Exhaustion....

wow....Ok..well I have not written in a while. Let me explain. I took a temporary FULL TIME position at a company, and while the money was great, I have no idea how I ever used to work full time. I missed my kids so much. it was awful. BUT such is life, when you have a mortgage to pay and bills every day.....I have not even snapped one pic, sewn one sticth, or baked one crumb....looking forward to this weekend, and hoping like HECK I can get back on track!!! I'm having withdrawls!!!!!!! My apologies for making this a boring January!!!! I'll make it up to you soon I promise!

Broken crayons anyone??

I can't be the only mom out there with a little boy who tends to break all of his crayons?? I was so tired of picking up pieces of crayon or shreds of the paper....I came across an idea to make my own!

Here is what you do:

• Take all of the remaining paper off of the broken crayon pieces.


• Group them into "like" colors


• pre-heat your oven to 250°


• use any kind of silicone mold,candy mold, anything that is oven heat safe


• break them into many small pieces in each mold


• Place them in the oven for approx 12 minutes, but watch closely all ovens vary


• once completely melted remove them, and place in the freezer for about 5 minutes


• Pop them out of the molds and let cool completly

Now you have cool shaped crayons for your kids with no wrappers and although they are still breakable, will probably NOT break nearly as fast as the regular crayons!!!! Hope you enjoy!

Happy New Year!!

Wow, I can't believe it is already Jan 5! This is my first post of the new year, so sorry, but both of our boys have been sick with terrible colds so that has kept my time. At any rate, I am so excited to have a few minutes to updat you! I FINALLY got that new camera I have been dying for! so, my pictures from now on, should be MUCH better! Those fleece socks you see elsewhere on my blog, I have decided as part of my 2 month pledge to wardrobe refashion, to NOT buy fleece to make them. Instead my sweet husband has outgrown some of his favorite Pajamma pants....So...i am about to make some socks out of those! I have done one pair of his pants already and I LOVE the outcome! I will try to get another pair done this afternoon and repost with some more pictures!!! Have a happy Healthy new year, and here is to some good refashioningideas!!!