Jenny's Journey

Here’s my latest invention….  Damn you, Pinterest.  I got the idea and inspiration from the site The Crafted Sparrow .  This Heart Wreath uses the very easy technique of making Pom Pom flowers (which I have mastered)…..a glue gun (I think I need a hotter one, but those ones really hurt BAD!) and a piece of cardboard cut into the heart shape.  Me being so ingenious…used the top non-greasy side(ok, there was a little grease) of my Dominos cardboard pizza box from dinner the nite before…now tell me that’s not being green and using my resources wisely!!!!   I do like how it turned out, don’t you? I have  not yet decided on its final hanging place…because I just can’t take down my snowflake wreath on my door just yet…being that it is January 31st, and it was like 40 degrees out there today….we may just get winter in April!  You never know what you are gonna get living in Wisconsin!

Oh what memories I brought back when I decided to make homemade play dough!  The smell, especially reminded me of my childhood.  Homemade playdough has a smell unlike store bought Playdoh and you could actually eat it if one felt the urge to do so.  If that’s the case, maybe I can find you a recipe for homemade glue too! This is the recipe I used. 1 cup flour 1 cup H20 1/4 cup salt 2 tsp cream of tarter 1 tsp oil and food coloring of your choice. Mix together the above and heat over medium heat until it comes together.  Dump out onto wax paper or something and knead it together for a bit.  Let it cool.   Or give it to the kids hot….. I personally like playing with it hot, but I like things hot….and this makes a super soft, pliable dough. Jenna giving the little girl a dough cut, when she badly needs a hair cut herself!!!

Yes, I liked Becky's snowflake wreath and I felt compelled to make one of my own.  Its a little different, but I like how it turned out!  Am I becoming crafty in 2012?!?!?  I kinda feel like my Aunt Frannie...for those who know who I am talking about....please please please let me know if my house starts to smell like moth balls!!!

This is what our house is always like!  Makes for lots of laughs!

Some of you may not know that James and I decided to do some home improvements over the last week.  We have talked about doing this for a long time, but either it was a issue of money or time! Well, James has had lots of time on his hands and I think he was getting a little ansy not working for so long....so he needed a project...a big one! Well, I didnt do much of anything but go to work everyday!  He started this not so little project a week ago  Tuesday and finished it on Sunday!  Just in time for a birthday party! It turned out beautiful and he did a really nice job!  It feels like I am living in someone else's house!! Today I officially brought and kept my vacuum cleaner upstairs to live from now on because there is no carpet to vacuum downstairs anymore... Next on my list is to paint my dining room and repaint my 1/2 bath....

than clean sheets! Who doesn't love clean fresh sheets!?!? I try to put clean sheets on at least every 2 weeks, but I don't usually keep track all that well. Saturday nite , James and I agreed that it was flannel sheet time, so when I got home from work on Sunday I put my pretty red and white snow flake flannel sheets on! Talk about cozy, warm and soft! I think I slept the best I have slept in like weeks! I didn't want to get out of them. Thankfully, the alarm didn't make me this morning, but instead my youngest at 630. ( that's 2 extra hours then usual, I was happy!!)