Organizing: Cards

Are you a card saver?

Me too!

But normally they are just in a box that I label keep. And I thought why not organize them so if I want to ever look at them or show the boys I could.

So I came up with a simple solution:

Punch a hole in the same corner of all your cards from one event and tie a ribbon through them!

This way I can have them in a cute basket somewhere.  

I also had thought about glueing them into a scrapbook so each page was a different card, but then realized I didn't have the space for the scrapbook ( No good spot for a bookshelf!)

How do you save and organize your cards?

Cutting Glass Jars

As you know I love ms some jars. 

And I hoard not only my canning jars, but also spaghetti, pickle and more.

But the downside with spaghetti jars, is the small opening. Sometimes you just want a bigger hole ontop.

Well, when I ever came across this pin, my reaction was No way. Shut up. I don't believe it. 

So what did I do? Whip out all the supplies and try it!

And can you believe it? 

Cotton Yarn, Nail Polish Remover, Fire, and Cold water will do it?

Tie yarn soaked in nail polish remover tightly around jar.

Light on fire. Make sure flame is all the way around jar. I let it burn until it was almost out.

Submerse in cold water, I tapped alongside of my sink. And voila! Cut glass!

Of coarse the one I photographed didn't come off perfect, or close to. 

This worked the first time for me.  

Now to perfect the edge to make it even better! 

(I've sanded it down with my dremel and it is better but... I'm wondering if I can do the string again to get rid of the rest of the jagged pieces!)

 Now to figure out what I can make with cut glass! I'm thinking about planting in them, maybe candles, or cutting off the bottom and put candles in them outside to prevent the wind from blowing out!

Calling All Crafters: 48th Edition

Welcome to Calling All Crafters! 

A place where you can share your craftiness!

 This week I am loving...




Bowl Of Cherry's
Motorcycle Baby Shower


AND

Simply Designing's
Thin Mint Cookie Balls




AND





Crazy Daze Design's
Modern Family Art

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Lifesavers: Shower Magic

Just another tip to save you time, money and some frustrations!

Oh man. I am in love!  

As you can tell, I am loving Pinterest for all of these useful tips!  And today is no different!

I have tried everything to get my bathtub and surround clean.

 My husband is a mechanic so our shower always seems to be yucky. And I can't stand it with two little boys, and a furry boy (our golden retriever) it seems like our tub was doomed.  I had tried everything: straight up Ajax or Comet ( the powder bleach stuff), Sprays, even steaming it. 

And NOTHING made it easy to clean.

But then I found this recipe!  

Now- I used Palmolive, and then ran low (my spray bottle wouldn't work) so I made a second batch with cheap dish soap, and that worked too! I did a 1 part vinegar to 1.5 parts dishsoap when I used the cheap stuff. 

And you literally spray it on and wipe it off. No waiting to let it "soak in" or "work"! It just works!  I will never buy anything to clean my bathroom again! I'm even using it to clean the toilet!

Here's some proof!
(did you think I was going to show you actual tub photos? Oh no. They were bad before! I was scared the would break my camera!)
This "stain" had been on the edge of our tub where we have assumed there were glass doors with the previous owner and they have never faded before. But after a couple times spraying it with this vinegar/soap mixture it's starting to fade!  Unreal!

Toy Story Moving Box Pinata {A Tutorial!}

Carter requested a pinata for this birthday, I think Dora made him do it! 

But to not let him down, my husband and I said we could do that. Well, being the more frugal of the two I decided let me try to make one. After all it's just going to broken for the "goods" anyways and who wants to keep a broken pinata (my guess, Carter would have!)

So, when I was looking all over the internet for cake ideas, I came across a great cake that had moving boxes from Toy Story 3! And that's how this came about, and it was really fun to tell Carter that Andy had packed up his boxes and sent them to us just for his party!

To make your own pull string pinata:

 ( did you think I was going to trust a very active now three year old with a stick?)

Carboard box (shape/size can be up to you, mine was pretty small and square)

Craft paper

Hot glue, duct tape

Scissors

Ribbon and Strong string to hang from

First:

Cut the bottom of your box out 

( I didn't cut all four flaps out and regretted it when it didn't break much, so trust me on this one!)

