Spring Give-away

Just in time for baking Easter sugar cookies...
Leave a comment by Sunday, April 17th
for a chance to win this set
of 4 spring cookie cutters.

With no sign of spring weather (snow in the forecast), you'll want to turn on your oven to warm up.
Good Luck. We'll post the lucky winner
early Monday morning.

Chocolate Dipped Bunny Peeps

Just a quick little project for the girls today.

Yesterday was 15 C outside and perfect for playing in the yard, today extremely windy and -2 C with a chance of snow. Yuck!!

Chocolate Dipped Bunny Peeps

Instructions by CD:

Take a bunny.
Dip a bunny.

Sprinkle a bunny.

Eat a bunny.

Repeat.

Enjoy!!

Only 7 more school days until our Easter Break!!
What do you have planned?

We'll have a give-away in the next couple of days!!

Crafty Kids

One of our Christmas gifts took a long time to create....
the girls went to a local ceramics shop and picked out just the right pieces that they wanted to work on. The hardest part about this whole process was the wait time. First they picked their pieces and had to wait until they were fired.
(We went in in mid November hoping to have it finished in time for Christmas, unfortunately we just missed a load to be fired and had to wait until mid January.)

They each decided they'd like to decorate a mug for Auntie Viki. Because she's our earthy friend the girls picked a blue and green glaze.

Once they saw how much fun sponging on glaze could be they moved on to a larger bowl (also for Auntie Viki).

AND a few pieces for themselves.

More waiting ....





Two more months!!!!

It's ready!!!

Look at how gorgeous the finished art is!!!:

And how proud my little artists are!

To make the piece even more personal, the girls added their hand prints inside in a very subtle grey colour.



I mentioned to Moto-Moto how much fun it was and then asked him if we could get a kiln so we could create all the time because a box of clay is cheap!!
He promptly told us NO!

Lucky for us a new pottery shop is due to open this month!!
The best part is that all pieces are already bisque and ready to glaze!!
We are already planning ahead to a Christmas craft party for the girls and their friends. (Psst, save the date for sometime early in November. This means you MKM, B, F, S and S!!)

What I'm Listening To

(click on the photo to go to her blog)

The princesses and I have been enjoying
this cd since Christmas.
They were thrilled when they opened it and found out that Mindy wrote them a personal message!! We have our fingers crossed that when we make our big road trip next summer we'll be able to take in one of her concerts and meet her. CD wants to "put on a pretty dress and dance for her."

Brownies + Oreos

It has been crazy cold here the last few weeks so the princesses and I made these to cheer us up a bit....

Yup, Brownie Covered Oreos!

(photo from hello, Good Gravy!)

The instruction are here.


HINTS AND TIPS:

Grease the pan VERY well.
Do not over bake!
Serve with a tall glass of milk.
Next time try with mint flavour Oreos

Winner!!!

My girls have the best luck entering colouring contests!!!
Both CJ & CD entered the Co-op Kids Club Valentine Contest. Each store picks 3 random winners and CJ won THIS:


Her colouring contest picture on a cake. She was pretty surprised and even more so when she found out she could eat the picture on top!! She is taking it to school to share with her class for their Valentine's Party! (We are keeping the Valentine Cupcakes that we purchased from Saucy & the Cheerios.)



I made CJ a surprise Valentine lunch for tomorrow.
Tiny little ham sandwiches, cucumbers, Baby Bel, strawberries, grapes & wafer cookies. Everything that could be was punched with fondant cutters from Michaels (the set of 3 only cost me $2.30 with my 50% off coupon.) The straw has a little
Happy ♥Day
flag on it for her yogurt drink. I found the tiny little heart sandwich picks at $rama in the spring/summer section. They were just starting to unpack things so I was quick to grab a couple of packages.

The breakfast table is set with red napkins, glasses with more flagged straws and I love "ewe" plates. Suppertime we are going to try doing a cheese fondue and chocolate fondue for dessert ~ any hints??!

15¢ Books

We stopped at the public library and took a look at the withdrawn books... we picked up 8 chapter books for CJ and 5 hard cover for CD for a total of $2.oo!!
15 ¢ a book!!



That's my kind of deal!
CJ is going to give other books a try after reading thousands (well maybe not that many) Rainbow Fairy books.

All our libraries have a withdrawn section and downtown even has a whole shop ~ it's worth a stop every now and then!

If you are a scrapbooker it's a good place to pick up some books to alter or use for embellishments!

Valentine Cards

We finished up our Valentine's this weekend.
Whoever came up with this idea is brilliant.
These are just too darn cute not to share!!!

(If you don't want to ruin the surprise on the 14th LOOK AWAY!!)

This is what they look like before they have the added treat in the girls' hands.

Life in Saskatchewan

Local peeps, we were just asked to help out a little guy in 3rd grade with an assignment on our fine province of Saskatchewan. Specifically he'd like to know about life here, interesting facts and places.



SO when you think of life here, what comes to mind??
What would be on your top 10 list??

Play Kitchen

This has been the biggest hit ....
we built CD a play kitchen for Christmas!

She had one of the plastic kitchens but it just wasn't giving her enough workspace to make all her cupcakes and treats (nor store all her ingredients, food, dishes and bake ware.)


We started collecting all the necessary pieces in the summer.
Supply list:

• entertainment stand =free on kijiji

This is what it started out looking like just after Moto-Moto cut out the top & sanded it all down for priming:

• extra cupboard doors = free on kijiji
• blinds = garage sale $1
• landscape photo for view from kitchen window = free recycled from an old frame
• fridge and stove handles and knobs = free from metal recycling depot
• burner = free from old bbq
  
• sink faucet = free (saved from reno)
• "sink" bowl = free from Mommy's cupboard
• pot holders & towels = $4 $rama
• primer = $10 needed something good to cover the old laminated furniture
• pink paint = $10 oops paint from Rona

Grand Total = $25
plus time it took for Moto-Moto to work on it.


We moved it downstairs just after it was primed and told her it was for Mommy's craft storage... both girls didn't question it even when Moto-Moto painted it pink.
Christmas Eve he put all the extras on to make it look like a kitchen.

We had a lot of tips and hints by looking at this one.

She played with it late into the evening on Christmas Day and most every day since!
I'm still on the look out for an old thin wall mounted phone (pink preferably) and maybe on the far left end of it adding a chalk board for her menu or grocery list... or maybe a framed poster of her favourite cupcake recipe!



We wanted to teach them that Christmas is more about making memories than receiving gifts.
This year we also cut down on buying and focused on 4 gifts (that we first saw here):

• something they want
• something they need
• something to wear
  

(The need and wear gift was a two in one.)

• something to read

and
a special ornament

Plus Santa brought them some little treats in their stocking.