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We had a wonderful time at Disneyland, but don't you find its always nice to come home? Here are my favorite photos from the little va-ca we took. My grandson Jonathan pulling up his sister Chloe's ruffled sleeve..... look at his determination, and look at her disdain....then kissing her hand....Ahhhhhhhhhhh~

This was a funny site-- a duck swimming in the hotel pool!
Fun-fun-fun vacation!

Va-ca~

I'm off on a little vacation in the California sun :-) We are going to Disneyland and the Disneyland California Adventure park for a few days with my daughter and her family. This will be my grandchildrens (ages 1 & 3) second time going to this magical place of fun... and their first time going to Club 33~ If you've never heard of Club 33 at Disneyland... you can read more about it here. The good thing about this club is that its an exclusive members only club, so the paparazzi are not allowed in... My little grandaughter Princess Chloe Rose won't be hounded for an impromtu photoshoot. *sigh* The downside of being a princess lol

Restyled dress~

I picked up this little white dress for my grandaughter. Just a basic little white dress..... that needed a little somethin'-somethin'~Sooooooooo I gave it a little somethin'-somethin' and a little somethin' more~ I got rid of the lavendar and added pink straps and a sheer shimmery skirt over the top of the skirt of the dress. Then I added some flowers, rhinestones and pearl & ribbon trim.I also matched a pair of white shoes to the dress~along with a flowered wreath for her head~lastly, I made a rose septor that has a gold bell on it for her to play with~I made this for my grandaughter to wear to Club 33 at Disneyland, this will be her first time having a luncheon there. You never want to go to a special event wearing the same gown as everyone else~

Baby Leg warmers~

I made my 1 year old grandaughter some leg warmers using some striped socks. Easy-peasy. Here is how I made them if your interested.

You start by cutting off both toe parts of each sock. Using your sewing machine, zig-zag around the cut edge to prevent unraveling and to give it a nice finished look. Next, turn under about a half an inch of the zig-zagged edge and stitch around the sock leaving about a half an inch opening. Feed elastic through the opening then just simply knot it together to make a nice gathered edge. Stitch the opening closed. This newly encased elastic side will be the bottom of your babies/childs leg warmer. The top portion of the sock will be up around the babies thigh-- so it will look super professional when you've finished it. See, I told you, easy-peasy!

Monster Truck Jam

We went to see a Monster truck show yesterday evening. My 3 year old grandson is a total car fanatic so this is really thrilling for him to view this car show in person. This is the second year we've taken him. If you have never been to a see Monster truck jam/show, your missing out. Its scarey-good. It is kinda like that feeling you get when your on a rollar coaster ride in the very beginning when you ask yourself... "what am I doing-- I want off-- this is scarey-- I'm to old for this cr @ p" You know what I'm talking about, scarey-good!
We were lucky enough on Friday to get to go to a radio show hosting a driver/car meet and greet. My grandson got to sit in the wheel well of the Donkey Kong monster truck. Noooooooo easy feat as I think he was a little overwhelmed with the size of it-- at first!Then it was thumbs up from there! He was once again a happy camper~Doesn't he look so cute wearing his ear protectors? lolAnywho.... I made this monster jam race track for him to play with his big monster trucks that he has. I used foam core to make the huge dirt mounds out of, I used one of his trucks as a reference on how high to construct them. I went around the edges of each mound with some paper clay to smooth them out a smidge. Once the clay dried, I hot glued the newly constructed mounds onto a base of foam core. I added more paper clay to the seam where the mounds met the base. I cut out two rectangles at the base of each mound so he could set in some little cars to drive over. Once the paper clay had time to set up, I sanded down the rough spots and base coated the whole thing with brown paint. Then... I spray painted again using some textured paint making the whole thing look like dirt. I made a frame of foam core which I spray painted black to go around the entire track. Lastly, I printed off some car signs and I glued them on the wall around the track.

Easter baskets~

I joined an Easter basket swap on Miss Rhea's blog Sweet n Shabby Roses. The swap is based on using yogurt containers as the base of each basket.... I decided to cover the two yogurt containers using a technique I previously used to create the look of leather on some pirate chests. You can read all about it on the tutorial I posted here. I love how they both turned out. Don't they look like peat pots? Now with the yogurt container covered comes the fun part of foofing & fluffing them up!

Seein' Green~

Here are some things I've been working on for Saint Patrick's day. I've made these four leaf clover lucky stones~ I used real clovers under the glass. I think I'm going to solder around each glass stone and add a jump-ring so that I can have them hang from a necklace...caute huh?I've also made these four leaf clover tags using real clovers~Lastly, I've bottling up some Leprechaun fairies. I've set them on a shelf unit I'm still working on to showcase them. Here is a close up of a few of them....

One more wanting a close up~Its nice to be able to play again :-)