It's menu planning time again!


What are you having to eat this week? Here's our plan:

Monday: Fish Sticks, Fruit, and Carrots
Tuesday: Pizza Rolls, Salad


Wednesday: Black Bean Quesadillas, Fruit


Thursday: Breakfast for Dinner


Friday: Beef Roast in the Crockpot
Saturday: Leftovers
Sunday: Baked Chicken, Roasted Potatoes, Salad, Bread

Almost all girls through a dress up phase. But has anyone else noticed that little girls outgrow commercial dress up clothes before they outgrow the dress up phase? My biggest little girl, Lil Bit, has reached this point. We have many dress up skirts...but all of them are too small for her. Oh, she can still shimmy into them....but they make her look way too grown up. Think...Pretty Woman instead of Pretty Princess.  But she still wants to dress up. So what's a mom to do? I make a dress up skirt with as little sewing as possible: a rag skirt.


This skirt is really easy. First, take a whole lot of fabric scraps.


Then, decide on a length. I wanted this skirt to hit mid-calf. Then, double that length, and cut a lot of 2 inches wide strips with this double length. I ended up making (lots and lots of) strips at 2 inches wide by 36 inches because we wanted the skirt to be about 18 inches long.


Measure the child's waist and cut a piece of elastic about an inch longer than her waist. Overlap the ends and stitch it (I did it by hand)


Then you fold a strip in half and run the loop under the elastic.


And then you pull both ends through the loop to make a knot.


Keep repeating until you fill out the skirt. Then start the twirling!!

It's menu planing time once again!


I'm recovering from consignment sale weekend. A lot of shopping was done in a very short period of time, but I think my kiddos are almost ready for the changing seasons.

Of course, the weather cannot decide if it's really spring yet, so I can't decide if we're ready for "spring" food. But strawberries are on sale this week, and we had the first fresh ones of the season, so I feel we're close!

Here's the plan for the week:

Monday: Leftovers
Tuesday: Breakfast for dinner, Fruit


Wednesday: Lime Roasted Broccoli, fish sticks, bread


Thursday: Garden Salad with Chicken
Friday: Spaghetti with Dressed up Sauce


Saturday: Flank Steak Sous Vide and baked potatoes


Sunday: A family birthday dinner

But then, the twins wanted to know why they didn't get flowers on their necklaces like their sister did...so we added some flowers that I made when we made the Mod Melt hair clips. I just used a little bit of super glue to secure them to both sides, and we were done. It was super easy to make these little pendants...the hardest part was waiting for them to dry!



Enjoy!

It's menu planning time!!


It looks like another fun filled week, with my twice yearly consignment sale. I've been tagging like a mad woman, so this week I'll be going for low key type meals because I'll be in the middle of finishing up the tagging process, dropping off the items, and of course, shopping!

Here's the plan for the week:

Monday: Easy Savory Meatballs, Corn, Salad, Biscuits


Tuesday: Corn Dogs, Fruit
Wednesday: Chicken Nuggets, Peas, Fruit
Thursday: Crockpot Chili with Cocoa, Fruit


Friday: Mexican Pulled Pork, Salad, Fruit


Saturday: Leftovers
Sunday: Barbecue Chicken Pizza

First, mix the paint and mod podge at a ratio of about 2:1 (I just eyeballed it). Then, paint a small area with the mod podge mixture, then press a small piece of foil on top of the mod podge. Press down and then paint mod podge on top of it. You may need to kind of emboss it a little with the handle of your paint brush to make sure it stays down well.



Keep going painting and pressing the foil. Make sure and be consistent which side of the foil is showing. I wanted an old uneven look so I went with the dull side, but you could easily use the shiny side.



Once the letter is done, let it dry and then put another coat of the Mod Podge and paint mixture. Keep putting on layers of the mixture until you reach the color saturation that you want.

And that's it!! I love my rustic letter.

How are you celebrating Pi Day?