Mrs. C Does Stuff

This is another one of our projects completed during the stay-at-home order. I had purchased the supplies back in January, thinking we would have gotten to this project on a weekend. Well, all the weekends passed and we never got to it. Being stuck at home provided the perfect opportunity to work on this fun little art project.  This is something we wanted to do and hang in the guest bathroom, once we completed the bathroom's facelift. We set up a drop cloth outside and got some fresh air while working on this canvas. This was a great art project to do with the Little Mister. We used the Color Pour Pre-Mixed Pouring Paints in the colors indigo, turquoise, orange, white and light blue.  Because we wanted to try to get a color between the turquoise and indigo, we mixed the two a little.  At random, we added the other colors into the cup a clear plastic party cup.  I let the Little Mister tell me what color he wanted to add next.  When we added the orange to the cu...

Last year, I started eating more and more shrimp remoulade salads.  They became a staple during the Lenten season.  After spending lots of money buying them multiple times a week, I decided to try my hand at making my own. Ingredients: For the Salad 16 - 20 count shrimp Crab boil (I use Louisiana brand) Spring salad mix Grape tomatoes For the Remoulade Sauce 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup creole mustard (I use the Zatarain's brand) 1 tsp ketchup 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 1 tsp black pepper 1 tsp paprika 1/4 cup grated white onions 3 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley 1/2 tsp minced garlic 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 squeeze of juice from half a small lemon I boiled the shrimp in the crab boil until done.  After the shrimp boiled, I let them sit in the water for 5 minutes. This allows the seasoning to soak into the shrimp. To prepare the remoulade sauce, I started by mi...

Here is another project I completed months ago, but never posted.  When we first moved here, I had a wreath on the door for every occasion.  I had kind of grown a little tired of my standard wreaths.  So, I had been looking for other options.  While walking through the store, looking for inspiration, I picked up a large black wooden mason jar door hanger and some burlap and lace ribbon.  I thought it could go around the neck of the mason jar.   The supplies purchased from Michael's When I got home with all my supplies, I thought of making a letter "C" using my Cricut.  The "C" was made in Design Space using the "Another Day in Paradise" font I found on Dafont.com.  I sized it to fit the body of the mason jar, leaving the lid area blank so ribbon could be tied around the "neck" of the jar.  I used white permanent 651 vinyl I already had on hand, and cut the letter with my Cricut Explore Air 2 machine.  Then, I weeded out the ...