Saturday, December 1, 2018

Top 5's-Christmas

Christmas is such a fun holiday that some people celebrate! Whether you celebrate Christmas religiously or not, traditions or not, either way these are some Top 5's to do during the Christmas season!

Top 5 Recommended Christmas songs to Listen too:
-"Jingle Bells" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWJNqyub3o

-"Winter Wonderland" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamkJK5ejcI

-"Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hHOtPsNNNA

-"Silver Bells" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqymsAwovco

-"Deck the Halls" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIFqnEoctI4


Top 5 Recommended Family Christmas Movies:
-"A Charlie Brown Christmas"

-"Elf"

-"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"

-"Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

-"The Nightmare Before Christmas"


Top 5 Christmas Treats:
Go to this website to check out over 40 delicious Christmas Treat recipes!https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/g2173/blogger-christmas-recipes/?slide=5
-"M&M's Christmas Cookie Bars"

-"Christmas Popcorn"

-"Grinch Cake"

-"Easy Christmas Tree Brownies"

-"Christmas Pinwheel Sugar Cookies"


Top 5 Gifts for Teen Girls:
-Make-up

-Bath Balms

-Mall Gift Cards

-Cute Phone Case

-Shoes


Top 5 Gifts for Teen Boys:
-Play Station

-Pokémon Cards

-Video Games

-Transformers

-Cars


Everyone stay safe and have a great Christmas Season!!!







Friday, October 5, 2018

Halloween Decorating On A Budget

Are you trying to save money but still want to decorate for this time of year? Well here's some creative décor for Halloween that you can simply get from around the house, or really cheap.


Kleenex Ghosts:
It's so insanely easy!
Take one Kleenex, crumple it in a ball.
Then put another Kleenex over it and elastic it.

Use a black marker to draw eyes and your done!
You can even use them as a game, have a bowl
 and see who can throw the most in the bowl.



Scare the Neighbours:
This might freak someone out for a second when they walk by your house...but it's Halloween! You find a scary face or something on the

internet, print it out, then tape the picture facing out if you have a window in your front door, so when people walk by they see this scary creature or face peeking out of your window.




Garbage Bag Bats:
Take a garbage bag, cut it into
small/medium squares.
Crumple up Kleenex or newspaper

 into a ball and put it on the middle of the
cut square. Take the sides of the square
and bring it to the middle  and use ribbon

 or an elastic to tie so that the crumbled up
Kleenex/newspaper looks like the body and
the folded up part is the wings. From there you
 can add googley eyes as eyes or cut out paper to

 make as eyes or whatever else you might want to add.
 If you have a fishing line you can hang your bats,
 or you could just place them around the house however you like.


Orange/Black Streamers:
Take orange and black streamers, have 1 person hold each end, twist the streamers together so that it's a mixture of Halloween colours! Put the streamers somewhere and enjoy!


Baby Jack o' Lanterns:
It's just like it sounds, get a bunch of little pumpkins and carve them. Place them all over the house or outside of the house. You got little baby jack o' lanterns everywhere!



There's so many other things you can do! Scoop out your creativity and get wild with it! It can't be to over the top, it's HALLOWEEN!!!

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

National Fall Foliage Week

National Fall Foliage Week is also one of those little holidays most people don't know about, although now you do!
It's to be happy with fall, leaves, YAH!!!

Fall Foliage Week  is from September 30 - October 6.

So if you want to do a easy cute craft or decoration for celebrating Fall Foliage Week then do these cute crafts.


Leave Print:  ---->

Most people know what this is, 
but if you don't, it's a cute leave 
print on a piece of paper. 

First take 
a piece of paper, then put one, two,
 or however many leaves you want on the paper,

 then put another piece of paper on top of 
the leaves and other paper. 
Take some crayons, peel the
 rapper

 off of the crayon(s) and roll them
 on the paper where the leaves are, 
push a little on the crayon if you need to 
while you are rolling so there's colour.

As you are colouring yo will see that
 the print and design of the leave is on the paper. 
Cool right! Then as the end result it looks like this.



