Removing crayons from your laundry

As a parent, I have made it a point to check pockets before I put anything in the wash, but that came after paying a huge price.  I know many parents share the same experience.  You put all the laundry in the washer and then dryer , but only to notice that after everything has dried that there ar crayon stains ALL over your clothes.  You child left crayons in his/her pockets and you forgot to take them out before washing.

Well, I found a great way to remove the stains.  Hopefully, you have a top-loading washer, if you don't, I would highly recommend going to a laundry mat just for this load.  You need to do this because you will need to soak your clothes in the hottest setting using the following concoction and a front-loader is NOT very good at soaking clothes.

In order to soak the clothes and remove the stains, you will need to obtain the following items:

• 1full cap of detergent (solid or liquid, whichever you use)

• 1 cup of borax
• 4-6 scoops of OxiClean
• 3-4 tablespoons of stain removing spray

Depending on the amount of laundry stains, I would later the amounts of the ingredients above.

Add all of the ingredients to the laundry and turn on the soak setting of your washer and allow to sit for about an hour.  Once it has soaked for a minimum of one hour, you may go ahead and do a normal wash and dry.

When you remove your clothing from the dryer, your laundry should no longer have any crayon stains!

Sorting Game

So, I made this exactly 2 years ago.  Mikey was 2 and I thought I would make him a "sorting game" using foam stickers and foam paper.  He could sort either colors, shapes or numbers.  This was a great game.  It is now way too easy for him! :)

Here is the most recent project.  So, Mikey loves the show Wild Kratts..

He discovered this while using the PBSkids App on my iPad.  These two brothers are adventurous and wear creature power suits that change them into animals that they touch (and have to have the creature disk in order to do this).

Well, he said that he wanted a creature power suit.  So, I decided to look for some toys online, but there aren't any.  I did, however, see many home-made suits.  So, I decided to make my own as well.

I used felt for the black vest and yellow felt (as mikey requested it be yellow) for the creature power suit color.  You cannot tell, but there is a zipper on the right seam so that it was "invisiible."  I sewed the whole thing by hand, including the seams and zipper.  This part took me about 2-3 hours to do, I was so surprised I was able to do it so quickly.  But what took me the longest were the creature disks.  I found templates online and then started to make my own.  After I found them, I printed them out and then laminated them.  I don't have one of those hot laminators, just bought the sticker kind.  I cut each disk and laminated them individually, when they were all laminated, I put a velcro sticker on the back so that he could stick it to the felt.  Here is my end product on my son, Mikey!

Knitted Teddy Bear

So, this is an old project.  I made this teddy bear the winter before i even found out about being preggers with mikey (so 6 months before).  I took pictures during the progress and the end product.  Here it is...

Home-made Octonaut Walkie Talkie

Mikey bought himself the octonaut octopod a few weeks ago and said he wanted an octonaut walkie talkie. So, I cut up the box the octopod came in.  There was a piece inside the box that was perfect for the walkie talkie base.  Then, i cut up more of the pieces to decorate the outside and provide the shape insid the walkie talkie.  I made the inside of the walkie talkie using scrapbook pieces and then used buttons for the walkie talkie buttons.  Here is the final product.