crayon art

  Okay, I did it! I finally tried my hand at this melted crayon art that I've been seeing everywhere. I only had a small canvas to work with,but my 11 year daughter and I had fun making this!

   For those who don't know what you do is you take some crayons,broken or new, and a canvas. You decide how you want your design to go and you hot glue the crayons on to the canvas. You then take your hair dryer and begin to melt the crayons. This was the fun part!

  Now some things I would do different is make sure you have a newspaper down to catch the wax, also if you want the lines to be straight I would tip the canvas up, not have it laying flat on the table like I did.

 This was a fun project and I plan on doing some more in the future when I have some more canvas and crayons. For some reason  a family with four kids, I had very little crayons in my house.

  Gonna have to hit that back to school hard this upcoming year!

  Hope you are enjoying this beautiful day!

crafts,crafts,crafts!

May has been such a busy month already.  With Mother's day and birthdays, and graduations, its just been a whirl wind of activity here at my house.

  I have had some time to do some crafting. Thought today I would share some of my craftiness with everyone.

I hope everyone is having  a beautiful day! happy crafting!

Playing in the dirt! :)

  I couldn't  wait till spring came,  so I could start getting things ready for my garden. Thanks to my grandma, I can have a big garden with lots of great veggies in it! She lets me use her yard.  So far this year, I have pea pods,beans, carrots, zucchini, squash, egg plant, two different kinds of tomato's, lettuce, cucumber. 


  this year we are trying to grow watermelon, and pumpkin! I can't wait to see these start growing! 

  The pea pods,and beans, and radishes have started to sprout. I'm so excited every year to watch everything grow. I could do without the snakes, and the weeding,but hey, what can you do. lol 


  I remember this one summer, grandmas yard was over run with squash! Her whole back yard was just filled with it. It still makes me laugh when I think about it!
  
  I'm thinking about trying my hand at canning this year. I really never tried it before, mostly just like to freeze things. I just love my two giant freezers my hubby got for me. 
  I also wanna try making jelly too. I can remember my mom every summer making jelly or trying to. She always seemed to manage to catch the kitchen curtains on fire. Never fails, every summer! Awww! great memories. I think she just wanted new curtains, and this was her excuse. lol


  Well.... I don't have any pictures of my veggie garden,but here are some of my flowers that I have growing in my yard. Don't mind the weeds. 



   Have a beautiful day! 

   

Treats,I've been a baking!

I've been baking up a storm, this week!  So many great recipes out there to try not enough time in the day. I just love to bake. It helps me to relax. Below you will see some of my creations as well as the links to some of them if you wanna to try them.

  I made an easy cookie cake today! It was great for breakfast,not very healthy,but oh well! gotta live a little some time right? lol


first up is smores cookies! I made one giant cookie,instead of lots of little ones.Here is the link to where I found the recipe.
http://www.ericasweettooth.com/2010/07/smores-cookies.html

 This is a butterfingers cake! Yummy!

 Cream cheese stuffed strawberries! These were a hit at my grandmas 90th birthday party!

 one of my kids favorite, trixkrispies!

I have lots more fun recipes to try, and I keep finding more every day!

Have a Sweet day!

Busy, Busy, Busy

  Its been so crazy here at the house I feel like I haven't had 5 minutes to myself to think.

  We went to a hotel for the night last  week end and the kids and I had a blast swimming and sitting
 in the hot tub. It was nice to just relax and have fun for a day. The next day we went to a rock and gem show at our local museum where the kids got to make  their own arrow head. The show was quite interesting to see. There was so many different rocks and activities going on you weren't sure which way to start.
  I did find a lady who was making her own glass beads. I tried that once,but I'm not as good as her. I did however get some pointers from her and might give it another go this week end.  I'll have to keep you posted.

   Right now, I'm reading the 39 clues series. I must say I'm quite impressed by the action that these books have. I am on the 6th book now. I sure hope those kids win because otherwise it will be a sad ending.
   I'm off to try out a new recipe for peanut butter cookies.

   I just love to bake and cook. So many recipes, so little time!

  Hope you are all having a great week!

I love being a mom!

  I just love being a mom! I say this everyday. My friends ask "isn't it hard taking care of 4 kids?;
I just say no! I love it! I wouldn't change it for the world. Well....if I had more, that would be okay,but we will just let that be for now.

   Now, I'm not saying being a mom is easy by any means, its not. I'm just saying that it is the most fulfilling and frustrating thing at the same time. 
  I can honestly say that my kids and my hubby are my life. No that doesn't make me sad or pathetic or anything else. I have a great support team to help me with anything I wanna do, gonna do or sometimes get pushed into trying.
    

    For example, my son has been struggling with his math for the longest time, then Bam! he gets it. Watching, that pride and excitement in him for getting the math is just awesome!  Seeing him go around saying go ahead and ask me, then hear him say that's easy, is just unbelievable.


  While I know, there will be more challenges that  I know my family will have to face. Some easy, some not so easy. I do know that we will get through it just fine.


   So if you haven't go hugs your kids or your spouse or even give your loved ones a call. You never what challenges they may be facing.

          Have an Awesome day!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  I hope everyone is having an awesome day! The kids and I yesterday made some jello, eggs, and some egg popsicles! We also drank from an egg! They really loved that!

Pictures below. There is also a link to another awesome lady where I got the idea for the popsicle eggs. gotta check out her blog!

http://kailochic.blogspot.com/2012/03/easter-egg-popsicles.html

these are the ones we made. Don't mind the date my camera has a mind of its own.