some of the tulle after I took the pictures. |
The first tutu (pink/white one) took me about 30 minutes to make, that includes the cutting cardboard, and wrapping all three colors of tulle. Once everything was all set, the rest of them took me only 15-20 minutes to wrap around the ribbon. Obviously it would take longer if your waistband is bigger then 15 inches.
Now go out and make a tutu for your little girl, the girl next store or for your next baby shower, it's addicting, seriously. I think I'm going to make another one for Halloween.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Whatever Wednesday - Obituary
Well Shay and Alissa came up with a slightly morbid topic today. Although I do have this fascination with death. I often wonder (probably too much) would anyone show up to my funeral? Would anyone care? Or would I be that funeral where only 1 or 2 people show up. I'd like to think that more then that would come. Anyway, thinking about obituaries and what I want said...hmmm...??? Here it goes.
Sarah C, born August 30, 1979 left this world alongside her husband peacefully in their sleep (think The Notebook - movie edition). They always said that they didn't want to live in this world without each other, so they left it together. They leave behind their 2 children, Baby Fox, his wife Jillian and their 3 children, Elizabeth, 25, Cameron, 22, and Matthew, 20 and Mini Fox, her husband Daniel and their 2 children, Michael, 24, and Natalie, 22.
Sarah loved her family more then anything and loved enjoying time and spoiling her grandchildren. She loved to travel with Mr. and her family all around the world but said that her RV trip to all 50 states in one summer was one of the best times of her life.
She was an engineer by process of elimination in college, but really loved to try and be crafty and loved to cook for her family and friends, even though she couldn't eat most of what was being served. She thought having her nails painted and hair done made her feel good, so she got them done weekly.
She lived by this motto: you can have all the money in the world but if you don't have good family and friends then you don't have anything at all. And she did just that until the day she died.
And that my friends is what my obituary would say. Yep I made up a bunch of grandchildren to spoil and take around the world with me, cause you know I'm going to be rich enough to do that.
So what would your obituary say?
Sarah C, born August 30, 1979 left this world alongside her husband peacefully in their sleep (think The Notebook - movie edition). They always said that they didn't want to live in this world without each other, so they left it together. They leave behind their 2 children, Baby Fox, his wife Jillian and their 3 children, Elizabeth, 25, Cameron, 22, and Matthew, 20 and Mini Fox, her husband Daniel and their 2 children, Michael, 24, and Natalie, 22.
Sarah loved her family more then anything and loved enjoying time and spoiling her grandchildren. She loved to travel with Mr. and her family all around the world but said that her RV trip to all 50 states in one summer was one of the best times of her life.
She was an engineer by process of elimination in college, but really loved to try and be crafty and loved to cook for her family and friends, even though she couldn't eat most of what was being served. She thought having her nails painted and hair done made her feel good, so she got them done weekly.
She lived by this motto: you can have all the money in the world but if you don't have good family and friends then you don't have anything at all. And she did just that until the day she died.
And that my friends is what my obituary would say. Yep I made up a bunch of grandchildren to spoil and take around the world with me, cause you know I'm going to be rich enough to do that.
So what would your obituary say?
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Knowledge You Didn't Think You Needed, But Do!
This is seriously the best tip I have ever received. I didn't even know that I wasn't doing it correctly. Okay I guess there are different definitions, but still, best tip EVER!
I'm going to tell you right now, how to reheat pizza. Yep that's right, this way is sure fire way to make you make you feel like you're eating it for the first time.
My trick? First heat it up in the microwave, need to get that cheese nice and melted (for those that eat cheese).
Second, and this is where you're mind is going to be blown. It's faster then a toaster oven reheat to get that crust crispy again. Ready for this mind blowing tip?
Put it in a hot skillet, you know that pan that you cook eggs in? Use that. Toasts up the bottoms of that pizza, so no more soggy left over pizza. *warning, the bottom cooks faster then you think, so don't let it sit there too long, it goes from being awesomeness to burnt in a hot second. Don't walk away.*
I know, mine doesn't look as good as one with hot gooey cheese, but it was very good, and I will definitely get this when baby comes when I need something to eat and need someone to deliver me something yummy to eat.
Random sidenote: Mr. likes cold pizza and never heats his pizza up.