Turkey Center Piece:

Want a cute Thanksgiving/Fall Season center piece?
Well you can make this cute center piece for everyone to look at and enjoy.

You will need:
-a cup you don't care about
-tape
-leaves
-piece of paper
-scissors

(Optional)
-Rocks

Take the piece of paper and roll it loosely and stick it in the cup so it widens, (you only have to do this if the cup is see threw). Flip the cup over so it is upside down.

 Get a piece of paper and draw the body of a turkey, colour it if you want, and then cut it out. Tape the leaves to the cup, then tape the turkey over the leaves so it looks like a turkey.

If you want you can place rocks around the cup on the table.

There you go! A cute Turkey Center Piece!!!




Ahh Leaves. 
Just look outside and look at the leaves!
You'll love it!



Monday, October 1, 2018

5 Cute Halloween Snacks

Want to do something small but cute for the Halloween season? Here are 5 cute Halloween snacks you can make to enjoy October 31!


1- Jack o' Lantern Clementine

So simple. So cute. All you need is clementine(s)
and a black sharpie marker.

You simply draw a
jack o' lantern face on the clementine,
 and there you go! A baby jack o' lantern!


2- Witches Broomstick

This is such a cute witches broomstick, and it's so easy to make. All you'll need is some stick pretzels and a cut cheese string. You cut the cheese string and peel a little off the end so it looks like a broom. Stick 3 or 4 pretzels in the other end of the cheese string, and there, a little witch broomstick!


3- Coloured Pancakes

So simple! In the pancake mixture drop a few drops of orange or black food colouring so once there cooked you have Halloween coloured pancakes! Yum!


4- Spider Cupcakes

Make a vanilla, chocolate, or whatever flavour cupcake you want. Put on frosting. Then use black icing and do a circle on the cupcake as the spider's body and frost on 8 legs! You can use to candies to make eyes if you want, and you have a cute spider cupcake!


5- Candy Eye Pop

Make a candy pop and put white icing on it, let it cool, then make little details with frosting or whatever you want to make it look like an eyeball! Enjoy!



Friday, September 28, 2018

National Good Neighbour Day

National Good Neighbour Day is September 28. It's the day when you really appreciate your neighbour. Most of us don't really stop to appreciate our neighbours for who they really are and what they do for us.

It's always good to make someone's day, you know fill someone's bucket of happiness.

(When my mom was a teenager, one day she copied and printed out little paper flowers and stapled them together with a nice little note she made and put one in each mail box of her neighbours.)

Ideas:
-leave a envelope or little note in there mail box to fill there day.

-if you see them down the street don't hesitate to say "hi" "how are you?" it can really make them feel special and warmed.

-you washing your car? wash there's while your at it.

-you can leave them a little "good box", with maybe some notes, flowers, perfume/cologne, candy....and you can even put "Happy Good Neighbour Day!"


There's so many things you can do. If you're an artist, draw them a picture. If you're a musician, sing them a song.
Remember even when it's not National Good Neighbour Day, always appreciate your neighbours! 

Monday, September 24, 2018

National Keep Kids Creative Week

There are a bunch of holidays in a year. Probably more than you think. There's so many little holidays that most people don't celebrate, most likely because they didn't know they even exist. Well did you know that from September 23-29, it is "National Keep Kids Creative Week"!

After all, there is no Earth, without art!!!

This generation so far, has been mostly about electronics, machines, devices. What happened to using your imagination?

So this week, get your kids, grandkids, class, neighbour, girl guides/scouts, any kid, to be more creative and to release their imagination.

Here's how you can...



Make your own Animal:

Have them to draw there own made up animal. Create a name. What does it look like? Where does it live? What does it like to eat? Encourage them to go as crazy and wild as they want! It's there creation!!!



What do you think of first:

Play a game where you say a word, any word at all, and without thinking they just spit out the first word that pops in there brain.
For example- chocolate, pudding,
happy, sad,    dog, cat, 
Without them purposely thinking it, their minds get more creative and sometimes funny!



