Every Princess Needs A Great Hairstyle

Queen Mommy Nicki's Princess has always been the leading fashion maven in our family. Her younger cousins often beg her to come over and do their hair and make-up for performances and special occasions. Now unfortunately Queen Mommy Jennifer is not especially talented at crafting one of a kind hairdos, but I have found some help from some great online resources. Thank heavens for Pinterest!

I also recently stumbled on a great online resource for hair tutorials. The Story Of A Princess And Her Hair. My skills are still limited, but I did create this cute hair bow yesterday.

BIG Review

And the good news keeps rolling in. Girliemom just posted their review of the Practically Perfect Princess and it's a great one!

"If you have a little princess in your house, this book is not to be overlooked.  The authors do a wonderful job to demonstrate thru their words that even the practically perfect princess is not perfect. We recommend this book for children 1 to 5 yrs+. "

This is huge and we are so grateful to the amazingly talented ladies over at Girliemom for giving The Practically Perfect Princess an opportunity to shine!

And The Princess Gets Sold Out!

Just a quick update post. Queen mommy Nicki and I are super excited as we were just informed by Hicklebee's that the original stock of our book has SOLD OUT in their store. Hooray Hooray!! Thank you.

Also, some big things are coming your way next week via the Practically Perfect Princess and some amazingly huge and awesome blogs. Get ready!

Lastly, we thought we would share this cute idea we saw for a craft project on dearlizzy. Here where the Queen Mommies live it is 100+ in the shade and so finding things to do to entertain the children is a must. I have all of my materials for this adorable Princess wand and can't wait to do this with my girls today. Happy Friday!!

Photo Courtesy dearlizzy

To make the hearts you need: ·yarn · cookie cutters · 1/4 c. cornstarch or you could use watered down glue ·wax paper

How to make the hearts: Heat up 1/4 c cornstarch with 1/2 c water over medium heat until it is translucent. Wait until it cools before starting.(Can also use watered down glue)

Cut yarn into 12 inch pieces and have the kids dip into glue and then place into cookie cutter heart or any other shape. May take a while to dry so the process can be sped up by setting them in the oven on parchment paper. Set to warm for about an hour.

How-to make the magic wands: Use a lollipop stick or other stick and decorate with whatever you have on hand such as tulle, ribbon, jewels, sequins and pearl strings. *dearlizzy suggests the following: If your daughter is old enough she could help with this part, but she used a hot glue gun and threw it together in a couple minutes.

Photo Courtesy dearlizzy

So cute!

Puppet Power

Check out this cute online resource for printable pictures. We had great fun in our house this afternoon printing up our favorite images and creating puppets. 

All we needed was our printer, some popsicle/craft sticks, tape and our imaginations to create some pretty neat stories. Here is a picture of one of our puppets.

Hope everyone's summer is going well!

Teaching A Princess Her Shapes

School is out and I am trying to make sure we continue learning even during the summer months with fun crafts and projects. Here is a super simple project I did with my preschool princess to reinforce shapes.

Make Your Own Shape Princess

I used foam paper and cut out some super easy shapes to start with. As I cut I had my preschooler tell me all of the shapes she knew and then retrieve them to put the princess together.

Then for some added fun have your Princess glitter up her creation!

Oh and my little princess added a face to hers. There is no stifling of creativity in this house :)