Remove all four of these flaps!

Second: 

Wrap your box to hide the current logos!

I used hot glue to attach mine, and had no issues!

Third:

Poke a hole in the bottom of your pinata, this will be your "active" pullstring.

Your will not have cardboard to make pulling easier!

Ours pulled but didn't pull open as I thought it would! Boo.

Duct tape your ribbon inside.  

Four:

Trick your little party goers! Just scotch take ribbons on the bottom outside, for their pulling pleasure!

Five: 

Camoflauge your ribbons, I just attached strips of paper across each row of tape and glue on each side.

(Sorry no picture!)

Six:

Add your hanging string. 

I went through the handles, across the box and had the string criss cross.

See?

Seven:

Fill! I went with some candy and some plastic toys! Had to include army men!

Eight:

Place a piece of scrap carboard on top, and I duct taped in place (not shown)

This creates a place for all your toy story themed toys!

Nine:

Add toys, tissue, packing peanuts (that I couldn't find!)

Ten: 

PULL AND PARTY!

Printable Pennant

Yesterday I shared all of Carter's party with you. 

So today I am starting to share some of the details!

The very first thing I made for his party was this digital pennant!

Both the Cowprint and Woody's Flannel are available in the shop!

I used three different pennant backgrounds (Cowprint, Flannel and Clouds) to make my Happy Birthday Carter's banner. But I have only uploaded two in the shop ) I've got to fix up the cloud one a bit first, it printed a little funny!

Toy Story Birthday Bash!

Happy Birthday Carter!

I cannot believe he is THREE already! 

The first thing I made after he decided on a Toy Story theme was this banner.

The pennants are Woody's flannel shirt, his cowprint vest, and Andy's Sky wallpaper!

(Available in the shop, Cowprint and Woody's Flannel!)

One of the last things I did was add some streamers to the staircase! 

(I decorated after he went to bed the night before so it was a surprise on his birthday!)

(As you can tell he loved it!)

But it was the first thing he saw after getting up!

Some other decorations were the "Ready To Play" banner my mom picked up for me.

I love that its plastic, and doesn't say Happy Birthday! So now it will be going into the playroom! 

Love when I find great freebies online!

Pin the tail on bullseye!  

Of course the army men were staked out in all my plants!

 They were telling all of Carter's toys what he was getting for gifts!

I made several Army men garlands! Picked up a pack of men in the $1 store and hot glued them to some kitchen twine!

The paratroopers also made an appearance too!

My biggest accomplishment for the party! 

The "moving box" pull string pinata!

(Tutorial here! So simple! And no guilt throwing it out, because it cost NOTHING to make!)

Any and all Toy Story themed toys made an appearance somewhere amongst the party decor!

My sister's awesome dump truck cake! Lotso beware! Woody and Buzz where using his truck all day!

We snacked on traditional party fare, and my oh so yummy cake batter dip!

I'll be sharing some of the details in their own post later this week!  

Calling All Crafters:47th edition

Welcome to Calling All Crafters! 

A place where you can share your craftiness!

 This week I am loving...
(plus the Valentine's roundup too!)



Threading My Way's
Aligning Buttons



AND

Simcoe Street's
Chair Makeover

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Lifesavers: Explosive Cleaner

As I've mentioned before, our house is pretty old. We bought it from a widowed elderly woman, who when we bought the house had her family sell it for her. So every now and again we find weird things. 

Not super weird, but but random.

Like when we turned a porch into a pantry, we found the original skeleton key in the wall! 

And now we cleaned the basement out ( finally) and went through boxes and boxes of random metal pots and pans and I found these beauties.

Well almost beauties.

And cleaning them up was so easy!

I placed them in a plastic bag with baking soda, put them in the sink and poured in some vinegar!

Let it bubble up, when it stopped I added more vinegar ( I had dry baking soda in the bottom of the bag still) Then rinsed. 

I barely touched the rusty silverware! 

Perfect, polished silver!  

Now the question is: What can I do with one silver fork and one silver spoon?

Have you done any fun things with silverware? 

Please leave a link in the comments I would love some inspiration!