Boring Onesies Get Makeovers!I

Got boring onesies? I have a ton of them for my daughter since they seem to be the bulk of her wardrobe. Why not dress it up a bit? If you are a crafter, a lot of the essential items you will have on hand for this quick onesie makeover.

Heat Bond Fabric
Fabric with your choice of print
Iron
Needle and thread in any color


I decided to make shirts with my daughters first intial. If you have a boy, how fun to make shirts with a pattern using a bowtie or necktie. (I plan to do this if my pregnant sister in law has a boy) I made a template on a scrap piece off a box for the e and then traced around it onto the fabric. Cut pattern out of the fabric and iron on to the heat bond. Place onto onesie and iron into place. If you want to make it a little more decorative, simply stitch around the initial with colorful thread. (this step is optional)

VOILA! I liked the looks of it so much I even made a miniature e and ironed it onto the bottom leg of her leggings. Very cute.

Chunkeroo here moved a little before I took the picture, so the top of the e obviously isn't showing, but you get the drift. This is a great way to use up any of your spare fabric.

Bacon Recipe submitted: Challenge Accepted.

I am an avid bacon lover. Hey- I should be- I'm an Iowa gal. It's the one food that I truly believe God gave to humans to consume in massive amounts. So I accepted that challenge. I am also an avid facebook user, and a mother of a friend realized this and sent me a recipe with the message, " I vote you try this and tell me what it's like." Challenge accepted. The recipe was for Chocolate Peanut Butter Bacon pie. At a mere 1040 calories a serving, this is not for the weak bacon fan. It is absolutely to die for.

If your husband loves bacon, he will bow at your feet for making this. My husband isn't the most avid bacon lover. He would give this recipe 2 out of 5 stars. He wasn't sure what the bacon did for the pie. I can tell you what it does: It gives the salty to the sweet. It's called perfection. *slaps forehead* I would give this recipe 4 out of 5 stars. The only thing I would change is.....you guessed it.....more bacon.

Want the recipe: Here it is from Pillsbury:

INGREDIENTS

Crust

 

1 box Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on box

1egg, beaten

 

 

Bacon-6 slices

 

Chocolate Sauce

 

1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk

1 bag (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups)

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon butter or margarine

1 teaspoon vanilla

 

Cream Cheese-Peanut Butter Filling

1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed

1 large banana

DIRECTIONS

1 Heat oven to 450°F. Place 1 pie crust in ungreased 9-inch glass pie plate. Press crust firmly against side and bottom. Cut star shapes or other desired shapes from second pie crust. Attach to the edge of pie crust in pie plate with beaten egg; ( I didn't do this )  brush tops of shapes with beaten egg. Prick bottom and side with fork. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown. Cool. 2 Reduce oven temperature to 350°F. Arrange bacon slices on ungreased 15x10x1-inch pan. Bake about 15 minutes or until bacon is crisp and brown. Drain on paper towels. Crumble into small bite-size pieces. Reserve half of the bacon pieces for garnish. 3 Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, heat evaporated milk, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup sugar to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, and stir in butter and vanilla; set aside. 4 In large bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter and 1/2 cup sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gently stir in whipped topping until combined. 5 Spread 1/2 cup chocolate sauce over cooled crust. Sprinkle half of the bacon pieces over chocolate sauce. Slice banana and arrange over bacon pieces. Spread cream cheese-peanut butter filling over bacon pieces. Drizzle 2 tablespoons chocolate sauce over filling. Sprinkle remaining bacon pieces over top of pie. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.

Is coloring your hair with box color bad?

You wake up....look in the mirror....and think. "Dang...my hair sure needs a little pick me up". So you drive down to the drugstore, pick up a $5 box of color, run home and apply it to your head. In 15-20 minutes "VOILA!" The BEST HAIRCOLOR OF YOUR LIFE! What? That's not what happened? I'm not surprised!

What's wrong with box color? They have metals in them. And when the color fades out....the metals stay in your hair...leaving the brassy tones behind. Oh....and not to mention you have no idea what the peroxide strength is in the box, or the fact that your outcome may leave you with a different color from the base to the midstrand, to the ends of the hair. (Oh! That's what they meant by multidimensional highlights!)

You have dark hair and wanted to go blonde with that box color and now you're orange? NO SURPRISE! This is why you trust a salon professional to lighten your hair! Brunettes will need to have their blondes toned more often than not when going blonde. Dark hair will naturally pull warm, caramel-orange tones instead of pulling to that beautiful blonde. What? You tried putting a 2nd box of blonde on your hair to try to go MORE BLONDE and it didn't work? NO SURPRISE AGAIN. (read the first part of this paragraph and hit yourself over the head with that discarded box) The only thing you accomplished is FRYING your hair and now you may have only accomplished giving yourself severe damage so your hair will fall out, break off, or look like a synthetic wig.

So...you've put box color on your hair and now you hate it even more than BEFORE you colored it. Now what? Well, let's just say that $5 box color is now going to cost you anywhere from $200-$300 for a color correction in most reputable salons. Not only that, but you'll need multiple deep conditioning/protein treatments to get your hair back into shape. Taking the "easy cheaper way out" isn't the best way to do things. Go to a salon and trust a professional!

Day One

Well thank you Chris for telling me to start a blog. And it was relatively easy....so now...what to write about. Well....how about I write about my weekend for starters-

I went to the Peels Hair show in Council Bluffs this weekend and got a TON of great information. I saw a lot of awesome new haircuts and even ended up trying one out on myself yesterday when I got done with supper. I tried out a 50s style bob but funked it up just a little because smooth hair on me makes me look rediculous. I actually ended up making it a 50s bob with a little 70s mod style as well. And with my blue hair, I look like my electric yellow mod wig that I always had kept from Halloween to wear to Widespread Panic concerts.

Got a ton of things for my salon this weekend at the show: A new Shellac UV lamp, 6 more Shellac polishes, product, Pedicure area and manicure station, more fingernail polish (like I need more, but I grabbed 12 more colors...) capes, aprons, and got a good feel for what kind of products I want to use in my salon. Currently I am using Sebastian products, but as I get more into having a salon, I may switch to using Surface Hair products as I love their ingredient base and how natural they are...but DANG are they expensive! Sebastian products are wonderful and expensive too....so we'll stick with them for now.

So.....as you can see....on my blog I am going to try and post a few different things. I will have polls with rediculous questions, or polls that actually see what people might want to learn about with hair and nails so I can feed in replies that way. Who knows. And I will always have videos of my children linked to the left of my page so people can see how rediculous I am with my kids. I need to get a feel for this blogging. Not many people want to read about complete nonsense...and I sure have a LOT of it stored away in this little head of mine.