::Tip Tuesday::

I have posted many different helpful tips on my Pinterest account. This tip is one that we for sure needed to try out in our house. My almost 5 year old daughter has mid length hair and HATES to have it brushed out. She always tries to do it herself, and just lightly goes over the top, which I'm sure is the case in many homes!

Well, I found this great, inexpensive tip from Crafty Couple to make your own detangling spray. This is an item that I think is helpful to have for kids, yet I can't bring myself to spend the money on it, so when I saw how to make your own from Crafty Couple,  and for FREE, I was sold!

Click on the link above to see how they made their own, and you can make some too, probably for free like me if you already have an empty spray bottle!

::The Pinterest Project::

Ok, here it is! I've been out of touch for a while since having my baby, and getting back into a good schedule with my family and work. Yes, I work full time. This is a necessity at this point in our lives, and for my sanity sake as well! :) While I've been so busy, I've been addicted to Pinterest! I don't know about you, but I feel like I pin EVERYTHING! Whenever I see a great recipe, helpful tip, education tip, dating idea, great outfit, great quote, gift idea, craft project, decorating idea or whatever I pin it! I've been thinking lately that I need to start trying out all these pins instead of just collecting them! Therefore, S.J.'s Crafts presents: The Pinterest Project! Each day I will be posting something different that I've found on Pinterest that I want to share with all of you! I have so many different boards that I put pins on so it was hard to decide how to split up my days, but here is what my schedule of postings will look like in case you are looking for a particular thing:

Makeover Monday- These will be dedicated to "lifestyle change" pins and beauty tips. The Hubs and I committed to a lifestyle change at the beginning of March and have done so great at it. I've found many pins that have workout tips, healthy recipes, and anything else to do with being healthy!

Tip Tuesday- These will be any helpful tips that I've found, such as for organization around the house, cleaning an appliance, education tips, etc.

Want it Wednesday- These are things that I want to try to make, buy, do such as crafts, decorating, or fun things to do for my yard.

Tasty Thursday- Self explanatory, but recipes are a big board on my account!

Family Time Friday- These are ideas for strengthening my family such as fun things to do with my kids, to fun date night ideas for me and the Hubs!

I hope you will all be excited to share in this fun project with me and get more excited to go on Pinterest and find those great pins! The best thing about Pinterest is that it links you to fun new blogs, websites and companies you never would have found otherwise. Let's get pinning! 

::Where have you been??::

I have been MIA! I got pregnant in April and was really sick until about 22 weeks, and haven't had the energy or the drive to do ANYTHING!!!

It has taken me longer to do projects, but I have finally got some stuff done!

Since I am having a baby in about 3 1/2 weeks, I decided I wanted to make a cute car seat tent.

I found  the perfect tutorial of one I wanted to make over at Sumo's Sweet Stuff. If you are wanting to try this car seat tent, please make sure to read through the entire tutorial and make sure you understand it before you start. I didn't, and made a lot of the same mistakes that Summer made when making hers. ;) It turned out beautiful and I love it. I added some rick rack around my edges, and put bows on my handles instead of having them tie like Summer did. What do you think?

I seriously love how it turned out! I got the fabric from Hobby Lobby. The pleats were really hard for me, I'd never done that before, but I was so proud of myself, I didn't have to call my Mom (the master sewer) once for help! Go me!

I have also been working on recovering some sweet lamps I got from my parents. They belonged to my Grandma, and I saw them at my parents house and fell in LOVE with them. I had this great plan to cover the lamp shade in burlap in that cute squiggly design that is all over blog land. Well, I didn't really think it through very well, cause it took a lot longer than I thought and it is still not done! I have before pics of the lamp, but not after yet, I don't know if it will ever get done!

I spray painted the base just a creamy white and they look fabulous, but that darn massive lamp shade is giving me so much grief, and my laziness and pregnant swollen feet kept getting in the way, so we'll see what the finished product looks like, maybe after the new year!

One more thing that we've been doing around the house, art projects. My little 4 year old has quite an imagination, she loves to draw pics and color! My oldest sister decided she wanted all the grandkids to do "art trading cards" for our parents for Christmas, so I got out the cards, all my art supplies that I never let my little girl play with, and let her go to town. She had so much fun gluing, glittering, buttoning, flowering, coloring and making her cards beautiful for grandma and grandpa! Here is the fun art day we had:

I love that I let her have free reign on this project because it really let her creativity come out and allowed her to see what she can do. She did want a little help with drawing a turkey body, a Christmas tree, and to do a glue flower so she could sprinkle some glitter on it, but other than that the rest is all her. I love that she wrote my name on one of her cards, she is really into writing names right now, hers, mine, and Daddy's! 

Well that is most of what I have been up too aside from working and then coming home to put my feet up! I have a few more projects for baby girl that i'm working on now and hope to have finsihed before she comes so i'll post those as soon as I have them done! Thanks for stopping by!

:: Giveaway @ Sumos' Sweet Stuff::

Sumo's Sweet Stuff is sponsoring a giveaway for Yards and Yards a super cute Etsy shop and blog of fabrics and patterns. She has some great stuff at her shop and I want all the fabric! Go over to Sumo's Sweet Stuff to enter the giveaway.

Here are some of the things that Yards and Yards offers:

LOVE these, want this pattern so bad!

This would be so fun in a little girls room!

Yummy! LOVE!

:: Bloggy Feature::

I have to give a shout out to my SIL who is totally awesome. She recently started a super fun blog called Let Kids Create. It's dedicated to kids projects, fun things to do around town, great things for kids to help make in the kitchen, and anything kid related you can think of. She is so creative and such a great Mom. I love all her ideas and they all seem so simple and easy. Here are a few projects that she has done:

Spin Art

Stick Puzzles

Rice Art

I love all the fun projects that they do and it inspires me to want to try some with my little rascal! We have tried the Stick Puzzle and she loved it! So go on over to Let Kids Create and get some fun summer boredom buster ideas today!

:: Silhouette Giveaway::

Go on over to A Bowl Full of Lemons to enter to win a Silhouette package. I'm super excited, I never win anything, so fingers crossed!!! Go here to enter. Good luck!

:: Give away time at The Shine Project::

If you have never read The Shine Project, you are missing out! Ashley is simply amazing! She has such a positive outlook on life and service. She is hosting 2 giveaways on her blog, one from Heidi Devlin Design and one for Simply Sweet Shoppe. So go on over to The Shine Project and enter to win either a $50 gift certificate to Simply Sweet Shoppe or a customized sweetheart pillow from Heidi Devlin Design. Good luck, hope you or I win!