Featured Bloggers | Some Amazing Projects

I haven't | Shared | any amazing projects lately and thought I would do so today.

If you see your project here, thank you for sharing and don't forget to grab a featured button!

On to the projects...

Don't forget to go visit and let them know Trendy Treehouse sent you! And don't forget to come back here and let me know what you thought of them too!

The | Upcycled Puffer Shrug | at Crafter Hours

This is a beautiful shrug any lil girl would love to strut around in!

The | Fancy Up Your Bathroom | at Make It and Love It

This is so adorable. I love the way the green ties in with the black! Just adorable and what an easy way to spruce up the room.

The | Fruity Kids Juice | at Living Locurto

My kids loved this juice and asked that I make it again and again! You have to try it!

The | Best TV Dinner Ever | at Delectable Edibles

I am not one to make TV dinners but this quick dinner will get your kids eating their vegetables. Moms love when their kids eat their veggies. Try this recipe out. You will love it!

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Valentine Ideas | FEATURES

With | St. Valentines Day | just a few days away, I wanted to feature some great Valentine Ideas I found around the blogosphere. I am also sharing some activity and color pages below too!

Valentine Apron By Flexible Dreams ~ XOXO Wreath By Sumos Sweet Stuff

     

Warm My Heart By Brassy Apple ~ Danish Woven Hearts By Roots & Wings

     

Conversations Heart Wreath By Crafts & Sutch ~ Felt Valentine Cookies By Pure Joy

     

| Valentines Day Trip |

Our Family is spending Our Valentine Holiday in Disneyland this year. We are so excited. So in order to get ready for the long drive and fun activities, I put together a few things.

I found a Valentine Match game at Target. It was only $5. NICE. Thought it would be fun to play in the hotel room when we need a break from the day. I got Valentine cards for each family member and put together a treat bag too. All surprises for them when we wake up Valentines Day! ;-) Each bag includes.... candies, stickers, crayons, new Valentine hair clips and heart necklaces for the girls, Lego pack for my son (didn't think he would want a hair clip, haha), cookies, pencils, drawing tablet and a few other goodies. Oh and I found some Smurfs coloring books for a $1 at Michaels. The kids love the Smurfs.

I also have an activity packet ready to go for the ride. All Valentine related. I am sharing the pages below in case you would like to print them out for yourself.

 

 

Have fun with these Coloring Pages. I found them all by googling Valentine Activity and Coloring Pages

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Brassy Apple Review & Giveaway

I am very excited today to share with you an amazing shop.... The {Brassy Apple}

My name is Megan and I am the creative force behind Brassy Apple Designs. Designing allows me to do something I love while still being a Mom and striving to reach my own goals, dreams and further develop my talents. 

I truly enjoy creating unique, eclectic items for women and children and extending my designs to offer patterns and DIY kits for the Do it yourself woman.From my Shaggy Mosaic style jeans, Aprons, skinny scarves and more, I hope you find something unexpected in each piece. Designing with fresh colors and fabrics that are only reproduced a few times keeps things new and original for you and me! 

I was very excited to feature The Brassy Apple with my readers especially since I have been buying Megan's ebooks for the past few months now. LOL My first purchase was her "Shaggy Mosaic Jeans" This is the best project ever. I hat throwing away the girls jeans just because they have holes in them and I hate ugly patches. Megan's tutorial for the "Shaggy Mosaic Jeans" was my saving grace. I can now re-fashion their old jeans into some oh so adorable ones instead of throwing them out!

This pattern and directions were so easy to follow. I had my own masterpiece done in no time. I literally spend all my time just trying to find the right fabric. Don't we all. But actually putting this together is a dream and your lil one will love showing them off. I like that she shows that a mom can wear these too. So all you {Trendy} moms out there.... don't forget to fashion some for yourself!