Improv acting:

Improv acting is a form of acting most actors would have learned, it's instead of acting a certain script written, you make it up as you go along. It doesn't have to be complicated, it could just be like,
"Once upon a time their was a princess and a prince..." The princess's name was Princess Annabelle..." "And the prince's name was Prince Adam.." " They loved to have tea party's together..." " They became best friends..." " And lived happily ever after, THE END!!!!"



There's so many ways to gets kids to be creative! You can use your own creativity to get your kids to be creative too!!!!



Sunday, September 23, 2018

Pablo Picasso


Pablo Picasso was an amazing artist. He lived from 1881-1973.

 He was a Spanish painter,  sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright.

Pablo Picasso was born October 25 1881 in Malaga, Spain and died April 8 1973 in Mougins, France.

He has made some of the best piece's we know, from "Three Musicians", "Girl Before a Mirror", "The Old Guitarist", and so much more.

Pablo Picasso married Olga Khokhlova in 1918. Olga was a Russian ballet dancer. She and Pablo had a baby boy Paulo Picasso on February 4 1921. Who then got married and had a child, (Pablo and Olga's grandson) Pablito Picasso on May 5 1949.

Sadly in 1955 Olga Khokhlova died from cancer. However Pablo re-married in 1961 to Jacqueline Roque. They were married for 11 years until Pablo died in 1973 from Congestive heart failure, from which by then Pablo painted over 400 paintings of Jacqueline.

Pablo had a son Paulo Picasso, a step-daughter Catherine Hutin-Blay, his daughter Paloma Picasso, his other son Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso, and his other daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso.

Pablo and his first wife Olga had Paulo Picasso, Pablo and Francoise Gilot had Paloma Picasso and Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso, and last but not least Pablo and Marie-Therese Walter had Maya Widmaier-Picasso.

 If you want to learn more about Pablo Picasso then you can go to
  https://www.google.ca/search?q=pablo+picasso&ie=&oe=
 Comment if you want more biographies on artists, or if you want to learn more about a certain artist

Saturday, September 22, 2018

"The Complete Step-by-Step Cakes & Desserts"

This is a review on the book "The Complete Step-by-Step Cakes & Desserts, 100s of easy-to-follow delicious recipes with mouthwatering photos and difficulty ratings". The General Editor is "Gina Steer". 

This is an amazing Baking Book with beautiful pictures, thorough directions, and ratings 1-5 of how easy or hard it is to make the treat.

They have a wide variety of desserts and flavours from cakes, cookies, tarts, pies, cupcakes, to chocolate, vanilla, ginger, lemon, strawberry, peach, and much, much more!

It has the different treats separated into different sections. "Baking Basics", "Puddings, Pies & tarts", "Everyday Desserts & Cakes", "Special, Exotic & Creamy Concoctions", and "Sweet Bites for After Dinner".
There are from 30 to over 100 pages for each section. Each dessert takes up 1-2 pages.

Every page has the page number, the name of the treat, the number of servings that are made from it, the ingredients, the directions, a difficulty rating, a couple of pictures of them making it, and the final result picture.

The book is a hard cover and when it's open, it lays flat on it's own so you can read the recipe while baking.

I really like and recommend this book because of many reasons, but 1, because it has a difficulty rating for each treat, and 2, because it has pictures of them baking in it so you know what it should generally look like, and a final result picture. A lot of cook books don't have that, so this book is really good.

You should buy this book. It's worth it.







Sunday, September 16, 2018

How to do the Cup Song

1. Clap your hands twice 1,2,

2. Bang your hands on the table or ground 3 times, 1,2,3,

3. Clap once, 1,

4. Pick up the cup and put it in front of you

5. Clap once, 1,

6. Curve your hand and grab the cup

7. Hit the cup on hand, table,

8. Hold the cup with your left hand

9. Put your hand on the table

10. Put the cup on the table

(THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO! it is by "destined4life")

If this seems complicated keep watching the video over and over and pause at any time if needed. Practice, Practice, Practice!

Saturday, September 8, 2018

5 Life Hacks




These are 5 life hacks that are easy, useful, and simple to do.



