Mommies Getting All Ready

Hello!  I hope that your week has been off to a great start!  Over the weekend I lost my voice which is never fun!  I had lost it in the fall also although this time it's not as nearly bad.  Thankfully it's coming back and I was able to go to a playdate at a friends.  The kids played so well and us mom's had a good time chatting!  I can't sing yet and I love to sing, and sing a lot through the day.  At night time when I put Carter to bed I hold him in my arms and together we sing Rock a bye baby and Jesus Loves Me.  I tried to just get him to do it but no he insists that I sing too and the look he gave me when I did with my lost voice, priceless!

Oh and because I can word it funny I am going to share with you that last night we switched spouses with some friends.  Now don't go worrying I am not that kind of girl!  No my friend Karla came over here to watch a movie, and Chad went over to her house to hang out with her husband.  It was great I got girl time, Chad got guy time!  And it didn't involve having to get babysitters or a spouse staying home with the kiddies while the other got out!

Today I have a birthday card to share with you.  I love that one of the current challenges at the Hero Arts blog is birthday cards.  I am so sure I am not the only one needing to grow my stash!  I absolutely hate it when I need a birthday card and forgot to make one or don't have one on hand, shame on me!  

And it's out for publication!

And I am entering this into a new to me challenge site, ABC DT challenges!!!

Well I hope you enjoyed my thought on the card today!  I so love being a mom and wouldn't give it up for anything!

Woodland Fox

Hello!  Happy Saturday!  I hope your weekend is having a great start!  Last night I enjoyed having my friend Char over for some crafting!  It was great!  I really am lucky to have some great crafty friends too!  It's one of the reasons I got into this hobby!  My day had a great start when I saw that my tags were features on the Twinery's blog!!!!!  YAY!  I don't think I have to tell you how much I love the Twinery!!!

Today I am here with another fabulous Scrappy Saturday challenge from Wee Memories!  This week our newest DT member Laurel joins us, so thrilled to have my blog friend Laurel on the Wee Memories DT!  She is wonderful!  This week our sponsor is Serendipity Stamps!    We have a really fun challenge:

Our challenge is to create a Woodland Friends theme creation!  (By the way isn't the badge this week too cute?  I so love it!)  Here is my card:

I decided to play with my new stamp, the Hero Arts Fox.  Isn't he the cutest?  He looks so curious!  I made a boy birthday card by stamping the sentiment on the outside and stamping Happy Birthday inside!  

My friend Char was due in an hour and I realized that I had nothing "special" to feed her!  How could I forget?  Oh I know the headache that's been on the horizon all week!  And my list!  But still it's not like me to forget!  So I quickly made the decision to make some double chocolate chip cookies, that I haven't made in years! (If you came over to craft I'd bake for you too!!  :>)  Ariel actually told me that she does not remember these cookies and thinks I've never made it for her!  How funny!  And they are so good and chewy and fudgy I wonder, why has it been years?  I was half done making it before the kids decided to join me and I so had to share this funny photo of Carter:

How funny is this?  He loves his Future Viking's hat and wears it around the house all the time!  Notice his bags under his eyes, poor little guy was woken up EXTRA early by his sister yesterday morning!  He slept most of the afternoon but still looked so tired!  Although now that I think about it I must have let him sleep too long as he was running back and forth through the house and bouncing!  We took them outside to play in the snow which was a great way to burn energy!

Well  I hope you've enjoyed this post!  And I really hope you join us this week at Wee Memories and play with our challenge!  Don't forget to check out the Wee Memories blog here and check out my fellow DT

s creations and welcome our newest member, Laurel!!!

Your out of this world!

Hello!  Just popping in quick to share my card for this week's Scrappy Saturday Wee Memories Challenge, which is United We Stamp.  My stamps didn't arrive in time for the challenge but they did arrive this week!  I had a lot of fun using these itty bitty stamps by Unity.  I went for a rugged manly look with heavy distressing:

You still have a few hours more left to play, go to the Wee Memories blog here for more info!  See you tomorrow with another fantastic Wee Memories challenge!

Getting Ready all Kissed Up

Hello!  It's just about Tuesday here and I am quite awake and hyper!  (Maybe that's why my title is silly??)  My husband is out on a guys night seeing the movie Hall Pass and wings with this friends.  I will admit when he told me that he was seeing the movie with the guys instead of me I was a bit put off!  He had better get no ideas!!!  All in fun I know he won't and I love him so!  :>  Tonight I was a bad mother as I didn't want to really cook so I made waffles with apples in caramel sauce on top!  Don't ask me how making my own waffles from scratch (and having to find a new recipe as I threw out the old one!) was supposed to be easier!  Oh well it was soooo yummy!  This is the only the second time when I have made breakfast for dinner, I've finally gotten over how weird it is!  The kids loved it! 

Today Ariel had a friend over for a play date.  You know my kids love each other but like siblings they do fight physically sometimes!  Ariel pushed her brother in front of her friend and I really enjoyed hearing her friend ask her "How could you do that to your little brother?  He's little!!!"  She was so shocked!!  Ariel was at a loss for words for how to explain herself!!!  LOL  I took the moment to let them know I heard and told Ariel that her friend didn't think it was right and it wasn't!

I have a card I made using some new stamps.  I've gotten a few new things lately and boy is creating so much easier!  I feel so happy and full of creativity.  Is it bad that I am trying to get my husband notice how new crafting supplies make me happy?  :>  Here's my card, very feminine:

I inked the Getting Ready Silhouette stamp with light pink ink and the envelope pattern  with brown ink and kissed the stamps together.  I so love the look it gives, so much richness and texture!  I made this card as fast as I could as I was fighting daylight!  This image cries out for ruffled ribbon so I added some on the bottom! This is one of my favorite colors combos, I often find myself buying clothes for Ariel in these colors!

