DIY Claw Machine Costume

26th October 2015

Tah-Dah! I did this for 4 dollars, y’all. If you had to buy a few things, it shouldn’t cost you more than 10. This is real life.

Supplies:

Stuffed animals from around the house

Free box from friend that I cut with a bread knife…makes sense

Black paint and construction paper or sheet of yellow adhesive foam

Zip tie & binder clips

Hot glue

Packing tape

Animal outfit for your child ( I borrowed one) or face paint etc. to make them an animal

I had ALL of these things at home, minus the box I got from a friend. I painted the box and made some circles from yellow sticky foam to look like lights for the front of the box. Next, I affixed the box with packing tape to the stroller tray and filled up the space with my stuffed animals. I safety pin a few together and even hot glued a few. You know you don’t need or care about all of those stuffed animals so it was an easy sacrifice. If you put the box flaps down, it gives a ledge for you to pile the stuffed animals on, plus a large rim to tape down to the stroller to attach it.

To make the claw, I hooked several binder clips/rings together to make the chain and put a zip tie through the top ring to attach it to the center of the box. For the claw, I opened to binder rings completely and hot glued them like crazy at the center with the clips opening in opposite directions to make it look like a claw grabber. Once I had a finished claw, I glued that bad boy to the dangling binder clip chain and boom baby. Throw a human dressed like an animal in there and you are done. People loved the heck outta this thing!

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Felt Flower Fall Wreath

26th October 2015

This is the Mac Daddy of wreaths to me. I designed this for the craft expo I have a booth at this coming Saturday. If you are interested, come and check it out!

I wrapped this wreath in burlap and used a mixed of wool and eco bamboo felt to set this color scheme. I love the balance and mix of textures. If I ever marry a wreath, I hope it’s this one.

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Howdy

21st October 2015

If you are new here, so am I!!! We have so much in common already. Let’s wear matching outfits tomorrow and listen to rap music. That’s your favorite too, right?

This website is brand new, but I’m not new to blogging. This is just a shiny new site with new ideas, new places to go and new people to meet. Sooo, I will be adding to this 4 times a week so the barren columns will fill up fast as I add new and transfer in some other content from another site I already have completed.

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Easy DIY Ghost Suckers

20th October 2015

Originally on my blog, www.the1sthundred.com, but it’s still me guys.

Here’s a throwback to Halloween treat I made with my mom as a child in the late 80s. Today I made them with my toddler to give to her friends at church. Just take a Kleenex, wrap it around a sucker, tie a string at the neck, and draw a face with a Sharpie. Boom: old school, cheap, and easy Halloween DIY to do with your kids.

Pizza Costume Tutorial

20th October 2015

This is the most VERSATILE and easiest costume to make. If you can think of anything that’s a triangle: candy corn, pie, ice cream cone, cheese, slice of watermelon, etc., you can use this tutorial and customize it to your heart’s content!

It’s no sew and cost me $7.50 to make!

Materials:

1 yard of tan fabric folded in half {for my 4 1/2 year old of average height-use your 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon to do this costume for the price above}

4 sheets of red felt

5 sheets of cream felt

2 sheets of black felt

2 sheets gray felt

Good fabric scissors

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

Bowls in two different sizes

A cup

A shirt from your child’s closet for measuring purposes

Instructions:

1. Fold your yard of tan fabric in half. Hold it up to your child and mark approximately the length you want the end product to be. Mark lightly.

2. Find the center point to be the tip of your pizza slice and cut out a triangle. Make sure to keep the folded part the top of the pizza so a neck hole can be cut out to be worn and draped over your child.

3. Next you need to cut the neck hole. Using a shirt from your child’s closet, place the neck hole of the shirt in the center of the crust to measure the width your cut should be. Mark with a pen. Then measure from the center of your child’s shirt from the back of the neck, to lowest center part of the curve of the neck so you will know how low to go when cutting the neckline. Remove the shirt, mark the center of the neck line based on your measurements and cut out.

