Home Alone

School has started and believe it or not, the girl were actually more excited than I was!! Whats on the agenda for the first Friday during the new school year, hmmmmm, oreos for breakfast and maybe a yardsale or two to find something to repaint!!

Bad Blogger...Paging Bad Blogger...

Oh wait!! That's me!! I am so bad at this but it has been a long, busy summer! Mini vacations, Craft Fairs, Family visits, I know that there is more I am leaving out that we did but I will give you a glimpse of our summer in snapshots!!

On our way to Texas with Ms. Hollywood!

Painting wit Homemade sidewalk paint!

Hangin' at the Splash pad with cousins from Texas

Randomness!! Had to throw some of that in!

My wonderful brother in for a visit from Minnesota!!

Incredible Pizza was so much fun!!

And now, school starts for my girls on Monday and I am ready to get back into a regular routine again!! I have missed my craft room this summer!!

And, I will get better at this, I swear!!

(Not) Sisters...

Kristin has pretty much adopter Ella as her little sister!! Crazy kid!! She holds Ella's hand, pushes her on the swings, and just generally follows her around!! She is her (Not) Sister!!

And here are a couple of close ups!!

I created this layout for the Cricut 360 blog!!

Happy Crafting!!

Picture Perfect Frame

I made this cute photo clip frame today!! I just bought several bunches of flowers Saturday to make flower hair clips. I only needed the flowers so I had all these stem bunches laying on my desk! I am a pack-rat and hate waste!! LOL It's very sad!! So I took a frame a had spray painted black (and forgot it out on the porch and it got rained on and the paint started flaking off) and fancied it up! There is also a How-To on how I made the flowers! I got the idea from Photolicious when I was browsing their blog! Here is the link to their blog where I saw the flowers:

http://networkedblogs.com/i1Lel

Here is the finished product!

This is the paper I used! I love BasicGrey!

The instructions @ Photolicious uses and ever 3/4 inch strip of paper. I tapered mine!

Spray your paper with some water so you can fold it without it ripping!!

Accordion fold you paper as you turn it in a circle.

(Here is mine all folded and laid out flat)

Here it is back in the "circle"

Hot glue works the best to glue it to a scrap of paper to hold it together.

I used some self adhesive pearl halves I had as centers

Here is my weathered frame courtesy of Mother Nature!!

I sanded the edges to age it a little more!

The stems deflowered and ready to share their leaves and other cute parts!

I glued the leaves first

Then a couple big flowers

Next a some filler

I added a piece of the same paper I used for the flowers for the background

I hot glued it in so it didn't get saggy later!

I had made extra flowers so I added those too!!

I really need someone to tell me to stop sometimes!!

The Karen Foster clip

Hot glued to the corner of the frame

TaDa!!! Finished!!

Blistered but happy how it turned out!!

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!

Almost time...

Two more days and school will be out. Then what will the start of summer. Camping trips, swimming at the lake, and no more 7 in the morning!! Awwww...no more 7am!!

Can't end a post with such exciting news, LOL, without sharing a little scrappy goodness!

Here are a couple layouts I made for NSD at Scrapbook Express!

I have been having fun with a new camera app on my iPhone! Three of these layouts I used the TtV Camera! I love all the effects and how awesome that is was like a dollar, or two!! It's super easy to use and it takes great pictures!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

i forgot...

...to add this in my first post today!! I made this for the baby shower for the teacher at school!! I like it! Turned out really cute!!

I loved this line! It is Cosmo Cricket Earth Love!

The bad blogger strikes again

Yet again I have neglected my blog! But with good reason! I have been on a cake making spree! Three real cakes and a diaper cake! All to be delivered in one weekend! Yea, I am still running on empty, blah!! Here are some pics of the cakes! I am so mad at myself too! I forgot my good camera at home when delivering and attending the Baby Shower so those pics are from my iPhone too :(

This is the 6 tiered diaper cake my friend and I made for our other friends shower!! I love the little boots!!

This cake was a birthday cake for my friend, it was also her Baby Shower that day!

This one is her Baby Shower cake!

This one was for a teacher at my girls school. Him and his Wife are expecting their first bundle of joy!! He is a retired Pro Golfer, the reason for the golf theme!!

But now that they are all done and delivered I can get back to business. I have a ton of Easter pictures to scrap and even a few that I took using an app from my iPhone! I love how those turned out!!

Ok, enough show and tell!! There is a NSD week crop at Scrapbook Express I am playing in! Need to get to work on that!!

Oh, and one more Yipppeeee for me!! I won a kit yesterday!! Here is a picture of it!

Ok, enough said!! Time to get to work...LOL

Happy Crafting!!