Adorable Puppets!

One of these days I will get around to actually posting something that I've crafted, after almost 2 months, I'm finally starting to feel better after a severe (and lame!) back injury. But then again, I hate to make any promises because I'm famous for breaking them! ;) 

Until then I've got another awesome find for you!  I have a friend who just started selling these adorable puppets on ETSY.  She's been making them for quite some time, and I was lucky enough to try one out for a few minutes before shipping it off for a birthday gift.  They are well made, reasonably priced, even cuter (if that's possible!) in person, and Micah and Hallie absolutely LOVED it! I will most definitely be ordering more for our own family.  

In fact, I already have an order in for a couple of these...

And as an extra bonus, she is always looking for more ideas, so if you have something in mind, run it by her and she'll do her best to recreate it! 

So go check out her shop, Hand on Fun and visit her blog for a discount code which makes them an even sweeter deal, but hurry the code may be ending soon!

Vintage Scale

Pretty much in {love} all around!

Found this beauty at the Olympia Weekend Market, pretty much my new favorite place ever!

Headband Giveaway

Here's a giveaway from my awesome bff...

http://theorangeplum.blogspot.com/2011/06/free-headband-giveaway.html

Unfinished Projects

It's confession time! I have a serious issue with starting and not finishing projects.  I've tried to be better about not having so many projects going at once, but since leaving my crafting partner in crime in Virginia, I've slipped!  Bad! I need someone to hold me accountable, so in a moment of weakness I thought I would see how many projects I actually have going right now. 

So off I went around the house.  It wasn't pretty.  I have at least 15 going right now, I'm sure I missed a few and that doesn't include the 10 swarming in my head right now or any etsy projects! So here we go...

Honestly- just finished this one tonight.  Yea! I'll show it to ya later this week.

This one needs touch ups on the paint and then to be hung...

Throw pillows recovered...

For those of you who have been to my house and have thought I was a HSM fanatic, I'll put your mind to ease.  I've never seen the show, but they were on sale for CHEAP at Target... that orange sticker gets me every time! So here they sit- over a year later still sporting their obnoxious pinkness!

This is where it gets ugly.  And there's a few more baskets like these hiding in random places. Yikes!

Super fun project which I'm waiting on the hubster for.  Need him to cut some sheet metal and be home :( so I can use the jigsaw... so excited!

Another fun one!!

Micah's bed.  Waiting on the hubby again on this one, although I may start building it soon!

Throw pillows for Hallie's bed.

Train duvet cover for Micah

Baby scrapbook, which were 90% finished when kids were born 3.5 years ago... and there they sit!

Just need to add some pictures!



Phew! That's rough! So many projects so little time.  Good thing is, I'm still in love with all of them! So here's to be motivated to finish these before starting more!

What about you? Do you have a similar problem? Or are you awesome and finish your projects before starting another?  If you are a compulsive project starter like me let's keep each other accountable and I'd love to see what you have started, just add your link here! Here's to hoping there's someone just as bad as me! ;)

Spring Flower Fondant Cake

After the pirate ship masterpiece, we didn't have much time to practice with the fondant cake.  It thankfully came out looking ok and we now know how to use fondant!

If we hadn't been 2.5 hours in and had 9 children frantically begging for cake at this point, :) I think we would have changed up the colors a bit on the flowers, but otherwise it turned out great!



Pirate Ship Cake

What do you get when you combine 4 stay-at-home mom's, 9 kids, and a weekly play date?! The coolest 3-D pirate ship cake ever!

I'm not sure if there is an original source on the idea- I'm sure there is somewhere, but these are all over the web.  It was pure chaos but the cake turned out awesome! I feel invincible now.  Micah is going to get the coolest 3-D train cake this year!  I'm so glad we all came together and "practiced" it eased so many fears.  I can only imagine what excitement would have come from my BIL with this kind of cake. 

Not only did we "practice" making the pirate ship cake, but we practiced with some Fondant as well.  I'll share that one tomorrow! :)

Chocolate chip meets Oreo

Have we discussed the fact that I have a serious obsession with chocolate chip cookies? I love them. All kinds of them. Subway, Target, McDonalds, Quiznos, Otis Spunkmeyer, and for all you Utah peeps- Dough Girls (but not dough girls anymore- can't remember the name!) are some of my favorite.

From scratch at home... my favorite kind of chocolate chip cookie. Delicious.

Favorite store bought cookie.  Also delicious.

Put them together and what do you get? Triple the deliciousness.

Is your mouth watering yet?  Think it looks strange? One phrase for you... don't mock it 'til you try it.  I was a little hesitant when I got the email with the link from my partner in crime.  But I promise you, you will not be disappointed! You can find the original recipe here. 

It was so good, I frantically searched around my kitchen trying to figure out what else I could stuff inside a chocolate chip cookie! Then it clicked... I knew I could go wrong with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.  So I threw some shoes on the kids and we walked ran to the neighborhood market where I purchased a King Size Reeses.  And please let me tell you.  It did not disappoint.  At all.

One last piece of advice for ya.  I tried it with the snack size Reese's and despite the fact that the Reese's had been cross-contaminated with some type of gum or fruit candy, they were not nearly as good as the whole regular size Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.  So don't cut corners, just suck it up and get a whole bag of regular Reese's.  Again... you won't be disappointed- I promise! ;)