4. Get your cream fabric and cut large abstract pieces to look like melted cheese. You can also do strips and make the cheese look shredded. Cover your pizza with the cheese and find the lay out that looks best.

5. Get two different size bowls and trace and cut out pepperonis from your red felt. Lay them over the cheese.

6. Use your gray fabric to create round scallop shapes to be your sausage. Arrange the sausage over the other “ingredients”.

7. Lastly, using a cup from your kitchen, trace and cut out olives from your black felt and arrange them over your pizza.

8. Once you are pleased with your lay out, begin hot gluing the ingredients to the pizza. Once they are all attached, flip your slice over and trim off the overhanging felt.

9. Cut four strips of tan felt of the same length and width to make ties to go under the arms of the costume. Put the costume on your child to see where the strips should be attached. I marked where I should glue my ties with safety pins before taking it off of her. Once you have found the placement you need, attach them to the inside of the crust. You can see the finished ties in the first image of this post.

The pizza was blowing in crazy winds but still looked cute! I’m going to save their costumes for her kids one day. See the Play-Doh tutorial here.

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DIY Play-Doh Costume Tutorial

18th October 2015

Materials:

Embroidery Hoop {Size Based On Size Of Child- I used an 18 inch for my 2 1/2 year old.}
Hot Glue Gun & Sticks
1/2 Yard of Yellow Felt
1/8 Yard of Colored Felt Of Your Choice
1 Sheet of White Felt With Adhesive Backing
1 Sheet of Red Felt
Good fabric scissors

Time:
Approximately 45 minutes-1 hour

Cost:
10 dollars {Using 40% off coupon Hobby Lobby Coupon for yard of yellow felt and embroidery hoop}

Steps:
1- Hold up yellow fabric to child and measure where you want it to fall in length and cut if needed. I did not need to cut mine.
2-Take out interior ring from center of embroidery hoop. This will be the frame of your Play-Doh can.
3-Fold top edge of yellow felt over top of hoop, hot gluing it as you go. If you pull it just a little taut, it will create a little ledge, giving the appearance of a can.

4- Cut a strip of colored felt approximately 6 inches to create lip of can, again hot gluing over the embroidery hoop. Make sure the closing edges of the yellow felt match with the closing edges of the blue felt so that you have them center in the back. You don’t want to see “seams” in the sides or, heaven forbid, front of your costume. Measure how far down the colored lip of the can will fall very well before gluing.

5. Use left over colored felt to make two shoulder straps so the can–can be worn. I measured the spacing of these while my husband helped hold the hoop over my toddler. Hot glue the straps to the top interior edge of can, pulling very taut. I glued them once, then pulled them even tighter and re-glued the slack.

6. To make the logo, what I did was simple. Pull up the logo on the site logonoid.com. Download the image and open it in whatever sort of picture viewer you have on your PC. Magnify the image on your screen to the size you need and then put your white felt with adhesive backing over the screen. The screen will create a back lit effect allowing you to lightly trace the logo onto the felt with a pencil. When you trace the wording, also trace the shape of the red arching behind the wording. Using quality fabric scissors, lay your traced sheet over a red sheet of felt cutting out the shape of the red arching first. Set red arch aside and then cut out the words on your white felt. Remove adhesive backing, center the words on top of the red felt and BOOM! You look way more talented than anyone ever has to know! I layered the red background with a thin line of color to match the can lid and the original logo.

7. Hot glue the logo to the center of the costume. Be careful to space this well before you glue. You will need to put your hand behind the inside of the costume, smoothing the logo from both sides as glue you since it needs to lay curved over the front. It’s the only way to keep it from bunching.

8. Lastly, I cut a large u shape out under each side of the hoop so that she could easily move her arms however she needed. To keep it even, I cut the big “U” out of a piece of cereal box and drew it on each side before cutting. I put her in the costume to measure about where each arm hole should fall before making any cuts.

