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Home Alone

2011-08-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

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...

2011-08-03T17:41:00.000-07:00

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...

2011-05-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

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

2011-05-22T18:37:00.000-07:00

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...

2011-05-18T05:52:00.000-07:00

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...

2011-05-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

...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

2011-05-03T05:59:00.000-07:00

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!!

Cupcakes

2011-04-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

I love cupcakes!! So, when I found this blog post I was so excited!! It's a giveaway for a cupcake maker!! I know right!! Go enter!! http://bridalgownblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/sweet-treat-giveaway.html

Lastest Creations

2011-03-30T16:20:00.001-07:00

I have been playing in my crafty goodness the last couple days and here is what I came up with!

I bought these "fence panels" at a yard sale last weekend for 25 cents each. I bought 6 and this is what I came up with for 3 of them.

And thanks to Cassie for being such a wonderful inspiration for banners!!

This is my beautiful daughter Brie!! I love how the inking turned out! This is only the second time I have used spray ink!!

Easter Baskets for my Girls!

2011-03-26T07:40:00.000-07:00

I got the idea for these basket from Live with Prima. Not hard to make at and and super cute!!

Easter Basket

2011-03-26T07:35:00.000-07:00

This one is my favorite! I don't know why, but I just love this, as my friends little girl would call it, "Baby Tiny Easter Basket"!!!

Another Basket

2011-03-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

Here is another basket I made after watching a Live with Prima class. I have become addicted!

Eater Basket -

2011-03-26T07:16:00.000-07:00

I got the idea of decorating baskets for Live with Prima, here is the link to theirsite: http://livewithprima.com/white/index.html. I am making them for my three girls and 2 of my nieces. I love them so much if I could keep finding baskets at yard sales and junk store I would make as many as I could!!

Pics From the Last snow

2011-03-23T08:19:00.001-07:00

Since I am such a bad blogger I never did show the cool snow pictures I took of my girls!! I am still lovin' my Olympus Camera! Every time I use it I figure out how to use it alittle more!!

Spring Cleaning

2011-03-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

So, last summer our air conditioner clogged up and flooded 50% or more of our house. Luckily it only spread under all the hardwood floor, and not into the carpeted bedrooms. Lucky, i know right? How many say luck to "My house flooded today!" :( Andy and I have been doing all the work ourselves so it has been a slow recovery. Super stocker today thou....we got and the old flooring off the front porch so it no longer looks like the house puked onto the porch!! SCORE!!! Now, to patch the floor, stain and seal it. I can't wait!!

2011-03-19T16:27:00.001-07:00

So as one of my recent posts points out, I am horrible at blogging. I never really feel like anything is worthy of posting?!?! I need to get over that and share with the world the random projects I do. I pledge to truly get better at all this!

2011-03-19T16:25:00.001-07:00

Set up blogging from my iPhone!! My oh my how fantastic is technology!! Now if I van figure it all out it will be awesome!!!

I knew I was bad at this!!

2010-12-27T11:50:00.000-08:00

I am horrid at blogging. I have poor time management skills as well...hahaha But, really. For some reason I don't make the time to blog.

Christmas is over and I am frazzled. My Grandparents stayed at our house for the first time ever. It was fun and all but I am not good at finding entertaining things to do ALL day long. Regardless, I did it. Now to get back to my "MOM" duties I neglected for the last five days!!

Thanksgiving

2010-11-17T18:44:00.000-08:00

So, Thanksgiving and Christmas are at our house this year!! I am excited and a little worried all at the same time!! I hvae NO Thanksgiving decor, so I have a feeling I will be making some stuff over the next couple of days!!

Get Well Card Number Two

2010-11-09T21:11:00.000-08:00

Cardmaking was my thing tonight!!

Here is card number TWO!!

The picture is bad! The lighting in my craft room is horrid!! :(

Cards makin' mood

2010-11-09T21:07:00.000-08:00

My MIL called this evening needing two "Get Well Cards"!

Here is one of them:

I love American Crafts paper!! I have just about used up this whole kit!!

2010-11-08T15:41:00.000-08:00

I also made this plate charger for the contest @ Paper Issues!!

Close up! The scalloped strip is from Doodlebug

2010-11-08T15:36:00.000-08:00

Here is a plate charger I made for a contest on the Paper Issues Blog.

Check them out here:http://paperissues.blogspot.com/

Turned out pretty darn good if I do say so myself!!

Close to to show the hand doodled detail edge

Trying to get healthy

2010-11-02T14:08:00.001-07:00

One of my dear friends and I have started walking (almost) every night in hopes to loose a few of the extra pounds. Hopefully it will atleast keep the holiday weight at bay and then at the start of the year actually start to loose weight. I don't know what we are going to do when the snow hits. Hmmmm....

2010-10-30T18:44:00.000-07:00

I am so ready for Halloween to be over. Not that I don't like Halloween, I LOVE IT, but we have dressed up for some event atleast once a week for three

weeks. Here are the pics of the girls in Costume.

I also tell myself...

2010-10-27T13:32:00.000-07:00

That I am a Cake Decorator.....the jury is still out on that one!! Here as a couple of cakes I have done!!

My Girls...

2010-10-27T13:24:00.000-07:00

I tell myself, "yes, you are a photographer." but, alas....I'm not really!! I just know enough about my editing software to be dangerous!! That and a good camera never hurt!! My photography skills are like my organizational skills. On the surface, it looks amazing. But once you start opening drawers and looking in the back of cupboards my cover is blown!! I took these of my girls when my amazing hubby brought me home my favorite flowers, Sunflowers!!
Ofcourse the girls acted like I was crazy but play along because "it makes Mommy happy"!!

One more time....

2010-10-27T12:53:00.001-07:00

So, Here I go. I will try to blog.....one more time!! I am horrible about keeping up with a blog. Ugh...maybe this time will be different. I have faith in myself!!! REALLY!!