One of a Kind Red Dress

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Elastic and Crocheted Headbands

I am so excited about my new One of a Kind project. I have been making crocheted headbands. I can make them any size, even for adults. My girls were good sports and modeled some of them for me.

Embellished with Buttons

Single Flower

Red with Pearls, perfect for Christmas

With Ribbon

I am selling these for only 4 dollars. I can custom make them any size and whatever color you would like. Please contact me if you are interested.

~Tamara

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One of a Kind Creations

Krista and I have been working hard to get ready for the Beehive Bazaar in a little over a month. Here are some of my newest One of a Kind Creations that will be at our booth.

Hopefully I will have time to make a lot more. Let me know if you are interested in any of these items. What would you buy at the Beehive Bazaar?

Tamara

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Where has the time gone?

Wow, the time has flown by. The 6 of us sisters have been through a whirl wind this last year and unfortunately One of Kind suffered. Chalyse was busy pushing her oldest baby bird out of the nest and off to college. Krista and Lisa were busy moving and trying to get settled. Tara changed jobs and was going to school full time. Aimee had a baby and well, I had two babies. I want to start posting again and I hope to more regularly.

Krista and I have had some fun this last year with a booth at Signs and Wonders Home Decor. We sell all sorts of handmade crafts. For Halloween I have been busy crocheting baby witch hats and candy corn hats.

I also make striped leg warmers to go with them. If you are interested in these items or any other custom made crochet please contact me.

Happy Halloween!

Tamara

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Father's Day

Idea from Disney Family Fun

This clever trio is a tasty way to honor the King of the Grill on Father's Day.

Ingredients

Brownie batter
Black food coloring
White frosting
Orange sugar
Caramel creams
Red, yellow, and green candy fruit slices
Hot Tamales candies

Instructions

To make a batch of 12, place liners in a muffin pan, oil them, and fill them two thirds full of your favorite brownie batter, then bake according to the recipe directions. Let the brownies cool.

In a small bowl, mix one or two drops of black food coloring with 1/4 cup white frosting. Transfer the frosting to a ziplock bag and snip a small section from the corner. Pipe grate lines onto each brownie and let them set for 20 minutes. Add embers with a sprinkle of orange sugar.

Prepare the grill food as instructed below and press it in place atop each brownie.

Kebabs = A caramel cream and red, yellow, and green candy fruit slices, cut into small pieces + toothpick skewers

Pork chop = two thirds of a caramel cream, molded with fingers + black food coloring, applied with a toothpick

Hot dogs = Hot Tamales candies + black food coloring, applied with a toothpick

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My Car Seat Blanket

So I made my car seat blanket, and I love how it turned out.

Tara from craftaffection.blogspot.com taught me how to make this.

It can also be used as a blanket for baby to lay on when you get to your destination.

And wraps up nicely for a gift.

Thanks, Tara!

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Car Seat Blanket

I want to feature my friend's site today because she posted a project that I love.

 Tara @ craftaffection.blogspot.com made this adorable car seat blanket.

 

I am so excited about this project because I struggled so much with my babies in their carseats. Both of my boys were born in the coldest months of winter and in order to go anywhere I had to really bundle them up. I would always lay a blanket right over them when carrying the car seat and then stress the whole time wondering if they could breathe. I am going to try and teach myself how to use my sewing machine this month, so this is a good project to start with.

Thanks for sharing, Tara.

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Easter Cans

I wanted to share a picture of the Easter Cans my friend made for her family. She used scrapbook paper over paint cans and ended up with these cute Easter Buckets.

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You've Been Egged!

On Monday night, we "egged" some of our friends' houses.

We did it as a family and it was such a fun time.

We filled a bunch of plastic eggs the night before with candy, stickers, and small toys.

I printed out a cute sign I found at Eighteen25.

We snuck up to the door and scattered the eggs all around and then rang the doorbell and ran away as fast as we could.

This will surely become a family tradition. I wish we could have egged everyone's house.

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Easter Egg Nest

Recipe from http://www.hostessblog.com/

Ingredients:

6 oz good-quality dark chocolate roughly chopped

4oz Rice Krispies

72 mini chocolate eggs

Cupcake papers

Directions:

Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of hot water. Bring just to a boil, turn off of the heat and allow the chocolate to melt in the bowl. Stir in the Rice Krispies.

Spoon the mixture into cupcakes liners. Flatten a little and make a well in the center. Fill each one with three speckled mini chocolate eggs. Allow to set. Enjoy!

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Hot Cross Buns

Traditionaly Hot Cross Buns are eaten on Good Friday, the cross of course represents the crucifiction and the shape of the bun represents the rock that was removed from the front of Christ's tomb when He was resurected on Easter Sunday. Hot Cross Buns were not always associated with Christianity, though. Their origins lie in Pagan Traditions of ancient cultures, with the cross representing the four quarters of the moon.

I was looking for some traditional Easter foods to make for my family and Hot Cross Buns seems to be the popular choice.

Here is a recipe from allrecipes.com:

Ingredients

2 teaspoons active dry yeast

1/2 cup warm 2% milk (110 to 115 degrees F)

1 tablespoon butter, softened

1 egg

4 teaspoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons raisins

2 tablespoons dried currants

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 dash ground allspice

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon water

ICING:

1/4 cup confectioners' sugar

1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

3/4 teaspoon 2% milk

Directions

1.In a small mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in milk. Stir in butter, egg, sugar and salt. Combine 3/4 cup flour, raisins, currants, cinnamon and allspice; add to the yeast mixture and mix well. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.