Well I better go, Chad has just come home with a "doggie" bag with wings for me!!!  Aren't I lucky?

Sending Sunshine and Smiles

Hello!  A happy Sunday to you!  Having a pretty good day over here.  Started with a great message at church, some lunch than I went and canvassed our street for Heart and Stroke.  Was waiting for it to get warmer, but it wasn't happening!  At least I wore snow pants!  :>  We all had some nice Sunday naps and now I am getting my home ready for some company!  I am hosting a few girl friends over to watch the Oscar's!  Looking forward to some girl chat, the Oscar's and yummy food, it doesn't get better.  Oh wait it could if we fit some crafting in there!  LOL  Maybe I'll stamp a bit before they come....

Today I have a sunny warm card to share.  Over in the Hero Arts Flickr Group my fellow hostess Sally is hosting a color challenge, more info here.

Isn't it beautiful?  The rich colors, so warm and inspiring of what is to come when this winter is over!  I don't know if you've noticed but I was lacking in mojo the last bit and struggling to create.  It was frustrating as I had more time to create but just couldn't!  I've gotten some new stamps and such and feel like I am back with it and am brimming with ideas!  This color challenge was a great start as these are different colors for me and caused me to get out of my box, here is my card:

I stamped the Tall flower by HA onto some white cardstock and colored it with distress inks, than sprayed perfect pearls and water on it to give it shimmer, and to get it to blend better.  I love the way the flowers turned out.  I am playing around with my card layouts trying to be different and came up with this one.  I stamped the red scallop with envelope pattern in vintage photo, the red was a bit bright so it made it work better.  For the sentiment strip I did something new to me, I colored it with wild honey distress ink first than stamped the sentiment on top, to get it to match the yellow flower.  I was just going to do a kraft strip but am so glad I thought of this instead!  Here is a photo in the bright sunshine you can sorta see the shimmer better!

 

Well that's it for me, I gotta go and clean up my house and get started on dinner!  You know it's time when your youngest keeps coming up to you and saying hungry in there little voice saying it perfectly!  :>  And your husband reminds you that you had an early lunch remember?   Pulled pork sandwiches, so excited!

Operation Write Home

Hello!  Happy Saturday!  I hope that your doing better than me as I woke up with a headache!  Oy!  No fun, I had one for most of last weekend too!  I am here with the Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge!  This week our challenge is a very special one as we are doing it to honor Operation Write Home!

Operation Write Home is such a great cause which collects hand made cards from crafters all over the world to send to the wonderful men and women who serve in the military protecting us. It's a way for them to write back home to loved ones with cards that have a more personal touch. 

Our theme this week is United We Stamp!  Your challenge is to make cards to send to OWL to send to the troops!  We really hope you send the cards you create in. You can find all the details and requirements on the OWH website HERE, and a list of cards needed HERE, and the guidelines HERE (the biggie is no glitter!) for your cards and everything you can see on the OWH website. And thanks to Unity Stamp Co for helping bring this challenge to you!  

And for this challenge you may enter as many times as you wish!  :>  We would love to be able to have lots of cards to send to OWL!

This week we have a great sponsor who I know you've heard of!  Unity Stamps!  Unity has been so awesome giving all of us DT stamps for the challenge but unfortunately with shipping to Canada it hasn't arrived here yet!  Sigh Canada customs can make it take sooo long for packages to get here sometimes!  I do have a card to share today and will be back with my card later in the week with the Unity stamps.  Oh well more cards for OWL as I'll send this one too!

Here is my card, I went with a birthday card:

I embossed the flower by Hero Arts in white on the patterned paper and distressed the edges with some antique linen.

I really hope that you will play with us this week and make some cards for a great cause!  Please check out the Wee Memories blog and all the rest of the wonderful DT's work here.

Teacher Appreciation

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  The weather has turned to unbelievably cold today!  Apparently tonight will be one of the coldest this winter!  Thankfully I've been home all day with no plans on going anywhere!  This week it's Staff Appreciation at my daughter's school and a letter was sent home asking if we the parents would like to provide a meal, dessert, fruits, veggies for one of the lunches for the staff.  Also on the Hero Arts flickr group my fellow hostesses and I decided to have a cooking up hostess challenge in the flickr group, you can see it here.  I decided to combine the two!  I made an oreo cheesecake to send for the Staff for lunch!  It's a super easy recipe and I know everyone loves oreos and cheesecake!

 

So yummy!  I love that it doesn't have whip cream on top, I feel that it takes from the flavor anyways!  :>  Here is the link to the recipe.  I hummed and hawed over what I should send Ariel's teacher.  I decided on some fragrance body lotion that I have and made some tags for her teacher and for the EA (Education Assistant)  Here are the tags:

Out for Publication!

Yesterday I took Ariel to see Disney on Ice, Mickey and Minni's magical journey!  She loved it!  We had such a wonderful time!  Here are some photos:

I took this one of the two of us during intermission.  I love that she put her arms around me!

 I think this was my favorite part when the clamshell is opened and Ariel's sister's come out in the Little Mermaid part of the show!

 I didn't take many photos of the show (I wan to enjoy the show!) but had to take this one of course!

 Ariel wore her Ariel dress!  I figured why not dress up?

This is Ariel and her new chickie.  I wasn't too thrilled with what was for sale at the show, along with the outrageous price tags ($22 for a light up toy, once we bought one and it broke that night so never again!)  Last year we bought a necklace with an Ariel pendant and I don't know what happened to that (oh it tarnished bad!)  I told Ariel that after we would go to the store and she could pick out anything she wanted, a toy, a craft, or a book.  This is what she wanted, I would have got her a princess doll but she wanted this and was thrilled!  We had so much fun and I am so glad that we went!  I love having a little girl!