Zoo Animal Nails

Monster Nails

Crib Sheet Tutorial

So this tutorial is from dana-made-it.com. But for some reason, when I click on my pin, Pinterest thinks it's a fishy website. And Since I've had 3 viruses on my computer in the last 2 years, I'm paranoid they're right. So I'm copying it here to my blog so I can view it without being scared. :)

You’ll need:
* 2 yards of fabric
* 80 inches (204 cm) of skinny 1/4 inch elastic

* Cut out a rectangle that’s: 45 x 67 inches (114.5 x 171 cm)
* Fold that into fourths (fold it in half and in half) and cut an 8 x 8 in (20.5 x 20.5 cm) square out of the corners, so that your fabric looks like this:
Another way to do this (if you’re making multiple sheets), is to cut out a pattern piece that’s 1/4 the size of your sheet. It looks like this (or the state of Utah):
Then before cutting anything out, you can fold your fabric into fourths, lay that on top, and easily cut it out.

Okay, with your fabric cut, let’s start sewing.

* Take the two sides of one corner and bring right sides together. Pin them and sew down the side. This is creating a “pocket” of sorts, to go around the corners of the mattress. Do this to all four corners of the sheet:
* Serge the seams, zigzag or leave the seams raw.

* Serge around the entire outside of the sheet. This makes is easy to create a casing for the elastic. If you don’t have a serger, just iron your fabric over 1/4 inch all the way around and then continue to the next step….

* Iron under the entire edge of the sheet. You are creating a casing, to string very skinny elastic through.
* Sew down the casing. You don’t need to pin around the entire sheet before you sew (that takes too long) but DO pin a start and stop point so that you leave an opening to get the elastic In and Out. Start sewing from the START point, all the way around the STOP point:
* Insert the elastic. Taking your 1/4 inch wide elastic, attach a safety pin to one end, and pin the other end to the sheet. Start stringing it through the casing, all the way around till it comes out the other side:
* Overlap the ends and sew them together a few times with a zigzag stitch:
* Then sew your casing closed.
And you’re done!

Again, this is not my tutorial. It's from dana-made-it.com. But pinterest thinks it's a fishy website so I'm not going there anymore. :)

Transformers Construct Bots

Have you guys seen these? Transformers Construct Bots are super cool! You build the robot (Like you would with k'nex or legos) and then the robot can transform into a car! This ulitmate set come with Optimus Prime and Megatron. Both my boys (6 and 3) love it! And so did my husband!
We all (mostly mom!) love that the box it comes in is a resealable container so you can keep all the pieces together!

You can buy it wat Walmart for $29.96. Merry Christmas!

Cute Ombre Fishnet nails

From Hannah Rox It  http://youtube.com/misshannahroxit

Kids' Shopping List

So this kind of saved my sanity today. It was kind of time consuming but it was worth it. And I made these while I waited for the baby to wake up from his nap so I didn't delay my shopping trip at all.

Just open a Word document, make a 3x4 table (or whatever size you want) and google all the things on your list. Then copy and paste them to the table. I pasted some to Paint first and edited them a little or cropped them to fit better. 

I gave one to my 5 year old and one to my 3 year old. I put different things on each list because I know my 5 year old would find them all before the 3 year old and then we'd have a meltdown, ya know?

2013 Kids' Summer Reading Program

Barnes & Noble is doing a Summer Reading Program for kids going into grade 1-6. They read any 8 books, print and fill out this reading journal and then take the filled out journal in to a Barnes & Noble by September 3, 2013 for a FREE BOOK! (From their approved list in the journal.)