Easy Peasy

I would like to thank Pinterest for this Easy Peasy Summertime treat.  I have two birthday children in June, and I was getting really tired of cake, so I wanted something simple...and this was it!  We made these delicious marshmallow treats for moo girls summer camp class.

Get yourself some marshmallows...any size will do - but the Jumbo ones are really fun!  

Melt some chocolate, and dip those babies in it!  

Then have the kids decorate with sprinkles...SO MUCH FUN!  So much mess too - but completely worth it!  

At the time all I had was straws for sticks...and it worked.   

Kid approved!!!

For my next batch I made smores - I liked these the best!  Make sure you wait for the chocolate to harden.  I liked them better the next day after the marshmallow toughened up a bit.

  

Remember the red shoes?

This is why I love pinterest...I saw a tutorial about glitter shoes.  But in no way was I ready to use one of my already owned shoes.  Then shopping for Moo girl, I came across these cheapies...

Which became a craft project....

 I used modge podge and glitter.  Tape around the bottom of the shoes.

 Waited over night...and now we have Glitter Shoes!

 I'm going to change the shoe laces...not sure with what, but I figure something to make them a little bit more fancy.  Something to lure Moo into wearing them.  Maybe elastic so no tying necessary. Any ideas?

These shoes were made for dancing...

and most likely will be taken off in the first 5 minutes of the Daddy Daughter Dance...but that's ok.

if you remember we started with this...

a little big for my girl, but they still worked...put a little cotton in the toes and she'll be fine. My big idea was to clean them up and add a flower...so I got this...

which was very nice, but in my midnight meltdown I turned them into this...

Not good...not good at all.

So back to the drawing board I went.  I stayed away from these shoes, far away, mad because the flower was perfectly fine. You know how I know this...I showed Maddie the new shoes I created...the first thing she says "where's the flower?" my shoulders dropped, a small sigh escaped me...and then she says..."ooohh..look at those" and starts petting the pearls...and all is good again in my crafting world.

But don't think I'm done...shoes need a matching hair accessory.  We also need some clip on earrings or Maddie will be very disappointed.  So this week, and preferably before midnight I will be crafting some matching accessories...the dance is this Saturday and I plan on doing a little photo shoot...and as long a I don't have any crafting breakdowns...all will stay good in the world.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Remember the teaser picture from facebook I sent out last night?  

What sweet memories.

Let's start out with the good.   

Started my day by taking a quick run to Hobby Lobby, which always puts me in a great mood.  Still not exactly sure what I was going to do, and knowing I had everything I could possibly need at home, except little pearls...which I found in the bridal section for seventy-five cents.  

I was so excited to start my shoe project, but life happens.  Kids come home from school, gymnastics, and dinner...so at 11pm I gathered some supplies, I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do...I needed a soy candle, needle/thread, satin...why a candle?  Well, to make satin flowers, you use a candle to keep the edges from fraying...why soy?  Because it doesn't leave the black soot from the flame on your flower.

So as I was staring at the shoe with the pearls in hand...I had no idea what to do.  I knew that I needed a strap for these beauties...so, I decided a pearl strap would look great...it would look like little ankle bracelets.  Great idea until I realized that I had no idea what size strap I would need.  So I got out my night vision goggles, and sneaked into Maddies room.

And yes, that is a very large, sharp needle by her foot.  Remember it was after 11pm.

The pearl strap looked and worked great.  I used elastic thread so that it would be an easy on and off.

  So now onto the flowers. 

I was pleased.  Not overly impressed, but at least pleased.  So when Moo woke up in the morning I had her model the one shoe I created...

I was so excited!  I was going to finish my blog post, and I was going to look so crafty.

I started my project again about 11pm tonight...gathered some more supplies, this time I was going to take pictures, and it was going to be so pretty...

Then bad things started to happen. I was not liking my flowers.  They didn't look even too me.  They started to look odd.  I still decided to hot glue them on.  I needed to finish.  I had to finish.  I had to POST my beautiful Pinterest inspired shoes!!!  Before I could even take a picture of the final product...I  tore them off.  They were not right.  When I bought these shoes I knew that there where some small holes from the staples that the smart people at the thrift store used to attach the price, but I thought I could cover them up, with the flower.  I kinda did.

That plastic flower embellishment on the shoe...I again thought I could cover it up nicely...I sorta did.  But because of all the covering I had to do, I made these flowers too big.  And so now...we have the ugly...

But that's okay...tomorrow is a new day, I have another thing of bridal pearls, and I have an entirely new idea...