All Dressed Up, Again

If you are here reading this, I'm going to be honest right up front. This post was originally written back in April of 2010. I have expanded and become more active with my blog and other blogs in the blogosphere. I can not get enough of the creativeness out there on the web. I have been dying to have a good great 'craft' to link up on a link party. That is probably how you found me, unless you are one of my gracious ten followers which in reality might be six who read what I have to say on a regular basis. Thank you if you do!

I am sure there are many of you trying to make it as a professional blogger. I never intended to love my blog as much as I have grown to. I am not a writer as you have probably already found several grammatical errors. I just wanted a place to show my friends and family some different small craft projects. This is one from the very beginning.

I used to make paper shoes. Huh? Here take a peek. Ironically that was my first ever post at heaLD which has grown into kind.heARTed. I had to go back and change the original post's font color to black so you could read it. Like most things in life this has been a great process and time occupier for me and I have to say I am pretty proud of what it has become. I hope that I can continue to use my blog to keep my friends, family, and complete strangers updated on my journey ahead, whatever that may be. 

So this is my craft. My idea I have had tucked away from a year ago that I now realize I probably should invest more time in to see where it can go. Especially since many at the Chocolate Ball asked, "Hey aren't you the girl that had the paper dresses last year?"  

They are paper dresses that evolved from paper shoes. Inspired by a little princess who is growing quickly before my eyes. I know moms out there can't get enough of adorable kids clothes or is that just me the obsessive nanny? I hear friends of mine say they will buy stuff for their kids before they buy things for themselves. Is that true, boy do I hope to find out some day soon. Not too soon though.

What you will need. 

Scrapbook paper

Scissors

Ribbon

Other Embellishments

What you will do.

Choose what shape and style dress you like. Glue or sew embellishments to your liking.

My dresses are small, less than 5", I'm not sure the exact measurement because styles vary. You can make them whatever size you want. That is whats so great about them.

I love these dresses. Any body type can wear them because they will just be hanging on your wall for you or your very only little girl to admire. I drew the patterns for dress styles I liked. Here I the first five dresses I made.

I created a wedding dress, nothing like the real dress I purchased for my upcoming wedding, a prom dress, and a camouflage dress. I recently did a style for a college graduate with a fashion degree and that is what made me realized I should share this project. They work for small kids or college grads as you can see one size fits all.

I hope you enjoyed my project. Now go on and get dressed or poke around kind.heARTed and see what I'm all about. 

Thanks for reading!

Paper Mache

I really like to use my creativity to come up with things for me to do with the kids while I am working.  I would she exercise her mind doing something that starting at the t.v. all day.  This is what I came up with.  Paper mache.  It just so happens I thought of this already at their house and couldn't leave to go get supplies.  Talk about using your resources. 

In my mind, I planned this to take almost the whole hour or two that her brother would sleep.  She did not want to get her hands messy and this is the extent to which she painted her can. I thought she would want to paint something...

I on the other hand decided to use this time for my own creativeness to be unleashed.  Having lots of big decisions on my mind this was a good distraction. I know I shouldn't brag, she is 3 yeasr old, but I was pretty impressed with myself. Maybe I should look into painting!

lauren

Enjoy Today

Warning: You may want to have some form of chocolaty goodness next to you as you read the following post. I am not responsible for any cravings that this may produce.

As promised, here are the sweet treats! The church I currently attend is having a rummage and bake sale tomorrow. I instantly knew I wanted to contribute in some way. Especially since my attendance at church has been so poor this summer due to all the traveling. They were still in need of donations for the bake sale and I love to bake.  However my concoctions did not require the oven.  In the 100 degree heat Missouri has been having, that would have just made it worse.  I decided on a few items: Homemade Turtles and Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods.

Turtles

Real simple if you need a quick treat.

 One pretzel + one rolo + one pecan = Turtle

Normally, I would use the oven to melt the Rolo slightly so they can be sandwiched between the pretzel and pecan.  I decided to conserve electricity and use...the metal roof of my car and the hot hot sun.

Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods

Delicious. I did long and short pretzel rods and then some small ones with sprinkles. I spent approximately 4 hours dippin pretzels. While I did this, my mom made a huge, HUGE pan of Lasagna. It too was delicious.

Finally it was time to wrap it up with a nice little tag.

Super simple but adds that little extra something.

Enjoy Today refers to two things.

First being the obvious.. Enjoy Today. Period.

"This is the day the Lord has made;

 let us rejoice and be glad in it."

Psalm 118:24

The second are the instructions for the goodies. Enjoy Today!

Lauren