Geek Momma Life

Our Elves Are Back!

This year Jingle and Jangle have been up to some very tricky tricks and our older son is ready to have them go back to the North Pole forever!

I always create an introduction letter.

The first night they covered our tree and TV with Bubble Wrap.

Our older son wrote and cute letter to Santa and the elves wrote him back.

Getting some extra encouragement from the elves in the bathroom.

Elves enjoying Daddy's new Sonic game.

The elves decided they wanted their own rocket ships after watching our older son make his for school.

Enjoying some of Daddy's Thanksgiving leftovers.

Trying to reach high ground with help from wrapping paper rolls.

Don't mess with Mr. Dinosaur

Dropping of our Advent Calendar this year and reading it to all out stuff animal friends.

This year it was a vintage Muppet Storybook/Ornament set we got on Etsy.

Best gift so far, both our oldest and baby loves these Mermaid pillows I got on Ebay.

Underwear and Diaper tree decorating.

I'll post more of our elf antics next week!

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Bleach Shirts

My son is obsessed with the show Octonauts but you can't find the anything to buy in the store because its based in the UK. My husband got the great idea to make him a shirt using a bleach technique. He printed out the picture he wanted using freezer paper. Cut it out the image so that it was revered and the image was the only part of the shirt showing. He then ironed it onto the shirt. Using bleach in a spray bottle he sprayed the image. Once you remove the freezer paper, you can see that the areas you bleached are a different color then the rest of the shirt. Step 1: Print our image you want Step 2: Cut out the image, leaving the outline Step 3: Iron on to shirt Step 4: Using bleach in a spray bottle, spray the area of the shirt showing, inside the outline Step 5: Peel of freezer paper Step 6: Rinse and let dry It came out great! Close up of the image

Octoanuts Birthday Party

For my son's 4th Birthday he decided he wanted an Octonaut birthday party. We had so much fun making all the decorations for this party. Most of the ideas came from Pinterest or my husband's crazy thinking :) Pin the Eye Patch on Kwazii Homemade Octonaut Hats Applesauce Kelp Cakes My husband created wooden cutouts for photos, we decoupaged images on we printed from the website. Our local Gerritys grocery store made a Octopod Cupcake Cake from a design I created. We added gummy sharks and M&Ms for more details. My husband made a Jello Snotblob because my son is obsessed with the Christmas Octonaut episode.

Yoda Best Dad Craft

My son used his hand prints to make a Star Wars craft for my husband for Father's Day. We used a blank canvas, craft paint, and fabric markers - Cost less then $5. First Step - Make Handprints with different colored craft paints Finished Project - just added accents with fabric markers Yoda and Chewy R2D2 and C3PO - Tie Fighters are Thumbprints Star Wars Inspiration Pinterest Board