Felt Food

One day Brandon was playing with a big tupperwear container filled with building blocks. He pretended to stir them around in the bowl and said, "Mommy, I'm making cookies!" I've wanted to buy some play food for the kids but, man, it always come with a TON of stuff and we don't have a lot of room to store toys right now. Felt food is great because it takes up no room and you can be more creative with the kinds of food you want. I wish I could make a play kitchen out of felt...
Check out this link and this link for ideas.

 From left to right: pancakes with syrup and butter, fried eggs, cheese, bread, pizza, ice cream, lettuce, apple, strawberries, carrot, banana, tomato slices.

Flower Knobs for Dresser

Loved this project! And it cost me all of $2. I heart the dollar store.
I bought two flower bunches at the dollar store then pulled the flowers off of the stem.

 Then I pulled apart the centers of the flowers.

And the rest I think you can figure out.

Mason Jar gift/scrapbook paper lid

I finally found a use for all those jars I've been saving up. I dressed up the jar with scrapbook paper and made a cute label with Microsoft word (inspiration for that here). I found a tutorial for covering a mason jar lid with scrapbook paper too and found that here. I LOVE the way it turned out. I filled the jar with Brownie mix and that recipe can be found on my food blog, here.

Tissue Paper Pom-Poms

Breanne has these up in her new nursery and I just love em. I wanted to hang some in Katy's room and I found instructions on how to make them here. I sorta love Martha Stewart. Mine, of course, didn't turn out as pretty as the ones in the pictures but they still look cute. I hung them up with white thread and tape on the ceiling.

Coat Rack

The kids offically needed their own coat rack. That way Brandon can get and put away his own coat and our bigger coat rack can have a little more room for when people come over who need to hang their stuff up.

I was inspired by this Etsy shop and I knew I could do the same thing with my Cricut! I let Brandon pick his favorite animal for his coat rack and he chose a jelly fish. Underwater theme! It was a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be but it was totally worth it! I glued each image on with just regular old Elmer's glue and then sprayed on a clear sealant to protect the paper and paint.

 Don't you love the little toadstools??

Baby Food jar Snowmen

I got the idea for this on Pinterest. It was super easy.  A little time consuming since these are our neighbor gifts this year and I made 10 of them. But it was totally worth it. I would have done a third jar filled with crushed peppermint candies but it would have taken like 10 candy canes per jar. Not gonna happen.

Lots of hot glue for these. I just used paper for the hat and scarf. I used acrylic paint for the face.

The stockings were hung...

I don't have a mantle and nothing cute to display our stockings on. I'm sure some of you have seen this floating around on Pinterest. It totally spoke to me.

I used that pencil stencil technique again here and used a black sharpie to color in the letters.
Then I got some cabinet knobs at Walmart (two for $2) and hot glued them to the board. (I wanted the option of removing them in case our family grows).