2. In a food processor mix tuna, egg, flour, water and parsley until a dough forms. If the dough looks too sticky, add a bit more flour
.3. Dust a surface with flour and roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick.4. Use a bottle cap to cut out treats from the dough.5. Bake for 20 minutes on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.6. Let cool and serve to your cat.
Rub wax paper over your faucets to keep them shinier and water-spot free!
Cleaning ceiling fans can be a real pain! It typically involves covering the entire bed or couch with a sheet so the dust doesn’t fall all over, then vacuuming again and again (and again!) to make sure it gets picked up… I seriously HATE it! Problem solved completely by using a pillowcase to clean ceiling fans. (Tip from Real Simple)
Toss your Legos in a mesh bag and then put the mesh bad in your washing machine. The easiest, least painful way to get them all clean fast!
Clean your mattress by sprinkling baking soda over the top of it. You can add some lavender drops to make it smell pretty too!
Clean your blinds with a sock! Mix equal parts vinegar and warm water in a bowl. Put your hand inside the sock, then wet it with the vinegar mixture. Wipe the dust and dirt off your blinds and watch as it cleans the top and underside the same time!
I recently had a customer ask me if I could make a shamrock to go on her daughters skirt instead of the usual flower. My answer was, “Sure, I don’t know how I’ll do it, but it will be fun to figure it out!” And sure enough…. it was fun figuring it out. Now that it’s “figured out”, I might as well share and let you have some fun with it too.
You will need: green fabric thread and needle Clover yoyo maker is optional (Clover is the brand, not the shape. They do have a shamrock shaped yoyo maker but I thought it looked more like a flower than a shamrock. I think the heart shaped one works better.)
Make 3 heart shaped yoyo’s If you’re using the yoyo maker just follow the instructions. (obviously)
When you take it off of the yoyo maker it looks like this, so I’m thinking you could just stitch around the edge of a heart shaped piece of fabric if you didn’t want to get the yoyo maker.
At this point you’ll want to just pull on the thread to gather the heart into….
…a smaller, rufflier version of itself!
Lay 2 of the hearts (RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER) and hand stitch them together. Begin about 1/3 of the way down and go all the way to the point at the bottom.
This is why I wrote RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER in all caps!OOPS….just keepin’ it real. Time out while I unpick and try again.
There we go, much better. Do the same thing with the 3rd heart.
You’re almost done.
For the stem you will want a rectangle approximately 2.5 x 2 inches big.
Fold it in half so that the shorter ends are meeting.
Fold the two ends in a little bit. That way you only have one raw edge and that will eventually be beneath a little circle of felt.
Starting at one end, roll the piece of fabric into a stem.
Like so.
Hand stitch all the way down the back of the stem.Then stitch the stem onto the back of the shamrock.
And there you go…. a polka dot shamrock!
To finish it off just add a circle of felt to the back. I added a pin, since they were going on skirts, but you could do so many different things with these. You could make a giant one for your door, put a bunch on a wreath, decorate napkin holders with them…just all kinds of things!
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