- Building Blocks Cakes from Betty Crocker look just like legos and you can make them from a 9 x 13. Depending on which reviews you believe, it’s either a cinch or you’ll want to throw it on the floor halfway through the process. But either way, the kids will unanimously love it, assuming you didn’t actually throw it on the floor.
- DIY: Grow Your Own Potatoes in Small Spaces: has anybody tried growing potatoes in trash cans or trash bags?
- A Garden Girl: Blue Jean Quilts is very cute. I want one.
- Or maybe one of these: Highlights From Higher Ground: Rag Quilts
- The Fur Mother: Pattern for No-Sew Sweatpants Baby Carrier I’m just dying to try this, but there’s one disadvantage to wearing skirts all the time: Sweatpants are nearly non-existent in our house.
- The CPSIA Meets Dr. Seuss - this is a riot. And too true. Brilliant. If you only hit one of the links I’m posting today, make it this one.
- Cubicle Wars – more funniness. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the tie-stapling! Don’t trust these guys – they do get a bit vulgar now and again – but do check out Completely Uncalled For. Somebody I know watched it and tried it out on somebody I know and…well…everyone else in the room thought it was really funny…just think twice before letting your boys watch it. You’ll see what I mean.
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This post is truly a god send. i have been looking for a new baby carrier but don’t really have the funds to buy one. This is the exact style I was looking for. i am flying to Phoenix with just me and my 5 month old and now I will be able to make one of these slings with a pair of sweats. i figure i can pick up a pair at the thrift store for next to nothing .
Thank you Susan
I made the lego cake for my son last year. He loved it. It was really cut. And I know “A Garden Girl” and I love her quilt. She did a great job.
I’ve tried the trashcan potatoes. One thing I must advise: use straw or leaves, like the link suggested. You *cannot* use dirt or even peat moss.
Two years in a row, the dirt holds too much water, so the potato roots rot. Thus, no potatoes. Man, it stinks to have such a healthy looking plant on the top and nothing in the barrel.
So … it’s one of those things you can have “flop”. I might try again this year, but using straw. The roots just have to be able to dry out….
Oh I love the baby carrier out of sweatpants pattern. We love babywearing and the big kids enjoy wearing the little ones, so it will be handy make a couple of extra carriers.
I made a lego cake once; it was 10 days after my first baby was born so I don’t remember much, but I know I made the cake and frosting from scratch. I think I used oreos for the knobs on top. Easy, cute.
I tried the potatoes in a can last year. It was fun but didn’t produce much; I’m not sure why.
Going to check the other links now.
Unless you have serious wildlife that dig, any significantly-sized pile of dirt (i.e. a 4′x5′x2′ pile) will grow you potatoes. I just add compost to my piles each year and we get great potatoes. Worth a try! Home-grown potatoes are the BEST.
Oh, I made that exact same cake from the link for my son’s first birthday last year — everyone loved it and it turned out nicely. (Well, I didn’t throw it across the floor, at least, so I don’t think it was too difficult at all.) I scattered more of my son’s legos across the table just so that everyone would know for sure that it was, indeed, a lego cake.
Thanks for the links — we grew potatoes in tires last year. I think I’m going to try the bag idea this year!
Here is my favorite DIY baby carrier tutorial link http://scanditute.blogspot.com/