Puppies!

On February 16th, my chiweenie ( chihuahua and miniature dachshund), Tink, gave birth to three baby girls. Daddy is a miniature dachshund. The puppies are absolutely adorable, but I will not be keeping any of them since I already have two dogs. They are all going to good homes and I can't wait to see how they progress and see how much they are like their mommy.

This is momma and her babies!

                                                                                                                  -Kate

Homemade Lotion and Cute containers

I am currently fostering a 7 month old baby, so I have plenty of baby food jars hanging around. I hated to see them go to waste so I decided to make them into cute containers to hold my homemade hand lotion and hand them out as gifts. The recipe for the lotion is as follows

Homemade Hand Lotion:
16 oz. baby lotion ( I use the pink Johnson and Johnson)
8 oz. Creamy Vaseline
8 oz. Vitamin E Cream

Mix all ingredients with a blender using the wisk attachment. Put in containers

There you have it, homemade lotion that is bound to be cheaper than buying a bottle in the store and makes great gifts. You can put it in any container, I just used baby food jars because I have so many! The container shown above I made by wrapping twine around the jar and hot glueing every so often. Glued some left over ribbon from another project and make a bow and glued a button to it. Simple and cute! I hope you enjoy and remember to Just Have Fun With It!      -Kate

Menu Board

So my son and I decided on New Years to start planning our meals out for the week.We figured it would help us save money by not eating out on impulse. So we made a menu board to help us with our goal.

What you need to make one of these:

• Foam board
• scrapbook paper
• bottle caps
• clothes pins
• small box or envelope
• stencil
• paint
• stickers
• ribbon

1. Start by glueing one type of scrapbook paper to the foam board
2. While letting this dry take your stencil and start making the letters for the menu
3. Paint the clothes pins and small box or envelopes ( we bought smaller than normal clothes pins at our local Hobby Lobby because I thought normal size clothes pins would be too big)
4. Start by glueing your menu letters to the top, then glue your boxes and clothes pins on.
5. We bought our bottle caps from Hobby Lobby and they came with stuff to attach them but you can use anything. Place the stickers inside the bottle caps before placing on the board (I learned the hard way.)
6. Cut card to fit box or envelope.
7. Once everything is in place, poke two holes at the top and tie a ribbon through them

And there you have a menu board. I put my new recipe cards in top box and when they are used I move them to the bottom one and shuffle them periodically. I also put the ingredients I`m going to need for each dish on the the back of them so I know what I need when I go to the grocery store. I also print the recipes out on labels and just stick them to the cards, I find its alot easier than writing them all out.  I placed a pack of sticky notes at the bottom to use for a grocery list. I plan on embellishing my board a little more by placing some pictures of food that my son has taken and I might add some ribbon as well. I hope you enjoy and most of all remember to Just Have Fun With It!            -Kate