Shedding strategy

Obviously you brush the dog or cat but in the summer it's really difficult to keep hair off of your furniture (you know the couch the dog doesn't stay off of). There are these nifty new hair picker upper thingys on the market. They are small and light and much easier for a quick defuzzing than the vacuum cleaner is but they are ridiculously priced and supposedly not reusable. Well, if your dog is like mine you can use it once or twice before it gets full and you are supposed to buy a new one. I have only bought one and used it all summer with my very easy strategy for reuse. I cut a small whole in the top plastic and empty it like I would a vacuum canister. These things are like 4+ bones a piece! Who buys that load? Not me;)

Oh and maybe it's just me but I didn't realize until this week that wax paper could go in the oven. I mean with the name wax paper it would just seem like a bad idea, right? Well for a fat-free pie or cake lining cut a piece the shape/size of the bottom of the pan and there you go. Save the messy paper towel of crisco for some other sucka.

Here we are again...and dryer sheet butterflies!

writing for the first time in forev. I just don't know where my days go. I've started selling jewelry for an awesome company called Premier Designs. So, there's that, it has kept me a bit busier and if you would like to book a show with me please let me know:) Free bling is always good! Other than that just to update I'm 35 weeks and measuring 38 weeks. Basically means another big baby is coming, not trying to get y hopes up on an early delivery due to the fact that I was late with the other two. I'm tired and honestly very excited for school to start next week. I do hate to say that but it is the truth. I love y son but his energy is exhausting to me at this stage in my pregnancy and it is really difficult to keep up. I also feel like he needs more stimulation than I can provide at his point. We have exhausted our book selection, art projects and crafts. One day I will get them all on here to share with you...one day:)

Here is something that we did the other day.

Dryer Sheet Butterflies

What you will need:
    * used dryer sheets
    * spring type clothes peg
    * brown pipe cleaner
    * black pipe cleaner (antennas)
    * glue
    * magnet
    * water color paints
    * pencil and paint brush

Instructions:

Take one used dryer sheet and scrunch it up the long way in the middle, then clip it in the middle with the clothespin. Do the same with the other dryer sheet. Now you can stop here and just paint the clothes pin and add a magnet on the back of the clothespin or you can copy the butterfly in our picture.

If you want a butterfly like the one shown, here's what you do:

Take a brown pipe cleaner and wrap it around a pencil so it will be in a coil.

Next, take a black pipe cleaner and fold it in half. Now slip one half of the black pipe cleaner through the brown coiled pipe cleaner and slip the other half around the middle of the dryer sheets.

At the top of the brown pipe cleaner, twist the two black antennas together.

Now take a pencil and wrap the two tops of the black pipe cleaner antennas just a little.

Here comes the fun part! Take your water color paints and brush the butterfly wings with all different colors. Let dry and spray a little bit of perfume on if you want the butterfly to smell nice.

Glue the back of the butterfly to the clothespin and when dry, glue on a magnet. Now you have a beautiful butterfly note holder for the fridge