Colored lid can be smoothed by hand and it really looks like a can lid! I, however, did no such smoothing in the freezing artic winds that were blowing us around! You can also simply wrap the felt for the lid to fit the underlying hoop leaving no overhang. That would be even more simple and no worries about it bunching.

Pin and enjoy! Check out my other costume creations!

Simple Rainbow Theme 1st Birthday

9th October 2015

*Watermark says the1sthundred.com which is still me! Different site

Hey, homies! This is my second child’s 1st birthday party. It was a rainbow theme and was simple, modern, and swag-tastic. And, no, I didn’t see these ideas on Pinterest but you can sure follow me on Pinterest via the link in the right hand column and feel free to pin away! Thanks to Shelly Griffin Photography for the excellent pictures!

I bought the swaggiest rainbow felt garland from Etsy from Sweet and Cozy Children’s Gifts. I hung one from this light and hung another on the drink table on the island in our kitchen. The “s” was a cheap last minute touch using a chipboard letter and some scrapbook paper. Chevron is way overdone but it’s still really cute.

I decorated this cake to sort of play off of the invite. It’s a modern take on a child’s cake and childish theme. The cake is iced in buttercream and all other accents are made in fondant. I love the big tall candles I found too. If my child doesn’t like modern, she came from the wrong uterus!

I like making cakes where images spill over and I loved this big sun and it’s rays.

At this party I had an age range of guests from under 1 year to 12 years old so I had to do two different party favors. Each child under 3 got one of these over-sized bright, rainbow colored patterned balls and a balloon as they left. The balls were perfect for spring and the patterns and colors were great for the theme. Best part? They were only 2.50 each at Walmart. Work it, Wally. Even better? The kids looked really cute with them.

For the older kids, I tried to think of something simple, colorful, and different than just candy. SOOOoooooo, I bought Izze drinks which come in these glass bottles with cool logos. These drinks are a different treat to most kids, organic, non-caffienated but carbonated so it gives the feeling of a soda. I paired them with wide mouthed paper colorful straws that I found in a 20 pack on clearance at Target. I ran across these large favor bags at Walmart that covered the whole bottle and straw and I filled the bottom of the bags with large bright gum balls and Skittles (taste the rainbow), of course. I bought these neat plain white tags and stamped them with orange ink and “thank you” stamp and tied them with orange ribbon to bind it all together. 28 dollars for all 9 completed bags.

Here’s a better view of the tags I made. These tags can be purchased at Hobby Lobby and they had other shapes as well. They were 2.99 a pack and I used my 40% off coupon so they were next to nothing. The stamps were all 50% off and an ink pad was only 1.99 so this was very affordable to do. I’m saving the left over tags for gift wrapping in the future.

Lastly, you need a sweet baby dressed in a rainbow colored outfit. I grew this one myself. Not available on Etsy =0) The outfit, however, can be bought at Old Navy.

I loved how this party turned out. It was simple, colorful, fun, and crisp! She really loved it.

True story.

Nursery Reveal: Home Sweet Home

4th October 2015

Hallelujah! It only took me 13,000 years to post this! Okay, she’s 8 weeks old, but it feels like forever. Especially it felt like forever to all my friends who weren’t allowed in the room the whole time it’s been done because I made them wait for this post. Off of our master, this small little 10 by 10 room painted all white became the coziest little nursery and I love it. Hope you do too! Read the captions to see what I did, what is still left to do, and where I got the decor. Enjoy, pin, and please like this project on Project Nursery using the Facebook icon by my images and give me a star rating while you are at it! Find it here. You guys are a bunch of rascals and I love ya’.

