Quick Fix: Booster Seat Cover

Extra fitted crib sheet + not so cute booster seat = free improvement!

Superhero Cape!

sorry so blurry - superheroes seldom stand still!

While chillin' with Max over winter vacation, he decided to be a super hero. Spider-Man was a favorite - and apparently to be Spider-Man you need a cape, boxing gloves, and rubber boots. Now, that's some imagination. :)

I followed the instructions over at The Southern Institute, for a no-sew project, using a snap instead of velcro, and Max picked out a shirt with print already on it so we didn't DIY the artwork. Instead, he's rockin' the '09 Solstice. I suggested something else, but nope. He really likes that design, so we went with it!

Friday Flashback

• Wordless Wednesday: Unattended Cereal + Toddler =
• ANOTHER Birthday Pound Cake
• Birthday Pound Cake

Mason Jar Oil Lantern Redux

As you know, I love me some Pinterest. The inspiration for one of the projects that I've done, an olive oil lantern (genius), came from Pinterest. I added some essential oil for fragrance, and I keep it in the kitchen to deal with cooking smells. I got sick of the wick falling into the oil and of the cat testing the oil (when it wasn't lit, obviously) - so I punched a hole in a canning jar lid with the pointy end of a bottle/can opener and fed the wick through the hole. Done!

Flower Power Hat!

My mom's trying to get rid of her little balls of yarn (so she can buy more yarn) so I've been trying to help her with scrap busting projects. Enter: The flower power hat! I just winged it on the basis of casting on 80 stitches of worsted weight on #6 needles = hat sized, then divided it out into 5 petals... ok, so not super easy to explain. I'll write down the pattern one of these days. In the meantime, didn't it turn out cute? I'm pretending (badly pretending) that I intended for it to be adult size... in reality it was supposed to be for a not-quite-3-year-old. Oh well, I'm hoping her mom will like it. :)

Under the Kitchen Sink

That just sounds like the title to a horror movie. "Under the Kitchen Sink." Blech. (I know, it looks dirty under there - but I swear it's clean!)

Under the sink used to be an awful mess. Plastic bags were the main culprit - and the solution was a simple one. I cut the arm off an old, long sleeved shirt, tied up the wrist end, and put an embroidery hoop in the upper arm to hold it open (a pink one!). I left some overhang on purpose to help hold bags inside, mounted the hoop on a cup hook I put on the side of the cabinet, and shoved the bags in. Success!

Once that was taken care of, it was easy to sort through all of the stuff under there and get it in the right place - whether that was a smaller container, a different cabinet, or the trash. I had a good chat with myself about what cleaners I actually use, and which ones are just there. I used the same mentality as a lot of organizers use - if you haven't used it in 3-6 months, throw it out! Granted, the Costco size thing of dish soap that I never use won't actually be thrown away, I'm bringing it to our local food shelf. (Hubby did the shopping one day and mis-read my "dishwasher detergent" note, so we ended up with a gallon of dish soap.)

Friday Flashback

• Washing Little Toys
• Me Versus the Head Cold: The Result
• Sinus Warriors
• Ultimate Toddler Present
• I’m BAAAaaaack!