Always looking for sunshine, figuratively and lite Always looking for sunshine, figuratively and literally. Sometimes we don’t have to look very far and it finds us. ☀️
It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasand It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasandwichshoppe when a friend texted me a screenshot of their cheese butter. Up until last week I had never even heard of cheese butter but just two days later, I’m driving an hour round trip to get some. 😂 I was never one to succumb to peer pressure (I didn’t have my first drink until I was 21!), but when it comes to food finds, I am very easily intrigued. After all, that’s how I’ve discovered some of my favorite bites over the years … lardo from @butlerandtheboard, a spicy Italian sausage, and my love of chicharron. If you haven’t visited Mike’s in Nutley, it’s worth a visit. While there, I also got a small tray of meatballs (a bargain at $10!) and a delicious mortadella sandwich that is worth a round trip. ✨
The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter nee The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter need a little bit of color, so here you go. 😍 Love this chest of drawers. Discovered it buried in a local shop and bought it specifically for the green color (one of my favorites). Vintage Coke crate was a $10 score from a garage sale place on Facebook some ten years ago. And the assorted markers in Roy G Biv order (natch) that aren’t used anymore because my kids have sadly left that phase. 🙃
Weekend Photos in Review, old school still photo s Weekend Photos in Review, old school still photo style, hope you had a good one! ✨
A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if I wanted her to bring me back anything. Would you believe me if I told you I asked for salt? I love picking up different varieties, whether we’re traveling or I’m just visiting a new shop. Maddie grabbed me a super cute one from her trip to Paris last year, and the Magic Unicorn Salt I get locally is another favorite. What’s yours?
One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a serious case of FOMO on the daily, gets hiccups more than anyone we know and has perpetual bed head. She’s quite the unique roommate but may be exactly what our home needed. 💛
I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw th I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw that @njdotcom had picked six bagel shops at the “best in the state,” and one was reasonably local, all the sudden I needed one. I was never one to fall prey to peer pressure, but I’m very definitely a marketer’s dream. 😂 Alfa Bagels is on Route 10 in Randolph and has a good assortment of bagels, including all the usual suspects, but with a few others like rainbow, Asiago and French Toast throw in for good measure. Their bagels always seem to have a nice chew, which I appreciate and I love their sesame one. My go-to order lately is a double toasted flagel with lox spread and tomato. Their lox spread is a little ho hum, but the bagel is delish. Check them out next time you’ve got a craving (or get motivated by a local news story 😝). What’s your bagel order?
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Craft Time: Crayola Art Project

September 6, 2011 · Craft Ideas

Crayola Art 101
This is how we spent the Friday before Hurricane Irene. Making art work. Less than ten dollars of supplies and inspiration from Pinterest, this is a reasonably kid-friendly craft that I love because a) it has the rainbow and b) you can totally customize it to use whatever colors you want. You can coordinate it to match your kids’ rooms, or a specific theme, or do a rainbow like ours. Get creative!

Supplies
With school supplies on sale, this is the perfect time of year to make this art. You will need a canvas, boxes of crayons, glue and a hair dryer. The canvas was 40% off at Michael’s for a two-pack, the crayons were 40 cents a box (I ended up using four) and the glue was $4. My grand total was $9.60 for individualized art that we could do together as a family. Which you all know is priceless, baby, priceless.

I opened up all the boxes of crayons and removed all the whites, browns, blacks, pinks, aquas and any other non-rainbow colors. Then I arranged them neatly across the top of the canvas in ROY G. BIV order, making sure the Crayola label was front and center for all of them.
Arrange by Color

Like So

Madeline helped by arranging crayons on her coloring book.
Madeline's Turn

Like so. She is not the OCD member of the family.
Madeline - Like So

She also helped me by grouping colors together.
Purples

Man, I love crayons. Especially Crayola crayons.  And crayon art even more.

Row

Green Row

Orange and Yellow

Purple Row

Oranges and Yellows

Mystic and Nick helped with the heating and holding.
Helping Hands

Oh wait. Forgot to tell you. Once you have the crayons arranged in the color order you want, glue them securely to the top of your canvas, from left to right.

Starting to Melt

Then start to heat them with a blow-dryer. I did it from the front. Mystic sometimes heated it from the back of the canvas. Either way works.

Applying Heat

I love this project because you can totally mess with the outcome. If you want more white space, stop when the wax is halfway down. If you want it more full (as we did), then keep on going. Don’t like how a drip fell? Heat that section back up and get the wax moving again.

Halfway Through

Our finished product:
Crayola Art 101

Go Crayola! Go us! Go Pinterest!

PS – Want more fun craft ideas?  Check out my Crafts board on Pinterest right here.  If you’re hooked on Pinterest, but haven’t signed up yet, you need to be invited to do so.  Drop me a line at cate AT sweetnicks DOT com and I’ll hook you up.

PPS – Although I’m a touch late, this totally qualifies as my entry in the recent Pinterest challenge.

