Jell-O Worm FAIL

This summer, I've tried to do at least one project a day with my girls.  Today we tried the Jell-O Worms.  What a disappointment.  I saw this pin on Pinterest, looks easy peasy right?

Not so much.  Here's how it really turns out:

Could it be because I used generic Jell-O?  Were the straws not big enough?  Not sure.

Photo Bombed by Opie

I thought I'd take a precious picture of my girls snoozing in our bed (they've been asking to do that a LOT lately).  It was dark, I wasn't sure where I was even aiming and low and behold, look who ends up in the picture.  Opie.  Sheez.

Crafting with the kids. Sigh.

I don't have very successful crafting sessions with the kids. I truly throw caution to the wind, I'm game for having my kitchen trashed and don't mind quick baths after the fact BUT when I go through all of THAT and still don't have the craft turn out I get pretty bummed.

For example, I had the girls pick out a picture on the internet that I printed up to make necklaces with. The cut the picture out, mod podged it to the glass rectangle I had for each of them and then I sealed it with diamond hard and glued on the bail but within 24 hours of them wearing it the next day they fell apart!

So then I saw this idea for making cuff bracelets out of paper towel or toilet paper rolls. Great idea but:

1. The cuff stretched out while painting it and now it won't stay on the girls wrists
2. Beads would not stick so we invited the glitter fairy over
3. she left surprises all over the house and she's still hiding here....somewhere.








So if I were to do this project again I would probably skip the painting and use stickers only. Humph.

The Tale of the Unicorn Cake

Cute story. My oldest had her 5th birthday the other day and I had asked her what kind of cake she wanted. She said she wanted a unicorn walking on it so I headed off to Walmart to have a cake made. There's one lady in particular there that does a fantastic job on the cakes so I knew she could pull it off. I placed the order and when I told my daughter....she said, "but mommy, I wanted YOU to make it." I told her there's no way I could draw a unicorn on a cake. Her response?

"well.....can you WRITE "unicorn" on my cake then?"

So what do I do? I headed out on a mission to find a unicorn to stick on her cake. After long, painful searching I found the perfect unicorn to go on top of her not-so-perfect cake.



I think it took three tries to get the cake to look satisfactory. It's official, I highly dislike cake making...just as long as the birthday girl is happy.

Neighborly Love

I made some adorable baby shower invitations for my dearest neighbor, Miss Heather.



Today I ran them over to her and while I was there she showed me these cool flowers she made to spice up a new shirt. She adores crafts as much as I do which is why she sent me home with this....



Within an hour I had made a few flowers of my own for the girls hair....





Thank you Heather, you're a doll!


:)

Mojo Interruption

So I know my youngest has been dropping pins into my sewing machine through the bobbin winding hole. I didn't think it was affecting my machine until my bobbin stopped winding. Hubby shook out all of the pins, that was quite a work-out and I tried again but apparently it wasn't the pins causing the problem. My machine is just simply broken.

This is the second time I've has to take this machine in within the last 6 months. The first time my timing was off and now it's the bobbin winding issue. Growing up my mom always said, "you have to get a Singer". Well, I did. And I'm not impressed. Apparently I'm not the only one that's had this problem either.