Another one of my favorites of Megan's is her scarves. She has 20 different styles. Each of her ebooks gives you 10 different designs. So you will definitely find a favorite for each member of your family and friends too. Yep, you will be making these as gifts. I know I am. Christmas, Birthdays, you names it. Anyone would love one of the Brassy Apple Designs. You can choose from The Bunchy Scarf Pattern or The Brassy Neck Scarf Booklet. Both have some pretty fabulous patterns. Trust me you will want both ebooks. And I made my first scarf in about 15 minutes while cooking dinner. LOL Super easy instructions with some cute photos too!

Check out Megan's Video on how to wear your Scarf...

Jamie got some copies of the scarf ebooks from Megan too. Here's what she had to say...

You are going to love this Brassy Apple Neck Scarf eBook. It is FULL of awesome scarf patterns that are wonderfully illustrated and explained. I'm by no means a master seamstress but these patterns look so fun, quick and easy that I can't wait to give them a try. I need to buy some fun fleece and get to work because I've got lots of friends and family that live in cold, snowy climates and I'm pretty sure their necks are begging me to make them a cute scarf...or two! You have to check this eBook out and get sewing! A cold neck will thank you!...or just an averagely warm neck that needs to be cuteified! (I think I just made up two words! ha!) 


Ok, not only is Megan fantastic for her Shop, she has a blog too! The Brassy Apple Blog is just as fun because she shares some really great tutorials there. You will go crazy making out a checklist of off the projects she shares. I already have a huge list.


I found a post today that I added to my list. It's for a {Girl's Rosette Shrug} Re-fashioned from a T-Shirt. Just look at how adorable that is. Your lil girl will love to wear this beauty. I think the rosettes would be cute for lil head bands, clips or pins too!


Another post I loved was Megan's {embellished arm warmers}. I have seen some arm warmers before, but these are above and beyond all others. These are the most creative and adorable arm warmers I have ever seen. I even featured them a couple weeks back. Because I loved them so much, I went straight out and bought what I needed to make some for my girls. They loved them! They wouldn't take them off. My nieces came up that weekend and when we took them to the movies, all 6 girls were wearing them. We got a lot of stares and oh how cute those are. LOL So I know you will love making these for everyone you know! Even yourself! I made myself a pair.

Some exciting new for you....
Megan at The Brassy Apple is giving away {2} scarf ebooks
The two winners get to choose from 1 of the ebooks below. Each ebook has 10 scarf patterns.

How to enter...

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

WINNERS...

THE MOMMY TEACHER & KELLY

Winners will be contacted by email. Megan will be in contact with you about your prize.

Please Read Below Before Entering....

You will have until December 16th @ 9:00 p.m. Pacific Standard time to enter this giveaway. The winner will be chosen by random.org and announced here. If the winner has provided an email address I will contact you. If you don't provide your email, you will want to check back here and see if you are the winner. The winner will have 48 hours to contact me or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is open to those living in US, CANADA & AUSTRALIA. You must be 18 years or older to enter. Thanks for entering at Trendy Treehouse. Good Luck and Have Fun!!

The featured product {s} in this post were provided to me free of charge by the manufacturer or pr company representing the company. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by anyone. By entering this giveaway you agree to Trendy Treehouse Disclaimer/Terms of use

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Flower Loom Crafts Book Review

Another Fantastic Craft Book for you!

American Girls

"Flower Loom Crafts"

On a trip to town, Caidee and I decided to stop in and browse at some books. I took her to the kids section to have a seat and read a little, when we saw this book. This is so fun and easy to do. Oh My! My daughters fell in love with it and gazed at it all weekend saying, "Mom, we need to make this!" Over and over. So as we drove, I made our first one.

It was so easy to make. We just took the large loom, followed the simple instructions on how to make a double layer flower and I was done. It only took me a matter of maybe 20 minutes. But only because we were in a bouncy truck and because my girls kept wanting to see. LOL Really I think you could make these in less than 10 minutes for the larger ones. Less for the small and medium sized flowers.

There are so many examples in this book for how to use your flowers.  You can make scarves, hair clips, dress up your clothing, book bags, hats and so much more.  With the simple instructions, you will have you little one making flowers in no time. I definitely recommend this book! 

This book would make great a gift for anyone too!