September 6, 2011 – Bonus Photos
First Day of 4th Grade
First day of fourth grade. Fourth grade is apparently heaps tougher than we thought. He came home, had a snack, watched a few minutes of tv, complained of a headache and slept for two and a half hours. Re-entry is hard, folks.

First Day September 2011

From Sophie
Madeline and I hung out with my nieces on Friday night, and this was a present from Sophie, the oldest. My first piece of art work from my niece! I cleared our art gallery (ready to hang new school projects) and Sophie’s princess doll is proudly the first piece hung. Unfortunately, the next day, Sophie had an accident at a local playground and shattered her elbow. She was in surgery on Sunday and is now mending at home. It will be another week before she can get the cast put on, and this is an awful lot for an almost-four-year-old to handle. It’s a lot for anyone to handle. So please keep her in your thoughts for a superfast recovery. Much appreciated, Sweetnickers.

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Comments

  1. Joanne says

    September 7, 2011 at 6:27 am

    I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who organized all of my Crayolas by color. It irritated me to no end that the box came all mixed up. Would it be weird or immature if I got my friends together to do this?

    Poor Sophie! Thankfully, four year old bones heal EXTREMELY quickly. It would be way worse if this had happened when she was older. As is…in a few months she’ll barely remember that it happened.

    Reply
    • Cate says

      September 7, 2011 at 9:17 pm

      I think it sounds like an awesome excuse for a get-together!

      Reply
  2. Patsy says

    September 7, 2011 at 8:04 am

    Love that project! I also think it’s funny that my boys have the EXACT same lunch box… guessing that you got it at Costco, like us? :)

    School starts for us tomorrow… I know re-entry is going to be tough for them since they have been with their grandparents the last couple of nights… going to bed on time will not be easy tonight!

    Reply
    • Cate says

      September 7, 2011 at 9:17 pm

      Yup, Costco. Splurged for a rough-and-tumble one in the hopes that it would last the year. Unfortunately, as you saw on Twitter, it didn’t even last the morning… Some things never change.

      Reply
  3. Betsy says

    September 7, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Cool looking bag that Nick is carrying in his hand. That’s for ???

    My first day of first grade, I came home, went right to sleep, and I think I didn’t wake up until the next morning. I was wiped.

    Can’t believe your son is already in 4th grade.

    Reply
    • Cate says

      September 7, 2011 at 9:16 pm

      Betsy – That’s his lunchbox. And that picture yesterday am was the last we’ve seen of it because he managed to lose it before am snack. Color me not happy.

      Reply
  4. Meg says

    September 8, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    Love the Crayola artwork — so cool and creative! Mine would have to be mostly reds and pinks, because that’s how I roll, but I love the rainbow.

    Reply

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It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasand It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasandwichshoppe when a friend texted me a screenshot of their cheese butter. Up until last week I had never even heard of cheese butter but just two days later, I’m driving an hour round trip to get some. 😂 I was never one to succumb to peer pressure (I didn’t have my first drink until I was 21!), but when it comes to food finds, I am very easily intrigued. After all, that’s how I’ve discovered some of my favorite bites over the years … lardo from @butlerandtheboard, a spicy Italian sausage, and my love of chicharron. If you haven’t visited Mike’s in Nutley, it’s worth a visit. While there, I also got a small tray of meatballs (a bargain at $10!) and a delicious mortadella sandwich that is worth a round trip. ✨
The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter nee The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter need a little bit of color, so here you go. 😍 Love this chest of drawers. Discovered it buried in a local shop and bought it specifically for the green color (one of my favorites). Vintage Coke crate was a $10 score from a garage sale place on Facebook some ten years ago. And the assorted markers in Roy G Biv order (natch) that aren’t used anymore because my kids have sadly left that phase. 🙃
Weekend Photos in Review, old school still photo s Weekend Photos in Review, old school still photo style, hope you had a good one! ✨
A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if I wanted her to bring me back anything. Would you believe me if I told you I asked for salt? I love picking up different varieties, whether we’re traveling or I’m just visiting a new shop. Maddie grabbed me a super cute one from her trip to Paris last year, and the Magic Unicorn Salt I get locally is another favorite. What’s yours?
One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a serious case of FOMO on the daily, gets hiccups more than anyone we know and has perpetual bed head. She’s quite the unique roommate but may be exactly what our home needed. 💛
I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw th I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw that @njdotcom had picked six bagel shops at the “best in the state,” and one was reasonably local, all the sudden I needed one. I was never one to fall prey to peer pressure, but I’m very definitely a marketer’s dream. 😂 Alfa Bagels is on Route 10 in Randolph and has a good assortment of bagels, including all the usual suspects, but with a few others like rainbow, Asiago and French Toast throw in for good measure. Their bagels always seem to have a nice chew, which I appreciate and I love their sesame one. My go-to order lately is a double toasted flagel with lox spread and tomato. Their lox spread is a little ho hum, but the bagel is delish. Check them out next time you’ve got a craving (or get motivated by a local news story 😝). What’s your bagel order?
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