Got Lice?

It's a gross topic but someone's gotta cover it!  Has your kiddo had lice yet??  If so, you know how absolutely disgusting it is, not to mention embarrassing :/  Here's what I've learned as a lice surviving mama!
How to TREAT and PREVENT lice:

We had to learn how to TREAT it, unfortunately so I hope this post will help you PREVENT it!

How to effectively treat lice first:

• If you know your child (or yourself) has lice, soak your hair in Listerine (any kind) and cover with a shower cap for 2 HOURS.
• Rinse, then do the same with Vinegar (yes, 2 MORE hours) Be sure to use a clean shower cap!
• Rinse again then wash your hair with your normal shampoo but add 1 tablespoon of Tea Tree Oil into your shampoo bottle.
• Condition with any brand of Coconut Conditioner.
• Repeat 5 days later, then 5 days after that due to Lice laying Nits that hatch every 5 days.

To Prevent Lice:

• Add 1 tablespoon of Tea Tree Oil to your regular shampoo bottle, the oil repels the lice.
• Use any brand of Coconut smelling conditioner on a daily basis, lice don't like the smell.
• Before the school year starts, follow the instructions for treating lice...I read that a military mom of 35 years did this every year her kids were in school and between all the weird and random places they lived, her kids NEVER picked up lice.

Note: It's been reported that lice are starting to become immune to the lice shampoo sold in stores.  Just as well, those bottles are really pricey and didn't work the first 2 times my daughter had lice...which is why she get re-infected over and over until we heard about this treatment.

Cost: From the Dollar Store: 8 shower caps/$1, coconut conditioner/$1. Walmart: Tea Tree Oil/$8, Listerine $5, Vinegar/$1 so TOTAL COST: $16, less than 1 box of the whole preventative shampoo box!

Hope this works for you!  Worked for my girls beautifully!  Even my 2 1/2 year old kept her shower cap on the whole 4 hours without complaining. 

BIG thank you to my good friend, Melissa, for tipping me off to these home remedy treatments.  Sorry she had to suffer through it until she got it right but it benefits us all well, right?? (:  


GOOD LUCK!

WGW #43 [featuring The Glitter Academy]

Welcome to Whatcha Got Weekend! 

So excited to attend & annouce: 

More FOOD. More SPACE. More FUN!

Kim Stoegbauer of The TomKat Studio will be the special guest speaker.

 including a Question and Answer session with her! If you have seen any of the adorable printables or amazing parties Kim has styled, you will know why!

This event will be held at My Noah's in Chandler, AZ on

Thursday, March 1st from 6:30- 11pm

Tickets for this event are only $20.

Bring your creative projects to work on or purchase any of the 7 Craft Kits:

(Craft kits available for purchase NOW!)

Yours truly will be there, of course (:  

Hope to see you there!

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Now let's take a looksie at the top-clicked links from the last party:

1. Side Shirt Gathered Shirt from Sugar Bee Crafts 2. Valentine Mantle from Landee See Landee DO 3. Curtains for Dummies by Tales of a Trophy Wife 4. Coffee Filter Wreath by Fox Hollow Cottage 5. Pinterest Inspired Craft Night from Destination: Craft 6. Be Mine Valentine Tree from Diary of Dave's Wife

Thanks for linkin up, gals! 

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Easy 3D Book Page Heart

It's about time we get our love holiday decor on!  Introducing a super simple paper craft that you can use for Valentine's Day or year round:

Here's a quick tutorial so you can make your own.
MATERIALS:

• Book Pages
• Epic 6 + Sweetheart Shape Dies
• (If you don't own this fun gadget, cut by hand)
• Glue (we prefer Elmers)
• Bakers Twine
• Beads (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

• Cut out hearts.
• Fold 2 hearts in half with the edges pointing toward you.
• Fold the 3rd hearts with the edges pointing away from you.
• Glue the first 2 hearts together.
• Lay bakers twine along the middle of the 2 glued hearts.
• Glue the 3rd heart to the first two, also securing the twine in place.
• *Optional: Knot a bead at the end of the twine for added bling.

See how easy that was?


You can use them as ornaments, jar fillers, garlands, wreaths, etc.


As always, Lolly Jane readers get an extra 20% off their Lifestyle Crafts purchase:



Just click the pic and use LOLLYJANE as your code (:

Gender reveal...

Back in November, we posted about our dilemma to find out baby's gender or not.  One of our sweet readers Carlee said it was one of life's only true surprises, which motivated us to wait until delivery day.  We squirmed all through our 18-week appointment but did not peek when the ultrasound tech checked baby's "parts."  We left clutching the sealed envelope with baby's gender.
Fast forward to New Years Eve... we do what we do every holiday season: watch the complete set of Seinfeld.  We are huge fans and are naming the baby Seven.  Just kidding :)  Season 3 Episode 18 plays and we keep hearing "You gotta see the baby, Jerry! The baby!"  to which my hubby turns to me and starts pestering me about opening the envelope.  I told him he can find out but not to tell me (yeah right!) so we tore it open together but were left standing with blank pieces of paper.  Ha ha- the tech tricked us!
............no, she didn't; it fell out of the envelope and our sweet 19-month old son was holding the card saying "It's A............"

Image via Kelly Hicks

We are THRILLED :)  
To tell our families, we printed New Years cards and subtly added, "...we are expecting another son..." into the 2011 wrap up.  It was fun to get calls/texts of surprised grandparents/aunts/uncles of this baby who didn't think we were going to find out his gender.
We can't wait to meet him in 3 more months! :)XOXO 

Dining Room Table Re-do

I was going through old pictures and found the "before's" of that crazy stencil dining room.  So I thought I'd share those, along with how I re-did that table.  It went from a table seating 4 total to a table, chairs + bench that will sit 6-8 people (depending on how many little people I can pile on that bench!) ;)
Here she is in all her final glory [after all those hours and hours of re-finishing ALL those pieces!!!] :

And coupling it with the 4 matching bar stools, I finally have a completed dining room set!  We got the table set from my in-laws when we were first married.  Within a year I spray painted it black...but I didn't know what I was doing back then and it's continued to chip and scratch over the years.

Let's journey back to the beginning, shall we?
Before:
I can't tell you how many people would walk in at this point (above) and say, "I love your table!" to which I always chuckled.  WHAT??  Seriously?!  That was my side of laziness showing, I knew sanding it would take forever (the above was after 4 hours of sanding already) so I put it off and worked on other things around the beat up ol' house.
Then I finally got smart and STRIPPED it.  Duh!!

SO much faster than sanding when you're trying to remove varnish.  Note that and save yourself T-I-M-E.

After I stained the top of the table and applied 1 coat to the chair tops, I started painting the legs and chair backs SW Sea Salt blue.  [Same color I used HERE and HERE.  Slightly obsessed] ;)

Remember the custom stamp stencil bench?  I did the same technique for the chairs but used No. 1-4, just for fun:

Left side: Applied Coat 1 of stain, then dried. I applied vinyl lettering, applied Coat 2 then picked vinyl off with tweezers.  Right side: Completed look.

I'm diggin the look right now.  What do you think?

Oh, I also found another old shot of the bay window we ripped out that I talked about HERE:

Whew! All that work and I'm finally done!

I'm always amazed how PAINT can change ANYTHING! (: