Acrylic Fish

Make a ball toss game! Here's the tutorial... (Btw this thing ended up being about 5'5" and AWESOME) You will need: 5 large boxes (I used 4 lrg 1 med. I wouldnt recommend it) 4 White Poster Boards Pencil Scissors Exacto-knife Duct Tape Hot Glue Gun Paint Step 1:  A.) With ONE of the large boxes, lay it flat and cut it at the creases on each side so you have two flat square pieces like this one. These pieces are going to be your slanted bottoms inside the game and your "scrap board".   B.) Fold the other boxes so they are up and ready to be used (like a normal box).  C.) Set one of the boxes on top of each square piece (from step A) and draw a line following the bottom edge of the box going the whole length of the square. This line is going to show you how wide the inside of the box is. Though the width should match the inside of the box, the length should me much longer so that the only way it fits inside the box is

         My son's birthday was a few weeks ago and since it was going to be my first rodeo at this type of thing I really wanted things to go as smoothly as possible. I have a lot of nephews and nieces and there were a few of my friends and their kids that I wanted to invite so the attendance list was HUGE. Of the 31 that were invited 25 showed. That is a lot of people for me and probably a bit overboard for a first birthday, but who cares right? I dont think there's a rule book on first birthdays... Is there?          If you're like me you may have an enormous Pinterest collection of projects you only dream of doing. Well no more! I made some of the decorations I pinned a while ago and used them for the party. I also wanted to be able to focus more on my child and taking pictures rather than sort of conducting the activities and whatnot, so I thought what better way than to set up activity booths and let the kids just go at it? I think it went pretty well. Here's what

      My little baby bean is turning  ONE!  Where does the time go? I wish he would stay a baby a bit longer, but I'm excited to see all of his new accomplishments and to watch him grow. Sigh.       I really wanted to get some cute invitations printed for his first birthday party and I had my eye on these adorable ones that looked like it was written on chalkboard. They were "supposed to be" 99 cents each and since I was only getting a few of them I thought "Great! They're perfect!" I was all ready to check out on the website but the price changed because I wasn't ordering a mass quantity. So I changed my order to 15 hoping it would help. It didn't. It wanted me to pay $45 for 15 cards though I only really needed 8. I was sooo disappointed and honestly just not willing to pay that amount just for invitations. Plus im cheap! I wont say which website it was because I don't like dragging names through the dirt and because I have gotten

      My sons favorite toys right now are an empty Pepsi bottle and a pocket mirror. Maybe if I'm lucky he'll grow to be an inexpensive 1920s ragamuffin rolling a hoop down the road with a stick, but something tells me he'll be more like his dad and be nuts about technology. The Pepsi bottle got me thinking about some sensory bottles I had seen a while back and figured now would be a great time to make him some while he's enjoying the simpler things in life.           We took a little family trip to the Dollar Tree to get some little things to use for the bottles and found some great stuff! They had little bags of plastic frogs, lizards, bugs, pom pom balls, confetti, Mickey Mouse and Monsters Inc figurines, plastic alaphabet letters, beads, the options are amazing. I call that a "Dollar Store Score!" Here's what I did with my Friday night...  When making sensory bottles here are some things to keep in mind... 1. Will this bottle be too big or h