I'm going to tell you right now, how to reheat pizza. Yep that's right, this way is sure fire way to make you make you feel like you're eating it for the first time.
My trick? First heat it up in the microwave, need to get that cheese nice and melted (for those that eat cheese).
Second, and this is where you're mind is going to be blown. It's faster then a toaster oven reheat to get that crust crispy again. Ready for this mind blowing tip?
Put it in a hot skillet, you know that pan that you cook eggs in? Use that. Toasts up the bottoms of that pizza, so no more soggy left over pizza. *warning, the bottom cooks faster then you think, so don't let it sit there too long, it goes from being awesomeness to burnt in a hot second. Don't walk away.*
I know, mine doesn't look as good as one with hot gooey cheese, but it was very good, and I will definitely get this when baby comes when I need something to eat and need someone to deliver me something yummy to eat.
Random sidenote: Mr. likes cold pizza and never heats his pizza up.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Weekend Recap
I can't believe how lazy I've been, okay not really lazy, but picture lazy. I really need to get an iPhone, so I don't have to carry my camera around with me, I always forget it, or I have it, but too lazy to get it out. Perhaps a phone that actually takes pictures will be different?
I had Friday off, we didn't really do anything, lots of errands. When I told Baby Fox that we had errands to run, he said "Target?" Perhaps I go there too much with him. But nope, that wasn't on the list of things to do. We did Hobby Lobby, Payless, Kohls, and Home Depot, random list of stores right?
Baby Fox got creative and found a "cup holder" for his juice, you know cause he needs access to his drink at all time while playing.
Sunday Mr. and Baby Fox played a little baseball, and by baseball I mean 2 minutes of it. Hey he's 2.5, what do you expect? Mr. asked me to throw him a ball to hit, apparently his back/hip probably isn't doing that great, he hurt himself swinging the bat.
After swimming and before dinner Mr. got out the ice pack to ice his back, Baby Fox informed me that he needed his owwie foot (it's actually a teething toy shaped like a foot (gross I know), but when he gets hurt we have various cold things that we call Owwie turtle, owwie elmo, owwie foot to help his scrape or bruise feel better). He procceed to lay on the ground on put the owwie foot on his back.
He's showing me exactly where the owwie foot goes, if you look closely you can see a small green thing at the small of his back. Someone wants to be just like Daddy.
And this weekend we did a few projects for Mini Fox.
I used these things:
And made this...tutorial coming this week! Can you guess what it is? I actually had enough material to make 4 of these things...
Only 1 week and 1 day until maternity leave...The countdown has begun!
Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Megan
I had Friday off, we didn't really do anything, lots of errands. When I told Baby Fox that we had errands to run, he said "Target?" Perhaps I go there too much with him. But nope, that wasn't on the list of things to do. We did Hobby Lobby, Payless, Kohls, and Home Depot, random list of stores right?
Baby Fox got creative and found a "cup holder" for his juice, you know cause he needs access to his drink at all time while playing.
Saturday night for dinner we ordered pizza. Okay Mr. got real pizza (on the left), I got a gluten free, cheeseless pizza, but still counts. It was the FIRST time we had pizza delivered to us since we've been married. Yes you read that correctly, in the 8.5 years we've been married we've never had pizza delivered. It was heavenly. The pizza was good (first pizza I've found that I can actually eat the crust/sauce), and I didn't have to make it or pick it up, win.
Sunday Mr. and Baby Fox played a little baseball, and by baseball I mean 2 minutes of it. Hey he's 2.5, what do you expect? Mr. asked me to throw him a ball to hit, apparently his back/hip probably isn't doing that great, he hurt himself swinging the bat.
After swimming and before dinner Mr. got out the ice pack to ice his back, Baby Fox informed me that he needed his owwie foot (it's actually a teething toy shaped like a foot (gross I know), but when he gets hurt we have various cold things that we call Owwie turtle, owwie elmo, owwie foot to help his scrape or bruise feel better). He procceed to lay on the ground on put the owwie foot on his back.
He's showing me exactly where the owwie foot goes, if you look closely you can see a small green thing at the small of his back. Someone wants to be just like Daddy.
And this weekend we did a few projects for Mini Fox.
