FREE Subs at Jersey Mikes on March 28th with Donation to Wipe Out Kids Cancer!

 

Wipe Out Kids' Cancer and Jersey Mike's Subs

Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer and Jersey Mike’s have teamed up to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer research

Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurants throughout the DFW area will offer FREE subs on Wednesday, March 28, in a grand finale for the 3rd annual March Month of Giving fundraising campaign for Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer.  The fundraising finale has been dubbed Make A Difference Day, and all 19 DFW Jersey Mike’s restaurants will give customers a FREE regular sub in exchange for a $2 donation to Wipe Out Kids, Cancer, although the hope is that people will give more.

Spring Gardening Tip from the Dallas Arboretum

Daffodils

What to plant for Spring in your garden and a few tips for your next trip to the Dallas Arboretum

 

We were planning a trip to the Dallas Arboretum for the Spring Blooms and the Artscape show this past weekend when I happened to catch a news brief on Friday morning. The Fox 4 reporter asked the senior director Jimmy Turner about what “heat-friendly” plants to plant now and he started laughing! Remember that it is only March and we could still be in for some cold weather. Now is still a good time to plant cool weather loving plants! Watch the interview here for his spring gardening tip.

S’mores on a stick: The perfect treat for real (or pretend) campouts!

Try these S’mores on a stick at your next pretend campout!

 

My daughter is celebrating “Texas week” at preschool and they are going to have a pretend camp out. Students will bring sleeping bags and they will sing campfire songs around a tissue paper and brown bag campfire (courtesy of Pinterest). But what camp out is complete with out a treat like S’mores! Who doesn’t love the traditional “roast your marshmallow over the open flame, slide it off onto a piece of chocolate and a graham cracker” s’more? (YUMM!). However; to make it easier to prepare and eat for 4 and 5 year olds (and much less messy for the teacher!), we made S’mores on a stick. Mia and I had so much fun making these together and it only took maybe 20 minutes total!

Using Stencils to Create Art for Your Walls

Martha Stewart stencils at Michael's

How to Use Stencils to Paint on Canvas for some Great Wall Art

We recently remodeled our bathroom, removing the ancient wallpaper, texturing walls, putting in new flooring and fixtures. We have a huge bathroom, kind of silly how big it is. Above the bathtub is a large white wall that was too empty without the patterned wallpaper. We decided to add blue accents with rugs and towels to an otherwise beige area to tie in with the blue walls and carpet in our bedroom.  So I wanted artwork in keeping with our blue theme. Because I had textured the walls, stencils directly on the walls were not an option.