Craft with a Disclaimer

My sister sent me a cute idea for Valentine's to pass out to the girls' friends. Using old broken crayons you can create heart shaped crayons using a silicon muffin pan. Well, I didn't have heart muffin pan but I do have snowflake shaped ones that I bought years ago on clearance to freeze my homemade baby food in. So the girls and I decided to make snowflake crayons to gift to their BFF for her Jan. bday.

First step: unwrap crayons and snap them into even smaller pieces...a step sure to please the little ones!

 Step two: use knife if needed to chop up smaller... hint I think I went a little too small because the end result didn't have the pops of color I was looking for.

 Step three: sort mixed crayons into silicon pans.

 Step four: 230 degrees at 15 minutes...hint, I thought it didn't look ready at 15 minutes, so I did 3 more minutes. But in hindsight, they overcooked which caused colors to mix.

Step five: cool and pop out!

Now for the disclaimer.... Use a cutting board and muffin pans that you do NOT plan on using for food again. I cannot get the wax residue off either... hand washing, scratching, hot dishwasher cycle, etc.

But with that said the girls loved this easy craft and really enjoyed giving them as gifts. Gifts that didn't cost a penny out of my pocket, and we saved broken crayons from the landfill!

Fun with Fiesta

So I have to tell you about my dishes that I LOVE! My MIL introduced them to me (thanks Kim!) and I am so glad she did. I still get excited about them everyday that I use them. If you are looking to update your dishes, look into buying Fiesta.

 

If you don’t know what Fiesta is, it is high quality everyday china that comes in several colors, like over 20. I have chosen six different colors to mix and match and I have yet to get tired of it, years later.

 

Here is my cabinet of colorful fun!

 

And since I took the cabinet pictures after dinner, I had to snap a couple pictures of the dishwasher. They even make the dishwasher pretty!

Now here is where the real fun is for me. See if you can tell what I like to do…Karl has never noticed that I do this, I finally pointed it out to him today.

 

Did you get it? I like to match my food to the dish. Makes a bowl of peas more exciting to me.

 

FYI: this dinner pictured is Reese’s night to cook. She STILL chooses pancakes every week. I don’t mind a breakfast dinner though because my girls love it!

 

I was thinking of adding a 7th color to the mix…a deep purple. What do you think?