While many reviews are created as a result of receiving a complimentary product, the following content was provided by Trendy Treehouse because it is a product that we believe in and purchase regularly. The item reviewed was  purchased on our own and was not compensated in any way for a review. Disclaimer/Terms of use.

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Flickr Group Photo Share

I have been very excited about the response our Flickr Group has been getting. I just had to share a few of the wonderful photos that have been added. I would also love to encourage you to share some of your fun, crafty photos.

If you see your photo here, be sure to grab a featured button. I love them and just had to share!

These are just a choice few of the photos I wanted to share. Make sure you go check out more in the group because there are just too many great ones to share.

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Cap City Stunts Feature

Cap City Stunts is an amazing Stunt Team that offers the best in entertainment for any event. They started out performing at Home & Garden shows and School Assemblies in April of 2006. Since then they have sky rocketed to be one of the most respected professional stunt teams in the world. Cap City Stunts philosophy is based on keeping things simple an being self reliant in order to be able to provide their services at a fair price.

Cap City Stunt Team is based out of Sacramento, Ca but has teams through out the U.S., Spain and Finland. They provide positive message assemblies for schools through out the U.S. and Canada and always do what they can to provide the best performance.

Each of Cap City's Stunt riders are well taken care of and have the best reputation with the BMX community. Each stunt rider is dedicated to giving the best show you will ever see.

★ I had the opportunity to see a great performance from Cap City Stunts at my kids school. It was reward day for the kids. All who had good behavior and reached their AR goals were able to go to the show. They were all very excite. Rick De Laney is a great speaker and made the show very exciting with music, stunts and sharing with us what the other stunt rider, Pete Brandt was doing. I loved how they started out their show. 

They picked 2 kids out of the audience and had a break dance dance off. It was so fun. We have one talented kid in that area and he was picked. It was too perfect. That was a great start for the kids watching. After the dance off each of the kids got a poster. Very cool. Then on to the amazing stunts performed by both Rick and Pete. The best part as a mom was listening to Rick talk about how to react to bullies and to make sure you follow your dreams. My son in particular was having trouble in these areas lately and I was very impressed with what my son got out of it. Honestly he really is looking at the teasing differently. He doesn't care as much. Thanks RICK!!! Then it was on to more fun stunts. Including a stunt that included 4 of our teachers. That was so fun for the kids. Pete jumped across the teacher as they lay out on the ground. Very, Very cool. After the show they stayed and signed autographs for the kids. 

They make sure to spend as much time as they can so all kids get a chance to visit. My kids were very excited because on the way out, I was parked by their car, my son asked, "Do you think they would take a picture with us?" I said, " It doesn't hurt to ask." I did and they were happy to. I even got in on one of the pictures. LOL We talked a bit and they even gave my Cass an autographed poster for her bday. (It was her bday the day of the show). She called her Daddy right away to tell him. All in all, I would have to definitely recommend Cap City Stunts for your next school assembly or special event. ★

Cap City Stunts offers....

• School Assemblies ~ packed with exciting music, cool BMX bikes, exciting BMX stunts and great positive messages. Teaching kids to follow their dreams, to stay drug, alcohol and tobacco free.
  
• Special Events ~ Fairs, Festivals & Community Event Entertainment.
  
• Private Parties ~ Make your birthday party, block party, mitzvahs or other special party an unforgettable success.
  
• Bicycle Rodeos ~ comprised of an obstacle course that mimics "real-life" situations. Students practice avoiding road hazards, scanning for automobiles, correct riding techniques, bicycle safety checks, and intersection safety. Additionally, students and parents learn how to properly fit helmets.

More great things to check out.....

• Cap City Contact Info ~ Get more info about booking your show
  
• Useful links ~ Flatland BMX info, General BMX info, BMX links and other useful links
  
• Pics from shows ~ but you just have to see them in action to get the full effect
  
• Video Clips ~ Various BMX stunt shows to view
  
• Media Info ~ TV News Appearances and News Articles
  
• Discounts ~ Check out discounts available for your show
  
• Area Requirements ~ learn requirements for Ramp shows and Flatland shows

Follow Cap City Stunts on......

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkedin, and Plaxo

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