2.Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 4-6 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.

3.Punch dough down; shape into six 2-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on a baking sheet coated with nonstick cooking spray. Using a sharp knife, cut a cross on top of each bun. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.

4.Beat egg yolk and water; brush over buns. Bake at 375 degrees F for 13-15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire racks. Combine icing ingredients; pipe over buns.

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Grow Real Easter Grass

Two weeks until Easter and this year I am going to grow REAL Easter Grass in my kid's baskets. You only need about 7 to 9 days to make it happen and it is a great project for young children to help with. 

Photo from GreenSun Recycling

What you'll need:

• Wheatgrass Berries
• Easter Baskets
• Plastic Wrap 
• Soil
• Newspaper
• Spray bottle

Measure out 1½ cups of wheatgrass berries per basket. Rinse the seeds and then soak them in a bowl filled with warm water overnight. Line the baskets with a piece of plastic wrap to make them waterproof.  Then cover the bottom of the baskets with about 2 inches of soil. When the berries have sprouted, drain the seeds (you can use a colander). Next, spread the sprouted seeds evenly in a single layer over the soil, being sure to cover all of the dirt. Then sprinkle a light layer of dirt over the seeds to cover them. Lightly water the seeds with a spray bottle. Place the baskets in a warm and sunny spot in your house. Cover the whole basket with a layer of newspaper. The next morning, take off the newspaper, spray the seeds with some more water and replace the paper. Repeat every day until green blades sprout through the soil. Then you can leave the basket uncovered. Then all the wheatgrass has to do is grow! It'll take about 7 to 9 days for the grass to grow about 8 inches. If the grass has grown taller then you want come Easter, just trim it down with a pair of scissors.

Hopefully the Easter Bunny will leave us some sweet little treats amongst the grass. 

 

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Book Purse

Brought to you by Hungry Panda

What a cool idea!

Who would think to turn a book into a purse? Annie Shao from Hungry Panda Clothing, I guess.

Check out the tutorial here.

I could totally see my sister, Krista, with one of these.

Thanks for sharing, Annie.

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St.Patrick's Day Fun

Now that it is March my thoughts have turned to what traditions I can start with my family for St. Patrick's Day. Here are a few I have decided on:

I want to make this yummy jello recipe that I found at The Food Librarian. It's a mixture of green jello and ice cream. Yummy!

I also want to try having a Leprechaun come visit. I thought he could leave the kids some chocolate gold coins and maybe play some pranks like Green milk? Green toilet water? Green footprints? Trails of shamrock confetti?. He could send the kids on a treasure hunt to find his pot of gold, too.

FamilyFun has a great idea for a Magic Treasure Box. The fun begins with the legend of the leprechauns and leads to a treasure box filled with goodies and gifts. Go to their site for complete instructions.

Also from FamilyFun are these Rainbow Cupcakes.

 

What child wouldn't want to help make these?

One other fun idea is to go around the table at dinner time and have each person tell some way that they feel lucky.

Do you have any fun traditions to share?

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T-Shirt Makeover

Yesterday I ran into my husband's cousin's wife (not sure what that makes her to me...wife of a cousin by marriage?). Anyways, she was wearing the most adorable shirt. I told her I loved it and she said "I made it".

I couldn't believe it, but she assured me that I could make one too. She has blogged an entire tutorial on her blog (tearosehome.blogspot.com). It seems easy enough, but I am still not convinced that I could do it myself. Then I found a different tutorial on her blog of a t-shirt makeover I could handle.

Click here to get step by step instructions. I can't wait to make one of these shirts.

Thanks so much for sharing, Sachiko!

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My Scarves

Here is how my scarves turned out.

 It has been so fun learning something new each month.

Any ideas of what I should learn in March?

 

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Homemade Vanilla Salt Scrub

For Valentine's Day I made a few of my girlfriends Homemade Vanilla Salt Scrub.

I found these cute glass bottle at IKEA (4 for $2.99). Then I decorated them with ribbons.

The recipe for the salt scrub is so simple and works magic to soften hands. The sugar and salt scrub away dead skin while the oils leave your skin silky smooth.

Homemade Salt Scrub

2 c. sugar

2 c. epsom salt

1 1/2 c vegetable oil

1 T vitamin E oil

3-10 drops lavender or other essential oil (I used vanilla)

Mix sugar, salt and oils together until thoroughly combined.

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The Valentine's Day Phantom

The Valentine Phantom

One of my favorite childhood memories is the Valentine's Day Phantom that would come to our house each year and leave us Valentines on our doorstep. He would ring the bell and run away leaving candies and stickers. As we got older (and as our father got older) we would see him running around the house trying to get out of sight. Even though we knew it was our dad it was still special (maybe even more special). 

I want to carry on this tradition with my children, so I bought Valentine's Day books, candy, and stuff animals to be left by the Valentine's Day Phantom (so put on your running shoes hubby). 

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Make your own Candy Hearts

Make your own candy hearts: Use a fine grater to sand the messages off Conversation Hearts, then write your own thoughts with a food-coloring marker (such as Ateco, available at Amazon, $21.50).

Idea from Real Simple.

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