ANOTHER mess!

So Little S turned 3 on Friday!  She doesn't know yet though!  We're doing her party on Saturday, so we'll treat that as her real birthday too.  We're also moving around some stuff downstairs.  My sister in law is moving upstairs so we have more room downstairs since we'll be staying longer so I'm moving my "office" out of the corner of the living room into the actual office!  AND it all has to be done before the party so there is room for all the 3 year olds!  And during today's shower this is what I found!  She opened 2 glass jars of my beads and spilled them EVERYWHERE!

There were beads from the bathroom to the back door and through 3 rooms and a hall.  But the beads weren't the biggest mess.  THAT was the spilled Mod Podge all over the wall, table, scripture case, self healing mat, storage box, carpet, poster board etc...

It looks crazy blue on this black case with the flash!  Funny... I made the mistake of trying to clean it up.  I should have just waited until it was dry and peeled it up!  I did have to toss some stuff, but not everything, and I was able to clean most stuff.  The cut mat is looking rough though.  It's wiped off, but there is a sheen in certain area's and it's a bit tacky? in some areas.

DON'T don't do this at home

So today was just not my day. First this, and now a totally simple craft completely ruined because I'm lazy.  I wan't to make Dr. Seuss shirts for the family for the birthday party coming up.  I decided to try the freezer paper stencils that I've seen all over the place lately.  After reading these clear and simple instruction's from Dana at Made I went to collect supplies.  I got everything I needed, but when I was buying the fabric paint they didn't have red or black in the regular paint, only in the spray paint.  I figured it would be even easier and better so instead of trying another store I got them.  Apparently I didn't read Dana's instructions clearly enough...  BIG MISTAKE!  Don't EVER get the spray paint if you are using a stencil.  I'm sure they are great for certain looks, just not the one I was going for.

It started out simply enough.  I printed off the image I wanted and cut it out.  This was a bit on the detailed side, but I figured all the examples of freezer paper stencils' I've seen look so crisp and nice that it would be okay.  WRONG.

The ironing was the best part of the next few steps.  When I started to spray the color on I should have realized what would happen when I saw how thin it sprayed out.  But no!  I sprayed red first over a few key areas, then let it dry and added more freezer paper over the red to create the black lines.

I could see it soaking into the shirts, good, right???  Then it dried and I took off the freezer paper...

Mess, but at least you can tell what it's supposed to be.  I was scared to take the next freezer paper off.  I actually was able to get the right kind of paint in white so my circles worked out just fine, but the thinner black freezer paper over the top?  Not pretty.  You can't even read it!  It actually looks better in this picture than in real life~  Crazy.  So what next?  I'm going to give up on the shirts until some other stuff is done, and if I have time try again!  And hey, now my hubby and I have matching shirts for painting the basement!

Don't take a shower when you have kids

I love my kids. The only thing I have missed since having kids is a daily shower. Maybe it's just my kids, but today I proved again that showers and kids are a bad idea. My older two were at school so it was only the younger two at home. Of course the youngest, S, is the MOST destructive of the 4 kids.  For some reason ages 3 to 4 1/2 is the most difficult for me.  Mostly because of the destructive nature at that age.  They've been the most expensive ages of all for us.  Flooding, drawing on walls, destroying clothes, books, floors, carpet, furniture etc..  These 18 months are the reason we won't pay for our kids college. We've already done our part.  ANYWAY.  Showers and kids.  So this morning when I got out of a shower (at most 10 mins) this is what I found:

That is Mayonnaise.  Yup, an entire brand new jar.  And that's not all.  We have a food storage room in the basement that is SUPPOSED to be locked 24/7.  Apparently someone (no one has claimed it yet) left it opened and S got into it.  Not only was there Mayo all over the desk but the chair, floor, shelf and even the Pig!   Also a box of brownie mix opened and poured out, and an entire skein of yarn unwound and wrapped all over the entire downstairs.  Like Parent trap!  I was also keeping the stuff I'd finished for the party in that room.  GONE!  All the paper I got to cover the walls for the party destroyed and the picture frames I just finished painted strewn all over and scratched, you get the idea.  The 4 year old?  He just spilled some Lego's, nothing in comparison!
This is a prime example of why we call our kids D.A.'s at this age.  My folks started it when my baby sister was young and my kids have inherited the title, each in their own time.  It stands for: Destroying Angel!  They can Destroy the house worse than a hurricane (I should know, we had a tree go through the roof during Hurricane Ike in Houston), but they are still sweet, adorable, Angelic beings at the same time.  So our D.A.'s!  This is the same child who did THIS.  Point proven!  Anyway.  I guess I'll have to take showers at night or wake up earlier...  HA, wake up earlier, good one.  Have I mentioned I'm practically a vampire?  I'm beyond night owl, night it is.  

"She in Big Twa-bow"

In the words of my 4 year old boy, "P".  "S", my baby girl (2 1/2) got in BIG twa-bow (trouble) today.  I was painting a new project today.  It's TOTALLY NOT WORKING and is SO frustraing.  I painted 4 layers in the afternoon.  My kid totally left it alone, and were great about not touching it.  But even after, the 4 thin layers it still wasn't magnetic.  SO frustrating to spend money on something and have it not work.  I thought that maybe I painted the first layers too thin so I decided to add a few more thin layers.  I'm worried if it will work or not and if I wasted half a can of magnetic paint for nothing!  Any advice out there?   HELP!!!

Anyway, I painted the fifth layer and went to put some supplies in the sink.  I came back around the corner and found this:

Finding the culprit was easy.  She hid in her room, but I just followed the clues. See that face?  She KNOW'S she's in trouble so she's already getting mad at me for the punishment that she knows is coming.   

Of course me taking her picture always perks her up!  Maybe she thought she got out of it.  But no-way Jose!  Now I have to go help my sweet hubby clean the floor!