Silly Sanck Saturday ~Bear with a bow

Hello all!  We had pancakes one morning and didn't have time to finsh up the batter, so here is our creation we made with the extra batter later that day.

Bear with a Bow

The girls couldn't decide if it was a bear or a cat! What do you all think? ;)

Of course we needed to make it a girl so we gave it a bow. When my little Buba love gets a little older he will have more to say about all this girly stuff. :)



Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday.

Hey if you enjoy these Silly Sanck Saturdays click on a reaction and let us know!

If you have any Silly food I would love to see.

~becky

Our ingrediants for Bear with a bow:

Pancake batter

Melon for the bow
Apples for the smile and nose
Banana and raisins for the eyes

my hand at upcycling clothes

A little 'T' with a big #3! ;)

This is a homemade birthday present for our sweet little 3 year old friend. I had wanted to buy her something then I got sick etc etc..I couldn't let little Kayras' 3 year old birthday pass

without a present. 

I made a grocery run and ran into these t-shirts 2 for 10 liras. (So 2 for $7.00 ) So I thought I would give the upcycling craz a try at my home too. :)

I decided I could upcycle clothes just as good as the rest of these amazing inspiring bloggy mommies out there.  So here is the gift for Kayra complete with a DIY fabric rosette headband to match.

This upcycled T-shirt is part of my Sewing Simple series.

I cut out a number three and then traced it on my fabric and cut it out. I then pinned it on the shirt.

 I sewed the # three onto the shirt and made two little rosettes for the sleeves that I sewed on by hand.

 That's it.

After making the shirt I fealt like it just needed a little something else.

So with a little bit of this and a little bit of that (which is what I had on hand) a matching headband was born. :)

The gift

The model

The Birthday girl herself.

Happy Birthday Kayra we love you!!

 

Here is a quick TUTORIAL on the headband.

It really is very simple. Come on give it a try.;)

These are the same rosettes I made for the Fabric Bookmarks. 

Click here for the tutorial on how to make the rosettes.

I hot glued the three rosettes together then unto the headband.

I then put a dab of hot glue on the ribbons to secure them.

Tada

Well not to original but it was a lot of fun.  I would like to get better at upcycling clothes.  My favorite is cutting out shapes from fabric and adding them to clothes.  So I hope to get better at this. Plus it is a GREAT way to save a dime and have something unique and chic.

Thank you all so much for your comments and following along!! I really am enjoying the beginning of this blogging journey with you all.

~Becky

Love from my lovlies

Mothers Day was a sweet treat. 

Breakfast in bed...

where my little buba love found me and had my breakfast in bed with me. :)

Meanwhile the girls were rearranging the 3 bundels of flowers they had bought the day before and putting them in glasses all over the living room. :) When I came out they had placed flowers on every table and the floor all beautifully arranged in glass cups. I loved it!! I was also very proud of my husband for letting them be florist. ;)

Also I found this when I walked out..

Thank you family for loving me. 

I am unable to describe how grateful I am that I am the mother to you three.

It was a quiet and lovely Mothers Day morning where I was loved on and then the hustle and buslte of life began again, and I swung into high mommy gear!

~becky

Silly Sanck Saturday ~Flowers

Here is our Silly Snack for this week:

Works of art by my two girlies.

These pieces of food art include:

Banana pieces

Strawberries

Pretzels

Peanut butter

Have a great weekend and play with some food!!

~becky

DIY Fabric Bookmarks

An early

Happy Mothers Day to all of you dear Moms out there. 

As a Mom I love books and I love bookmarks so..

I thought thses bookmarks were a fitting gift for Mothers Day they only take about 15 minutes to make. Add it with a favorite fiction or Biography and tada a beautiful personalized gift. :)

I wish I could make for each of you however I hope the idea is helpful and inspires you. :)

This is part of my Sewing Simple series.  Even if you don't have a machine they can be hand done quickly also.

To make the Rosettes click here for a simple and easy tutorial.

This tutorial used fabric glue, I used my glue gun. You could also sew them together as well.

I used ribbon and fabric for the Rosetts. 
 Thick ribbon or thin ribbon works greats depending on the size you want.

Here are the 6 I finished and gave as gifts to some dear ladies. 

Personally the yellow one with the shabby fabric ribbon is my favorite.

It was also the simpliest.

I think I will be taking another go at ribbon bookmarks and some quilted ones at another date.

I don't know what it is with me and bookmarks. :) 

Here is the link of our Patchwork Bookmarks ~kids can do.

Tip: Even if you don't have lots of fun fabric just find a nice plain color and put a rosette made from a ribbon , you could also sew around the edge with a corresponding color of thread and

tada pure sweetness.

I found the Rosette bookmark idea here, which gives a great tut on how to make them for us simple sewing ladies.

much care and love to all

Thank you for following along! ~becky

Yet I sitll dare to hope..

"Yet I still dare to hope.."

The past month has been filled with some very stressful situations and those stressful situations seemed to have spilled out into our family. My husnabd and I talked about how we are dealing with the stresses we are facing and realizing that we need to learn to handle stress in a new and better way.  I don't know about you but when my kids aren't doing well and I see that the reason is a result of the way I have been reacting/responding to them it goes deep into that Mommy spot.  My heart has been heavy for the past few days and I have shared some tears as I have talked with the Lord about all this. Sometimes I allow myself to give excuses to my behavior because of the stress however truth is it only produces negative results that bring more stress or disappointment etc. 

I read this statement today "STAND in the midst of the junk".  I love it!  Hardship is ineviatble and often unavoidable and so instead of trying to hide from it or to make it go away etc,  I will STAND in the midst of the junk and trust that God is working behind the scenes to clear the way. (Eph. 6:13)

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! ..his mercies begin a fresh each morning." Lam. 3:22,23

Topkapa Palace in Istanbul

I love the beginning of that verse "yet I still dare to hope .."

So today I dare to hope and instead of looking for an answser in myself I turn my face toward the living God this new day and ask for his help and wait quietly and peacefully for that help to come.

~becky

A button flower and two stems made out of foam...

Here are the sweet Thank You cards the girls made a few days ago. 

I have been wanting to have the girls make some thank you cards for some thoughtful friends. I saw a delightful blog post the other day of a finger print flower and so I tweaked the idea a bit and we came up with this. (my girls love buttons xo;))

I forgot how fun fingerprint art can be.  My girls came up with a few cute creatures from their own hands. 

Enjoy the finger painting fun.

So simple so sweet.

The girls wrote their own note of thanks inside and hopefully it will be in the mail tomorrow. ;)

These could aslo be a great homemade Mothers Day Cards too.

~becky