New Halloween Paintings Finally Listed on Ebay

I am back to painting..finally!! It has been a long 6 months here but all good ones. I just have not had a moment to myself to actually sit and paint. I am so happy I made that moment happen this week because I forgot how much I missed my Witches and my painting. I hope you enjoy and I look forward to painting many more in the upcoming months. Thank you for continuing with my little blog. I am also back to my pinterest reviews of recipes..that will start again soon as well!!  Emmeline and I made an apple crumb pie today...it was delicious even though the apples were cut in CHUNKS lol it came out pretty darn good!

Halloween Painted Primitive Wooden Bowl

Shake my "BOO"ty

Leftover Candy Craft

What to do with all the leftover candy from Valentine's day or in our case..last Easter?? LOL
We do love candy in this house but just a little bit at a time..sometimes the Easter Bunny or Cupid brings a little too much...
This was my brilliant idea to use it up. Instead of stickers and beads and glue to play with..we played with licorice, candy hearts and chocolate coins. Emm had a blast..in between bites of candy...without the glue of course. It was pretty fun..and I am glad the candy is gone for now. One more month until the Easter Bunny brings some more!

Pinterest Project #115 Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees and Olaf!

This project was so much fun.
I saw this on pinterest and normally you would make the ice cream cone trees with green icing...but we are on a Frozen Frenzy in this house so we decided to make them...well frozen!
Olaf even made an appearance. I made him out of styrofoam balls attached with wire so his head even moves from side to side.
Placed all the trees in a painted shoe box with the castle behind that I painted and glued mirrors to for a more glittery effect.

The trees were decorated with sour patch candies that actually look like gumdrops so it worked out perfectly. Pixie sticks of blue were used for the snow on the trees and cotton balls on the base for snow sprinkled with blue pixie sugar as well.

Original pin can be found HERE

Do You wanna build a snowman?

This painting was inspired by my little girl who LOVES LOVES LOVES the movie frozen.

And if you don't believe me check out this video 

Pinterest Project #104 Halloween Witch Craft for Emmy and Me

These witches were so much fun to make.
Her hair is made out of Emm's hand prints.

Signed and dated on the back and will treasure forever.
Simple list of materials including paper plates, construction paper, glue, green paint and googly eyes!

Original Link HERE

Pinterest Project #98 Cotton Ball Ghost Halloween Toddler Project

Lots of Fun
I just cut the ghost out of cardboard and had my daughter glue the cotton balls on.
Cut the eyes out of black construction paper and glued them on too!
Easy Craft for Halloween

Original Idea found HERE

A flower for Mommy

My little girl painted this flower for me.
It is the most beautiful flower I will ever see.

Cracking a smile Cake!

This was my moms birthday cake.
It cracked.
I had all good intentions for this cake
It was to be beautifully iced and fluffy with pink sugar crystals all atop the peaks.
Instead...here is my flat faced cracking a smile cake!


Here is the recipe:

Take a boxed cake mix
Let your 3 year old help make it by stirring and adding all the ingredients...
So far so good
Mix Mix Mix
Pour into cake pans
Slam cake pans down to get air bubbles out...
Turn to the timer on your stove
Get distracted while setting it by your 3 year old
Do not set it
Forget how long the cake is supposed to be in the oven
Take it out too early
Let it cool completely...(umm...not so much)
Ice it beautifully and fluffy ( yeah...ok)
Let it Crack
Add googly eyes.

Simple!

Mickey Mouse Watermelon Snacks..

About 6 months ago my daughter insisted on having all of her fruit whole and not cut up at all.
That is what she wanted..with no exceptions to that rule!
 So I went along with it..for the most part ( no Grapes!! I cut her grapes so small they looked like raisins)
Anyway.......going forward...
She is over that whole deal of wanting to eat humongous pieces of fruit or anything else for that matter...finally!
I make her these for a nice snack now and she seems to love them
But..she loves Mickey Mouse to the Moon and Back anyway..so I guess it is not that big of a deal...

I am sure you could use any old cookie cutter you have laying around and think of some very festive ideas..

How about stars for the 4th of July..just cut them out and freeze them...plop them in your drink... ;)

The possibilities  are endless...Cheers!

Pinterest Project #61 and #62 Whipped Butter cream frosting and Vanilla Cake YUMMY

Delicious Vanilla Cake made today with my little helper Emmeline
We also did homemade Frosting
Check out the recipes below
There is really nothing better than homemade cake and frosting made with lots of love of course

Recipes Below

FROSTING



CAKE

Pinterest Project #57 Fine Motor Skills Play Dough and Practice Fruit Loop Tower

The original pin uses Cheerios.
We were out of Cheerios so we used Fruit Loops.

Fun and Emmeline enjoyed this. I would say definitely good practice for making bead necklaces in the near future!

Original Pin is HERE

Happy Valentines Day! Pinterest Project...ummm Not sure..

I can't for the life of me remember if I saw this on pinterest or not. I would think I probably did because I am not so great at coming up with cute crafty ideas like this...anyway.
We did this tonight for Miss Emmeline. I cut all the hearts out of paper and left a trail from her bedroom to her gift of the Candy/Valentines Day basket. I hope she loves it. I have set the stage forever now right? LOL
My Gommy/Grandmother used to give me a plastic heart filled with M&M's every year! I loved it
Those are memories I will never forget and I want Emm to have her memories of Valentines Day just like I did...Chocolate!!!!!!!!
I did however take credit for this Holiday. No cupid...No Santa...No tooth fairy...Just Mommy and Daddy.
 I hope she loves it.