1. Blanket over tv:
It's exactly as it sounds. You put a blanket
over your tv.
 The reason for this is if you have kids
 that get distracted easily,
and you want to put on music or YouTube
 music videos,

but the kid(s) will get distracted from the
 video if they
 are supposed to do homework, clean,
whatever.

The reason I thought of this was because my mom
had to do it because my little brother got distracted
 from cleaning.





2. Sock on cup:
You put a spare sock on a cup. (obviously a clean sock)
 This is so if you have a cold drink, you hold
the sock so your hand doesn't get cold.















3. Tied purse Handle:
If you have a purse like mine where the straps you
hold on to, are way to long, then you can simply make a

basic knot, so that it is shorter and you can hold onto it
better.











4. Ice-pack in sock:
If you use ice-packs on your head when you have a
headache but it's to cold holding it or to cold on your
head, then you can put the ice-pack in a sock.

 That way you can hold it without freezing
your hand,and it's not as cold on your head,
but you can still

feel the coldness on your head to make
 the headache feel better.








5. Bottle caps under Laptop:
What we did with or laptop is we taped
four chocolate milk bottle caps under our
laptop because our laptop is old,

 and over heats
a lot, so it prevents it from over heating so much.








                                                               





Saturday, August 25, 2018

10 Best Blogs to Follow about Fashion

In my opinion, these are the best 10 blogs to follow if you are into fashion. I will also have the link to their websites if you want to check them out! I have personally checked out and seen every single one of these websites and they all look fabulous!!! All with different designs and stories to tell! So check them out!

1. Lady Addict
https://stylelovley.com/ladyaddict/

2. The Fashion Cuisine
www.thefashioncuisine.com/

3. Kenzas
kenzas.se/

4. A Mama In Love
natalieleahandjosh.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-07-06T15:00:00-07:00&max-results=5&start=20&by-date=false

5. The Fashion Eaters
www.thefashioneaters.com/

6. Fashion Me Now
www.fashionmenow.co.uk/

7. With Love from Kat
https://withlovefromkat.com/

8. Maffashion
maffashion.pl/

9. Anine's World
https://www.aninebing.com/

10. Why Shy
whyshy.me/



Sunday, July 15, 2018

5 Ways To Have Fun Learning Art

1- Don't over think it. Grab a paint brush, and paint your heart out! Up and down, side to side be creative with it!



https://www.google.ca


2- I know it might be hard sometimes, but if you want to enjoy doing art then you cant judge or compare your work against others, especially if you are a beginner and still learning techniques.


3- Watch ''YouTube'' video's! YouTube video's can be fun, educational, and helpful!
https://www.Youtube.com


4- Put on some music, like pop or country, Listen to the words of the song, dance, sing, get inspiration, and have fun dancing, and drawing or sculpting, or even painting. Put the music and happiness in the Art work. Enjoy yourself!


5- Draw a bunch of Shapes or Pictures, put them together, abstract or realistic, its your art, be proud of it!

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Make-up Hacks

*If you're running low or don't have any make-up products, then you can simply get some

colored pencils and a cup of hot water. Put the colored pencils in the hot water and let them sit

for a couple minutes, then when you take them
out you can use them for eye liner, lip liner, lipstick, even eyeshadow.



*If you put a small piece of tape diagonally near your eye, then you can use liquid liner to make a

beautiful straight wing. You can also put eyeshadow on it, so it's perfectly straight. Once

you are done putting on the make-up you gently take off the tape, and you have a perfect look!







*Not only is Tooth paste perfect for cleaning teeth because that's what it was made for, but it is also great for getting rid of pimples. Before

you go to bed each night you put a tiny bit of tooth paste on any pimple you have, and in the morning you wipe it off, and it should be mostly

gone. If not, then just do it for a couple nights in a row.




Friday, July 6, 2018

Drawing Tips

1- Don't press hard.When you're drawing or sketching you should press lightly, and relax your hand. Plus if you press hard with the pencil and make a mistake you want to erase, then it will be harder to erase and you will still be able to see the area you erased.

