Come back tomorrow!!

We have a hilarious week planned for all you scrumptious friends of ours. So you better stay tuned and you better participate or it's gonna be super lame and you'll hurt our little feelings :( and you wouldn't want our feel goods to be hurt right??? RIGHT!!! So come back tomorrow and be SO excited for our silly week. Love you all and hope you are having a relaxed Sunday...

Fruity Fact Friday 7-29

Happy Friday EveryOne!!

Here's a few things you may not have known...

* Rats and horses can't vomit 

* If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

* A crocodile digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

* Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period. 

And now you know!

Family Tradish

Do you have those fabulous family traditions that you look forward EVERYyear? Well come July 24th,  let the tradition festivities begin! I'm not  sure if anywhere else in the United States celebrates PIONEER DAY but us Idahoans sure do (and Utahans of course)! But the best thing about the 24th weekend is our Annual Jackson Hole trip (Ash Bash couldn't be there this year and we missed her dearly) We've been going up to our condo in Jackson every year since I can even remember! It was beautiful this year and the weather was A-Mazing! 

 our little chipmunk friends, they look forward to our sunflower seeds every year..

 Hidden Falls, B-E-A-Utiful!

King of the Rock

 We're.There!

   Whew- what a trip! If you've never been to Jackson, 

do yourself a favor and GO already!!

What are some of YoUr family tradish's? 

Happy Thursday {trulie-scrumptious} Friends!

$1 Tute Sweet Tuesday

If any of you haven't discovered Curbly.com yet, ya should.  It's an awesome site that has everything from Make Over Mondays to their BookWorm book lists.  Oh, so trulie-awesoooome!  So when I first discovered the site, I stumbled up this and thought: "Self, what an awesome idea."  

(Apparently awesome is my word of the day...)

So I gathered some supplies and went to work.  You will need:

*A piece of heavy cardstock.  I used an 8.5X11 piece. 

*Buttons, brads, sticky sparkle things-what have you

*Printer -preferably one that works better than mine.

*Double sided tape.  I used scrapbooking square adhesives.

*Picture frame to fit your cardstock

*Matting (optional)

I think what makes this such a great project is that is so customizable and can really do whatever with it.  This, I made for my little girls' room.  Yes, she is almost eight months and her room is still not complete, I seem to be adding one more item per month. Good thing she doesn't know any better, right?!

So working with the best printer in the whole world, I pretty much had to draw out my letter 'e'.  I was able to print out 'e is for everlie'.  It came out pink when I asked for gray, go figure... 

 (I can't wait for the day when I can take my printer out back and take a bat to it...just sayin.)

Now for the fun part!  The Buttons!

This would be such a fun activity for young kids too, a fun summer project (as long as they don't eat the buttons...).  I myself have always had a thing for buttons.. (cue Rozalynn busting up with laughter).   Not sure why, but as a kid, I loved shiny buttons and would occasionally come home with one in my pocket.  Lesson learned, it is totally mortifying to a five-year-old to admit to stealing buttons and bringing them back to apologize.  It only took me two times to figure that out.  
(ok, I was seven.)

(a-hem.)

ANYWAYS...

The fun part-right.

Arranging the buttons on your letter.  It may take a few times to get them just right, but get them where you want them and stick them onto the cardstock.

Perfection!

I found a $1 frame at the dollar store (imagine that?) and painted it white and hung it up.  I love watching my daughter ooh and aah at it each time she passes it.  Such a simple but meaningful piece of art that only cost one smackeral.  LOVE IT!

*I am currently looking into creating a group Flickr account where all of you can go on to share and tell about = your creations.  If you have pictures of your Tute-Sweets, please email them to truliescrumptious(at)gmail(dot)com and we will post them up.  In the mean time...does anyone have the know-how to teach me the know-how?  Hit me up if you can help! 

(I need lots of it, mostly therapy related, but that's another post...)

Happy Tutes-day!!

(Link up Your Latest Tute)

Fruity Fact Friday

Hey you guys! 

It's been quite the week over at my house.  Phew! Good thing this week is almost done, I'm ready to kick back and relax  finish cleaning the house, drink a nice tall glass of lemonade, fold laundry, and lazily take a nap in my hammock, and finish my yard work.  If only I had a hammock... 

Ah well, there's always next weekend to relax....

Like Roz said, we've had quite the month, dealing with family members in hospitals.   And unfortunately a funeral.  Plus we really have missed you guys.  Like really, really.  I have missed posting TONS!!  We've got some great posts coming up, so be sure not to miss them!  And check us often because we  will be getting back in the swing of things. Yay!

To kick off your Friday, here are some little tidbits that I picked up to share with you.  On to the weekend!! WHOO!

