Today's Pinterest Trials

I could not sleep last night, so I spent some time on Pinterest and came across some things to try today. {As if I don't have enough to do!}

The first one was a "game" {sounds more appealing than a busy activity} that involves putting clothes pins on a note card. Super easy and Allyson loved it! I cut note cards in half and then wrote 3-4 letter words {except her name} on the note cards. Then I wrote the letters of the alphabet on the clothes pins, 2 of each letter. And I wrote the vowels in a different color for later teaching. At first I put lowercase on one side and left the other side blank. {Most of the words on the cards are lowercase with the exception of a few names.} Then I decided to go back and put letters on the other side of the pins, just in case they were not attached to the strips of paper, it would make it easier for her to find. I put lowercase letters on the back side and hind sight I should have put capitals. Oh well! I'm not doing it over again. {And Alisha I owe you some more clothes pins! ;-)} I ended up cutting out strips of card stock and putting the pins on there so all of them would be facing the same direction and she could find the letters faster. I put everything in a gallon Ziploc and wallah! Now I did not actually read the details of the Pin; I saw the picture and ran with it!

Ally really had fun doing this. She was able to find the letters to spell the words on the cards. She has not perfected opening the clothes pins yet, but she is getting there; great fine motor skills practice.

 

 

 

And lastly, Vaseline on your eyelashes! If you know me, I do not wear make-up everyday . . . No time for that! I ran across this Pin that said putting Vaseline will darken your eyelashes and thicken them a bit. As you can see below, it did add a little bit more volume, not a ton by any means. And it is only on my top lashes in this picture. My current mascara was almost out, so I cleaned off the wand and put Vaseline on it. I do not have the best technique of applying the Vaseline to the wand!! If you see me out and about and wonder why I have grease on my eyelashes, you'll know why! ;-)

 

Legos & Pinterest

Things have been pretty low key this week.  Monday and Wednesday the kids had school and Tuesday and Thursday we just lounged at the house, which was nice.  Shawn had his follow-up appointment yesterday and he received a full release.  Thank the Lord!  Crazy to think that just last Thursday we were coming home from the hospital.  I'm so glad he is out of pain and hopefully all of that is behind us.

Our kitchen table continues to be Lego central!  Jase just absolutely loves creating.  And Allyson, she loves just getting into it all and playing next to him.  At some point we will have to transition the Lego's, but for now he is enjoying himself and we still have enough room to eat meals at the table.

This week we also did a couple of Pinterest projects.  I was inspired by Casey to make my our laundry detergent.  I had Shawn look at the one I pinned since he works with chemicals and is definitely more familiar with their make up then I am.  He liked the one I picked so it was a go.  And he was actually excited about this project and made the list of ingredients to get at the store.  We ended up following the recipe exactly with the exception of 3 bars of Fels-Naptha.  We used 2 of those bars along with 1 bar of soap from Bath and Body Works.  It made a ton (like we are storing it in a 3 or 5 gallon bucket) and you only use 1 tablespoon per load.  I am finishing up some existing detergent that I have and after that it will be onto the homemade detergent.  It if works well, it will be a big savings and was super easy to mix up.  Thanks hubby!

We also bought the supplies to make our own dish detergent, but haven't mixed it up yet.  It is from the same source as the laundry detergent and has similar ingredients.  I bought cute little clear canisters for both detergents.  I can't wait to buy some vinyl and make some cute labels to go on the outside of the canisters! :)

And I have one last pin that I tried this morning: at home teeth whitening.  After doing it my teeth felt really clean.  I've only done it once, so I do not have any results to report, but I hope to continue doing it weekly and hopefully will see some whitening going on very soon.