A Bundle of Birthdays

It seems like everyone I know has a birthday in October or November. These are just the beginning of what will probably be tons of birthday and (yikes!) Christmas presents that I should be completing over the next couple of months.
Three sweet, simple dinosaur shirts.

Three simple, sweet dinosaur shirts.

What three year old boy doesn’t love dinosaurs?  I was very proud when he opened his gift and recognized the triceratops and t-rex immediately!  To make these sweet shirts, I simply ironed heat-set vinyl that I cut out in dinosaur shapes (found at Dinosaurcentral.com) on to simple long-sleeved Garanimals shirts.
All wrapped up and ready to go!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

I have some grown-up friends who I think would really enjoy some dino shirts like these.

Future goal: figure out how to get the cover to lie flat.

Future goal: figure out how to get the cover to lie flat.

One of my dearest friends (and neighbor, and classmate) Chelsey also had a birthday this past week.  We are taking a poetry class together, so I made her a matching journal and pencils using the same craft paper and matte mod podge method that I used on my pimento jar lids a while back.  This is really the easiest trick, but it makes a boring composition book and pencils look very sweet.
All wrapped up and ready to go!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

All of the pencils are covered in some long-forgotten Hobby Lobby scrapbook paper leftovers, while the two bigger pieces for the front and back of the journal are a thicker kind of Martha Stewart craft paper.

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The little things.

I have written about my homamade deodorant and toothpaste, as well as the fact that pimento jars are absolutely perfect for storing them. A few reasons: some lot of cities I’ve lived in haven’t offered glass recycling, so reusing it is always the more desired option over tossing it; my mom makes the best pimento and cheese, so my family creates what I would say is more than average pimento jar waste; with all the concern over BPAs (compounds found in some types of plastics that some studies have shown to disrupt the way that hormones function in our bodies, causing a whole slew of problems), I just feel safer using glass over plastic. So, as it turns out, I usually have a couple of concoctions hanging out in pimento jars in my medicine cabinet. I like that they are stackable and compact, but I do not like that several things in my medicine cabinet are labeled “Dromedary Diced Pimentos.”  All that’s required is matte Mod Podge and craft paper scraps to fix that little problem!

Jar sidez.

The white stuff is the toothpaste and the green stuff is the deodorant.

Jar lidz.

I love mixing patterns--plaid AND polka dots? Oh my!

Now I’m of course finding all kinds of uses for this little trick.  Expect more Mod Podged goodness in the near future.  A journal and pencil set, perhaps?

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