*Like people, dogs and cats are either right-handed or left-errr..pawed

*There are more bugs in one square mile of rural land than there are people-in the entire world

Um...wrong bug.

*A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out

I guess unless he's about to eat a cod fish

* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.

* In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand

*It is physically impossible for pigs to look up. 

Unless you're a spider pig

Happy Friday!

Blog Neglect

Hey {trulie-scrumptious} friends.. Roz here. I hate to admit it, but I have completely neglected this blog. Thank goodness for Ash bash to pick up my slack ENTIRELY! It's been a rough few weeks in the Rowbury household. My sweet sister in law Linda passed away almost a month ago (It sounds like such a long time but it seems like it happened just last week) Linda's niece Kim wrote a BEAUTIFUL tribute to Linda and graciously let me share her post {here} with you all....  Linda left behind a beautiful family, a husband, three kids and a newborn who is still in the NICU. We are lucky enough to be close to the baby's hospital so we get to visit her almost everyday. But I have lost all motivation for school, blogging, and everything else that doesn't have to do with family. If we're not with family, I'm wishing the entire time I was with them to help out or to give them hugs and kisses. And to top it off, Ashlie's husband was admitted into surgery to get his kidney stones removed. Enough with the hospitals already Right?? It's hard being so far away from everyone, there's no way to help if you're in a completely different State! So please excuse us if we're not on top of our blog, we still love you all and we'll eventually get back into the swing of things. Baby Charlie will be one month this week, so I'm {attempting} to make her a 1 month old appliqued onsies, so stay tuned for that.. I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend ;)

Tute Sweet Tuesday

You can thank Old Navy for this one, since that is originally where my inspiration came from.  I was walking around their store and saw Fourth of July outfits out and I thought, "um, waaay cuteness.." but I saw some of the dresses and thought, "I could totally make one myself..." So I jumped my car and headed to JoAnn Fabric.  I found a very helpful tutorial from Prudent Baby here. (One of my fav blog-ities BTW) and saw how easy it was, and thought,

"Aaaawe-some".  

So I started out with this cute fabric here...

Made my measurements and started to cut. 

*TIP  Measure whomever you are making the dress for- 

HeCk! You could make one for yourself! {Um, how cute would you be?!}

Measure across the chest, and measure how long, then how "around" you'd like it to be.

-Cut two. (A front and a back-seams are on both sides)

I didn't measure little E on the first dress and I had to adjust her star one because I couldn't get her little arms through... true story.  Granted the pattern they have on there was for 0-3 month, and E is (*sniff*) 7 months now... but she was 6 months when I started this :} 

So I was sure to make this one a little bigger so she can grow into it and wear it as a shirt with little leggins.  {CUTE!!}

 I added an under layer of muslin so that I cut out (two) as well.

 Fold length-wise in half and draw your pits. 

Tear drop like.  

Cut out the pits (tee-hee-hee)

*TIP  It worked better for me to have a little more of a hole to put E's arms through, so I made the arm hole slightly longer and wider.

 All you need to do is sew right sides together and you're almost done!

After sewing the sides, fold and iron 1/4" of the top, then fold about 3/4" and iron.  Pin and sew.  Thread some ribbon through and...

Done!

BUT!

If you are like me and want to add some flair... read on.

 I added...

{ a ruffle. } 

Do you all remember our very first Tute Sweet Tuesday?

If not, refresh your memory here to do the ruffle.

Double your bottom measurement and pin right sides of the dress and the strip together and sew.

 Pssst

{*SECRET*}

I cut the ruffle and sewed the ruffle like you would bias tape and it looked sooo good.  Prudent also has a tute on how to make bias tape.  Awwwesoooome.

 *Remember the floss trick with ruffles.  If you need {another} refresher go here.

Done!

And Done!  

You can't see it well in this picture, but I made her a little rosette with a button to help me know which side was the front.  It probably got matted down from all that lovely drool.. but she's cute anyways :)

A fun little summer dress that only took me about an hour and some change.  You could also make it a little shorter and use as a top.  

With ruffles. 

 Lots of them.  

(Kind of obsessed with ruffles at the moment..)

Really, there's no limit on what you can do.

Happy Sewing! 

And BTW, if you have done a {trulie scrumptious} tute or a project of your own that you would {trulie} LOVE to share with us, we encourage you to TUTE your own horn and email your pics at truliescrumptious@gmail.com.  

A {trulie-scrumptious} tute is coming!  Watch for it tomorrow :)

The Avocado Project

It's growing!!

I can't believe it actually works.  That and I haven't killed it yet.  I had to get a new pit because the one I had originally was a dud.  Sometimes that just happens, but try, try again and you get results.  We'll be having guacamole in no time! Whoot Whoo!!