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Made in Michigan Onesie

Do you  have a baby shower coming up? How about a onesie that is not sold in stores and would be a perfect and unique gift?  If your from Michigan, you LOVE Michigan...so why not have your little one show it too!  Michigan is a beautiful state with is it's lush green fields, beautiful sand dunes and of course The Great Lakes! 

This onesie can be customized to other colors of vinyl too.  This is more of a Spartan Green color but I could do red, purple, blue, pink and other colors are avaliable to order!

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Monogram Last Name Frame

Hello everyone!! Hope you had a great weekend! I spent the weekend at Crop for a Cause, trying to raise money for hearing loss.  My cousin's daughter was born with mild hearing loss and they are having a walk to raise money for the the foundation so I took part in it! We had fun crafting, some sewing, some scrapbooking and even some crocheting!!

She also did a raffle and I won an Origami Owl necklace! I'm so excited to get it! :)

I made this new style frame for a gift last week. 

I think it turned out so cute!! If your interested, click on the picture and you can contact me via my Facebook page!!

Catching up on orders this week, had a lot for these frames, it's wedding season you know!

Spring is almost here in Michigan, I can feel the warmth coming!

Beach Tote

Who isn't ready for the beach?? I AM!!  I also just got an awesome new vendor that I can get these {SUPER CUTE} beach bags from!!!  Polka dots are so fun and these bags are perfect for the beach or the pool!!!

You can get them personalized if you'd like with either your name, last name or initials!!

Hot Pink and Polka Dots {HOT}!!!!

Have any questions? Email me! 

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Spring Break

My son has an extra long spring break this year.  11 days off!  We are headed up north this weekend but for most of the week we'll just be hanging around the house, enjoying not having to run places.  Hopefully here in Michigan, the weather will warm up!  It's still chilly!!

It's been a year since we've been back in Michigan.  For those who are new followers, we lived in Arizona for a year, but came back.  So it's nice to be home again, back in our old house, with family, friends and everything!  We are thankful to be able to come back to our house after renting it out for a year and not have "too" much damage by the tenants.  

What kind of fun adventures do you have planned for your Spring Break?

Can't wait to sit on the beach and see these sunsets and water again!

Slime? Flubber? Let's make it!

My oldest son made this before at summer camp and when he saw I had the Borax out the other day making my homemade laundry soap, he's like "Mom, can we make slime?" Sure!  We had to find some glue in the house but we found a bottle I had got super cheap with coupons when school started so we made green slime!

Materials

• Elmer's white glue or Elmer's school glue gel
• Borax (find in the laundry detergent aisle of the store)
• Water
• Two bowls
• Food coloring (optional)

What to do:

1. In one bowl mix 1/2 cup (4 oz) glue and 1/2 cup water. 
2. In the other bowl, mix 1 teaspoon borax with 1 cup water until the borax is dissolved.
3. Add the glue mixture to the borax solution, stirring slowly.
4. The slime will begin to form immediately; stir as much as you can, then dig in and knead it with your hands until it gets less sticky. (No one makes slime without getting a little messy!) Don't worry about any leftover water in the bowl; just pour it out. 
5. Put the slime in a plastic bag and add a few drops of food coloring.  Squish it around in the bag and it will magically turn colors! (Brody chose green) 

What's happening?
The glue has an ingredient called polyvinyl acetate, which is a liquid polymer. The borax links the polyvinyl acetate molecules to each other, creating one large, flexible polymer. This kind of slime will get stiffer and more like putty the more you play with it.
Store it in a plastic bag in the fridge, to keep it from growing mold.

Custom Name Pillows- $30

I've been so busy with orders lately, I haven't had time to blog!!!

Everyone was getting ready for babies being born and Easter coming that I have a backlog of things to make!  Pushing it to get done by Easter weekend so we can go up north for the weekend!

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Where you right, Mr. Groundhog?

So if Spring is on it's way earlier this year, where is it?  Most of us northern folks are getting anxious to step outside and enjoy the warmer weather, and as spring approaches, we all wish we could be on the beach somewhere, or enjoying a great baseball game with family and friends!  Detroit Tiger's are a favorite baseball team in our family and we enjoy going to the games and just baseball in general.  There is nothing quite like a night game when the weather is amazing and your favorite team is winning!  Maybe a couple cold beers in your hand to help with the heat will do also! :) 

I made these cute keychains that go perfect for the Detroit Tiger's lover in your life!! Check them out on my Etsy Site.  https://www.etsy.com/listing/125389588/detroit-tigers-acrylic-keychain?

And if your just wanting a cute little gift for yourself or maybe even your bridal party?  How about monogrammed keychains? Message me for discounts on large orders.  

Now here in our area of Michigan, it's supposed to be 50's this weekend.  That's like a hot spell for us! I hope the snow melts and we can semi-enjoy the outdoors this weekend!  Enjoy your week!

DIY Powder Laundry Soap

Since I'm staying home right now, I'm all about saving money!  I keep hearing about people that make their own laundry soap and how good it works.  Well we are a Tide family, and always have been.  My mom used some other kind of soap when I was little and I broke out in hives, so we have just always used Tide.  But I thought I'd give this a try!  It was super easy to make and cheap on the budget!

The Parts

1 Cup Borax

1 1/2 Cups Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (not to be confused with baking soda)

1 Fels-Naptha Laundry Bar Soap

Cheese grater (Food Processor)

 

I also added 1 bar of Ivory Soap, we had a bar lying around and thought it'd help with the smell.

