Procrasti.............nation and Finger Paint!

Yes, yes, my post title is extremely random today, but those are the two fun topics on the agenda today, WOO HOO!  Who doesn't like to talk about procrastination and finger paint??? I know I do!  Anyways, we'll talk about finger paints first and procrastination last ( it seems only right as a procrastinator myself to put off talking about it until last! ).

If you're on pinterest then you know they have TONS of awesome craft/DIY ideas! Feel free to follow me on pinterest!  Sooo, being the wanna-be that I am, I thought I'd start trying some of these out every now and then to see just how easy they are.  The first DIY I did was a recipe for finger paint, as listed below:

I will be telling you what worked for me and what didn't and hopefully you can get a better outcome than I did!

1. It's pretty self-explanatory and not hard at all!  I combined all of my ingredients into the saucepan and started heating.

2. Now, I just started cooking more a couple of months ago so as far as how much heat to give it to thicken I didn't have a clue and they don't tell you above.  Here's where I made my mistake, for a bit I put it on low heat which was getting me nowhere!  But I wasn't sure so I left it like that for about 20-30 min.  When I finally realized that it was barely starting to get thick, I bumped it up to medium heat and BAM!  It started to thicken quick!  Here's what it looked like:

3. Remove from heat and cool.  For the most part, the consistency and texture seemed to be pretty good.

4.  After it cooled I added food coloring and stored in old baby jars.  ( I knew they'd come in handy some day! ).

What I did notice was that when I stirred it I had lumpy parts that where harder than the rest and I'm pretty sure it's from overcooking it.  So that sucked, but it still turned out okay.  I plan on doing some more research to try again because the texture just wasn't slippery smooth like regular finger paint.

The upside?  It's totally edible!  So if you're sweet baby is playing with it and decides they want to stick it in their mouth, which most do, there's no chemicals or anything of that sort in it.

So please let me know if you have a better recipe and would like to share!  I sure hope this helps a little!  Thanks guys and Happy Hump Day!

Oh goodness, almost forgot about P R O C R A S T I N A T I O N !  This is something that I will be working on very hard!  I tend to get really excited about projects and goals and such and open my mouth about them before I even realize that I don't have the money or maybe the time right then to do it.  Theeeeen even when I do, it gets put off, and put off, and put off some more, you get the idea.

So basically I want to say I'm so sorry for posting about projects that I haven't got to work on yet and won't be able to for a while!  I will only be posting finished projects or along-the-way projects from now on.  Thanks so much for your patience!  I'm still learning how to blog the right way! ; )