Sick of being sick.......

This cold/strep has run its course through my house. My husband and son have finally recovered after having it for over two weeks. My daughter is sick now with major ear infection and sinus infection. I had shots last Monday and was back in the Dr.'s office this Tuesday, by Friday it had returned with a vengence. NOW....here I sit at 1:00am posting on my blog because the Z-Pac I am on has me wired to the gills. The nonstop coughing isn't helping. I decided the best move to make was to remove myself from the bed and head to the craft room. No need in keeping hubby up my my wiggling and coughing!! Sickness please go away and never return!!!!!!!!

On to crafty info. Right now I am stalking Amazon for Becky Higgins Project Life items to return to stock. I ordered a few page protectors last week but most were out of stock. I want to purchase some of the kits also, but waiting to place one big order. I am soooo very far behind on my scrapbooking. I understand that the premise behind PL is to take pictures daily and complete your weekly life in a scrapbook, and after a year have a full year of scrapbook goodness. My take will be somewhat different. I need to go back several and I do mean several years to catch up. I will use PL to help me accomplish this. I love the whole concept behind it and can see it working for me. I am thinking I will have 2 PL projects in the works at one time. The old and the new. This should help me stay current while working on the process of catching up. If you haven't seen the concept of Project Life you can check it out on her website as well as on YouTube and amazon. I know that it has been out for some time, but our life is just calming down to the point that I can craft again. (Can you say sleepless night scrapping!) Must not have mentioned that I already suffer insomnia.

Hope your all sleeping soundly at this hour and that you and your loved ones are well. Guess I should say that I live in the South. Our Winter has been so strange. Last year was amazingly cold and we had snow. This year it has been 30/40 and rainy followed by a week of high 60's. How are you suppose to stay well when you deal with that?

Sweet Dreams

A wasted day.....well maybe not..

School was suppose to start back for me today, due to the threat of bad weather it was canceled. The kids are also out. My son is sitting in here with me on his iPod racing cars while I am updating my blog with my iPad. While I am thankful for an extra day to rest, I am ready to get back in school and get into a routine. If anyone out there is a mother who has returned to school, you know it is an adjustment for everyone. With each new semester comes a new schedule. This means getting everyone use to me coming in late (thank goodness this semester I only have one night class and the rest of the week I will be home when the kids are). Anyway, we had no bad weather. We waited alllllll day for snow that never came. A little ice on the trees, but that is melting away already. My daughter is taking advantage and sleeping in, and when she wakes we will have breakfast and just hang out the rest of the day.
Look for craft projects and videos soon. I have some things in the works. Enjoy you day....

My Pink Stamper Design Team Call

Head on over the http://www.mypinkstamper.com/. She is hosting a design team call. She will be picking two additional people to be part of her design team. You can read more details over at her site. Here is my submission..

Materials used: $1.00 wooden frame from Michaels. Painted lime green with american crafts paint. Covered with K and Co. paper from the Berry Sweet collection. Bling was added using Imaginisce jewels and hot fix setter. All other paper used is by Recollections. Cappie was cut and shadowed in brown paper from the cricut Cuttin Up cart. The bird was cut from the 3 Birds on Parade Cricut cart. All flowers used are Prima. Ribbon was purchased at Joann's.
This is a quick and easy project. They also make great gifts.
Head over to http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ and check out everyone's awesome submissions!!!!

Cricut Cake Mini

So, I received the Cricut Cake Mini for Christmas. What great timing? There are so many birthday's in my family in January. First off there is my AMAZING grandma's birthday this week. I can't even begin to tell you how wonderful she is. I made her this cake yesterday. It is a modge podge of cricut cakeness. I was playing around with different cuts. Nevertheless, it turned out pretty cute. I added lots of purple icing around the bottom of the cake. Fondant is not the best tasting creation ever invented, so I added the extra icing to make the cake taste really good. My favorite part of a birthday cake is the icing.
As for a review of the cake mini, I LOVE IT!! It really works well. The cuts were nice and exact. I do think next time I will lower my pressure, but other than that I had no problems. You just roll out your fondant (quickly-this stuff really dries fast), crisco your mat, lay out your fondant on the mat, and cut away......I am really glad that I started out with the mini cake version. I don't see that I will need the bigger one. I got mine at the black Friday sale at Joann's. Well worth the money!

It was so Yummy!!

Guest Designer!!!!

I submitted a project to Megan at Above Rubies Studio, and it was chosen to be featured on her site. I love this project because it was easy, fun, and included paper dolls!! Please head over to http://www.aboverubiesstudio.com/design-team/grandmas-treasures/1683/ and check it out. While your there check out her great video tuts.

Give a child a glue-gun and popcicle sticks!

I'm so lucky, my children LOVE a craft store. No begging and pleading not to go, they actually ask to go! Makes this mama proud. So, the other day we made a trip to Joann's. My DD purchased T'shirts and iron on bling designs. My son chose a hot glue gun, a package of 100 glue sticks, and a box of 1,000 popcicle sticks. It always amazes me what he can create. After an hour or so in his room, this is what he bring out to share. (I didn't get a picture yet, but he also created a trailer for transporting his planes. It is complete with wheels!)

HaPpY EaStEr!!!!