 

Price List:

Borax Detergent Booster- $3.39

Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda- $3.24

Fels-Naptha Laundry Bar- $0.97

When it all boils down to it, your spending about $0.02 to $0.05 per load of laundry.  And since you only use a little bit of the boxes, you have more then enough for more laundry soap, just have to get another bar of Fels-Naptha (CHEAP)!!!

First you take the cheese grater, or a food processor if you have one, and shred the soap into fine bits.  This took awhile.  I also did the Ivory bar soap too so those were mixed together.  

Then I added the 1 cup of Borax and the 1 1/2 cup of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda and mixed it together.  I just used a big spoon to mix it up in a plastic container I had around the house.  

You only need to use 2 tablespoon per load (3 tablespoons if your load is heavy duty) but since I didn't have an extra spoon I just got an extra medicine cup we had.  3 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon so just two scoops per load and I'm all set!!  

I washed one load already and it smells great and seems to be clean!  

You could also add some of the Purex or Downy Crystals to it, but since we don't use any softener when I was, I figured that was just an added expense we didn't need to add.  

Can't wait to save on the jugs of Tide! :)

Project 365, Day 24

Cupcakes it is!! No one had Power Ranger's decorations for cakes, so I decided to get all the colors of Power Rangers in cupcakes and then I made these little toppers to stick into the cupcakes.  I got the idea from Under A Cherry Tree.  If you have a Silhouette Cameo, you should check out her blog and her You Tube Channel.  I did this using the Print & Cut feature on my machine.  LOVE IT!

My mother in law was in town for Caden's birthday party and so we went to eat lunch and also visit a family friend in the hospital.  Little baby Charlie is so cute!!! 

Project 365, Day 23

Called to make sure we had tables and stuff for Caden's birthday party today.  They didn't have the time slot we wanted, so I had to move the party to a little bit later but the kids should still have fun.  I can't wait for it!! I can't believe Caden is gonna be 4 :(  My little baby is no longer a baby!

Project 365, Day 22

Thought for sure Brody wouldn't have school today because it was SO cold but some of the surrounding schools didn't but we still did!!  So I just made sure Brody didn't stand outside and wait for the bus that long since it was SO COLD!!!  We still have to go to basketball practice after too and it was COLD!

Project 365, Day 21

We had a blast today playing at Zehnder's Splash Village!  It's not quite as big as previous water parks that we have been to, but for the price of buy one ticket, get one free, it was fun!!  Caden was going down the big water slide all by himself, that kid is FEARLESS!!  He even got in trouble at one point because he went down head first....oopps!

It was FREEZING outside thought! Temperatures were almost freezing with wind chill below freezing!! Good day to stay inside to be warm!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking us!

Project 365, Day 20

Today is my little brother's birthday!  Happy Birthday Jon!! 

It's starting to get a cold here in Michigan finally, it was just spring weather the other day and now it's FREEZING again!! 

Today we had hockey and I made this towel before we left for practice. 

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She just joined a sorority at her college so my Aunt asked if I could make her something!!  It's lime green, pink and purple! LOVE IT!

Tonight I'm going with my mom and we are taking the boy's to stay in a hotel in Frankenmuth, and then tomorrow we are taking them to Splash Village because Brody doesn't have school.  Should be fun!

Project 365, Day 19

Hockey starts today!!  Brody and Chris were excited that hockey is back on TV!!  Watched the game and had a few friends over.  It was fun!  I also cut out another design on my machine to try out!  I had a few extra blank shirts in Caden's size so I could know he was at least going to wear it!

Love it!! I can't wait to do more things with this machine! I can do vinyl for the wall now, so making quotes and names, also wanting to order some blank cups and other things to personalize too!!  Perfect for camping and having a cup with your name on it, so you don't have to waste cups and forget what one is yours!!   Using this one as an example: 

NOT MY IMAGE

Project 365, Day 18

January must be a popular month to be born! I have 2 Aunts, my Dad, My FIL, my Brother, my Cousin and Caden's birthday's all in January!  Today was my dad's birthday! Happy Birthday Dad!!

I got my new machine today and am SUPER excited to use it! 

I made this shirt first thing with it!  I have lots of other projects in the works too!

Project 365, Day 17

I was super busy sewing today, it's amazing how productive you can be when you sit down to actually get stuff done!!  I can get so many more orders done now that I'm not working right now!!  Look at this little cute shirts I made!

Love it! I was also super proud of this because it was the first time I'd played around in my editing software to get the name to go that way!!  Then I turned around and finished this shirt too!!

Project 365, Day 16

Hockey, Hockey, Hockey!! It's that time of the year!!  Brody had hockey practice today so we went to that and came home and had Little Cesar's Pizza! YUMMY!! 

I also made this little cute shirt for someone who's expecting a baby soon!  She requested train shirts since her older son loves trains!  Turned out so cute!

Project 365, Day 15

I headed to JoAnn's with Caden today to try and find some fabric for a few shirts I got orders for.  They are Valentine's shirts and gonna be super cute!   I also still have to make a bag for a friend that she ordered so I had to get some interfacing for that.  Anyways, I made this super cute shirt! 

 

Brody had basketball so I ran him up there, started dinner, went back to grab him and we finished dinner.  I made super yummy dessert too! 

I saw this idea on Pinterest.  I just took small taco sized flour tortila shells, apple pie filling, sugar and cinnamon.  I rolled the apple pie filling into the shells and fried them on each side in the pan.  Then when they were out I put them in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon and they were done!  SO YUMMY!  Definitely a good recipe from Pinterest!