The Masked Mommy

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Eye Candy... er, Cupcakes

If anyone is looking for good ideas for an All Saint's Day Party, I guess posted over at Catholic Cuisine about my St. Lucy eyeball cupcakes! Check out the post here! There are a lot of really cute Catholic food ideas over there, so if you're Catholic, you need to bookmark this site! :-)

You could also follow my directions and just make regular eyeball cupcakes for a Halloween party as well.

More all Saint's Day party ideas to come ;-) Just out of curiosity, do I have any Catholic readers?

St. Lucy Cupcakes

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Halloween Peg Dolls

Hi everyone! Made these cute Halloween peg people and thought y'all might be interested in seeing how to do it yourself ;-)

First, paint your peg people as desired. (Make sure to paint their heads and their feet. Their middle will be covered with scrapbooking paper). Next, pick some fun papers to go with them. I used all papers that I already had, so some of them weren't as perfect as I had hoped they would be.

Then, just mod podge the papers on. When you do this, cover the entire peg doll in the protective top coating to keep your paint from chipping off. This will also make them nice and shiny. When you're all done, you can cut felt accessories out for hats, leaves, hair, wings, etc and just hot glue them on.

I made the following halloween peg people (from left to right) A skeleton, A One eyed one horned flying purple people eater (complete with music note paper for the rock-n-roll music he plays through the horn in his head), a pumpkin, a mummy, a witch, Count Dracula (with number paper), a black cat, Frankenstein, and a ghost.

The Mummy was a little different. I painted the peg completely black, then wrapped him in a thin strip of masking tape and mod podged over the top.

If you make some, let me know so I can some see them on your blog! :-)

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Friday, October 16, 2009

New Great Look; Same Great Content ;-)

I am so in LOVE with Holly over at Designs by Coffee right now! Why? Well take a look around! See my new amazing header? Holly did such a great job! Isn't my new Masked Mommy awesome?! She really looks like she's ready to kick some dust bunny butt! :-)

She also made me this awesome button! And I know all of you guys are Super Mommies too, so I want everyone to snag one! Then tell me you have it up so I can go see how awesome it looks on your blog! ;-)

Holly was amazing and was very patient while working with me. I co-designed it with her, and she was very patient with making my vision a reality. Check out the picture I sent her and then what she did with it:

In celebration of my new and amazing blog design, I have fashioned a Masked Mommy Peg Person. Check her out!

One Woman: Two Identities ;-)

I originally met Holly at her dust bunny blog, Domestic Dork, so everyone stop by to tell her how much you love my new look and what a great job she did!

For anyone who's trying to remember, here's what my blog looked like yesterday:

New Blog Design By...

Monday, October 12, 2009

Cute Apple Displays

We're all overflowing with apples this time of year, right? Why not have some fun?! Here are some cute ideas of things I've done with our apples:

Serve you apples sliced up with a caramel fountain. I got this "chocolate fountain" at Goodwill (new in the box) for $4! I just thinned the caramel with some hot water to get it to run through. Remember to toss your apple slices in some lemon juice to prevent browning.

Try making (or in this case buying) some caramel apples and displaying them on a cupcake holder. I also got my cupcake holder new in the box at Goodwill. Ya, I used to live across the street from Goodwill :-) Everyone at my Fall Potluck this year was really impressed with this!

How about serving apple sauce in... apples! Aren't these little apple bowls just too adorable? It was time consuming, but totally worth it. You basically just scoop out the middle as best as you can with a spoon, rub with a little lemon juice, and fill with applesauce. I did make applesauce out of what came from the apples, but I had to supplement with some canned stuff as well. I think it's cute to keep the tops and put them back on like little "hats" :-)

This idea just came to me. The apples in our kitchen are currently displayed on my cupcake holder. It's a really cute way to display them, and I may as well get as much use out of that cupcake holder as possible, right? :-)

Hope someone was looking for some cute fall food ideas for all the parties you guys have been throwing ;-)

Also, Family Fun has a great list of cute things to do with apples! If you haven't checked it out, you really should!

Super News!!!

So, where in the world is the Masked Mommy? I've been MIA for about the last month. Well, I found out that Masked Baby number 3 is on his or her way! Yay!

However, the exhaustion that comes with early pregnancy has put a damper on many of my superpowers. More specifically, my superpower of finding the time and energy to blog. Lol! Anyways, I have a LOT of posts that have to be posted in October, so there's lots of good stuff coming at you faster than a speeding bullet! Stay tuned!

Sorry about all your wonderful emails I haven't been replying to in the last month! I literally haven't been online to even check my email in weeks! Eek!

PS. For the 2 people who know me in real life and also know about my blog, don't tell anyone I'm prego yet ;-)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

How To Paint a Face, Step by Step...

Ok, I had so many of you tell me that you're sure your peg dolls wouldn't come out like mine because you couldn't paint them that way... so I'm here to prove you wrong! ;-)

I have broken down painting a peg doll face into very simple and easy to follow steps. No blending, no nothing. Just different colors of shapes. You think you can do that? Good! Here we go!