Pantry Clean Up

A few weeks ago at Mops we had the lovely speaker, Danielle Wurth, of Wurth Organizing attend.  http://www.wurthorganizing.com She had some great tips that I have implemented and plan to continue.  She put the organizing bug in my ear and I can't seem to get it out!!  So instead of ironing, I organized my pantry.  It was looking awful and needed attention.  I included the before pics and after.  Danielle also helped me realize I needed to label EVERYTHING!  Ok, maybe that is just my OCD nature.  

Before

 After:

I added an apron hook for my kids since we LOVE aprons!  :)

I can breathe again!  And get started with ironing....ick.

St. Patty's Day

My mom and I went to The Glitter Academy yesterday....lots of fun!!  We ended up making a Shamrock out of felt for my front door. I used this tutorial for the project, though I might add my own since I made a few changes.  
http://sparetimesanity.blogspot.com/2011/02/shamrock-wreath.html

Here is what mine looks like!  I wanted to make one more but it really needs one yard of felt per shamrock and I am almost out.  But that does merit another trip to Hobby Lobby or Joanns.  :)  Let me know what you think.  I would paint the Styrofoam hearts green first, let them dry, then do the pinning.  I got the hearts at Hobby Lobby and the "stem" from a .51 piece of Styrofoam at Home Depot. 

 Another tip, Home Depot is great for finding cheap craft materials.  Burlap, painter's drop cloths, and those paint chip samples are great to use in projects!!

I am so excited to go!

I am super excited to be going the The Glitter Academy this Thursday!!http://www.theglitteracademy.com/

Ruffles, Ruffle, Ruffles!

Over the last couple months I tried my hand at ruffling, here are a few things I learned:


1. Never touch your sewing machine's tension settings.  EVER!  I read somewhere that you could change the tension to make easier ruffles...guess who killed her machine by doing that...yup..moi.
2. Buy a ruffle foot, see above for reason.  Oh and after I did gobs of ruffles, it was a blessing to have it!
3. Turn fabric under before you ruffle so it doesn't fray.  
4. Try ruffles on everything...next up for me is head bands, pillow covers, and tote bags.  

Here are some of my finished aprons that I did ruffles for my Etsy shop and my friends.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PoshRoseCreations

The Letter S

We finished Genesis last week as we started off our Kindergarten homeschool journey.  We had lots of fun and Little E made an adorable book all about the days of creation.  I will post pictures in another post.
Today and this week, we are learning about the Sun and the letter S.  I made a sensory tub all about the letter S.  Can you name everything??

Also on today's agenda is making Sun-Tea!

I got the idea about the sensory tubs from this website:
www.countingcoconuts.com

She is AMAZING!!  I highly recommend checking out her great ideas!

Do you PIN???

I heart Pinterest.  It is my crack.  How fun is a place to find thousands of creative ideas all in one place? So much fun!  So the idea is as you find a fun picture, idea, or saying, you Pin it.  That Pin is shared with everyone else to see and to decide if they want to Repin it.  You can follow friends and other people that have some great Pins and they can follow you.  That just means you can see what they Pinned and they can see what you Pinned. Easy, right?  I give you one warning....it is addicting!!  Know that at 2am you may finding yourself muttering...."no sleep, just pinning" as you wade through the awesome ideas out there.

Follow me @ poshroses on pinterest.
http://pinterest.com/

Teddy Bear Bread

Little E and Little A and I wanted to do some baking and settled on the super cute Teddy Bear Bread from the Taste of Home website.  A heads up, these take time to make since it has yeast in it and needs time to rise.  The mixing of ingredients was fun for the "Littles" as was the rolling the dough into balls for the teddy bear form, but the waiting was the hardest on them  In the end they came out super cute and very tasty.  A couple of hands and feet were missing from the bears...no clue where they went.....:)

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Teddy-Bear-Bread