Pinterest Project 41 Christmas Ginger Snap Cookies So delicious

I have started to bake all my cookies for Christmas. I found this recipe for Gingersnap cookies HERE

These are delicious cookies. They are very soft inside with a nice crispy outer layer.
The recipe calls for 3/4 of a cup of vegetable oil which I thought was a lot but after trying them I don't really want to change a thing.
I suppose you could substitute applesauce for some of the oil though. I might try that in the future. But for Christmas Cookies...hey I am keeping the oil and like I said...these are DELICIOUS!

Emmeline helped me make these cookies! It is so much fun with her. She stirred all the dry ingredients together. She is getting so big I can't believe it! We had a ball and can't wait to make more cookies!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Well this year was a lot different than Last year. Thank God.  Last year we were without power due to Hurricane Sandy coming through. I remember it like it was just yesterday.
I am so Thankful that this year all the little ghosts and goblins got to go trick or treating!
This was Emms first "real" trick or treating outing. We had a blast.
She was saying Trick or Treat before people could open their doors. She was so good and polite.
Mommy was Very Proud of her little pumpkin today.

Autumn Fun with Leaves and a 2 year old...excuse me...a 2 and a half year old.

Well I can give myself  FULL credit for this activity! YAY Mommy.
We did not have any pinterest project to follow.  We just went out and picked up some pretty leaves.
After drying them off and separating them we/I decided we should make something out of them.
I thought of Fall...wow..really? Yes...LOL...so we made a Turkey under a tree. I colored the tree out of crayons...next time I will paint it.
It was so much fun and Grandmom's will Love this!
I dated it and sealed them with acrylic sealer. We also glued these to acrylic canvas paper for a heavier backing.


So here is what you will need for this Project...

Google Eyes
Leaves
Glue
PAPER/Acrylic Painting Paper or Card Stock...even poster board will work well.
Imagination
FUN!
Anything else you can think of...Just have fun and create.
We really had such a good time making these.

 

 

 

 

 

Pinterest Project #30 Peanut Butter Cookies...Perfection!

I had to make these cookies for my little cookie monster Emmeline Claire.
Her new hobby now is to join me on pinterest and ask me what everything is..
Well when she saw the peanut butter cookies she just had to have them.
So we made them!

This is a great recipe. Found HERE

They came out very soft and were really delicious. First time ever I did not freeze half the batch they were gone before it could happen.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and When do you buy a big girl bed for your toddler?

Emmeline insists on having all of her Mickey Mouse clubhouse crew in her crib...
We have taken them out a few nights off and on but she always seems to want them back...
Hardly any room left for her in the crib!!
She will be 27 months on the 22nd of this month...is it too early to get a big girl bed?
I am in no rush for it..she usually sleeps good...we do have our moments...but...
Any advice?
I have googled etc...and it looks like they say keep the crib until 3...
I would like some "real" advice so if anyone is reading my blog...and anyone can weigh in...would appreciate it....ty... :)

Sharp Legs

This is a memory post...for my little one...Emmeline Claire.
She decided to wake last night/morning at 1:45 screaming get me outta here..get me outta here...
Yeah..she is a bit dramatic...and watches too much Little Bear...
Anyway...I waited the standard..15/20 minutes before going into her room...mind you she is 26 months old now..
I get in there....she tells me to get her out of there...I tell her to go back to sleep...She tells me No Mommy...and clings on me...
So I take her out...binks in her mouth...(normally no BINKS outside of the crib)...I was tired..I broke my own rules...
She sits down on the couch next to me.
Hubby comes out from the bedroom.....he had just gotten home from work an hour prior
I had fallen to sleep on the couch.
He puts his hand on my knee...as if to say...".Shit..what are we to do?"
Emm puts her hand on my other knee and says this....
"Mommy...you have sharp legs"
( I did not shave my legs yesterday)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL LOL LOL LOL
I almost died on the couch at 2am...
How can I look at this precious child of mine at 2am and not laugh...
I laughed...just tried to hide it under the covers...I do not know if that worked or not...LOL

My Baby is 2

Wow...what???
How did this happen...because I really feel like I just left the hospital...thinking to myself..."now what do I do?"
So we had the Mickey Mouse Birthday...I posted about the lovely straws I purchased...and I planned to have a themed out party with like everything matching...you know...like you see on Pinterest...
Yeah....well it did not work out that way...it was a bit a bit of a mish mosh... :)
It was a lot of fun and Emmeline enjoyed the day so much. She loved her Mickey Cake from BJ's wholesale...20.00...ummm..can't beat that price...and it was GOOD!

Americana Sleep...Errrrrr...SHEEP!

Finally able to paint a bit since Miss Emm is sleeping again...
Does this ever level off? She will be 2 next week...
For the most part she sleeps very good but lately...OH NOoooo...Not so much.
I think it is molars? Right..yahh...that would be it..I have been saying teething since she was about 3 months..I think I will stick with that.... :)