Before: Believe it or not, this was the original master bedroom of the house. Here is the before picture from when we purchased the home. After: Wah-lah! White floor to ceiling with pops of color. New paint, new fixture, new everything but beadboard and floors! This stellar handmade blanket was a Land of Nod knock-off of one of their quilts but in transverse colors. Want to snag this blanket or have one custom made? Buy it here on the Etsy shop Slumber Spun. This blanket was made for me and it was all the charm of Land of Nod for less expense with ALL of the same quality! Anyone that has seen my nursery has commented on the cozy, thick crocheted blanket. Stacy at Slumber Spun makes lots of items including the fox you will see below and baby booties that will make you smack your granny they are so cute. Check her out! You won’t be disappointed. You can really see how small the room is now when you see the crib and the closet on the other wall in the same close-up picture! This dresser was an antique buffet I bought in Tennessee. I adored that it had the two doors on each side and not only was it cute, it has great storage! It was originally cherry and I painted it white and used the original hinges, spray painting them a light gray color. I don’t consider this part of the room totally done yet. I want a small, subtle pattern lamp shade with gray tones for starters. Now just to find one….. This lamp was originally 80 at Hobby Lobby and I snagged it on clearance for 25! This rug is HUGE and indoor/outdoor so great for traffic. I bought it from Target and had it shipped to my door, tax and all for 160! The subtle theme of the whole nursery is “Home Sweet Home”. It’s unique and not a phrase you see in nurseries and doesn’t it make your heart swoon to see a tiny baby next to this print? I ordered the print from Katie Daisy, thewheatfield on Etsy. You will DIE at all of her prints she makes. They are all custom water colors of original art and you are buying a reprint of her work. I had this large rectangle print trimmed into an oval and matted at Hobby Lobby and this awesome frame is from Ikea. Ohhhh, Ikea. I love you. I knew I wanted white walls with bright colors. The color scheme of the room started with this sheet that I LOVE from The Land of Nod. I want to marry that store. It’s serious. Emerald, two tone pinks, off-beat orange, bright yellow….I mean COME ON!!!! This killer Ikea light casts the COOLEST PATTERN on the walls and ceilings for my little one to look at. Meet Mr. Fox also handmade from SlumberSpun on Etsy. Contact her for these little guys! She also makes an elephant like this attached to a crocheted blanked. So precious! So perfectly made! Colorful ceramic knobs I nabbed from my sister’s house for my closet doors. This adds to hint of Home Sweet Home. This vintage door knob and plate are a line from Young House Love who are bloggers who happen to run my favorite blog! They have the neatest line right now at Target that you must check out! I sprayed painted this originally white wall knob a pop of blue to coordinate with the room colors. The ceilings are a light gray that coordinate with the hardware of the antique dresser and tie the room subtly together from floor to ceiling. It’s less dramatic in real life but still a touch you pick up on in the overall feel. Do you love this 1950 elephant sculpture???!!! I do! I found it at a local consignment shop and when I saw it on the sidewalk as I drove by, I called right away to claim him. I love him in the room and one day he may move on to be coated in a rustoleum outdoor gloss spray paint to live in a garden or around a swing set. So many possibilities! This coca-cola crate is also an antique that I took from my father-in-law who gave me one from his collection. I thought it was a fun way to display books in her room.

Tri-colored bird cages that I mixed and matched from Hobby Lobby. On the inside are these neat little birds from West Elm that are made overseas from seed pods that look like birds! They are 9 dollars each and ship for free. I plan on hand painting some of them different tones down the road to compliment the room a tad more in spots. A stork seedpod bird in a nursery? Of course. These prints that are the original artwork of the amazing Etsy shop SealDesignStudio. For the home theme, I bought these row houses that are homes in Australia and the nursery print of Golidlocks and Three Bears, not only showed a little girl at home, but what is more perfect for a nursery than a fairy tale print? Woo hoo! Just wait until you see the other fairy tale print I bought for another daughter’s room. This Etsy shop has all of my heart strings and I wasn’t surprised when I saw they were featured in West Elm. And I HAD to end my home sweet home nursery with this amazing barnwood Kentucky silhouette for my Kentucky babies. It’s personal and therefore has intention in the room. It’s made of old barnwood so it’s unique and old. I can use this in any room for the rest of our lives and I’ll always remember when our homestate hung above one sweet little baby. Love it! I bought this from a local shop in hometown called Digs on the River and these states are made by a man in Tennessee. If you are interested, contact me and I’ll get you the info. Like on Project Nursery here! Thanks!

