Swap Following Party

I am joining the blog swap at http://www.homemakeronadime.com/ you should check our her blog!

  I have found two blogs already through the swap that I am already following and hope to find more.  Our Blessed Life there Jenn has posted a beautiful diaper cake she has made, the hydrangeas are a beautiful touch! 
Jill Made ItShe has some great posts about how you can spruce up your blog.
And I mean look at that cute elephant! How could I not follow!!  So check out these blogs and check out the blog swap and meet some new friends!

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Crystal

Family Friday: Baby Blessing and Trip to the Zoo

On Friday's I have decided to do Family Friday where I post about something fun my family is up to, or something we have done for home school. I hope you enjoy!

Baby Blessing

Molten Lava Cakes

This week I made Molten Lava Cakes

The cakes were very yummy but very hard to get just right, but when done right it's like chocolate heaven!

I found the recipe at http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Molten-Chocolate-Cakes-With-Sugar-Coated-Raspberries/Detail.aspx

but changed it a bit

Bleach Pen Letters

I have been working on some really cute shirts for my boys. For decorating the back I wanted to make bleach letters B for big brother and L for little brother. Here is how I made my bleach letters.

What you need:

• Bleach Pen
• Freezer paper letter or shape
• Fabric
• Cardboard or something to protect your surface
• Sink and soap

Family Matching Book

Sam knows pretty much everyone in our family's names but this weekend we had some family coming to visit from another state. Sam hadn't seen them in a while and I we knew he wouldn't remember their names so I had the idea of making a memory family book.

 For the book I did four pictures per page and left enough room on the bottom of the page that you can fit the same picture. Then print two of each page, cut out the picture of one of the duplicates and laminate (or use contact paper like me)

 Next put the full sheet and a piece of card stock in a page protector these are the pages of the book. I took adhesive backed Velcro and put a square on the back of the cut picture and the other square on the page protector below the matching picture.

 (sorry for the glare)

 Then put your pages together, I used yarn but you can use metal rings too, and give it to your little one to enjoy! We put names under the pictures because Sam is starting to work on sounding out letters and figure eventually he will be able to read them. I hope to make more books like this with matching other things like shapes, colors, ect.

Fun Funky Letters

I bought letters for Sam's name 2 years ago and never got around to decorating them, well with the arrival of our new little guy I decided I wanted letters for the new baby and that is was time to do Sam's letters as well.

 

 What you will need:

• Letters for the name or saying you want to decorate
• Scrapbook paper (I did 4-5 different designs)
• Base color paint
• Mod Podge
• Paint brush
• Exacto knife

Start out by painting your letters with a base color (doesn't have to be perfect you cover most of it up!) Then take your scrapbook paper and tear it up into small pieces.

 Using Mod Podge coat your letter, place paper and cover paper with more modge podge. Don't worry about the edges at this point just make sure to mix up the different papers. When it is all dry take an exacto knife and trim along the edges (don't trim when wet is tears the paper in a not pretty way...I learned this the hard way). I did one last coat of Mod Podge and you are all done!

  After making the letters I realized I didn't have anywhere I could display them so my display will come in a future post!

Link Parties:

http://craftskeepmesane.blogspot.com/