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Moving

Good Morning All,

I apologize for the delay in everything but we are currently in the middle of moving right now. Things have been hectic all around for the past little bit. I encourage you to comment on the posts to share your own ideas and how they have worked for you and your families. I would love to hear from you and can't wait to see what you have come up with. You are amazing!!

As Always,
Dawn

Cups

Good Day All,

So I've been out for a little bit due to family obligations but for today we have an amazingly simple project. I hate washing and rewashing all the kids cups. My oldest can reach the cabinet but my babies cannot so I stole this idea from pinterest. Behold, magnetic cups!! This has been an amazing concept in our home. We have a water dispenser in our fridge so the babies just grab their cups and  get their water. There's no hassle of "mommy I want drink!!" "mommy, you do it" and I get to continue what ever I was doing.

These are cups that we already had, we lost the lids to them forever ago too. I simply hot glued magnets to the the back of them and let it dry. I will warn you that the magnets have come off a couple times since doing this but for the most part I love this idea. It is just one more thing out of my day that helps. keeping everything in order helps a lot and this is one of those things.

Do you have any similar ideas that help you in your home? If so please share, I would love to see want helps you.

As Always,
Dawn

Height Chart

Welcome Back!

As a former military member, my family and I moved around quite a bit. With young children I always wanted to keep track of our kids' heights but also didn't want to pay extra for "damaging" the residence. I had tried different things but never really fell in love with it. That's when I made this. I have a ton of random craft material, and I get so excited when I make something like this. Lol. Shouldn't we all though?

This one is really simple, 6.5 feet of satin ribbon and mini clothes pins. I lined the clothes pins up with the height chart that I had just drawn on the door frame, wrote the child's name and age, then simply glued them in place. If I had thought about it then, I would have added lace ribbon also. I love lace. I also think that if you could some how print the names on the clothes pins it would look neater. Either way I love this and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

Short and simple. What do yours look like? What materials did you choose? You have an amazing day!!

Camo Blanket

 Good Day All,

This is the first "big" project I did. It is about the size of a lap blanket and felt like it took forever to finish. I am rather proud of it, seeing as how it was the first of it's kind. :-) I have to admit that I got the pattern from Walmart as a kind of "maybe-one-day-I'll-do-this-but-I'll-probably-lose-it-first" kind of project. Everything turned out well though and I got to pass a good bit of time. This is very warm and would be cute in a multitude of colors and most likely better as a baby blanket or young child's blanket. As always I will post the pattern below and I am currently working on a category for patterns, references and symbol patterns for quick referencing. For now this is what we have. As you can tell in the photo below there are a few places where I miss counted or wasn't paying attention to what I was doing so there are mistakes, but unless you are really looking you wouldn't notice them. lol.


Small Blanket 

Inside

Start - Ch105, ch3 (First dc)

Row 1-200- dc3, ch1, skip next stitch (snsts) dc1, ch1, snsts, (dc4, ch1, snsts,  dc1, ch1, snsts,)x14

On row 200 tie off at the end and begin boarder.

Boarder

Rows 1&2- (dc1, ch1, snsts) all the way around the blanket (about 610 sts around)

Rows 3&4- dc105, ch3, dc200, ch3, dc105, ch3, dc200, tie off and weave in.

Let me know what you think and how your own creations have turned out.

As Always,
Dawn

Slow Cooker Jambalya

Good Morning Amazing Readers,

Today we have food! I love meals that incorporate all the nutrition my family needs and is super simple. This is one of my families favorite meals - Jambalaya. Our version isn't as spicy as it should be because of my girls (my boy loves spicy!) So we leave the cayenne pepper out of it. Other than that you throw everything into a crock-pot and leave it on high for 4 hours or low for 8. When I had to get up at 0400 every morning and get ready for work and then wasn't getting home until almost 6, I would make this the night before and just put it in a Ziploc, put it in the fridge. This allowed me to put it on in the morning and not have to worry about rushing to get dinner done when I got home. This recipe made more than enough for our family of 5 and I typically had some left over for lunch the next day. I serve this with some white rice and everyone is happy. Feel free to adjust this recipe as needed, I've done it many times over and it is loved just the same. This version also calls for a few types of meat. I have found that the chicken tends to dry out very easily so if you can stick with the 4 hours instead of the 8 or you can simply leave it out altogether. Either way is up to you. It still make a lot of food and turns out great.

Jambalaya

1lb Cubed Chicken

1lb Auodville Sausage

1lb Cubed Ham

1 Green Pepper chopped

1 Sm Onion chopped

1 Can  Diced Tomatoes

2 Cups Chicken Broth

2 tbls Cajun Seasoning

1 tbls cayenne pepper (adjust for desired heat)

1 tsp thyme

1 tsp oregano

1 tsp parsley

If you are going to be home while this is cooking you can add rice to the soup about 30-45 mins before it's done cooking. Otherwise simply make it afterward. When using a crock-pot I recommend using the slow-cooker liners. They make everything even easier and clean up is nothing. For the already busy family, we can need all the help we can get. This recipe is amazing and it is one of my most request recipes by my family. What are your favorite meals in your home? I would love to hear your versions of this also. Happy cooking!!

As Always,
Dawn

Homemade Playdoh

Happy Monday!!

Kids love squishy stuff, right? I know mine love anything that can possibly make a mess. I have seen many recipes for homemade playdoh but I hadn't tried it until recently. I used one that was a "non-cook" recipe. (I definitely didn't think you had to cook playdoh lol.) I would like to improve on this recipe in the future, I found that it took forever to get a smooth texture and the colors weren't as vibrant as I wanted them to be. Despite this the kids loved it. I purchased some left over table covers for 75% off after Easter and used one of these so that it was an easy clean up.

The recipe I used is as follows

1 cup salt

4 cups flour

2 tbls vegetable oil

1 cup water (add more if needed)

Mix all ingredients until well blended. If you so desire mix all or parts with food coloring. I would also recommend mixing it with either vanilla or peppermint extract (or any you would like). This makes it smell amazing. I did love this part of it and the part that if one of the kids desired to try to eat it it would completely safe. Have any of y'all made this with your children before? If so, what recipe did you use and did you like it or not? Have an amazing day!!

As Always
Dawn