Birthday Fun

My little girls birthday was a couple weeks ago. We found this awesome deal on a used vanity for her that is in very good condition. After we got it I started looking into accessories for it we found some cute hair items; blow dryer, curling iron, things like that. But all the pretend makeup we found was either real makeup that I could see my 2 year old making a mess of, or really expensive. So I had an idea. I found an old compact with some eye shadow still in it. I got rid of the eye shadow and got the compact all clean. Next I got some simple acrylic paint and I used it to coat the inside of the different eye shadow cases. I chose colors that are bright but still realistic.

 I tried to keep it smooth with no bubbles and thick enough to cover the silver tray. I let it sit overnight to make sure it dried all the way through. Then I used a clear drying hot glue and filled the trays. Once again I tried to keep the glue smooth with no bubbles or spikes. The bottom does get hot so be careful. This only took a couple hours to dry.

 It turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted and had visioned it and my little girl loves it. :)
I also made a cute My Little Pony cake for her birthday. I used the hot air balloon as my inspiration. The cake though was so little that I didn't think there would be enough for everyone, so I also did Cutie mark cupcakes.

 So this is the hot air balloon

I did the design on the balloon with a purple sharpie and I thought it would be cute to add her name in the design.

 Last but not least the cutie mark cupcakes. :) These took awhile to make but where a lot of fun. Everyone really seemed to enjoy everything and we all had a great time. Especially my little girl. :)

Fathers Day and Crafting Fun

Today we made cards for Daddy, Grandpa and Grumpy (Another Grandpa. :p) My little miss had a lot of fun making these cards and they turned out really well. My little miss loves rocks and no matter where we go she always brings back at least one. so I thought it would be fun to let her paint her rocks as well. She also painted some pretty pictures. It was a fun little craft day with her.

 

 

 I forgot to take pictures of all 3 of the cards. I tried to make each one unique. But here is the one card to her Grumpy.
Happy Fathers Day to all the daddy's out there. :)

Better Late Than Never

So we had the chance to move into our rooms in the basement last November. But there were a few little minor things that needed to be done still. Our closet doors needed to be painted and put doorknobs on them. Back in...I think February, I asked my parents to bring up my long lost bookshelf that I found hiding in their barn. I was a bit dirty and had a few cracks. But nothing I couldn't fix. I have been working on it for awhile. recently our little girl was transitioning to a big girl bed and so I thought this would be a good time to put the last few coats of pain on the book shelf and finally get it in her room. While I had the paint out I decided to finish her closet doors to. I think I have before pictures but I don't have a clue where they could be. But here is the finished look of both the closet and her new bookshelf.

I didn't even realize the I didn't put the doorknobs in the right place Till my father in law pointed it out. Oops! :p

 I am very pleased with this bookshelf it goes great in her room. Now if I could just get her to keep her books looking nice and neat and not strewn all over the floor. :)

"Under Construction" Birthday Cake

This past weekend we had the chance to celebrate my twin nephews birthday. My mother in law wanted to do a fun construction cake for them, so after we did a search on pinterest and google we decided how we wanted this cake to look and started. My mother in law was kind enough to do all the baking, the decorating was up to me.

 This is what I had to work with and I got to work immediately. :)

 I used chocolate graham crackers crushed up for the dirt and the oreo's for the darker dirt.

  We wanted to add orange construction cones but zurchers was all sold out. My mother in law found these orange kaleidoscope instead and so we thought we'd try them.

The twin absolutely loved their cake and so did their brothers. :) It was a lot of fun making it.

Cupcake Tray

This past weekend I decided to check out the dollar store and try a new craft. I decided to try a cupcake tray. So after I cleaned up the plates and candle sticks I used Gorilla Super Glue to glue the candle sticks to the bottom of the plates.

  I let the glue sit over night and then spray painted the whole thing. You can spray paint before you glue if you'd like too that way you can get a two toned tray. But I wanted just the one color.

 It was a pretty hot day so the paint dried fairly quickly but I still let it dry for a day and this is how it turned out.

Easter Food Fun

I did a few things to help out with the Easter meal preparations. The most labor intensive I think might have been the jello cups I made. They took me 2 days to complete but were lots of fun. I also did some baby chick and baby chick bums as well as rice krispie hollow eggs with M&M's in them. Again I didn't take pictures of the step by step process, I guess I should really do that.