Picnic or Beach lay upon


This is not my original idea, I got that from this genius lady- Here -she has a great blog with lots of great ideas, go check it out!

She made smaller round sit upons for individuals. I wanted a big one where you could lay on it too, or share with others. Well, if I'm being honest I also didn't feel like cutting the table cloths, so I made them the same size as a round vinyl table cloth. I'm lazy like that. ;)

You will need: 
2 round vinyl table cloths.
 1 large piece of quilting batting (I found mine on clearance at Joann's for $6 for a full size blanket size, which was way more than I needed but cheaper than the smaller ones there) and 
Some ribbon (I ended up using 22 feet of it, but used a coupon and only paid $5.36 for 24 feet) I used the left over ribbon to keep it rolled up (seen below)
Sewing machine-or you could hand sew it, but trust me, you do not want to do that!
Thread & pins

You first put one of the table cloths upside down on the floor.




Then you top with the batting, then cut the batting to fit all the way around it. This was my only 
cutting, yay!



Now time to top it with the other table cloth, right side up.

Congrats, you made a sandwich! :) now pin it all in place so the seams come together evenly.



No now this is the not so fun part, and you could actually skip this step, but I recommend you do it because it made it so much easier for me! Iron your ribbon in half! Won't take too long, but that even crease is a life saver.


Now time to sew the ribbon on. I just put it between the two vinyl table cloths and sewed it all the way around. Yes, it took forever, but not as bad as I thought it would be. In no time it was done, and now we have a fun sit-upon!


My son and our dog loves it already, but from the blurry pic you can tell she doesn't sit still. :)


Fold it up and tie it with the extra ribbon! Easy, light weight and waterproof unlike a blanket. 

Have fun creating!

~V

Monster Cake



My son wanted a monster cake for his birthday, I am not a cake decorator at all, but I gave this one a try. Turned out pretty cute, at least he was happy about it-that is what matters right? :)

I just made two cake rounds, put some frosting in-between them, then frosted them all around.
Than I started adding the blue monster hair. I just used blue icing, and used a star shaped tip. Started from the bottom and worked my way up top on the sides first. I realized it didn't need to be perfect at all, I could fill in the gaps later, and it actually looked better when I came at it from different strokes anyway. After I did all the sides, I worked my way on top.
See what I mean, sloppy equals good here. ;) he has fur now.

For his eyes I made cake pops, probably the wrong way, but it was my first time, I just put the cake batter in the cake pop tin. Oh well, it worked for me. I just used thick candles for the sticks..heehee! I frosted them with red, and found these cute edible eyeballs at Target in the cake area so he has lots of eyeballs! 

I then gave him a smilie face.

Sorry, took pics on my phone and some are blurry.

Not perfect but my son loved it.

Have fun creating!!
Cake
~V





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