Reviving Old Favourites

There are a million versions of today’s projects but I wanted to show you mine to give you a break from paper crafts. 😉

First up, this post by Jennifer Hagfeldt reminded me that I had a huge bag of broken crayons in the cupboard and it was time to bake them. My son just loves to break crayons. I even bought him the chunky triangular ones as well as the chubby pip squeaks pencil crayons but he still manages to break them all. He even likes to peel the paper off!

I used a very simple recipe. First, I preheated the oven at 200F and broke the crayons into slightly smaller pieces so they would melt more easily. Then I used an X-acto knife to slice the papers open which made it easier for me to peel them off. I arranged the pieces into a muffin pan lined with a bit of olive oil. I put the crayons in the oven for five to eight minutes and once they had cooled, they popped right out.

I thought some of them turned out like beautiful galaxies and didn’t really want to use them at first. I’m just happy that my son loves stacking them and colouring with them. He can’t break them but he occasionally throws them which could be dangerous. LOL My husband asked me why I didn’t make each one a different solid colour instead of mixing the colours all together. Well, that wouldn’t have been very interesting, would it? :Þ

Next up is a little sewing project. My son loves this firetruck shirt but now it’s too small and it’s also stained with everything imaginable. Sometimes I wonder why they would even make a boy’s shirt in white. LOL For the first two years of my son’s life, he was outfitted in Carter’s thanks to my sister and a few trips to the U.S. Carter’s doesn’t exist in Canada but I sure wish it did! They have the cutest baby clothing by far and the quality is amazing, too. Baby Gap, Gymboree and Children’s Place don’t even come close.

I bought a new grey shirt, cut out the embroidered image from the old shirt, pinned it in place and stitched it on. Now my son has a “new” favourite shirt!

At the peak of my son’s obsession with this shirt, he wanted to wear it every day. He didn’t give me that much trouble when I put something else on him but whenever it was my husband’s turn, he would flat out refuse to wear anything but this. My sister has sent him two other “big boy” shirts with firetrucks on them but they aren’t cute like this one. I wonder how long it will be before my son figures out that I can renew all of his other favourites!

I was never one to appreciate flowers. I don’t mean that I don’t enjoy flowers in their natural state, in gardens. It’s just that I always thought they were a waste of money to buy in a bouquet but that changed in the new year. Last month, I told my husband that I’d like to start receiving flowers. It’s really hard to surprise me so he can’t give me flowers on special occasions. Last month, he bought me some red gerbera daisies and last night, he came home with these pink ones. Gerbera daisies are both his mother’s and my favourite flower. In the morning, we asked our son if he liked the pretty flowers and he said, yes. Then we asked him what colour they were and he said, “Cici!” Cici is a pink car in the Roary the Racing Car series. Then he asked, “Where Roary flower go?” LOL Roary is red like the gerbera daisies I received last month. Isn’t it cute how he associates his colours?

I’ll be back tomorrow for Taylor Usry‘s BIG Valentine’s Day Blog Hop! There are 50 participants plus 20 sponsors and prizes to be won! You will have until Thursday this week to complete the hop for your chance to win. The more comments you leave, the better your chances of winning!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll see you tomorrow!