Sewing: Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Skirt

My daughter Looooves Strawberry Shortcake. Almost every night (ok, every SINGLE night), she request to watch Strawberry Shortcake after her bath. She knows the songs, the dance moves, the characters, and even the lines. She is SS biggest fan!

So for her 3rd Birthday I decided to make her a Strawberry Shortcake skirt. I used a SS fabric that I had leftover from a quilt I am making for J. My plan is to finish her SS quilt by summer.

I am telling you she loves Strawberry Shortcake.



I also decided to make a matching top. To make it easy on myself, I bought a simple white tank top and appliqued SS on top.



Viola! A SS skirt with a matching top.

Sewing: Refashioned dress

Yesterday I finally got out my old skirt that use to fit me 10 years ago. Can't believe I carried that thing around so long. But it was still in very good shape and still very clean and I knew I wanted to make a dress for Juliana out of this last year.



I really did not have to mess with the length at all. Just needed to be tucked in on the sides and it fit perfectly.



It really only took me less than an hour to do. I have three other skirts ready for a transformation as well.

Cooking: Lemon Curd

So my mom came over for a visit a couple of weeks ago, which means bags full of fruits. Avocado's, lemons, and oranges. This trip she had brought an extra bag of lemons. Oh boy. What to do with all these lemons!

Hmmmm, make lemonade of course.



But I wanted to try something new with lemons. So I searched online and for some reason Lemon Curd just sounded so tasty to me. I actually never tried it before and it looked so yummy in the cute little jars at the market so I thought I'd give it a world and try it out.

I used this Lemon Curd recipe online and was actually not to hard to make! I spread some Lemon Curd on my piece of toast the next morning and MMMMMM was it good!



My daughter wanted me to take a picture of her toast(with strawberry jam) too.



I then stored it in a container and labeled it with the date I made it. It is good for up to 3 weeks. Enjoy!



Hmmmm, what else can I make with Lemons?

Juliana's latest creations

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March 31, 2011



The Sun by Juliana
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The Elephant by Juliana
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Veggie Muffins by MADE

I found this awesome recipe from MADE the other day. It was veggie muffins. It was filled with different kinds of vegetables and I saw how happy her kids looked eating them and I thought to myself I just had to try it for my very picky eater. So I made her a batch that very day and I told her I was making "cupcakes" and she was super excited. Here she is with her piece.



Well, instead of devouring the cupcakes like I hoped she would she just picked at it and was taking out the carrots. Oh brother. Well, I am off to the Internet to search for more ideas on how to get my 2 year old to eat her veggies. Any ideas???

I decided to add a little bit of powder sugar on mine. Mmmmmm. (its was good with or without it). Seriously, these are so delish!!

Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

A big Thank you to Joy the Baker!!!!

When I saw this post



I thought to myself.... Please! I hope someone comes by for a visit so I have an excuse to make this! A week later my mom calls and tells me that her and my Aunt want to come and visit me for a few days.

Happy dance!!

I asked my Aunt to help me since she loves to bake bread. Let me tell you this was a long process but so worth it. This is how my turned out.




I didn't have enough room to fit all my bread slices in one single row so I had to squeeze them in the sides. It looked alittle wierd but...... Mmmmmm, it tasted soooo goooood:) I think a little vanilla ice cream would have complimented this very well. Next time!

Mod Podge

My Grandmother turned 99 years old on the 18th of this month and we were all getting together to throw her a party. What do you get a person who is turing 99 years old? I had no idea. Then I remembered that I had downloaded a templete last Christmas called Heritage Blocks.

I went to Michaels and bought a block. I had to wipe out my coupons because $8.00 for a piece of block is too expensive for me! I then sawed it to the templates measurements, also painted and sanded the edges of each blocks.



I was ready to Mod Podge my blocks. So easy!! But before I did that I had used distressed ink around the edges of each print to give it that antique look.



Here is an AMAZING video from How Does She on how to Mod Podge blocks.

Here is my first attempt at Mod Podge.




Now put it in a box.



Wrap it up pretty and ready to give!