Scribble Pancakes

Good morning! Happy Saturday! I am exhausted from taking care of the bees all night. So here I am with puffy eyes and dragging my feet but I must..I must make a cool breakfast for them. This is why I love Saturdays. I get to make cool breakfast. Cool breakfast usually means something that some adults would not want to eat but the kiddos simply LOVE. 

So instead of coloring the pancakes individually, I just decided to make my own version of these colored pancakes. Ok.. it's the lazy way, but like I said, my feet are dragging and I've yet to finish my coffee, which by the way keeps getting cold and I keep reheating. Anyway, here is what I did: 

I just use regular pancake mix and made my pancakes. Mixed the two food coloring they each wanted and swirled it around with a toothpick. And VOILA! Scribble Pancakes! They look like they got scribbled with markers. 

And they were ecstatic to see the cool breakfast! Yay! Another victory for this mama! 

Now I am off to heat up my coffee....AGAIN.

Vintage Plaid Shirt Refashion

So today I wasn't planning on doing anything but resting. I had an eventful evening/night yesterday. It started off with Baby Bee having a "fingerpainting party" in his crib and that was a mess! Maybe TMI, but tis the life of bees. Anyway, then after I got his sheets washed, after his afternoon nap, it was another. Ay! Then later in the evening, he got his hands into our Plumeria plant (again) and helped himself into the dirt so I had to wash it. Then a few minutes later, he did it again and as I was walking into the kitchen with him, I stepped on to the kid stool that is normally used for time out, but Baby bee loves to use it to push around while crawling. Out of all his toys, he loves this $2.50 stool from Target. Anyway, I stepped on it with baby in arms and tripped over it, my mommy instinct kicked in and wrapped my arms around his head and body and flopped I went onto the kitchen floor. I feel like I flew midair because my legs hurt and bruised, my arms hurt and I banged my head on the oven. So I am as sore as can be and my head aches. And I forgot to put his bumper on the crib and of course mid sleep, Baby bee woke up and saw his leg got stuck between the railings. Aaah! Thankfully he wasn't hurt. 

Anyway - enough complaining. Yesterday I started working on this vintage shirt. I wasn't sure what to do with it at first. I wanted to put some ruffles on the front, but I didn't have enough fabric. Instead, I cut the sides to make it a little slimmer, cut off the sleeves and added a removable flower brooch. And here is the finished product! 

I'm not sure if I'm done or just going to leave it like this. So we'll see.. 

Vintage Refashion

It has been awhile since I did any updates on this. I've been busy with Spring Cleaning, if you can call it that. I've been trying to Spring Clean for years now. It seems never ending. I'm constantly looking online for motivation on organization and I find a lot of tips, but leave it to me to not utilize these tips! 

Anyway, I posted on Facebook a few days ago on this dress that I bought. It's vintage and absolutely hideous! HA! But I love to buy hideous dresses and refashion them to something "wearable". So for awhile now, I've just been collecting a bunch of vintage dresses and are slowly refashioning them. I've also got a collection of vintage rings that I've redone and also have a collection of vintage purses. When I've got a collection, I will open shop! 

Here is a sample of one of my dresses. I offer no tutorials because: 1.) I don't even know how I do these. I just go with the flow and whatever pops into my head at that moment. 2.) I'm a horrible teacher. If you ask me how I do things, I can just tell you that I just go with it. So I'm sorry. :( 

I've gotten some great tips from friends on how I can "reconstruct" this dress. And thank you, friends! I've added some of their tips to it as well. Anyway, I wanted to keep it simple and sophisticated. I added pleats to the front. So here it is! 

Here is a close up of the pattern. I'm in love with the pattern. 

This was a fun refashion!