Princess Food

Today's Muffin Tin Monday didn't have a theme, so I made my daughter a princess muffin tin!



In the Tin:

• Sleeping Beauty's Spinning Wheel Pasta
• A Princess crown (Bread with melted cheese and pepperoni "jewels")
• Cinderella's glass slipper (made from a blue jello jiggler)
• Peas (for the princess and the pea)
• Snow White's Poisoned Apple (Apple dripped in melted white chocolate chips with green food coloring and a string tied on for where the witch dipped it)
  
• Cinderella's "Pumpkin" carriage (made from a pumpkin pancake with candy wheels.)

Accompanied by...

• Magic Wand (more melted cheese on bread stuck to a pretzel rod with peanut butter)
• Magic Potion (Sparkling Juice in a fun bottle)

I wish I would have had the time to make Cinderella's pumpkin carriage out of these pumpkin pie bites from Bakerella. Wouldn't that be adorable?! I would give them blueberry wheels. Maybe I'll use that idea for my daughter's Princess Birthday Party coming up in February.

Can't wait to see what everyone else has in their tin this week! :-)

Other Princess-Related Tins:

Tea Party Tin

Mermaid Muffin Tin

DIY Bob The Tomato Toy

I'm still working on my homemade kids presents for Christmas. I made a cute little veggie tales toy today. It was super cheap, easy, and fast. Check out the finished project:

Click here to find directions on how to make it yourself
on my other blog! :-)

DIY Princess Furniture

Remember my Princess Peg Dolls? Well, they're in need of a place to live and some furniture. I decided to start with a bed horribly uncomfortable to real princesses everywhere ;-)

Princess and the Pea Bed!

What you need:

• Some wooden hearts (.25 at Michael's, AC Moore, or Joanne's Fabric) with one of them slightly sawed off at the bottom
• A variety of felt and fun foam (both available at the Dollar Tree)
• Some Popsicle sticks
• One green bead
• Hot Glue
  

Start by gluing your green bead "pea" to one of your Popsicle sticks. Then connect the 2 sticks with your first pieces of fun foam for the base of your bed as shown.


Now just keep gluing on sheet after sheet of your desired arrangement of fun foam and felt rectangles. I think the story indicates 20 mattresses and 20 blankets. I had a total of 30 something.

When you've reached your desired height, finish it off with a felt blanket and pillow. Last, glue on the hearts for your head and foot board, and decorate as desired! Voila! A Princess and the Pea bed that you made yourself!


Ok, gotta go. Lots of more princesses, furniture, and castles to work on ;-)

Princess Peg Dolls

Anyone else making homemade Christmas presents this year? I'm making a whole slew of princess peg dolls for my daughter. This is the first batch. These were actually a present for my niece's birthday, so when I make them for my daughter I'll take pictures along the way and give you guys some tutorials.

Left to Right:
Rapunzel, Pink Princess, Prince Charming, Green Fairy

How To Make:

They all need to be painted and sealed first. Click here to see the directions I found for painting these. It worked really well and was super easy!

Rapunzel~ Her braid is made from 3 strips of braided felt. I glued it on her head and then hid it by making a princess hat from felt and a scrap of sheer fabric. Her skirt was made from pieces of lace. Detailed directions for making the skirt can be found here. All of it was hot glued on.

Pink Princess~ Once painted, make the crown from felt and red glitter glue. Use hot glue to attach the crown. For directions on how to make the skirt, see my post here.

Prince Charming~ After painting, cut the sword from foil and attach with a glue stick. Seal over the top with your same sealer and make his belt from felt. Then paint the handle for the sword. Fashion his crown from felt with red glitter glue dots and hot glue onto his head.

Green Fairy (aka Tinker Bell)~ Paint her leotard down to the top of her legs. When done painting doll, glue pom pom balls around her for the "skirt". Her wings and bow are cut from felt and then hot glued on. Don't forget to cover her with glitter "fairy dust" ;-) Be sure to seal over the glitter to prevent it from coming off.Hope you enjoyed the diy instructions! Now go make some fairy tale Christmas presents ;-)

Remember to check back for more directions! Soon I'll be posting on making more fairy tale dolls, making princess furniture, and also making a castle for all of them to live in :-D