Fruit Fly Trap

If you're like me, you've got a lot of beautiful in-season fruit sitting around right now. Now, I don't know where they come from or how they get in my house, but I always end up with lots of the little things flying around my kitchen.

A few years ago I was watching a britsh show, and for the life of me I can't remeber what it's called. The premise of the show was these two older British women went into peoples houses and cleaned them up for them, then went back a month later to see if they were keeping up with the cleaning. Anyways, long story short, this cure-all is from them...

Supplies needed:

*Red wine Vinegar (please don't use your expensive kind. Go to Wal-mart and buy the $1.99 bottle!)
*Dish Soap
*Plastic wrap
*A cup

-Place 1/4 cup red wine vinegar into the cup
-Carefully drop 2/3 drops of dish soap into the vinegar (This breaks up the tension of the vinegar and the fruit flies get stuck instead of flying away)
-Cover top of cup tightly with plastic wrap. Using a knife, poke a few holes in the top of the plastic wrap. Now they can get in but not back out!

-Leave sitting on the counter for a few days. I always set the cup right in the middle of the fruit-it's like a sneaky death trap!
-Come back later and count your success!

My two favorite artists



I recently took down everything I had hanging on my kitchen walls because I was just tired of it. My kitchen is a lovely shade of yellow and my curtains are cream colored with shades of pale green and light coral. I've been looking for a few weeks for something to replace the old stuff and just hadn't found anything that struck my fancy, yet remained in my budget.

While browsing the internet one day, I can across these and couldn't resist. Plus I had a coupon! I already had the paint on hand that matched my kitchen (plain dumb luck!) and the painter's tape as well. So my new art cost me around $7 total!



I set up my two favorite artists with their supplies and let them go to town!

The canvases are 12x24 inches. I taped off Riley's name with painter's tape (I highly recommed the painters tape, I can't vouch for how regular masking tape will perform under layers of acrylic paint) Riley did his in upper and lower case letters because that's how he writes his name now.

(Riley flat out refused to touch the paint with his fingers, so he used a large paint brush)

Sawyer's was taped off in block letters for two reasons: The S and A were easier to create in block letters, and I had a harder time squeezing his letters onto the canvas)

(S wasn't too keen on the finger painting)

My beautiful new wall art!

(And as my Mom pointed out yesterday-there's still room for one more! <wink wink> LOL)

Needless to say, there's a small stack of canvas in other sizes waiting for my little Picassos to create me some new decor!