I used these things:
And made this...tutorial coming this week! Can you guess what it is? I actually had enough material to make 4 of these things...
Only 1 week and 1 day until maternity leave...The countdown has begun!
Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Megan
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Whatever Wednesdays - TV Shows
This weeks WW topic is Top 5 TV shows, not 3, not 7, but 5. It was actually a lot harder then I thought to come up with 5 TV shows that I absolutely must watch, can't miss type of thing. Hard to chose just 5, but I think these are it.
#1 - Grey's Anatomy
This came out just as Mr. and I got married, it was the first show we really started watching together and have watched every.single.episode together. No matter how bad the storylines get, we continue to watch. I can't tell you how many times this stupid show has mad me cry. We're in it till the end. Which in our estimation, should be soon, right?
#2 - Gilmore Girls
Cheesy, but true. I have actually watched this series in it's entirety again when Baby Fox was born. Reminds me of those nights when I would snuggle up with Mom and we would watch it together. Good wholesome TV watching.
#3 - Dawson's Creek
This show was really big when I was in college. Every Wednesday night my roommates and I would gather around the TV and watch DC with a pan of brownies. One of our guy friends would happen to stop by on Wednesday nights because of the brownies, but we knew better, he really wanted to watch DC.
#4 - Gossip Girl
I know right? Who watches this any more? But I loved it the minute it aired "your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite." Granted it got weird in the middle and stuff, but I was committed and had to see it through till the end. Which by the way, I liked the ending and thought they ended it really well. No wondering what happened to people, etc. I hate when they leave shows with unanswered questions, tell me what happens to people, that's what we all really want to know. "And who am I?! That's one secret I'll never tell. You know you love me.. XO XO Gossip Girl"
#5 - Scandal
If you haven't watched this show, you have about a month or so to catch up on the short season 1 and season 2. It will not disappoint. Really the only reason we started watching it was because Mr. and I needed a new show to start watching and this show started so late in the game that we figured we give it a try. We actually had DVR'd all of the first season (7-8 espisodes) before we even started watching, but once we started we could not stop. Addicting! Now go watch it so they don't cancel it, like they do with all of the shows we tend to like.
What are your favorite tv shows? Everyone's been talking about Breaking Bad, I think we need to pick that show up STAT.
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| All pictures found via Google Images |
#1 - Grey's Anatomy
This came out just as Mr. and I got married, it was the first show we really started watching together and have watched every.single.episode together. No matter how bad the storylines get, we continue to watch. I can't tell you how many times this stupid show has mad me cry. We're in it till the end. Which in our estimation, should be soon, right?
#2 - Gilmore Girls
Cheesy, but true. I have actually watched this series in it's entirety again when Baby Fox was born. Reminds me of those nights when I would snuggle up with Mom and we would watch it together. Good wholesome TV watching.
#3 - Dawson's Creek
This show was really big when I was in college. Every Wednesday night my roommates and I would gather around the TV and watch DC with a pan of brownies. One of our guy friends would happen to stop by on Wednesday nights because of the brownies, but we knew better, he really wanted to watch DC.
#4 - Gossip Girl
I know right? Who watches this any more? But I loved it the minute it aired "your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite." Granted it got weird in the middle and stuff, but I was committed and had to see it through till the end. Which by the way, I liked the ending and thought they ended it really well. No wondering what happened to people, etc. I hate when they leave shows with unanswered questions, tell me what happens to people, that's what we all really want to know. "And who am I?! That's one secret I'll never tell. You know you love me.. XO XO Gossip Girl"
#5 - Scandal
If you haven't watched this show, you have about a month or so to catch up on the short season 1 and season 2. It will not disappoint. Really the only reason we started watching it was because Mr. and I needed a new show to start watching and this show started so late in the game that we figured we give it a try. We actually had DVR'd all of the first season (7-8 espisodes) before we even started watching, but once we started we could not stop. Addicting! Now go watch it so they don't cancel it, like they do with all of the shows we tend to like.
What are your favorite tv shows? Everyone's been talking about Breaking Bad, I think we need to pick that show up STAT.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
My Little Monkey
And this is why Mommy can't go to the park any more. I almost had a heart attack just watching this video. Best leave it to Daddy to let Baby Fox get his part Monkey on.
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