whatever

mess it up...it's easy to clean it up.

when Clorox^Æ asked me to write about making messes with my kids and cleaning them up
i said, "YES! we are GREAT at making messes and coincidentally . . . Clorox Clean-Up^Æ is my favorite cleaning product!"

they directed me to the Clorox Clean-Up Recipes for Fun--Where Mess Doesn't Matter!
have you been there?
it is FULL of ideas for crafts or cooking or even science experiments to get messy with kids!

i make crafts with my kids quite often and i LOVE to see them get really into their project no matter how messy it gets!
at the Recipe for Fun site i found an idea for using collage and color together to make a color wheel!
we got busy on the mess making.

i got out our stack of old magazines and began ripping out anything that was mostly one color.
we made a big pile of magazine pictures.
i cut a large circle from a piece of poster board and drew lines diving the circle into six equal sections.
i wrote the names of the colors in rainbow order on the wheel to know where to put each scrap.
then we started gluing down our pictures.



i came across rubber cement at the grocery store and wondered if my girls had ever used it.
i knew i had never purchased it, so i got some.
my daughter was very curious!
"WHAT is this?!" she asked in a doubtful tone.
then i showed her how it had a brush INSIDE, and she was excited to use it.



we also used a paint brush dipped in the glue bottle so we could all work at the same time.
it's just like painting but you paint with glue.





layering and layering . . . picture after picture . . . overlapping until there are no white spaces at all.

 

 

we almost always make our crafts at this table.
i painted it white almost 10 years ago.
my kids use everything on it!
and it always comes back to white with Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner.



i was out of town recently, and when i came home i noticed my 10 year old had organized this coca-cola crate
with our art supplies by color!
how cute is that?! i love it! we like to do lots of things around here in rainbow order.









it was coming along quite nicely at this point.
there was glue all over our hands and the table!

they finished their color wheel collage but the mess still remained.

well...every Recipe For Fun needs a Recipe For Clean.
Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner combines a cleaner and the disinfecting power of Clorox Bleach letting you spray away messy play. It removes tough stains as well as the germs you can't see, leaving your home sparkling clean and ready for the next recipe.

usually after craft time my kids quickly scatter leaving the mess for me to clean up.
but today my youngest surprised me by helping out!
she loves to use spray bottles and paper towels.



when she saw the marker and glue wipe right off she said, "this is going great!"



with my daughter's help, a trash bag & Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner, the room was cleaner than when we started!

find the perfect activity for you and your kids to live it up, mess it up and then clean it up at Clorox Clean-Up Recipes for Fun ñ Where Mess Doesnít Matter!

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tuesday

First off let me tell you that i am the guest curator this week over at Crescendoh.com. My thoughts & feelings about ART are written on the Daily BLog and then everyday this week i share three different links of happy places i love on the internet.  It was a really fun project to work on.  
Go read it.....  and then come right back.  :)

 

 

we had a BUSY weekend here.   

* barn party

we had some families of our boys' friends over for a party in the barn this weekend....and a few others too.
i think it was a VERY nice time.

we had Dan & Kerry Wiebe cater the food....great decision!  we just had to prepare the house and barn and not spend all day worrying about food.  and it was DELICIOUS!  
she made oreo cupcakes just for craig.
i ate way too many.

*  pool party

we spent time with our neighbors chillin' by the pool.

the kids thought is was awesome that the dog would run and jump off the diving board to get the ball!

i just liked cuddling with the puppy.

 

* sleepovers

over the weekend my kids had a total of EIGHT different sleepover arrangements.  it was a little crazy.

* puppy

the puppy showed up on our porch all by herself.  we all went crazy loving on her and then brought her back home.




oh boy....i think she couldn't be any cuter if she tried.

 



* wheat

everywhere in kansas the wheat is YELLOW.  it's gorgeous.  i pulled over one morning and took pictures because i just needed to...i knew it was now or never.

 

* twin bed

anybody local have a twin bed they'd like to sell to me?
not the mattress.... a pretty frame.  i am going to paint it white so just know that ahead of time.

let me know if you do or if you have an idea for me.  thanks!

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off to lunch with a friend!

have a happy day!! 

 

 

 

the yellow striped floors.

the floors in this room were really beat up.
so i could pay a bunch of money to fix them OR i could have some fun with them for practically nothing.
i chose the second...obvs.

first i primed the floor with KILZ.
then i painted white stripes with the white semi-gloss trim paint that we had.
i just used the lines of the wood planks to determine the stripes....i did 8 planks wide per stripe.

THEN i added yellow stripes with paint from Ace Hardware called ButterCream. 

i thought "whoa that's bright" when i opened it.
yellow is a hard color.
so after i painted the stripes and let it dry a day or two i went back and it was definitely brighter than i wanted.
so...i took white paint and added water....maybe equal parts paint and water?

then i used a dry rag and wiped it into the yellow stripes. 

i wiped it on and rubbed it into the floor until it was the color i was looking for.
it was practically dry immediately.

much better.



this week i will put polyurethane over it and seal it all in.
and fill it up with beds again for happy craft weekend girls!

:)

happy floors.