It's shaping up to be a Super Day

Randomly, I was online (okay, okay it was pinterest) and found this great no sew cape tutorial. Coincidentally Dennis had a few shirts that were below his standards with a stain on the front, so craft nirvana happened today.

You can find the tutorial HERE. Pretty simple, if you have a tiny person you might want to adjust the length.





The first one is for our friend Jasper, she's had a tough go of it lately, her appendix burst and she's spending some quality time at Lucille Packard. I thought we'd cheer her up with her own super cape.

Bonus with the extra sleeves, I was able to make tiaras too. I stretched them a bit to make them fit; the girls seem thrilled..





Here is the one tiny kiddo, who's decided she'll be "P the Phantastic"




I used scrapbook paper I had laying around, because, at one time I thought I'd be a scrapper, turns out I have way too little patience for it (I know, surprise!) I used the Tulip fabric paint from JoAnn's and filled in the letters. I had them out on the back yard porch, it's 97 degrees, so took about 20 minutes to dry.







And "O the Outstanding".




The crowns just have plastic jewels I glued on with craft glue. I'll let you know how well they hold up, might end up painting them on at a later time.



Sorry for the super smudgie finger in the shot..

So, with our outfits, I'm thinking a super play date- Who's in?

Okay, so had a request  to post about the tiara.. we used the seam from the arm hole (the folded part where the arm pokes out people) and just snipped around it and left an oval to adorn with gems. I had to stretch it a bit to fit my cherubs heads.  Now it's just like a head band.

Tie dye with sharpies

So, you've seen this before, but I have to say this was fun!

Click here for the original link The Art Girl Jackie - Props and thanks!

 

The girls in the middle of the project. Too focused to look up.. 

I grabbed the rubbing alcohol, a couple of small medicine containers (so they could refill their own droppers), droppers, paper cups, t-shirts and sharpie pens.

We positioned the paper cup under the shirt. Secured it with a rubber band. Then the girls made dots and lines and 'fancy designs' - all melted and colored fabulously.

 

Loved the rainbow, one of my favorite ones. Then we used the dropper to suck up some alcohol and carefully drop it on to the shirt

It spreads pretty rapidly. I thought we should have used different sized cups next time



Phoebe's masterpiece

Unicorn Poop

You know how sometimes, you just have to go there. Like when you find a picture and it just looks like something you have to make. I dunno, happens to me more often than it should.
So, here's where I found the original post: http://www.instructables.com/id/Unicorn-Poop/
Had to; had to make them- I mean, come on.
I used my Mom's recipe for sugar cookies, pretty sure it came from a Tupperware party because they're called:

Tupperware Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. Cream first 3 ingredients
2. Then add next flour and dry ingredients- then, add the vanilla. Mix will come together but will be grainy.
3. Put in Ziploc baggie and flatten into a disk in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour.
4. Roll out in powdered sugar to 1/8"
5. Bake 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes (for poop shapes, I had to go 14 minutes)

I doubled the recipe, and it would normally produce about 24 1" dough balls.

This is really my favorite sugar cookie recipe. Sweet, but not too sweet, holds its shape pretty well and it's a pretty tender cookie.

So, I mixed the dough, divided it into 8 different portions,

colored (I used the Americolor gel food coloring),

then saran wrapped.




fter they chilled for 15 minutes in the ice cube compartment, (mostly because I have no patience- you could do 30 in the fridge)

the girls helped roll the dough out.

We swirled the dough then twisted it up into piles of .. well.. poop.

Added stars and baked. Had to go 15 minutes to fully cook since they were so thick.
Hot from the oven,

I dusted some disco dust, then onto the eating:

Success.

Because, sometimes, ya gotta go there.