Sunday, October 28, 2012

It's Birthday Season

This weekend my dear husband had his 39th birthday.  For his birthday dinner, I made him chicken legs, brown rice with diced celery and carrots and baked sweet potato chips. For dessert, he doesn't have much of a sweet tooth. In years past, I have made him cakes and he would take one or two bites and be done. So this year for his "cake" he wanted his favorite cookies: gingerbread cookies and peanut butter cookies. I made him both of them and then stacked them for the "cake" look.


I left it unattended for ten minutes while I went to go switch out laundry and by the time I got back, there was one cookie missing from the bottom. (grrr) My elderly father-in-law has very sticky fingers when it comes to cookies or sweets. I told my dear husband about it, and all we could do was laugh.

Happy 39th Dear Husband. Prost to the ones to come!!!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Pinterest inspires

Well, as you may know, I nanny a now four-year-old kid (He gets very upset if I call him a little boy!) Each year when birthdays or special holidays come around, I rack my brain trying to figure out a good gift for him to make for his parents. I have been eyeing this project for a while and keeping it in my mental files so that I may use it for one of the upcoming present giving opportunities. Well, the time has come. The four-year-olds mother is having a birthday and this is what she will receive.

Melted crayon art.
The silhouette is actually of the 4-year-old holding his mommy's umbrella. 

I also wanted to share some of our other past projects. Sorry the photos are not great, but it will give you an idea. We do have a lot of fun with projects.  I love to do them, but it can be hard to come up with new fun things that will make the parents happy, which is why I love Pinterest. So many fun and amazing ideas that are shared and inspire me.

A foot print butterfly for mother's day.

A hand printed baseball cap for father's day.

A handprint tree for father's birthday.

I hope that you too become inspired to create something. Can't wait for the next project!!