Tulle or not to Tulle..........

I think tulle can make anything fancier for a little girl!  If you have a girly, girl tulle is a requirement!  My daughter loves the Fancy Nancy books and we have strived to make her room represent Nancy's over-the-top room. When we had the kid's princess / super hero party I bought an unbelievable amount of pink tulle. The Tulle Shop offers wholesale tulle for cheap so I was able to get hundreds of yards for next to nothing so every little girl that has a birthday that we know will be getting a tutu and a bow holder for the next 20 years until there is no more pink tulle left.

Sharpied to Glam!

When my daughter was 2 or 3 her great-grandma got her a beautiful bistro table.  Well she is 7 now and after years of use and a 4 year old brother and a Sharpy the table was not pretty.  My husband and I talked about refinishing it because it is so adorable, but then I found a picture on Pinterest where someone had decoupaged and used polyurethane to seal.  WHAT A GREAT IDEA!  So I did it with lots of help from my Cricut.  It has a fun look now and the chairs are being recovered to update the faded/stained material.

Independence Day

Happy Fourth Of July

Chores

With a 7 and a 4 year old it is time for some help around here.  It seems like a great time to start teaching them the responsibility of chores, allowance and tithing.  So of course we had to make something cute to get it started.  It's amazing how a child with do anything to make an "X" on a chart......that works for me! I found the sheets here.

For the frame:

• I got a wood frame with no backing and no glass from Walmart.
• I wrapped the frame with ribbon and tied it off.
• Used cardboard for the backing
• Page protector over the chore sheet to be used with a dry erase marker
• I tacked the cardboard to the back of the frame
• Tacked the ribbon to the back of the frame to create a handle to put over a nail
• Added some cute embellishments

What's for Dinner?

Anyone else hate those words?  I could eat salad, cereal and let's face it even ice cream for dinner and be thrilled.  My husband and kids expect me to cook, go figure.  With how busy we are I really need to get things organized (which I have said a hundred times).  I'm hoping this adorable menu board will help with that.  I got the idea from: Serenity Now . I'm not as detailed and exact.  I like to eye everything if you know what I mean....:).   The plan is to sit with my daughter every weekend and plan our meals for the week as well as find a couple new recipes to try.  I'll keep you posted :)