DIY HOMEMADE SAND PIT

Thought this was a super cute little way to create a little spot for your kiddos sand pit in the yard.  Super simple.  Super cute.

Found this at *e* check out her awesome blog.

MARCH ACTIVITIES

Oh man I am so far behind on this activities thing.  Once I get this post done I should start working on April activities. :)
I have been a bad blogger lately. 
Stress, stress, and more grey hairs.

MARCH ACTIVITIES

A month full of green, green, green!!!

These are cute & super duper easy King Cakes I made for our Mardi Gra celebration.  You take 2 cans of Cinnamon rolls (that come with icing) you separate & straighten putting them in kind of a circle sort of braid thing.  You bake according to Cinnamon roll directions or until not doughy & done. Let cool.  You top with the 2 things of icing that came with the Cinnamon rolls.  You then separate out 3 bowls of sugar and add food coloring to each bowl.  One purple, one, green, and one yellow.  Sprinkle GENEROUSLY with different colors sugars. And you got yourself a super simple King Cake. ***The pic above is done with 4 cinnoman roll cans.

Residents decorated Mardi Gra masks with glitter, beads, feathers, pipe cleaner and pretty much anything craft supply I could find.  Some even hot glued their beads to their masks.

Painting with newspaper or Newspaper Art.  Basically we crumpled up newspaper pieces and dipped in paint and blotted onto canvas/paper.  Abstract Art.

Simple things for cooking class.  This month we made Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Filled Bugles.  All you need is Bugles, peanut butter, and melted chocolate.  You spoon peanut butter into the funnel part of the bugle and then you dip it into the melted chocolate and put on wax paper to dry.  These Bugles were only dipped in chocolate on the ends, but you can dip the whole Bugle in chocolate.

Shamrock Crowns.  

Shamrock Necklaces.

St. Patrick's Day Party time.  Residents wore their Shamrock Crowns & Shamrock Necklaces to the St. Patricks Day Party. We ate green cookies and drank green punch and watched some cute little ladies called The Dancing Queens boogie down for us.  Everything was decked out in green, green, green and everyone wore green, green, green.

March Birthday party with yummy cake.

The Dirt Canyon Band rocked out our March birthday party.

Some other activities that we did this month that I do not have pictures of:

Our Red Hat ladies decorated cupcakes with green icing and green sprinkles. They ate their cupcakes and passed out the rest to staff and other residents. The Red Hat ladies all wear their different cute little red hats to the meetings.

We played the Wheel of Fortune game. Pretty simple.  Use a large dry erase board and put dashes where there are suppose to be letters and a category title.  Participants guess letters.  If they guess a letter that is in the phrase they get a dime.  If they solve the puzzle they get a quarter. Good for the brain and good for the pocket book.

We started playing a game called I Want It Game. Depending on your players will depend on how many prizes you have, because ideally you would like each player to walk away with one thing.  Although that does not always happen.  Your prizes can be a can of soda, candy bar, stuffed animals, figurines, paper fans, bag of chips and anything little thing you can think of.  And then there is the IT.  The IT is an envelope that has money in it as much as your budget allows.  I do $3-$5 depending on my budget.  Each player has a cloth napkin they keep in their lap.  All the prizes are laid out on the table.  You need 2 decks of cards.  One deck for you and one deck for the players.  You go around the table and deal out all the cards so each player has the same amount of cards.  You may have a few left over.  Just lay aside.  The players have their cards laid out in front of them face up.  You then use the other deck to call out card numbers.  The player that has that card gets to pick something on the table they want and they turn over their used card.  That player then puts their prize under the napkin in their lap.  As the game goes on and the prizes have all been taken off the table players can take prizes from other players.  They just have to remember what the prize is they want and who has the prize by pointing to that person.  This is a great memory game.  Players do not have to wait until all prizes are off the table before taking from other players though.  Once every card has been called and every players cards are face down the game is over and the prizes you have under your napkin are yours to keep.

We also started a new game this month called Pokeno.  This is a game you can use decks of cards & bingo chips or you can buy the Pokeno game that comes with 12 playing cards. Pokeno is a game sort of like poker and Bingo mashed together.  The Pokeno cards have playing cards on them that go five across and five down.

