DIY Fridge Magnets

Posted by: Rachel

I am love home made stuff! I remember my mom and I doing this project when I was little and I have since done it with my son. I made these years ago but obviously need to make more.

Materials needed:
Hot Glue Gun (and extra sticks)
circle magnets
Anything you want on your fridge!

Simply glue your creative item onto 1 (or 2 depending on your item) magnet. I don't have pictures for the making but here are the final results!

These are my Great Grandmother's vintage earings. I removed the clip before I glued on the magnet. (I only used these because the matching earring was lost!)

These are coins from Costa Rica. I have more from all across the globe I will make into magnets!

These are a mixture of polished rocks, gems, fools gold, and sea shells!

Beer Caps! Promote your favorite brand or "recycle" or whatever... 

I love all my magnets and I can't wait to make more! The process takes slightly longer than warming up your glue gun.

Kids Growth Chart

Post by Rachel:
ohhh yet another thing from Pinterest.
So supplies needed are:

Precut & Sanded/Finished Wood from Home Depot - I used a 3/4" x 11 1/4" x 8' Pine cost was $14.99
Black Sharpie
Ruler (only if you want to be accurate)
Wood Stain & paint brush (if you want to be fancy!)

So because my handsom prince charming suffers from severe OCD I had to be meticulous in making this if I wanted it to be hung in my home.
Start with your board.

Say hello to my kitchen. Side note: if you do this with children in the room they may want to walk the plank. So I have high ceilings in my home but you may not want your board to be 8' tall. I liked the look so I didn't cut it. Also mine had to start on the floor so that my son could measure all his toys.

Step 1:

Measure all your intervals. I did mine by quarter foot and also did them on both sides so my lines would be even. You will see what I mean later.

I matched up each dot from the intervals and drew my lines that way. The line next to the number was 3", the 1/2 foot mark was 2" and the quarter marks for 1". Do it however you like.

So for the numbers I printed out HUGE typed font on the computer and cut them out and traced them... again because of Prince Charming's OCD. Freehand it if you like.

So I lost track of steps...

Step 4:

After doing everything in pencil (so you can erase mistakes) Sharpie it in! This was kinda boring.

Step 5:

Stain it! I have seen everything from wood stain to coffee. I used MinWax Wood Finish in Cherry 235 - $4.99 and I only did one coat.

Don't forget the edges!

Step 6:

Hang it however you choose to because I am still figuring that out. Here is my finished product leaning against the wall

It passed the OCD test in case you were wondering.

Blueberry Cubes!

Post by Rachel:
Can you tell I love cold things? Anyway I was thinking that if my lemons are going to spoil then my blueberries will to. So here is what I did: put 4-5 blueberries in ice cube tray, and pour water over them.

I realized this may be a stupid way to do this, so maybe I will blend them! Yes that is the way!

However blueberries don't blend well... who would have thought! I added some V8 Splash Concord Grape Raspberry flavor and that did the trick.

And I poured without spilling!!! So I kept some of the plain blueberries in water because I think they will look nice in a glass. Hopefully they will turn out.