Monster Tooth (Fairy) Pillow!

Landon is about to lose his first tooth! I can't believe he's old enough for that. He's getting so big!

 Anyway, I wanted to make him a pillow to hold his tooth (and money) on his doorknob. I am not into hiding it under pillows, especially since he plays in bed for an hour or so before passing out. Who knows where that tooth (and money) would end up! I scoured Pinterest for ideas. I was thinking about a tooth shaped stuffed doll but saw a few monster ones. This picture was my inspiration, but the picture led no where, so I just looked at the picture and ran with it!

( I love his white eye and little teeth! The white eye is a white button with a smaller black on, on top.)

Before I sewed the backing on, I thought about adding arms and legs, but I figure it was suppose to be small... so I decided against it. Now, I'm sort of wishing I had added them. Landon asked me for a BIGGER one, so I will add arms and legs, then. And it'll just be a stuffed animal. :) 

I just used what I had on hand to make this, if I had gone to the store, it probably would have been a bit better. ;) But, it serves it's purpose and Landon loves it, that's all that matters! I do think it's pretty cute, though!

Green Smoothies!

We've been clean eating around here, lately. Me more than the rest of the family. (I'm at 100%) But, whenever I cook or prepare food for the family, it's clean! Tonight we decided to try out a green smoothie! We've made some in the past, but never with pineapple, yum!

For this smoothie, we added:

1 cup frozen pineapple (fresh, that I froze)
2 bananas
1 cup of water
1 6oz container of Greek plain yogurt
4 large strawberries
2 big handfuls of spinach

and BLEND!  This made about 3 of these cups full.

 

Kid tested and approved! She couldn't get enough of it!

 

Good to the last drop!

Enjoy!!

Emmelyn's New Dress!

On Pinterest I have a board devoted to sewing! There are so many great ideas out there! While Emmelyn was napping, today, I decided to make her a dress. I haven't used my sewing machine since we PCS'd from Nebraska! After looking through all of my pins, I found a few I liked and opened them. They either didn't have a tutorial or they were an Etsy website to buy them. 

Bummer. 

I decided to do my own thing, and I am so glad that I did. Her dress turned out super cute! 

 

The neck is like a halter top and is extra long for a great bow!

 

I decided to add some cute buttons to the back to give it some character!

 

 

Here's Emmelyn enjoying her new dress!

 I do not have a tutorial on this dress, as I just made it up as I went. But it really isn't too hard to make. :) If I decide to do another, I'll be sure to take pictures during the process!

The Project to End All Projects?

This might be the project to end all projects. 

Okay, not really. But for now, I am DONE with furniture projects. This was a lot of work, and by the end I just wanted to throw it away. 

I had to keep telling myself it would be worth it and to keep chugging along. 

I found this chest thing at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago for $50. This thing is SOLID. When I say solid, I mean it! The doors alone weigh about 30lbs each, if not more. I actually hated the doors and had decided not to use them in the finished product. But after sharing that idea with a few friends they convinced me that these doors would be amazing. 

They were right, the doors really make the finished piece! I especially love the original hardware. 

Okay, so here's what I started with:

 

When I saw the inside shelves, I knew it would be a perfect place to hold our arts and craft supplies in the dining room. I am now using it for homeschooling supplies, as well. 

Initially, I was going to paint the thing white and antique it.

 After two coats of primer, I decided I wanted something that would POP! I thought about yellow, but eventually decided on a red. I found this "Candy Apple Red" at Walmart in the "oops" section! It was half off, so I got it for $8! Woohoo! I added 3 coats of the red to try to make it look even. After awhile I figured that was enough because the stain would make it look uneven, anyway. I also, only did two red coats on the inside, because no one would be looking in there. 

Lazy? 

Maybe, but I was so over painting at this point and I hadn't even touched the doors!

 

The doors...

OH THE DOORS! I hate them. But I love them. 

They were a PITA to work on, trying to get that red paint into every small detail. Also, I didn't prime them first.

 Oops, another lazy moment? 

So the doors look darker than the body. 

Do I care? 

No, I think it adds to the character! 

After the doors had three coats of red I moved on to the fun part... 

 staining! 

When all my hard work started to actually look like the picture in my head! 

(I really should have had better ventilation in the room, it gave me a headache)

Besides the headache, staining was the best part. Here are the final pictures. I added the stain to the wood and let it sit a minute or two and then wiped it off, making sure to leave some in the details to make them look more worn. I love the finished result!

Love the hardware! This is the original hardware and I didn't paint it. I had thought about spray painting them black, but decided it look great, already.

I also didn't stain the inside, because it didn't matter. 

 

It kind of looks like it's from China, now! 

Like I said earlier, I may not do another furniture project for awhile. At least not a BIG one! 

I.am.beat!

Totally worth it, though!

Perfect addition to our homeschool room!

Red Bench for our Entryway!

I bought this bench back in Nebraska... probably last summer, with plans to some day paint it for our future home. We knew we were moving and I didn't want to waste my time painting something just for it to be ruined, ya know?

Finished this project last week and couldn't wait to share it! Here it is before hand:

 

And here it is after two coats of paint! I used the same paint as I did in Landon's room, because I had it on hand and I wanted it red, anyway! =) Did I mention this bench only cost me $5? What a steal!

 Here is the view from my living room!

I think it fits nicely!