Hope everyone had a great day. We have been completely lazy today. Spent some time w/ the many critters and just plain lounged around the house.
I love Easter. It is my favorite holiday of all!! I love the colors, chicks, bunnies, and the candy....My two favoirte candies are available during this time. The top on my list are the robin eggs...YUMMY!!!
I was going to do the baskets last night, but fell asleep. I jumped up early this morning while the house was still calm and quite and fixed them up. I also made cute little cards to go with each of them. The kids were super excited when they woke. I had told them they were getting to old for Easter. (that's never gonna happen!!)   Just Noticed the card was up-side down in the picture..I don't think he noticed LOL

Enjoy the rest of your day! I hear a nap calling my name...

*Confidential* Top Secret

Head on over to http://www.aboverubiesstudio.com/ to find out about all her great changes and contest! She really has some great things happening over at her blog. While your there catch some of her great videos!! Have a happy crafty day!!

Project this week..

My mom is helping with a cousin's kids while she is in Iraq. Due to it being a short stay, they are homeschooling . Of course working at home also brings with it many distractions. To help cut down on these distractions, I made this sign for her door. The kids loved it, and felt special that it was made just for them...
I used my your story laminator on the top part of the sign, but the bottom would not fit due to the thick embellishments.  Either way, it still turned out really cute.....I used make-the-cut software and my cricut to cut the letters....Cardstock was mounted on chipboard to make it a sturdy sign. (another quick..easy project)

SPRING BREAK!!

Well, for me anyway. The kids have spring break next week. I really wish it would have fallen on the same week.. Oh well, such is life. Not gonna be much of a break though. I have Ethics, book report, and lit. to do all this week.. Yeah, I really should get off the computer.....(as my daughter would say, yeah whatever). I have a project in mind for tomorrow. I am gonna try and sneak that in between school work.. Stay tuned for that. Hope all who are on spring break has an awesome time..
Don't forget to hug your kids today and tell them you love them. You would be surprised what this will do for their day!

Happy Valentine's Day

Hope everyone is having an awesome Valentine's Day...Here we are having a quiet day. I have one sick and the other getting over being sick. How fun!
Today I wanted to share these cute little frames that I made for some friends of mine. They were so easy to make. I used the $1.00 unfinished frames from Michaels, painted them, covered the front with pattern paper, and decorated with cuts made from the cricut using cricut cartridges and make the cut software.

My hats off to ya!!!

For all of you who design blogs, I am amazed. I have worked on this blog for 3 days trying to revamp it.. I finally have it just like I want it. Ok and a big headache to add to that. I was adding a post divider and each time I would view blog, the divider would be way too long and cut off half my image. I revamped and revamped and still it would not work......HELLO!! hit save..that did the trick. If I ever decide to update my other blog, it will be so much easier. I downloaded my background image from the cutest blog on the block. All other elements of the blog were created by me in photoshop.

I did have lots of help along the way...Below is a list of sites I visited for tutorials. They were so straight forward and easy to follow. Just remember to save as you go! A lesson learned the hard way.

Sneaky Momma Blog Design

My Blog Makeover

April Showers

Kevin and Amanda

The Cutest Blog on the Block

I did enjoy the process and I learned alot. I'm glad I tackled this project. Now to go tackle all my school work.

Check it out!!!!

This is what I have been up to for the last couple of days.... I am so excited that it is done and even more excited with how it turned out!!!!

It's Been a While......

Sorry!! I know it has been a while since my last post, but life got a little hectic for a while. I'm back and have a few new discoveries to share. Today's share is the Cricut Cake.

Have you seen this? The new cricut cake machine. It seems to be all the rage over on the cricut message boards right now...Here is some additional information:

The Cricut Cake™ Personal Electronic Cutter is specifically designed for decorating cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and confections in no time at all. Just choose a shape, a size, and press "cut". Decorating like a professional has never been faster or easier. Bon Appetit!

You can also head on over to youtube and check out some awesome cakes made with the cricut....Warning: drooling may be involved.  Cakes made with the cricut!

Another cricut cake

I made this cute cake for my best friends little girls. They are twins. Can you tell? I used my cricut to create a border stencil and air brushed the sea horses around the cake. I also cut the palm trees from my cricut. I think this is one of  my favorite cakes so far. It was so fun to make.

Altered Art

Today I want to share a couple of altered frames that I made for a gift for my father-in-law. I love how they turned out. These are plain wooden frames that you can purchase at Michael's arts and craft store. First I  painted the frames. Then a piece of decorative cardstock was added to the front of the frame. After doing this I just embellished away!! I added chipboard pieces, rubons, and of course a little bling. I took a black ink pad and inked the edges for a more worn look on the wild thing frame. They are very easy to make and they make wonderful gifts.

Head over to peachy keen stamps for their awesome blog candy...

There stamps are awesome!!!!

Cancer Awareness ribbon!! What a deal!!!

For those of you with the cuttlebug or any other die cut machine that will take the sizzix dies, this would be an awesome set to add to your collection. Check it out over at sizzix.com. http://www.sizzix.com/product/905 And get this, it is only $6.00...

Another cricut cake day.....

On this cake I used the cricut once again to create a stencil for air brushing. I air brushed the flowers on the corners of the cake and also alone the borders. In the center of each flower I just added a little yellow dot to dress it up. The flowers on the cake are not real (I pretty much stink at making flowers!). Airbrushing a stencil on a cake can add so much detail. If you don't have a cake airbrushing system, you can always use the cans of airbrush color they sell in the wilton cake department at most craft stores, it works just as good!

Final Week to win Winter Woodland

This is the final week to win the winter woodland cartridge over at cricut.com. It is super easy to enter-and what a great prize this would be. So hope of over there and check it out.
http://cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=5417412