Each player gets a playing card and chips.  The game also comes with a deck of cards.  You call out the cards and the player covers that card with a chip if they have it.  Once they get five across, down, diagnol, etc they yell Pokeno and win.  We do candy prizes or quarter prizes. Just a change from the same old Bingo game.

Peace, Love, & Hugs

EASTER-SPIRATION

QUOTE ME

“Let us fall in love again
and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Let us become a new spring
and feel the breeze drift in the heavens’ scent.
Let us dress the earth in green,
and like the sap of a young tree
let the grace from within sustain us.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts
and let them light our path to Love.”

- Rumi

TREASURES FOUND

My aunt & uncle are in town visiting my parents.  They were hitting up a city wide garage sale so I tagged along. First of all for the entertainment.  The four of them are hilarious together.  It is my dad's sister and her husband and my mom and dad.  To see my dad and his sister tease each other is just pure entertainment and makes me see how they probably were as kids.  And second because you never know what treasures you  might find.  Here are mine:

Found this so cute table runner or dish towel or something.  But thought it was just adorable vintage looking.  It was in a box of free stuff.  I dug through the box & snatched it up.

Also in the free box was this pottery barn barn plate.  It has a tiny chip on it, but other than that it is fine.

This is were my new free pottery barn plate and new free table runner/dish cloth.  Love the new additions to my table.

Came across this cute little book for 25 cents.  Thought maybe it might have some cute projects to do.

Projects like how to make a teepee or how to make a hammock.  Fun.

I think I talked about awhile back wanting to get new bedding.  I wasn't sure if I wanted completely new bedding or something to match the quilt my Gram made me.  Well I came across these adorable vintage looking sheets and they go PERFECT with my Gram's quilt.  Awesome.  So cute.

Here are the two together.  The green and pink.  I never would have found anything patterned to go with this quilt, but I think they blend super well.

I had so much fun hanging with my parents and aunt & uncle.  They wore me out.  Glad I went for the entertainment & the great finds.  Total spent for the day $4.25.  YEA!

Peace, Love, & Hugs.

PLAY CLAY

Found this cool idea at WhiMSy's blog.  Home made clay & then you cook it and paint them.  Put a gloss on them and you got cool stuff.

To make the clay:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup of salt

1/2 cup of water

Mix.

Knead.

I had to add more flour cause the clay was sticky.  So just keep adding flour until it's clay like and not sticky.

I got this cookie idea from the WhiMSy blog.  Thought it was so cute.  Wanted to put it on my  kitchen counter.

Re-Peat painting on his clay creations.

My finished cookie.  So cute.

Re-Peat's painted projects.

My kiddos call my mother Ninny.  Her birthday is Tuesday.  So we made a Ninny paper weight & Re-Peat painted.

Peace. Going to make a fridge magnet.

Smile. Going to be another fridge magnet.

Re-Peat's finished creation. Not quite sure what it is.  He said something about a snowman and a donut.  But I used the donut as a platform/stage for the snowman. :)

See more pictures, recipe, and more ideas of what to make at WhiMSy.

THRIFT STORE FINDS

I went thrifting back at the end of March.  I took picks of all my finds, but I guess somewhere along the way I forgot to post my finds. So here are my finds:

I love this dress.  Thought it was funky.  Have no idea where I am going to wear it, but I'll find something.

Close up of the material and pattern of dress.

Total hippie flowers.  Love.  It's super thin so keeps cool.

This blouse just reminds me of candy.  It's so light and cool and super girly.

Cute embroidered tank.

The white shirt I Already had, but this little pink number was my find.  I don't have a lot of pink and this would be cute over this shirt, or a tank, or swim suit.

Simple coral button down.  Light weight.

another super girly.  So light weight and cool also.

 

This is just a plain black with white polka dots blouse.  Thought it was simple and cool for work.  I may have to give it up though, my boobs don't fit it that well. :)

Adorable brown skirt.  I love the jagged bottom of it.  It has a super adorable flower pinned to the front too.  Cute with flats, sandlas, or even flip flops. 

Two pairs of shorts.  nothing special just shorts.  

Duh shoes.  Girl can't have too many.  New black and brown.  Great find.  I hardly ever find shoes in my size thrifting.

This is summer.  Could be worn as skirt or long blouse with leggings.

Close up.