Juice Fast Recipes

I'm attempting to do a juice fast this week! These are the recipes I will be attempting to make. I'll let you know how it went when I'm done. Wish me luck!

Lil' Miss Frosty

Ella and Chloe had a Christmas photo shoot the other day and had a blast! We did it two days and had over 400 pictures! It was so hard to decide what pictures to put here. The first day was outside with perfect weather, near the Old Mill, and next day was cold and rainy so we took our pictures inside the mall with their Christmas decorations. If you would want to know how I made the costumes click on  Tutu Tutorial. 

Happy December!

Christmas Cheer Recipe 

Combine loads of good wishes,

Heart-fulls of love and armfuls of hugs,

Sprinkle with laughter,

Garnish with mistletoe,

Top off with presents.

Serves everyone!

Tutu tutorial

This is a tutorial on making a tutu dress like the one Ella is wearing.

It is very simple, just time consuming. For the sake of pictures I used red tool. If you would rather buy one than make it you can order one from my Etsy shop! 

1. Gather supplies.

When purchasing your tool it is better to buy it by the roll not the yard. I found this out the hard way. If you buy it by the yard, it can be cheaper but it's a lot more work cutting strips. 

You will need a 6inch crotchet head band. Hobby Lobby was out so I bought 3 and sewed them together using embroidery thread. When I finished with the whole dress I realized it was to long so I reduced it to two headbands.

I found the top hat in the doll making isle at Hobby Lobby along with the headband.

Decorating the top is not necessary, but I think its more festive. I made two dresses, one with bows as shown and the other with snowflakes all the way around the bodice. Both are equally cutie!

2. Cut the strips

Determine the length you want. It is simple if you have a piece of cardboard lying around. I didn't so I used my side table which was close enough. I have even used a baking sheet! Wrap around lots of times. Cut on one side, carefully keeping all the strips neat. If you are using card board, you can place a rubber band around the strips to keep them inline. 

3. Place headband around book. 

Make sure to leave the seam facing up and place the band around the shortest side of the book.

4. Fold one piece of tool in half.

5. Place center through hole.  

Starting at the seam, work from one direction.

6. Put fingers through ribbon and grab the two ends.

7. Pull all the way through and tighten knot.

8. Lay tool down and repeat. For extra poof, do two rows.

Top Hat

1. Decorate head band with ribbon of choice.

2. Use fabric glue to attach the hat to headband. 

3. Let dry overnight before wearing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So we just got home from our Thanksgiving dinner at my moms house with most of my family. We had a great time sitting around the table talking and laughing. We wanted a no fuss Thanksgiving so we each brought a couple side items and had a big buffet. The food was amazing and as usual everyone was so stuffed there wasn't much room for dessert! After dinner, the 49rs game was turned on and I put the Thanksgiving books out for the kids to read that I checked out from the Library. Levon was so excited about his team playing tonight, it was the first time that he could think of that he was able to relax and enjoy football on Thanksgiving! (I personally was glad there was other things to do.) It's not that I don't like football, its just not my favorite pass time activity. Later, I asked the kids if they wanted to make 'Native American' headbands. They were so excited, jumping up and down, saying "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" One of them asked if I had real feathers. My quick response was "Well yeah! Is there any other way?" We spent a good 30 minutes taping feathers to the paper strips and then coloring them. They all wore them for the rest of the night! Even though the 49rs lost, I would say our Thanksgiving was a good one!

This is the meatless turkey I brought for dinner! He's so cutie you could gobble him right up! (Pun intended!)

Here are the kids in their festive headbands! You know the drill, take 50 pictures to get one decent shot!

Here is that lil' guy again! I brought him for our pot luck at work the day before. He is so festive and fun!

Ella was ready for Thanksgiving with her turkey hat and leather moccasin shoes! She walked around all morning saying "gobble gobble". I found her shoes at goodwill the day before! They were so perfect I had to get them even though they were a size to big!

This was Ella last week at the library doing a craft. I absolutely love this picture! Her hair reminds me of an 80s aerobics girl with a sweatband and a fro! Just cracks me up!  

So the holiday season just officially started. It is going to be so much fun now that Ella is old enough to enjoy all the activities of the season! 

Pizza Time

We had Chloe and Jillian over last week for a pizza party! It was so much fun! Luckily there were three of us there to help because it could have gotten out of hand very fast. We prepared the personal pans first by seasoning them and putting the sauce on before we gave them to the girls. We had to watch them pretty close otherwise they would have put all the cheese on pizza. (It almost happened!) Once one was done we would hand them another, then another. We bought two 3 packs of personal pan pizza crust. So that is a lot of pizza.

Notice the assembly line...Someone had to spread out the cheese!

They really enjoyed themselves! And did a great job!



So did we!



Of course you can't prepare pizza without sampling the product! 

With the way Ella's working, there won't be any pepperoni left!

I love how Ella is eating with no hands. 

 Chloe is thinking "Girl, what are you doing?!"

I was Framed II

I have been keeping my out out for something to put inside the frames as a continuation to I was framed. While at a yard sale, I found this doily that has layered green edges. Stuff like this is not normally my thing. I bought it originally so I could re-style a shirt, an idea I saw on Pinterest. Then I had a bright idea to frame it! Or at least keep it there until I find something better.  In the other frames I found coordinating scrapbook paper that I cut to fit. I think it turned out pretty good.

1. Wrap the back board to the frame with fabric. I use the Craft Bond spray adhesive.
2. Spray the adhesive on doily, then put in place.
3. Press it down for a few seconds to make sure it sticks well.
4. It dries super quick so you have to be a little fast. 
5. I wanted to keep the glass to the frame, so when I put it all together I put the glass in the back.

Halloween ReCap

This was Ella's first time to go trick-or-treating! She was the prettiest Minnie Mouse I have ever seen. We had practice saying trick-or-treat all day and finally we were able to put it to use at my moms neighbors house.

She walked up to the house with a smile on her face.

On the other side of the door there was a cat wearing a reflectors vest with a glow stick attached to the collar. 

 

Ella loved trick-or-treating, and got the hang of it real quick!

 After trick-or-treating we went to a church carnival to play games, ride a hay ride, and get lots of candy!

This was one of her favorite games.

Lots of candy to choose from!

This was on the hay ride. I don't think she knew what was going on.

Out of several family pictures this was the best one.

After the Carnival we went to her other grandma's house for the wind down.