DIY, Kids, Recipes, stay-at-home-mom

Shark Week Ice Cream Sandwiches

Shark Week is in full swing friends! Today at lunch my Dad got my kids ice cream sandwiches for dessert as a treat. We made them a bit more fun (can ice cream sandwiches be any MORE fun?!) to go along with Shark Week! Continue reading “Shark Week Ice Cream Sandwiches”

cakes, DIY

Purple, Elephants and Babies

Today we had a baby shower for my little sister! She is 7 months pregnant and having my very first niece, Sophia! We drove to Arkansas where her husband is from and held a luncheon shower. I had the honor of making her cake. The shower colors are purple and gray with lots of elephants because that is how the nursery is decorated. Continue reading “Purple, Elephants and Babies”

Art for kids, craft, DIY, Kids, stay-at-home-mom

College-ruled T-shirts

This post was featured in American Profile magazine this week! So I’m reblogging it as per many requests 🙂 It is a fun and easy back to school project! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Johanna

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So I recently made these really adorable and easy shirts for my girls.  They are made to look like a piece of notebook paper and remind me of school, so with school just beginning for the year and office supplies everywhere for sale…  well you get where my motivation to create these came from. 

Here is a quick and simple tutorial for making them:

1.  First you need a white T-shirt (I got the girl’s shirts a while back at Hobby Lobby when they did the 50% off shirts so they cost 1.50 each.  You will also need blue and red paint (fabric paint or acrylic with fabric paint additive), a paint brush, poster board to put inside the shirt so the paint doesn’t leak to the back and wide masking tape.

2.  Next, take the masking tape and tape off the shirt where you want your blue lines to be.  I found that…

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Art for kids, craft, DIY, homeschool, Kids, stay-at-home-mom

Tissue Paper Sharks

It’s Shark Season! Shark movies are on TV all the time and Shark week begins next week 🙂 My kids love sharks and all of my art class students do also. In fact each year during my art camps we dedicate one whole day to just Shark art and craft projects! This week I’m going to post some of the many projects we’ve done. Continue reading “Tissue Paper Sharks”

Art for kids, craft, DIY, homeschool, Kids, stay-at-home-mom

DIY Bright Pasta For Art

My children and art class students love to play with brightly colored pasta. So over the years I’ve experimented with ways to color pasta for art. I have decided on this method being the brightest and best so far 🙂 Continue reading “DIY Bright Pasta For Art”