How to make a Santa Claus Juice Box

Friday I went to pick my Kids up from pre-school and they had the Holiday sign-up sheet right new to the door.... I noticed that the juice boxes slot was still blank!!!!!

So I snagged it up and brain stormed on the ride back home from the school...

Walking in the door to the house I automatically declared to my husband that I was going to make SANTA CLAUS juice boxes...

Since I made mummy juice boxes for the Halloween party back in October.

HOW TO MAKE A SANTA JUICE BOX:


First you are going to need some supplies:

·       Juice boxes

·       Googly eyes

·       Red felt

·       Glue gun

·       Glue sticks

·       Scissors

·       Cotton balls (a bag full)

·       Red duck tape

·       Hand held hole puncher

White puffy paint (I picked 2 up)

 

Now that you have bought all your supplies....

 

We are going to get down to business.


You need to take the straw off the back of the box without ripping the bag of the straw just peel it from the glue stops.

Now that you have your straw detached... set it to the side. And measure a strip of red duck tape to the top of your juice box. Cut it and punch a hole in it so that the hole will line up with the straw hole on the top of the juice box.

Line up the hole and put the duck tape down and fold the
extra sides down.

Proceed to wrap the juice box in red duck tape.

I usually take 3 strips and do one on the top lining it up with the edge, one towards the bottom lining up with the edge, and then I put one on the middle to cover the whole box in red tape. Don’t worry about taping the bottom of the box because no one will be looking at it when they are standing up. Now don’t forget the straw!



Cut a small piece of red duck tape and lay the straw on the side of the box and tape it on.




Once that is done. Draw some triangles on your felt material for the Santa hats.  

Cut them out.

Than plug in your hot glue gun and wait for it to heat up. And proceed to glue the hat towards the top of the box.

Once you are done with that take your white puffy paint and make a dot on the top of the hat for his white ball than the white trim at the bottom of the hat. I made mine a little wavy and thick for the 3D feel.

Note: It doesn’t have to dry but if you want to let it sit over night or just keep going but be careful while gluing on the googly eyes.

Glue the Googly eyes under the hat with the hot glue gun.


After that is done get 2 Cotton balls and pull them apart and HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!! Make all different shaped beards and hot glue them under the goggly eyes. Make them as big as you want!! After that is done take one of your fuzzy pom pom balls and hot glue it right between the beard and googly eyes!


You’re done!!!

If you went ahead and did the whole thing at once without letting the white puffy paint dry please note to leave them laying face up overnight so the paint can dry without running down your juice box and ruining all your hard work!!
 


Enjoy being a crafty genius!

Please post your comments and pictures on your success!!! Your kids, friends, students, and co-workers will love these!! They are so simple and amazing looking!

weight loss

Since I have become a full time stay at home mom and moved to a tiny town with nothing to do. I have stayed inside my house and have found myself eating junk food... something I didnt really do when I was working and going out with friends and had a break from the kids. Ive gained around 40 lbs in the last year. I was already chunky but, now I have become very unhappy with my apperance... I have been very unmotivated to do anything about it since we dont go anywhere or do anything..

Why get out of stretchy yoga pants? right? they are comfortable. and never get too tight even on my bad days.... they love me and I love them... BUT my jeans do not fit anymore and since I buy my jeans from buckle and are 80$ a pop I have decided I want to wear them again and my summer clothes are too small.

My goal is to drop at least 60-80 lbs starting today December 5th 2012 and my target date is when it starts getting hot again. Around June 5th 2013.

I think if I work out everyday for atleast an hour to two and eat right I will get to my goal weight and be a hot momma. haha.

I wont be embarassed to take the kids to all those water parks, pools, and lakes.

Plus my mother-in-law has been losing weight and she is succeding very well.. she has lost her wieght in one of her grandchildern that is about 40 lbs and age 4.

But I am going to do the Slimfast diet.

3 snacks durning the day around 100 cals each.
2 slim fast shakes.
1 healthy meal around 500-700 calories.

It will be expensive with the drinks and snacks but I figure that the money i spend on this is the same i would on junk food and regular unhealthy food.

The routine of exersice i will do is.

7 days a week walk with my husband for an hour in the morning and take the dog for a walk.
3 days a week I will do p90x
2 days a week I will do MyShape for the Xbox 360


I will post picures and keep updated on the weight loss.

How I got engaged

Like I was saying Duane and I met on halloween in 2010. We broke up in May 2011... stayed friends and had daughter play dates, texts, and movie nights. than got back together around Feb 2012 we got back together... It was exciting like we were highschoolers. We had a lot of fun and on March 11th, 2012 he surprised me and proposed and asked me to marry him.. He had 11 balloons, 11 roses, 11 steps, and 11 things to say as i walked up and down my stairs to make my way to the kitchen. where he had 1 rose, 1 ballon (i thought), 1 ring, and 1 question.

But lets backup...

Earlier that day he had started a fight with me and I was so mad I called in sick that day because I needed a "Personal day" with my mom of shopping...

