I've been telling my oldest daughter that we would make something special to hang above her bed for months. We saved little snip'its, tags, bags, and paper...it took sleet and snow to keep us home...but we've finally done it. I love the way it reflects her personal style.

LITTLE GLIMPSES

THE BIG PICTURE

Fancy that, a project long invisioned finally comes together!

DeeLight

Snow on Snow on Snow

Okay, I must admit I LOVE the white stuff (snow that is). I Love being stuck at home with my family and I love watching my kids play in the snow!

Granted we don't get stuck at home too often. I don't know if I would enjoy an entire season of it. But snow really is a wonderful thing.

And now for BED HEADS eating Snow Ice Cream for Breakfast...
I tried 2 recipes one with Eagle Brand (Paula Deen's Recipe) one made by mom's recipe. Mom's was the best but Paula Deen's recipe was okay.

Mom’s Snow Ice Cream

Mix:
2 C milk or half and half
½ - 1 C sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla

Stir until well blended and sugar starts to dissolve.

Fill a mixing bowl with snow pour mixture over snow and stir, add more snow for desired consistency.

Fancy That Ice Cream made from snow! Doesn't get much better than that.

DeeLight

Spread Your Wings and Fly

My mother has a "butterfly garden", and every year the kids love to watch the caterpillars as they gather on the fennel bush. They always bring one or two home, and observe them as they make their cocoons and wait for them to open into beautiful butterflies.

As we were preparing to go out of town, a few weeks ago, my oldest heard something rustle and notices that the butterfly had opened. What a lovely surprise!

Speaking of beautiful surprises...Check out this cute dress my mom made for "Big Sis" she started with a tank top cut it to a shorter length than gathered a great floral fabric and attached it to tank top :) How cute it that! "Big Sis" added a cute belt, necklace and jacket for the perfect look.

Fancy That, beautiful surprises all around! Keep a look out, you never know when something beautiful will be headed your way ;) DeeLight

My mom gave me the coolest thing ever from Willaims-Sonoma . She gave me a pumpkin and apple shaped "hand pie" press.



This is what the finished product looked like...not as great as the ones in the catalog, but I'm happy, and to be honest the pies didn't last long enough for it to matter too much. The great thing about these presses is that the kids are able to help (very easy to use).



Fancy, that yummy little pies that little hands can help to make. DeeLight

Wall Collage with Picture Frames

Don't ask me why, but it has been my mission to decorate my house with items from goodwill, or garage sales. Now, I do have a few things I've picked up from other places, and of course there are the items I already had, but most of the newer things are thrifty things.

I was having pretty good luck finding prints, mirrors, wall hangings...but I had this one space that I just couldn't fill. I never happened on to anything that was the right color or style. So I decided to borrow an idea from one of my Country Living magazines, and use a collection of empty frames, mirrors...to create what I like to call a "wall collage". I stopped in at the goodwill (while my oldest waited in the car with the little ones) and 8 minutes later I came out with all of the frames, shadow box, and mirror you see in this picture. I cut a scrap of toile fabric to fit one of the frames. The shadow box was easy, I inserted decorative paper into the box and then placed tiny mementos into the, super tiny, spaces.

I removed the ghastly print that was in the black frame and replaced it with a collage made from junk that was literally sitting on my counter (old keys, scrapbooking scraps, ribbon, and a few old buttons). Oh, and I sanded the frame so it would loose a little of it's gloss and have a more vintage look.

Fancy That, a quick trip to the Goodwill and a new creative and inexpensive wall display, or should I say "wall collage";) DeeLight

Oh, What A Circus!!

Today's Muffin Tin theme really suits my life right now. With school, soccer, piano...starting back up things are a circus!

We had our Muffin Tin after school. I went with Mini Cupcakes and all the fixing's for clown faces.

Try as I may I can't get this picture to load into blogger the correct way, so turn your head sideways and every thing will be just right.

Big Sis is helping the two little ones with this project and I'm heading out to mow the lawn!!

Hope you are all having a Magnificent Monday!! Stop by Michelle's to see more muffin tins.

Facny that, A little clown'n around with cupcakes! DeeLight

Make note of it! It's Pink Saturday

What better way to make note of something special, than with a clipboard dressed in pink!!

The other day I shared a clipboard that I made. This pretty pink clipboard is one that my niece made for my youngest daughter's room. The cupcakes were created with a Martha Stewart paper punch, she added corkboard to the side and used scrapbooking stickers for the lettering. Like the clipboard shown in the previous post, the picture is mounted with photo corners for easy removal. The oldest girl in the photo is my niece and the baby is my youngest.

For more noteworthy pink check out Beverly's Blog!!

Fancy That, two girls all pretty in pink clipped on a pretty pink board!! DeeLight