Graffiti Dye Shirts - Disney

   We will be making a day trip to the Magic Kingdom in the near future and I figured I would make shirts for us all.  John did opt out of this, but he does already have a Mickey shirt, so I guess it is excusable.
   This is actually very simple, I have done shirts using this method for breast cancer awareness and also for a bowling team.

- I stick with white shirts, so no matter what color paint you use the color will be true, it won't be changed. I have done yellow shirts before, but the paint colors were black,  red, and hunter green.
- I buy the $1 bottles of fabric paint and dilute with A LOT of water in the 2oz travel size spray bottles that are 50 cents in most stores. Literally, the amount of paint won't be the width of your thumb in the bottom of the spray bottle. You can save yourself and buy the fabric paint in spray bottles, the ones I have seen are about $7 a bottle.
- Cut out whichever silhouette you want to use on cardstock paper or cardboard (you can even find an image online and trace the outline on regular computer paper off your screen if you don't trust yourself freehand. Then you will use that cut out to trace onto heavier paper/cardboard and cut again.)
- Place folded newspaper inside the shirt where you will be spraying. This will prevent the paint from seeping through to the back of the shirt.
- Tape the silhouette's onto the shirt and spray away. A little goes a long way, and you can layer colors. I do put the shirts on cardboard, so in case I am too enthusiastic with spraying it doesn't go on anything else. I also did these outside, but I have done others right on my kitchen floor.

I will post a photo of myself and the boys in our shirts at Disney later this summer!

Rhea's Family Photos

One of my very close friends came for a visit and I had the pleasure to take some pics of them all at a gorgeous park nearby. I am so pleased with how happy she was with just the pics off the camera, but I still did a little fine tuning this morning.

Chocolate FILLED strawberries

I have always dipped strawberries, but I saw this and figured it had to be easier! Perfect with 2 kids running around, seriously do not need to add in the messiness of chocolate to the mix!

I used a 2lb container of strawberries (with a few eaten along the way, I had help from T on that.) When cleaning and cutting the leaves off, cut a little extra out of the middle, leaving it hallow. Arrange in a plate, hole up, and fill with melted chocolate. I prefer chocolate chips to baker morsels since they melt quicker. I used a full 11.5oz bag of chips, melting half each time in a sandwich bag, 30 seconds then squeezing bag, then an additional 30 seconds, then all you have to do is cut a bottom corner off the bag and squeeze! Refrigerate to chocolate hardens.

So easy and yummy!

(Use small strawberries, otherwise the larger strawberries will have so much chocolate that hardens inside it is more difficult to bit into.)

More Ryan - B&W Collage

I love framing my photos in squares, just to be a little different, and I have always felt black and white photos seem to have more emotional depth.
What a cute way to capture more aspects of a moment than in a collage. I almost wish I had done something like this with my boys to do a wall of collages like this to easily see the changes that happen all to quickly! I say almost because hubby already teases me about hanging photos, even though we have more space and I haven't hung half of what we had in the old house!

A Mother's Day surprise - Ryan

I was lucky enough to get newborn pics of a friend's new baby, and I realize newborn pics are MUCH harder than any other age! Definitely need more practice!