Cute Gift Packing With Spice Tea

27th October 2014

I’m sure other people on planet earth drink spice tea, but I never hear anyone talk about it. It’s a long stand by at Christmas in our family and it’s yummy in my tummy.

Right now at Target in the one spot aisle, you can get a two pack of these awesome glass milk bottles for 3 dollars. You can also get mason jars which you saw me use in the DIY snow globe tutorial and for this gift idea here. I wanted to stray a bit from the jars and use these bottles because they steal my heartstrings. Milk bottles are used less than the ever popular mason jars these days.

I made the tags and embellishments using washi tape, bakers twine, scrapbook sticker letters and two paper straws from Hobby Lobby. You can buy these straws at Mighty Dollar by the packs so I would go there. Way better than the Hobby Lobby deal. It would be really cute to attach a recipe card to the jar as well but hey, can win them all.

This is a cute appreciation gift for a teacher or a nice “I love you”/ “Just because” gift for a friend. Really, it’s a nice cozy gift for anyone and they can use the jar again so double score for this awesome jar! You can double/triple this recipe and make a few of these suckers as gifts. There she blows, folks!

Spice Tea

1/2 c. instant tea

2 c. sugar
2 c. Tang
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 pkg. lemon flavored Kool Aid

1 pack of red hots

Mix all dry ingredients well. Use 2 rounded spoons of mixture for 1 cup of hot water or simply to taste.

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DIY Gingerbread Man Costume

1st November 2013

(The watermark up there is from my other blog. Promise…I’m still the gingerbread man maker.)

When my funny 80’s play on a costume fell through last minute, I decided to make my youngest something different-ish and downright cute. This DIY outfit I created is super easy and cheap and while we’re at it, rings you right in to some Ho Ho Ho! I made it the night before Halloween in about 30 minutes and guess what….no sew!!!!! I know how to sew and even I’m excited that I didn’t have to.

Supplies:

Chocolate brown Granimals sweatpants from Walmart (toddler boys): $3.88

Chocolate brown Granimals turtleneck from Walmart (toddler boys): $3.88

One roll of peppermint print ribbon: $1.50

2 packs of jumbo rick-rack @ $1.66 each: $3.32

2 sheets of felt: .50 cents player

hot glue sticks I had at home: free

Total: $13.08

What I did:

Well, it’s nothing scientific! I put the clothes on my daughter and marked with my finger about where the rick rack needed to fall. I did the top pattern first and then laid out the pants with the shirt to see where I should start the rick rack on the pants to make it meet together. I laid it all out and hot glued it down as I went. Can you say easy?

Then I just cut out one side of the “jacket” freehand with scissors by cutting the sheet directly down the middle and trimming out the jacket curves. Once I trimmed one side to perfection, I laid it on the other half of red felt and trace cut it. Then I backed it with green felt for a peek-a-boo contrast. I laid the jacket on top of the costume and trimmed it at the shoulders to fit and adhered it to the shirt with good ole’ hot glue. I think I could build a house with hot glue.

Lastly, I used a bottle cap to trace circles on to the peppermint ribbon to make my buttons and then I tied some more of the ribbon into a little bow tie number. I attached the buttons and bow with hot glue, rick rack detailed the front of the jacket and in about thirty minutes, I had one heck of a pretty polished, cheap Halloween costume that you are pretty dang sure not to see on the streets of your town.

I wish the pictures below were better but hey, it was tornadic weather outside and dark inside with terrible lighting and a toddler who wants to see the picture as soon as you get set to take it. It’s what I’m workin’ with. Pin me and follow me here an on Pinterest. Tomorrow I will post my other daughter’s costume I made that I’m POSITIVE you didn’t see last night and probably never have!