GREEN ! ! !

Look what I found the other day after I got out of the shower ! !

My sweet little boy had took the tube thing out of a marker and proceeded to squeeze it . . . resulting in green hands. . green lips. . . green spots all over his clothes. . . a big green stain on our carpet. . I'm all for celebrating St. Patricks Day but this little man is celebreating to early and too messy .

Fun Cactus Scene Craft

Here in Tucson its Rodeo Week ... Yee Haw

I love theme kids crafts that are super easy !

This one can definitely be finished before something

else catches their attention :)

Supplies Needed:

Blue/Green/ Brown Construction Paper, Glue and (not pictured) rice

First thing first draw cactus on your green paper.

Than have your little cowboys cut out their cactus. I forgot to take a picture of it but out of construction paper I cut a 'dirt scene' for the bottom of their blue paper.Than they went to work gluing their cactus. Next came Elmers glue . . .
and than the rice :)

Kasen's Tucson Rodeo Scene

and Taelor's Tucson Rodeo Scene .

Fun Fact : Most people don't know in Tucson,
we don't get Presidents Day off of school, we get two days for Rodeo

Happy Crafting !

Spices and Herbs Subway Art

It all started with this piece of wood I got from Home Depot for $5.41

And unfortunately that's where the tutorial ended

because the $&@# batteries in my camera died and

it was after bedtime so I couldn't run to the store.

However it was super easy, I just whipped out the Cricut and the Don Juan cartridge. . . side note: if its not obvious by now this is my absolute favorite cartridge, Love it ! . .and I went to this website to gather up all the spice and herb names I wanted to use. Than I proceeded to punch the names into the Cricut and cut them out, varying them in size as I went along.

The smallest I went was 1.5" and the biggest I had was 3"

I highly underestimated two things when it came to this project.

1. How much vinyl I actually needed to complete this .
2. How much time it would take to complete. . . Peeling the back off all those letters took f.o.r.e.v.e.r !

But in the end I loved it and thats
all the counts in Craft Land :)

Happy Crafting !

Winner, Winner

Winner, Winner ! !

Lucky Number 22:

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A . . B-I-G . . Thank You to my first 100 followers. . .

After being in blog land for only a little over a month now, I'm truly faltered you all enjoyed my blog enough to follow along. I hope you all continue to read along and enjoy everything I dream up and create.

And Welcome to the New 24 Followers.

And one more huge THANK YOU to everyone who commented and

participated in my 1st giveaway.

Mom, where's the orange crayon ? ?

I know all you moms have heard that before

Here in the Simply Crafty house, I hear that a lot during homework time.

Like the other day when Taelor needed a green crayon to draw three trees and I swear he spent more time looking through the crayon tub for the right shade of green than drawing the trees.

So that got me thinking. . .

How could I put all the crayons on display without it looking

messy on our kitchen table ? ?

Ta Da ! ! Our new beautiful Crayon Organizer

It all started with one little tomato sauce can.

While I was making dinner one night, after I had rinsed out the can and went to throw it away . . ding . . . off went my crafty light bulb.

After using and cleaning seven more cans, I painted each one with acrylic paint and clear coated them . . . I painted the can

red - orange - yellow - green - blue - purple - pink - white

Than I screwed them to a 11" by 6.5" piece of wood . . . simple enough :)
Than I organized the crayons into the coordinating cans :)

And I used the white can for the white - brown and blacks. Oh and I added little felt feet to the bottom so it
slides across our table smoothly :)

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Valentines Day Dinner

Here at the Simply Crafty house we had a very

simple but Festive Valentines Dinner .

It all started with a cheese pizza I picked up from Costco. . . Within a few minutes and the help of a tiny heart cookie cutter,

we had our very own Valentine Pizza.


And for my little man who doesn't like pizza . . Yes, I know what little boy in their right mind doesn't like pizza ? ? Please tell me I'm not the only one with a little goofball. . . Any who for the little guy I cut out hearts from a Tortilla and made him cheese quesadillas.

And no Valentine dinner would be complete without a heart shaped brownie.

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day surrounded by your sweethearts.

Valentine Cookie Cutter Painting

How I never thought of painting with Cookie cutters, I'll never know :)

So simple and so much fun for the little ones.

And the best part my brother got me a HUGE tub of cookie cutters last year for Christmas, that has cutters for every Holiday plus Letters, numbers, shapes, symbols, sports, and other random cutters.

I see a lot of Cookie Cutter painting in our future, especially during the awful summer months here in Tucson, Az.
Kasen was a fan of the tiny heart and purple :)
Another Masterpiece by Kasen

Taelor's

Taelor's layered hearts.

Happy Crafting !