Real Life

I realized I don't often explain what real life is like around here...

You know that dress I made?? Yeah it's in the washer. But I got the worst of it when Olivia grabbed a cup of old coffee on our headboard and dumped it bullseye on my scalp (Is coffee and milk good for your hair??). I am now about to put the next load of laundry in, that includes a towel and dress soaked with an entire glass-worth of kefir water (Emilie...) from lunch, and Tyler's entire outfit that he soiled when he gagged on his one "thank you bite" of cold pasta salad and consequently vomited up the one bite of chicken and glass of kefir water he had already consumed.

The good news, is that my bible appears to have recovered after Emilie colored all over the cover with a green marker yesterday! Thank goodness for alcohol and cotton pads. However, Emilie's eyelids haven't recovered yet from the dark purple pen she drew on them last night. Perma-shadow. Peeeerfect.

See? It's a zoo. Did I mention Tyler emptied the dishwasher today? I guess he didn't realize my glass blender was too heavy...set it on the edge and.....

Lots of glass.

But, I still love them :) Just another day.

My new dress!

I don't have a tutorial for this, but maybe I'll make another one and share step by step :)

Emilie helped me, and we got it cut out Friday night. I spent Saturday morning sewing to my hearts delight, and voila! It fits beautifully!

Paper Rose Tutorial

My own paper rose creation! I hope the photos and instructions are easy to follow :)

I took a few tips from pictures I saw around, but none for my needs or were detailed in description...so my little origami loving son, Tyler, helped me make petals! He's pretty proud of our rose, an I hope to make a big bouquet of them for the table! 

Prep: 

Get a glue gun, and make a bud center by folding an 8.5x11 paper in half and then making a trumpet with it. Glue the base of your little trumpet so it keeps it shape. You will glue your petals to this trumpet "bud"...

Petals:

#1 fold a regular 8.5x11 paper in half

#2 fold the corners of one end into a point

#3 the opposite end, roll the corners with fingers or pencils, to create the curled edges of your petal

This should be what you end up with..

#4 flip it over, and pinch the "stem" end of your petal

#5 glue this petal at the base/pinch, over your rose bud center, and then overlapping petals as you work out

...make sure to use lots of glue to keep the paper layers of your petal stems in place...

#6 keep an eye in where your petals lay, so there are even amounts all around

#7 make your handle! I just rolled up another trumpet and glued the wide part inside like crazy, and plopped my rose in! I squeezed it in my hand to make sure contact was made on all surfaces.

If you need to go back and glue some places on your rose, don't be shy! Have fun shaping the petals into the rose you want (tighter for a young rose, loosely for a full bloom..)

Enjoy!

-Heather

Latkes experiment...dun dun dun!!!

Yeah so I wasn't sure what to do with the cups of onion every recipe called for...so I set my Pinterest phone down and ent with my "kitchen sense" gut...(yep, I think I'm almost southern now!!! Lisa would be proud!)

Here is what I am doing this minute...so I'll edit when they are done, with the results and maybe some better amounts :)

Wet...

Red potatoes grated (food processor-ful)

2 cups cheese

6 eggs

Dry.....

1/2 cup flour

1tbsp salt

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp pepper

1/4 tsp parsley

 

Mix mix mix! 

Fry fry fry!

Edited to add....

They turned out simply amazing!!! In looks and in taste! Every one of the kids had them and loved them! Yay!!!!