Crash! Bam! Ka-pow! Zap! Prepare for Mason's 4th Birthday!!!

So my son, Mason, will be turning 4 next month. With him reaching this age begins him choosing his own birthday theme and having age appropriate games. Since I gave him the choice of what he wants his birthday to be he decided that a Spiderman birthday party is what he wanted. My first thoughts of course were "Spiderman?! Geeze how am I going to make this fun?" Well!! Tell you what, even though this wasn't originally what I thought of as a 'fun' theme I have really gotten into it and I'm getting more and more excited for his birthday! First off when I thought Spiderman all I could picture was the party store supplies like plates, cups, and napkins. What else can you do to bring Spiderman to the party in a fun way? Well I have found a few cool things to do thanks to the internet!!I found an idea to turn old t-shirts into capes! Now that's cool! I also made some custom signs to hang around the house and have began to make a list of Spiderman colored foods to have at the party. Along with those ideas I have got all kinds of goodies for the kids and am in the process of figuring out how to do something that will be fun for everyone (parents and kids)! I've got all kinds of ideas all of a sudden and now I need to prepare them for the party. Here's a peak of what I've made for the party.

Masons cape :)

The signs I made.

Needless to say I'm keeping myself busy and having fun with this. I hope Mason likes it as much as I do when it's all put together!! :)

Green Smoothies...

Hey all,

So I have heard a lot about green smoothies and I love smoothies so I figured I'd try it out. I bought some fresh kale and spinach and used a bit of both in my first green smoothie. I added some frozen peaches, a whole banana and orange juice to start. Once it was blended I didn't think it was thick enough so I added some frozen pineapple and a few frozen strawberries (we like to eat frozen fruit as a snack instead of ice cream). Well it was good but I really wish I could completely purify the greens. I think next time I'll try purifying the greens with the juice first before I add anything else. Maybe that'll help take the texture down. The texture wasn't bad just different haha. Any ways all in all the flavor is still good and even better for you. So it's worth continuing to find our favorite combo (Mason tried some also). I also made Popsicles with the leftover smoothie...Masons not a huge fan of them but we'll keep trying. :)

Six Dollar Click??

First off I want to start by saying that I am extremely skeptical of any online money making opportunities you see. Don't get me wrong I'd love to sit at home and click a few buttons and make money!! That would be awesome right? Well that brings me to this, Six Dollar Click. Well I saw this and thought it sounded too good to be true. I decided to check it out since a Facebook friend introduced it to me. I pull up the site, fill out some basic information and BAM. I'm ready to click some adds. You click on a link and stay on the page for the 60 seconds (it counts down for you) then when you are done it will tell you to Click a specific number so you choose that number from the selection and, whoola, you have completed a $6.00 click. Now you are supposed to only get 5 a day so that means 5 minutes of your time which equals out to $6,000 every 200 days. A long time to wait? Well for 5 minutes a day and it not being your sole income than I think that's pretty awesome. Who can't use an extra $6,000? It's like a tax return! On top of the $6.00 for every link you click you also get another $3-$5 for every person you refer. Technically the 200 days comes from assuming you will only make $30 dollars a day. I however am already at $52.20 for one day. I almost have 2 days work in one! If I keep up like this i'll be able to cash out my $6,000 in a little over 100 days. On top of that the company uses Paypal to pay you which makes me happy because I like Paypal and always feel more secure going through it than anything else. So what are you waiting for? I say give it a shot and if it doesn't pay off well hey, it's no worse than playing the lotto. At least this is free and you don't have to waste gas! ;)

Corn on the cob...the easy way!

Hello Everyone!

I haven't posted in a day or two which I know isn't too bad but if I want to keep up with this I need to keep posting this frequently. Any who, since I haven't done or found any new projects yet I thought I'd post about my experiment tonight. I first saw this idea for microwave no mess corn on the cob on Facebook. I was amazed, it looked so simple and I LOVE easy meal ideas. Plus corn on the cob is one of my favorite veggie sides. Well I didn't know where the original post for the corn on the cob was so I Googled it and found this one from Deep South Dish. It's so simple! Basically you take some corn on the cob, stick it in the microwave, cook for 4 minutes (microwaves vary mine took 6 minutes), take the corn on the cob out of the microwave, cut off the big closed end, and squeeze the corn out. Voila, no mess, quick, and delicious! I was so excited when this worked exactly as I read. Yay! Now I can have corn on the cob without the mess (which I hate). So who is as excited about this as I am??? Try it out! I promise you will enjoy it. The only down fall to this is that you can only do 1-2 pieces at a time. If you need specifics go on over and check out Deep South Dish with their step by step directions and comments.

