Menu Board

I have been wanting to get meal planning a little more organized. I dread planning the weekly menu and grocery list. I found a bunch of ideas on Pinterest and put a few if my favorites together to create this

  

Depending on your craft supplies this craft could cost you less than five dollars. I used:

A foam board

Scrapbook paper

Stickers

My recipes 

Each envelope has meals inside for breakfast lunch and dinner. Each card has a meal idea on one side and the items needed for that meal on the other.

I pick meals use them to make my shopping list and to let my family know what is for dinner. Most of my meals I make without a recipe but the ones that I need a recipe for I wrote where the recipe is on the card next to the items needed.

Spice Rack Up Cycle:

I have been reading a bunch of organization blogs the past few weeks and I have caught the bug I guess. I have been wanting to get started on organizing my life and this lovely spice rack is where I started. 

Cute right? I really do like my spice rack but there are a bunch of spices I don't ever use in it and I my cupboard looks like this...

A bunch of spices that I do use. So I decided to empty out the jars of spices I don't use and fill them with spices I do use. 

I put the spices I use less in baggies and put them in the freezer. I am sure one day I will pull out a recipe and with I had them. The freezer will hopefully keep them fresh. 

Once my jars were clean I found these cute labels and printed them out on full sheep label paper I found at Staples. 

So this is my new spice rack!

I had so much fun labeling that I decided to label a few more things:

Here is the font I used. Its is not the same at the one designed for the gray labels but I thought it was cute.

I really enjoyed labeling. I am super excited to become more organized one small project at a time! 

Customize your iPhone!

I found this super cute tutorial to make your iphone cute over at:

Here is the link to the tutorial.

She has two tutorial one for apps and one for things already on your phone like messages and the app store. The second is a little confusing so here are some other links that helped me. 

here and here

Have fun customizing you iphone!

Wedding photos!

My Brother-in-law got married last week and I got to be his photographer. It was so fun! I am not 100% sure if weddings are my thing but it was fun to take pictures of this cute couple and our growing family! 

Check out my photography website here to see all the photos I took!

Bridal Shower Invites

Check out this Bidal shower invite my Brother helped me create!

Check out his website here!

Growth Chart

I have been wanting to make one of these for a while now. 

We are a military family and we will be moving around for the rest of our lives. 

I really wanted to have a door or something to mark the growth of my kids but I know that we wont have a home like that so this was my solution. I can track my kids growth in every place we live. 

This is what I used:

Wood: I used a 1x6 that is 6ft tall. I got mine from Home Depot it was already finished. 

Numbers cut on Cricut.

Square

Tape measure

Sharpie

Hammer and something to hang it on the wall.

First I used my tape measure to make marks ever inch all the way up my board.

Once I have marks ever inch then I used my square and sharpie to make marks like this.

My mark lengths were in this order.

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/4 inch

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/2 inch

1 inch 

1 inch 

1 1/4 inch 

1 inch

1 inch

2 inches

I hope the make sense so at the half foot mark my line was an inch and a half long and at the foot line my mark was 2 inches long. 

Then I put my Cricut number next to the 2 inch lines.

With my numbers I did not start at 0 I started at 6 inches. So number 1 is only 6 inches from the bottom. When I hang it on the wall I want the bottom to be six inches from the floor.

I measured six inches from the floor and made a mark on my wall with a pencil. 

Then I put my metal piece to hang it up on the back and used the tooth paste technique to know where to put the nail in the wall to hang my board. 

Toothpaste Technique

Once it is hanging you can measure your kiddos!

Cool right! I think so :)

Easy Baby Blankets

These are some fun easy blankets!

They are so basic that if you don't know a lot about sewing (like me) this will be a good project. You could also use this to teach younger crafters!

I used: 

Two pieces of flannel. (I just got enough material to make them square)

Sewing machine.

First put your pieces for material front to front. Make sure they are the same size. Then sew around the edge stay close to the edge. Leave a section open to turn your blanket right side out. 

Once you have turned it right side out iron the blanket around the edges to that it will be easy to sew again. Sew around the edges and close the section that you left open. 

 You could be done if you wanted I sewed around one more time for looks. :)

You can find some fun flannel and make some super cute combinations!

You could also make them smaller for baby blankets for your little ones babies. Your Kid and her baby could have matching blankets!