Wooden Open Lockers

I follow one of the coolest blogs called Organize and Decorate Everything. They're always got great ideas over there for keeping your house neat and looking great. Her most recent blog post was about her favorite ideas from a link party she hosted last week.

I absolutely loved one of the ideas, originally from Holly at Bits of Everything, called Mud Room Lockers. I would use this in my entry way or wherever the kids came in from school as a cute way to keep their school shoes, bags, jackets, lunch boxes, ect. organized when they came home from school. Aren't these just awesome looking? What a great idea.

I love blogging because you come across so many amazing blogs by people who have the greatest crafts and ideas to share with you to help make your life more fun and easy.

Aren't these great? They'd be great in any room in the house actually :) Have a happy Saturday everyone!

Hair Stuff

I've been really into making hair accessories for my kiddos lately. I just wanted to share a few of my latest (I'm not very good at it yet) pictures. They're actually really easy to make. I can't wait to get more materials on the 25th because Roberts is have a half off everything sale in honor of Pioneer day, it's very big in Utah... I have so many ideas I want to try out. You'll be seeing more of that in the near future for sure, some fabric, some not :)

Fabric Flower Hair Clips

I follow a lot of crafting blogs and sites because I always love to see the fun new things that moms and others are coming up with to keep things fresh and new. I also like to try a lot of them when I can afford it. This one is one I found a long time ago and have wanted to try for quite some time, but never had the materials I needed. Well, now I do! I'd actually love to get some new material because Roberts Arts and Crafts Store is having a 50% off your entire purchase sale for the celebration of Pioneer Day. (It's big in Utah) Woot Woot! Anywho, I found this craft on my friend's blog, who found it on a very cool crafting site, you can find her blog and the link for the crafting site here.

So here's my spin on the fabric flower hair clips. I promise they'll get more "flower-y" in time. haha This was my first youtube how to video so hopefully it won't look too bad, but you can see all my flowers on here. I hope you like it :)

http://youtu.be/RNrakum3sGM

GACK!!

I happened to marry into one of those families where everyone is good at everything, and everyone is so incredibly creative. I love it! I've learned so much from all my in-laws and one of the funnest things I've learned (from my oldest sister-in-law, Shannon, who is very creative) is a sort of slimy craft that my children just love to play with. It's called Gack, yes you read that right, Gack! I would like to share that with you today.

^This is the Gack!^

All you need is:

a small bowl

a large mixing bowl

6 drops any color food coloring

2 cups water

1 teaspoon Borax (a mild detergent, you can get it anywhere)

2 cups (4 bottles) of Washable Elmer's White School Glue

In the smaller bowl combine Borax with 1/2 cup of the water and stir till dissolved.

In the larger bowl stir the glue, the rest of the water, and the food coloring together and mix till well combined.

Once the glue and the water are all mixed together, Add the borax/water mixture.

Knead together with hands till it is no longer sticky.

Store in an airtight container.

^My youngest didn't quite know how she felt about this stuff lol^

This is a great indoor craft to do with your kids while they are out of school to keep their imaginations fresh and it also makes a great science experiment! It's completely solid, but it melts when it sits untouched for too long into sort of a solid liquid hybrid.

Enjoy!!!!

Homemade Jack Daniels Hookah

Never in my life did I think he would be able to make this work! My hubby can be so creative when he wants to be. No money spent, he made a Hookah out of an old Jack Daniels bottle, a few old spare hookah parts from a broken pipe, and some junk he found in a tool box from our shed. The thing that amazes me most is that it works!! I just had to share some pictures of his hard work. Enjoy.

No scolding allowed dear mother-in-law. (Hehe, love you:)

The French Braid

Let me just start this by saying that I love my mother. She is one of the kindest, loving, most generous people you will ever meet. That being said, she's always been kind of lacking in the "girlie things" department, so growing up I never learned how to do make up properly, how to French braid, or how to properly coordinate outfits of any nature. I've pretty much been self taught on most of these things and my newest thing to learn has been the French braid.

I tried it on my own hair first (after watching several "how to french braid" videos on Youtube) and it just looked funny, so I started over and it fell out before I could get the elastic in. Not really that great.

So I made my daughter sit down so I could practice on her and it looked a TON better, but was falling out by the end of the day so needless to say, I need lots more practice. But I'll get it down eventually.

My "Next Step" Camera

For the past 2 years I have been using a 12.1 Megapixel Sony Cybershot which I have loved.

It has taken some great photos, including all the photos on my blogs, and all around it has been a great camera. It has definitely been well loved and well used at my house! Birthday Parties, Family outings and group pictures, Newborn pictures, all sorts of things I've been through with this awesome little piece of technology. It'll be hard and easy at the same time to see her go.

I would recommend this camera to anyone looking for a cute, compact digital camera. I think I am ready for the next step though! And this, my friends, is my next step!

The sort-of-affordable 14.1 Megapixel Nikon CoolPix L120.

Oh yes, it's she a beauty? Comes in red and blue too, but I think I'll stick with black, looks more professional, right? Anywho, there's no way I can afford this right now so I was thinking... charge it on my credit card and think of it as an investment in Photo-taking future. The problem is convincing my husband . . . . . . . .

Any thoughts?

Happy Tuesday :)