Have a great night. :)

Nightstand into Kids Work Bench

Hello again!

Okay so I told you that I was making a tutorial on a project I was doing that I found on Pinterest. The specific idea I found came from The Frugal Granny. It's a wonderful idea for a kids work bench made from an old nightstand. While I was looking at this on Pinterest I realized that I had a nightstand in Masons room being used for storage that was almost identical to the nightstand The Frugal Granny used. I instantly decided I had to do this! I mean I have the nightstand, it's for toys, AND it was in a little rough shape. So why NOT do it? Here is how I went about creating Masons tool bench.

What you'll need:

- An old nightstand

- Sand paper

- Paint (I bought what I call 'booboo' paint from Wal-Mart in the most fun color I could find)

- Painters Tape

- Chalk Board Paint

- A few paint brushes

- Yard Stick

- Peg board

- Peg Hooks

- Nails and a Hammer

How I did it:

This is the nightstand I started with. Nothing special.

I first sanded down the surfaces that would be painted just to give it a rough enough edge for the paint to stick. I was lucky enough to have a nightstand that had already been repainted once so I didn't need to sand it too much to get a good painting surface.

After I finished sanding it I gave it two coats of my fun colored 'booboo' paint (the kind of paint that was mixed incorrectly so they put it on clearance to sell the color).

Here is the painted nightstand.

I did the yellow painting on one day and everything else the next day to ensure the paint was dry. So on the 2nd day I first started by using my painters tape to mark off a section to paint the top of my work bench.

I then filled the middle with Chalk Board Paint so that my son can 'mark' his measurements.

I did three coats of this paint to be sure that I had a good surface. Once the paint was pretty much dried I removed my painters tape to see my chalk board surface.

I then took a yard stick that I found at Lowe's for .62 cents (score!) and cut it. I cut the yard stick to the length of the drawer so that it fits between the ends of the nightstand.

To attach the yard stick it would probably be best to use wood glue or something of the sort but I didn't have any so I used Super Glue and it worked perfectly for me .

Now comes the part that I am no good at. Nailing the peg board onto the nightstand. At Lowe's you can buy the smaller sheet of peg board and it just so happened that it was the perfect height from floor to how tall I wanted it. That way it is able to be nailed onto more of the nightstand so that it has more stability. The piece was a little too wide but not worth me messing with cutting it (that would of been scary! lol). So I just centered it and went to nailing.

 Now the one flaw I had when I did this project was a crooked nail. I have no perfected the art of hammering nails yet but luckily it doesn't affect the whole work bench so it's okay!

The most difficulty I had with this project was finding the peg board hooks at Lowe's! It wasn't in hardware or in the closet organization aisle (which is where I was directed to find them). Nope, they were in an electrical aisle in a random section of bike hooks and tool organizers. I found them after circling the aisles multiple times. 

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So much searching for these! Anyways, after I had the peg board nailed onto the nightstand I got to organize Masons tools.

I think that this is the cutest thing ever if I do say so myself! :)  I couldn't help but smile at the finished product. It honestly was not difficult to do and I enjoyed doing it! Hopefully I can find some other awesome idea's that I am successful at and share them with you again! 

Here's Mason using his tools to fix his little car. :) As soon as I put it in his room he was using it! Hopefully he keeps up playing with it!!

That was my adventure for the last two days. I hope you enjoyed it and got a few idea's yourself. I will now go back to hunting Pinterest for my next projects.

Blog Transformation

Hello!

I'm Ashley and this blog originally started as a college assignment 2 years ago. I have since graduated with my Associates degree in Business Management and am finished with school at least for awhile but who knows what the future brings. Currently I live in El Paso, Texas where my husband is stationed in the United States Army. Last year we went through our first deployment and I am glad that it is over!

My husband and I have a 3 (almost 4) year old son. He can be a handful sometimes and drive me up the wall but he's very loved (and SPOILED). He is actually the reason I decided to start doing this blog again. I happen to be a big Pinterest fan, so of course I am always finding all kinds of cool ideas to try out. I recently found an idea that I am working on for Mason. I won't tell you what it is yet because I am in the middle of completing it and I plan to put that as my first tutorial I guess you could say. My version of the wonderful idea I found. :)

Anyways, it's back to work for me! I hope you check back to see my finished product! If you have younger kids I know you will appreciate it!

Enjoy the last hours of the weekend!