Blog hopping.

I have to say that I have been in such a slump lately. Not quite sure if it was the winter months here in Michigan. With that said I have been blog hopping for the past few weeks and it has helped. I have decided to make things for my house. I never knew you could do so much with spray paint and glaze. Here is a preview of things I have been painting :)

Homemade fruit snacks

I was blog surfing and came across a blog with a recipe for hommemade fruit snacks using chocolate candy molds which I happen to have a ton of. I thought this is perfect. I will show you a few pictures than post the recipe.

All we needed was 1 -3 oz box of flavored gelatin and 2 - 1/4 oz packages of unflavored gelatin, water and candy molds. (we used two candy molds)
Place 1/3 cup water in a small sauce pan. Sprinkle the Jello and unflavored gelatin over the water. Let sit 5 - 10 minutes. (If you like chewier gummi candy add in another packet of unflavored gelatin.)

Place sauce pan over medium heat and stir until gelatin is dissolved, about 2-5 minutes. When mixture is liquid and all gelatin has dissolved, remove from heat. Let cool a minute and then pour into a container that is easy to pour from. I use a small ceramic creamer pitcher.

Fill molds. If you save the inside of the advent calendar for projects like do, it works perfect! The sheet of star molds worked a bit better than the bears because they are a bit deeper. However, I must say we were just needing an activity so our standards were pretty low--- we thought they all turned out great!
Allow to cool completely, about 20 minutes. They may be placed in a refrigerator for about 10 minutes if the kids are eager.

Once cool, the backs can be lightly dusted with corn starch, if desired.
Notes: My son felt the blue ones weren't flavorful enough. Next time we will try 2 boxes Jello, 3 packages of unflavored gelatin and 1/2 cup water.

sleepover

Last night Adriana had a little friend spend the night I knew I had to have something fun for them to do. I went to the store and bouht chipboard album kits for the girls to make. Then I went ahead and decided we would use the left over paper to make washer necklaces. Needless to say they had a blast. Here are some pictures from last night.

earrings.

So I recently went to a local bead shop with my moms group and have to say that I loved it. I made a bracelet and some earrings. I decided to go back and buy a bunch more beads to make more earrings. so here is the start to a few more pairs of earrings.

Bow holder for my girls room. I was stroling around our local goodwill the other day and saw a shelf with a frame behind it. I knew i could turn it into something. This is what I came up with.

lampwork bead eqarrings.

I recently made some earrings which I have to say that I absolutly love. Here is a picture there are many more to come. Although this is not a very good picture.

On a total different topic. The cricut cake is being realeased tonight on HSN. I have the smaller cricut and am debating on ordering the expression although now with the cake coming out I am not sure what I am planning on ordering. I will post tomorrow what I have decided.

So life happens.

I have been in a slump lately. Joined a moms group to keep me busy. Our daughter Corina has been having some medical issues. Hence me being MIA. I have a ton of craft ideas that I want to make shortly so I will keep posted on my journey. Here is some of what we have been doing this winter.