When he found out that I hadn't gone to work he acted very strange...

 Duane: "You going anywhere today?"
Me: "Shopping with my mom..."
Duane: "Oh. good (I could hear his mom in the background mummbling something) Stay gone for a while and keep your door unlocked!"
Me: "okie..."

So I went to the mall with my mom and she refused to let me drop her off... because she was convinced I was "getting engaged and I better have a nice stone at least 1 karat." (shes a true romantic... let me tell you!)

So I pull up to my little town house on the upper side of town in a neighborhood area with not alot of aparetments. My heart was beating really fast and I had butterflies in my stomach which hasnt happened for a while with us since we had been together for a while and grown comfortable with each other. "Puppy love" was gone.

I opened the door to him.. he was nervous thats for sure.. he was holding index cards and had a shit eating grin on his face. There were rose petals, balloons, and roses everywhere.

It was cute but, I had to walk up the stairs and pick up a rose and pause... while he went to read off his index cards.

First step, First rose, First balloon.... First thing he said to me was  "Your beautiful."

And i am thinking awe, gee thanks... :)

Second step, second rose, second balloon... Second thing he said was "Your caring."

And may I add they he used spoons to hold down the balloons... so while trying to be romantic, sexy, and not step on anything I was tripping and stepping on spoons... (super romantic tripping while walking UP stairs and your soon to be finace is pouring his heart out to you)

Third step, Third rose, Thrid balloon.... Third thing he said was "Your an awesome person."

After he said that I automatically said "like a boss...." in my head. haha. But short lived and snapped back into the present.

Fourth step, Fourth rose, Fourth balloon... Fouth thing he said to me was "Your honest."

Now I am honest and I am glad that he thinks so because i am too honest sometimes and say the wrong things at all the wrong times... i think it hurts peoples feelings sometimes when I am trying to make things better... ehh.. they still love me. :)

Fifth step, Fifth rose, Fifth balloon....  Fifth thing he said to me was "Your Trustworthy."

By this point I was starting to get up pretty high and I had to bend over to see him.

Sixth step, Sixth rose, Sixth balloon... Sixth thing he said to me was "Your great to be around"

By this time I was wondering when this would become more than three word simple things about me.

Seventh step, Seventh rose, Seventh balloon... Seventh thing he said to me was "Every time I am around you and see you I love you even more than I did before."

At this point I feel the clinch in my stomach, feel my eyes getting heavy and think... thats my man... dig deep for those real emotions..

Eighth step, Eighth rose, Eighth balloon... Eighth thing he says to me "There is no one else in the world I want to be with."

By this time i am half way up my stairs and now am forced to walk backwards/sideways and I am so graceful (NOT!) thinking, he is not going to want to ask this baphoon to marry him..


Ninth step, Ninth rose, Ninth balloon.... Ninth thing he says to me "Your a great mom."

And I am glad that he thinks so since we are going to have a blended family and his daughter calls me mommy. and I have a short temper and a hot head.. just like my daughter lily... and marissa is quite and shy like duane... this will be interesting.

Tenth step, Tenth rose, Tenth Balloon... Tenth thing he says to me "You have your life together"

This one is not so romantic... it sounds more like a observation to me at that time but now looking back on it... that was a sweet thing to say..

Eleventh step, Eleventh rose, Eleventh balloon... Eleventh thing he said to me "I want to be with you forever and ever..."

At this time my hands were so full and he motioned me down the stairs and to come with him towards the kitchen..

He handed me my twelfth rose thinking (Okie this is it...) he just looks at me like.... HELLLOOOOOOO!!!!! and his eyes motion down towards the stem of the rose... and there on my twelfth rose is a ring...

He takes the ring off the flower... gets down on one knee, he has watery eyes, his voice is a little choked up, hes sweaty, his hands are shaky...

He grabs my hand and says the twelfth thing to me...

"I would be honored and the happiest man alive... if you destiny would marry me?"

What is a girl to say....

OF COURSE

YES!!!!!

Than my mom rushes in and says "I knew it!!!"

Grabs the ring and says... this is much prettier than the last time I saw it. (Thanks mom)

Oh and I never got a twelfth balloon.. he popped it on the drive over... lol.

My Family, his family, our family...

Duane and i met on Halloween in 2010 at Safeway. It was cold... He was shy and I was wearing too much halloween makeup (let my 2 year old daughter do). He explains it as "He loved me even though I had a unibrow." Long story short.. We got together, we fell in love, we broke up, he stalked me, we got back together, we got married.. and are in one happy roller coaster... we call our life.


 Destiny (me) and Duane (husband)

 Lily (my daughter age: 4)

 Marissa (Duane's daughter age:4)

 Christine and Derek (My sister-in-law and her soon to be husband)

 My Gram grams (Kathy)

 Micki (my weenie)

 Lorry (my mother-in-law)

From left to right (my brothers Izaiah and Pj)

 Kyle (lilys dad)

Stephanie (my mom)


 when I start talking about someone I will post a picture so you can get a sense of them.

The beginning

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