Zipper ornaments

My mom started a tradition when I was a kid to get each child a new ornament each year for Christmas. Since Jefferson had open heart surgery on 3/25/14 he needed a zipper heart ornament for the tree! 

I saw this blog

http://lemonsqueezyhome.com/2014/12/zipper-heart-ornament.html

And thought it was perfect! 

So I bought a bunch of red zippers from fabric.com and made 8 of them. I kept one of them and sold the rest.  That blog was super detailed in the instructions so I just followed it. Here they are for my little zipper! 

Stella is obsessed with Frozen, so she of course needed an Elsa ornament for 2014. 

It hangs perfectly on the tree too! 

Kids table

We were on a tight budget for Christmas this year, so I did a little DIYing for gifts for the kids. 

 Found this cute wood kid table and 2 chairs on KSL for $25. SCORE!! 

So I spent many nap times out side sanding. 

This is what I ended up with. It took forever to figure out what I was going to do with it. 

I bought a dark stain and stained the table. I ended up making the top a magnetic chalk board too. But the red still showed through, but I think it doesn't look too bad.

The chairs, still not too thrilled about because they don't really go with the table, but I spent a lot of work on them so I just left them. I had the paint left over from a wall I did and I thought it was gender neutral. I also decided to paint in chalk paint their first letter of their names. 

It was from Santa, but none the less was a big hit Christmas morning!

Brave party

Stella had a brave party.  She had got the little brave bow and arrow from the Disney store for Christmas last year and she is actually pretty dang accurate with it. 

So we had a brave party and it seemed to be a hit. We made bear paw necklaces, shot bow and arrows that they got to take home and ate cute cup cakes!

Here's some pics of her special day!

The cup cakes! 

I forgot to take a picture of all the sweet bows we made, but here's Stella's. 

She had to ride the bank of the west bear while she shot her bow and arrow

Surprisingly they can be accurate as well. PVC bows rock! 

The only thing we changed from all the other pinned PVC bow instructions is my husband used a blow torch and bent a handle on the middle. It made it easier to draw back the string too. Worked great!

Heart party!!

This year Jefferson's 1st birthday was heart themed. He had a rough 1st year but he is amazing and so tough! 

I melted the red candy melts from joanns and used a piping bag and drew hearts for decorations. Turned out pretty cute. 

I need to prefect my cake decorating skills though. I suck at frosting cakes 

J didn't care he loved it! And that's all that matters

Here's his invites. I had a friend make them for me. Turned out super cute too!

We sure do love our little heart baby!

Lotion bars

I had a bunch of wax from 2013 and 2014 honey harvest, so I decided to make up some Lotion bar to hand out for Christmas.

I used a recipe from doterras blog and it works great! I love this recipe and it doesn't leave your hands greasy after. 

Here's the recipe 

2/3 c beeswax 

1/2 c coconut oil 

1/2 c cocoa butter

1 ts vitamin E oil

15 drops ( I used more like 35 drops) serenity and lemon (1/2 and 1/2) or you could use citrus bliss, peppermint, anything you like really. 

Here's my beeswax I filter and melt into cubes 

Pretty eh?

You melt that all (add essential oils right before pouring in molds) in a disposable container because it gets super messy and I used the silicone molds.

Turned out perfect 

I ended up selling the extras for $3 each! 

Pop up trailer Reno

 Last year we bought an old pop up trailer. I wanted to clean it up a bit so it didn't look so Old. The curtains were faded and half the clips were broken off the curtains and the table cushions, I didn't dare sit on because heaven knows what's on those things. So I decided to attempt a reupholster job. 

(I haven't gotten to the seat cushions yet but those will be done this summer!)

I didn't plan on recovering the beds, I just have a memory foam mattress topper and mattress cover and sheets all on them to cover them up. So I started with the easiest, the curtains. 

I stayed with the real theme from the bed colors and went with that. 

Here are the colors I chose 

These two are for the curtains and..

This awesome stripe will be the cushions! Back and the bottom is a royal blue solid. 

Here are the before curtains 

Super gross right?

So I attached the floral to the top of the curtains and did the solid teal on the rest.  Is isn't want to go too dark because I don't want it to be too hot, I thought this was perfect. 

There was a valance over the old curtains, and I don't like ruffle valances so I just used the old clips from the curtains and valances and hand sewed them onto the new ones. 

Here they are up 

I used they same floral for the straps to tie them back. 

I think they turned out awesome! 

Next is the seat cushions!! 

Here's the original ones.. Nasty! 

Pinwheel mobile tutorial

Hey yall!

Life has been super duper crazy the past year.  Seems like forever since Jefferson came into our lives and now he keeps us all on our toes! 

I wanted to just put up some projects I have done as well as the two birthday parties we had for my kids. 

So again sorry it's been so long, like anyone actually reads this. But here are my updates

So before J was born I made a mobile for above his bed. I decided on a pinwheel mobile and here's what I came up with. 

I started with a square piece of paper and drew an X from corner to corner 

Then cut on the lines about 1" from the center 

Then I just used pins that I use for sewing to hold them together. 

I attached them to fishing line so that they were hanging. I also added to the mobile J's initials.  I think they are pretty sweet, because it just so happens to be my dads initials too. Here's how it all turned out 

Here's Js view 

If an fan or his heater is blowing in his room it makes them spin too. I think it turned out pretty cute!