Cozy Coupe Batman Revamp!

Not to long ago, like last week I think? Sad I can't remember, heck I'd be happy if I could remember everything I did yesterday, lol! Any ways my friend Amanda did a revamp of a cozy coupe and I asked her if I could share it on my blog! Great way to get back to posting right?! Well I'll get right to it and share her story in her own words :-D

"Dunananananananana BATMAN!!!

(From a Cozy Coupe!)

So first let me start off by saying this was in NO WAY my original idea.  I’ve seen the “after” pictures floating around Pinterest for some time now and have desperately been looking for a “How-to” so I could make one myself.  I have the BIGGEST Batman fan (among 2 year olds) that you will ever find.  Swear if I would let him my son would live in his batman clothes, eat off his batman plate and watch the old batman (the animated series) episodes from morning to night.  My husband would go along with it no questions asked… However, for my own sanity I have a limit on the amount I can take in a day. 

I digress. Well back when I first saw the Bat mobile floating around I knew I had to make it but there was no way I was going to take a brand new ($60 or more) toy and paint it.  So I’ve been scouring craigslist, second hand stores and yard sales trying to find one.  It took some time but I was able to track down the car a few months back, and it was a STEAL!  For starters it was coming from a local yard sale site, from someone I’ve purchased other items from (yay for not having to meet up with shady strangers) who just happens to live around the corner.  When I got there she told me the car did not have the standard Little Tikes stickers on it (yay, less work for me, because if it did I would have had to peel them off!) So I rushed right over (the day before Thanksgiving) to pick up the car and hide it in the garage until I could get to work on it.

It took some research but I was able to find a site that referenced painting Little Tikes plastic toys, and they recommended: Krylon Fusion for Plastic Spray Paint, which I was able to find at our local Wal-Mart. I started off with two cans of black paint, first let me say I don’t advise doing this at night, since it made it hard to see if the paint was even, and thus caused me to have to go back out the next day and purchase 2 more cans of paint…which I think could have been avoided had I done it during the day. I wore protective eye-wear because well I’d never worked with spray paint before.  I wish I’d have thought of a mask…not because of the fumes, those weren’t really so bad (I did it in our large garage with the door open) but because I was getting black paint in my tissues for a couple of days after. The paint dries to the touch in 30 minutes and is completely dry in an hour.  If you’re anything like me, I had to be SURE everything was black.  I SHOULD have done the underside of the car first but I didn’t…believe me it’ll be easier if you do. Other than that I painted EVERYTHING, including the steering wheel, and the tires.  Make sure that you get the door completely; I had it open to spray the inside and almost forgot to shut it and cover the spot near the hinge.  Oops! I will note that the can says any touch-ups should be done within 24 hours or after 7 days. I don’t know why that is, but I would say cover it the best you think you can and let it dry then if you need to add an additional coat.

I let it dry for about 5 hours, just to be safe, and then I added stickers to the front of the car and to the door.  You could make a stencil (or even cut out Vinyl) and paint it yellow. I had decided to go the sticker route thinking it’d be cheaper than a can of yellow spray paint to do a couple of places.  So that’s really up to you, I’m sure there are tons of other ways, and it could even be hand painted if that’s your thing.

Aside from having to make a second run to Wal-mart in total it took about 2 hours of work, and given my over cautiousness 5 hours to dry (I won’t count the overnight since it wasn’t really done). I think I’ll have one very happy 2 year old Batman fan come Christmas morning."

I hope you all love this as much as I do! It came out great and I can't wait to hear how her son reacts when he sees it! :-D

 

Real Baby Bottle into a Toy Baby Bottle

The other day I saw the bottle sitting on the container that I've there for a few days now. I needed to go through the ones we have and the one sitting there I decided I would give to my daughter to play with with her dolls. She already has a small real bottle to play with for them so I figured she could use another. After I moved that one I forgot about the rest so I still need to look through them, haha! You know the ounce markings on a bottle, well they are wearing off that's why I decided to let her play with it because I can't use it any more and I have plenty more. We have a son so once I knew what I was doing with the bottle I looked for the extra caps we had and grabbed the pink ones, why use them when I have plenty of 'boy' colored ones, haha. The only thing I didn't let her have is the bottom piece, I can use that with the other ones and the nipple I put in it in a slow one and my son uses the fast ones now.

My daughter wants her play bottle open now and then, well I didn't want to put anything in it in case she got it open and well of course it coming out through the nipple. I cut some paper and stuck it in there, to make it seem like 'milk' was in there. She saw me do it and yea it didn't work, it just sucked, lol! So since my husband sprayed my frame for me I got the idea to spray paint inside the bottle some to make it look like milk was in it. I did this last night:

What do you think? I took the caps off, sprayed inside, just had enough left in the can too! Let it dry over night and then put the caps on. I think it looks great and didn't cost a thing since I already had everything! I haven't given it to my daughter yet, once I do I'll share if she likes it or not =P I've been thinking of using hot glue to keep it shut. She can't open them yet, but when she starts to I rather her not have it open. I'll probably ask my husband what he thinks will be easiest to keep it shut, either way I'll do that before I give it to her :)

*Edit my husband suggested super glue, which I thought of, we actually had enough left so he glued it shut for me :)

First Diaper Cake

I've wanted to make a diaper cake for awhile now. I've made diaper wreaths before, I love them. Well I had a friend make me one for my son this past year so I saved all the rubber-bands and such. The way my friend made it was just all diapers together, I thought about doing that, but when I searched on how to make it I saw a lot with people using things in the middle. Since I had a small package of diapers I decided to try that out. 

As I was making it I wasn't sure if I'd be able to even have 3 layers, but I got to, so that was nice. One thing I saw and kind of tried was hiding the diapers by using tissue paper, but I didn't like the way that was turning out. So I looked through my bag of decorations and scraps and found the perfect sizes or ribbon to use to hide the rubber-bands :) Yaa for keeping old stuff, you can always reuse stuff some how!

Any ways I love how it came out, now hopefully it'll ship well and still look good! Speaking of I need to find out if I need to ship a  few boy clothes also. Two friends back home [Oswego, NY] are having baby showers next month. One, Garrett & Bree, thought they were having a girl and found out they're actually having a boy! I brought some stuff when we went there this past summer, so my mom needs to look through the bag to see if I need to send more. I know I have neutral clothes, but I can't remember if I had girl clothes in there too or not. My other friends, Jorin & Freddie are having another little girl so this is for them since they mainly just need diapers :)