Edible Bird's Nest

Easter is around the corner! Actually, it's this Sunday. I love holidays. Now that I'm a mommy, I enjoy it more. Only because it gives me reasons to cook more, bake more, eat more, and be more silly! And the big plus, my little bees love it! And the best response I get from them, "you're the best mommy in the world!" Who doesn't like hearing that?! Anyway, here's a special treat that I make every Easter. It is fairly simple and it takes about 10 minutes to do. I call it: 

"Edible Bird's Nest"

What you'll need: 

• Chow Mein Noodles

• Chocolate

• Jelly Beans (I used  Sixlets candy since I already had them.)

• Wax paper

Directions: 

1. Melt chocolate and mix in chow mein noodles. 

1. When it's all mixed, scoop out with a teaspoon onto the wax paper.

1. Drop your little eggs. Refrigerate for 10 mins. 

1. EAT!

My bees loved them! Such a simple little treat for Easter! 

DIY Erase Board

Today's DIY project is a dry erase board with supplies that you may have laying around the house. It is fairly easy to make. I made one before using a picture frame, but it didn't work out too well and it ended up breaking. So I needed something I could put on the fridge that we can we can write items we need around the house for when we go grocery shopping, plus the erase board we do have on the fridge is being used for another project. This works out well for us because it is lightweight, has enough space, and it works as well as an erase board! 

What You'll Need: 

• Scrapbook Paper (I cut mine in half since I didn't need that much space.)
• Clear contact paper (you can get it at Dollar Tree if you don't have any or Laminate paper
• Tape (for fridge)

Directions: 

1. Cut scrapbook paper to measurements you want. 
2. Apply contact paper/Laminate paper to the scrapbook paper. 
3. Trim the edges. And you're done! Just use tape to put it on fridge. 

This "erase board" is definitely convenient to have. It falls, we just tape it back up. But I use heavy duty tapes. This is nothing fancy but it gets the job done! 

DIY Thread Holder

Here is today's "Do It Yourself" project. It is a thread holder/container. Not until a few weeks ago I realized I had a collection of threads when I would go buy the thread I needed only to realize I had one somewhere in the craft room. So now, I have doubles of thread colors. Since I'm trying to put together my craft room, I needed to be more organized and I hate buying things for organization, if I know there's a way I can make them. And these supplies I found laying around the house. This is only because in the past I've bought things to help me organize, but ended up not using these containers. So here it is the project: 

Supplies: 

• Plastic container (mine is from a drawer)
• Bamboo Skewers that I found in my pantry (cut about 2 inches)
• Glue Gun

Directions: 

1. Measure about 2 inches between each stick and put a dot. Keep doing this until you are out of room and your container is full of dots. 
2. Take glue gun and glue the end of a stick and press down on the dot until it's dry and sturdy.

I was able to hold 24 threads in my container! Now I'm organized and it didn't cost me any $! 

Now off to my next project...