2- Make light strokes with your hand, as a sketch, so you can erase any area and it looks nice and neat.

3- Start with sketching the basic shapes and lines of the picture. For example if you are drawing a human face then you should start off with a large circle, then sketch to lines coming diagonally from the sides of the circle and connect it with a small horizontal line at the bottom and you have a generic human shaped face. Once you go in with more detail, you can erase the big sketched shapes, and there you go.

4- Erase lightly. Even if you pressed hard with your pencil, it works better and looks neater when you stroke lightly back and forth with your eraser.

5- If you are making a three dimensional object, then you should add a shadow from the object. If you are making more than one three dimensional object in the picture then you need to decide on a certain angle that a light would be reflecting on an object and so the shadow is directed behind the object where ever the light is shining on the object.

6-10 Recommended Art Supplies from ''Walmart''

Here are some more great products you should get from Walmart, or order from https://www.walmart.ca/en.


6- 10 pack of Pencils
and it's $0.88!!!

or if you'd rather mechanical pencils but for a higher price than you should check out this

-5 pack Mechanical Pencils
and it's $1.97!!!


7- Elmer's Clear Wet Glue Bottle
and it's $2.47!!!


8- 24 pack Crayola Crayons
and it's $0.97!!!


9- Pack of 12 Crayola Colored Pencils (pencil crayons)
and it's $4.59!!!

or if you'd rather more but for a higher price than you should check out this

-Pack of 64 Crayola Colored Pencils (pencil crayons)
and it's $9.97!!!


10- 3 Rolls Scotch Tape
and it's $5.97!!!


I Hope you take these into consideration next time you go to Walmart, or visit there website https://www.walmart.ca/en!!

1-5 Recommended Art Supplies from ''Walmart"

Walmart is an amazing store to shop at! The store is clean, the quality is great, and the workers are really nice and helpful!!! You can also go to there website https://www.walmart.ca/en. Here are my choice recommended art supplies from Walmart!



1- A Sketch Pad, with 100 pages,
 it is 5.5''x8.5'',
 and it's $8.78!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Strathmore-Sketch-Paper-Pad-5-5-X8-5-100-Sheets/PRD5B129QGC8MLD

or if you'd rather cheaper but fewer sheets then you should check out this

-Sketch Pad, with 50 pages,
it is 9''x12'',
and it's $4.71!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Sketch-Pad-9-X12-50-Sheets-Pkg-Trh133/PRD0VO8QZXM626X


2- A Red Pen
and it's $0.59!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/PEN-RETRACTABLE-BALLPOINT-PAPER-MATE-INKJOY-100-MEDIUM-RED/PRD1IHGNT91FEN4

or if you'd rather more pens but at a higher price then you should check out this

-Bag of Red Pens

it has 10 in a bag
and it's $5.65!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Bic-Round-Stic-Medium-Ballpoint-Pens-10-Pkg-Red/PRD31HWRVFZFNS


3- Eraser + Gom Stick
and it's $1.97!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/maped-universal-gom-stick-eraser/6000101853331

or if you'd rather more erasers and includes 12 wedges for pencils erasers but for a higher price then you should check out this

-3 bright Erasers + 12 eraser wedges

and it's $3.99!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Ticonderoga-Eraser-Combo-Set-Neon-3-Beveled-12-Wedge-Cap/6000197352169


4- Crayola Fine Line Markers
they are Washable,
and it's $4.57!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/crayola-washable-fine-line-original-markers/6000016938890

or if you'd rather larger scented markers but for a higher price then you should check out this

-12 pack Mr. Sketch Scented Markers

and it's $7.97!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/mr-sketch-scented-colour-markers-assorted-12-pack/6000016939779


5- Elmer's 3 Glue Sticks
they are Washable
and it's $4.97!!!
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/elmers-washable-school-disappearing-purple-glue-sticks/6000016945451

or if you'd rather just one glue stick for a lower price then you should check out this

-Elmer's Glue Stick
they are Washable
and it's $1.97!!!



And there you go, 1-5 recommended art supplies from Walmart! I hope you consider getting them, because they are great products!!!