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Play Food: Whole Wheat Pasta

February 5, 2012 by Ashley Hackshaw

A quick and easy project for today! Boo and I made some whole wheat pasta for her play market. It looks so realistic! We started with 2 pieces of oatmeal colored craft felt:

I cut the felt into half inch strips:

A pile of pasta!

We used plastic sleeves to package the pasta. Note: plastic bags shouldn’t be used for children under 3.

I created a label and printed it off onto adhesive sticker paper (from your office supply store):

It’s already in her grocery cart!

Feel free to save this graphic to make your own play pasta!

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Project Playroom: The Scale and the Shelves

February 1, 2012 by Ashley Hackshaw

Well, I was supposed to be working on the last minute details for Boo’s birthday party today…..but Boo was still home sick….so I shifted gears and we worked on her playroom a little to entertain ourselves.

I finished the market awning in the last installment of Project Playroom. I thought I’d be done with the playroom by now but it’s taking me a bit longer to get my projects finished. I found this great old dairy scale on ebay for $20 and thought it would look so cute in the market:

I bought a $3.00 wrought iron garden bracket from Home Depot to hang the scale from:

Boo and I found these shelves at the thrift store this morning for $14.00 on the way to grab a burrito from El Pollo Loco:

With a little spray paint….the shelves match the awning!

Boo worked on organizing her veggies and fruits into bins (we found the bins at a local store called The Alley). The fruits and veggies are from Ikea.

We still have a lot more to add to make the market as realistic as possible! Looking for a cute wooden cash register is the next step…..along with some mini canvas shopping bags to hang from the scale.

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Thrift Store Find: Shabby Chic

January 23, 2012 by Ashley Hackshaw

I found the most amazing dresser at the thrift store to hold all the office supplies in the LBB office. It was only $170….I would have spent more at Ikea for storage for all my junk. Brett thought it was too expensive at first, but he came around when I negotiated “we’ll refinish it and sell it for more one day.” Here I am giving it a big hug:

I’d been checking the thrift stores weekly…..never finding what I really wanted or needed. THEN I walked in last weekend and this dresser was just sitting there waiting for me. It had already been re-painted the perfect color too. Another lady was eyeing it too and I swooped in like a falcon predator and tore off the “tear here and take to cashier to check out” stub and took off running.