tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985356448064790122012-02-11T00:50:44.973-09:00Anna Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18268993508216894682noreply@blogger.comBlogger1181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198535644806479012.post-21578392548352228892011-10-28T09:19:00.000-08:002011-10-28T09:19:41.867-08:00

Hi!! It's my Design Team day for SVG Attic and I wanted to share one of the cute boxes from Holly's Holiday Gift Boxes I made the pie box and put a cute little paper pie in it! I am making 3 different kinds, but I only have one finished to show you today.  Everybody loves Pumpkin Pie right?!!  Um... I don't.  I know, I'm weird lol! But I DO love this pumpkin pie!! Thanks for stopping by!!  And

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The last Tuesday of every month is  Show and Tell over at the Cuttin' Up With Class Blog You can link up ANY project you have made, old or new. It's a super fun way to show off what you've been working on and see what others have been up to as well!  I'm just gonna give a little sneak peak of a Halloween Party Package that I made for a little boy and girls' Halloween Birthday party.  Thanks

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Um yeah... I got a whopping 7 comments for my giveaway. I'm kinda sad. Doesn't everyone like free stuff?And it's HANDMADE stuff to boot!  Well, THANK YOU to my lovely followers whodid play along and leave comments. I love you all!!  I still love you other guys as well, but what can I say...Maybe leaving the giveaway so open and vague wasn't the best idea I've ever had.... lol! Well, do you want

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Hello everyone!! So it's my DT day at SVG Attic again, and I have been saving these party pics for a while now just to be able to show you today!  This is just a few ideas of how you can incorporate svg files into party planning and decorating!! I threw a Puppy Party for my son a few weeks ago and it turned out AMAZING!! I'll show you just the ways I used svg files for the party, and check back

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Wow! I've made it to 100 followers!! Thanks so much everyone for caring about little ol' me and the craziness that is my life!  I think some kind of a giveaway is in order don't you?  Hmmmm.... What kind of giveaway would you like to see? Something handmade? Something party related? Something to decorate your home?  I don't know! Let's hear some feedback!!  Leave a comment with what kind of item

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Thank you so much for joining us for the Fall Mash Up Blog HopPeachy Keen Stamps and SVG Attichave partnered this weekend to bring you fun, creative, and inspiring projects to jump start your Fall crafting! Just check out how easy it is to use the adorable PKS face stamps with SVG Attic's awesome cut files! If you've just come from Vivienne's blog, then you are in the right place! If not, make

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What a fun Blog Hop that was huh!!!!  Thank you all so much for joining us and playing along!! I loved reading all your comments and I am   so thrilled to have so many new followers!! Can't wait to share more with you all and hopefully get a chance to come visit all of your blogs as well!! Now on to the winner of a $10 Gift Certificate to **********Drum Roll Please********** Via Random.org

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It's Time For Another Challengeover atCuttin' Up With Class Thank you to all who joined in last week when we got to play with an adorable set of pumpkin files!! This week we are playing with MASKS!!How perfect for right before Halloween!!! I made these cute Pirate Masks!! Complete with Eye Patches and a Hook! The Mask is courtesy of Jani from Paper Compulsions. Jani is the host of the Cuttin'

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We're on to Day 3 of the SVG Attic Spook-Tacular Blog Hop!!!If you've been hopping along all weekend then you've seen some pretty amazing projects from my fellow Design Team members to hopefully give you some inspiration for your Halloween crafting. If you've just happened across my blog, go HERE to start from the beginning of the Blog Hop.Here's the Line-up in case you get lost along the way:

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It's Day 2 of SVG Attic's Spook-Tacular Blog Hop!! I made a project to share with you for each day of the hop, so remember to come back tomorrow to see the last one! Jessica is allowing me to giveaway a $10.00 gift card to SVG Attic for the hop!All you have to do is: 1. Become a follower of my blog2. Leave a comment on my first blog-hop project HERE Plus... If you leave an additional comment on

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Today is the SVG Attic Spook-tacular Blog Hop!! If you have arrived from Kasi's blog then you are on the right track. If you would like to start at the beginning, click here.  I made the coffin boxes from the Happy Haunt Halloween Party Kit. Then I made candy skeletons from melting chocolates and put them inside!!  I'm not sure if it shows in my pictures, but I lined the coffins with batting

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Today is the first challenge over at Cuttin' Up With Class!! I hope you will drop by the new blog and check it out!  Here's my first DT project using the cute little pumpkin file.  I made a cupcake topper with the pumpkins, and the cupcake wrapper is a file from SVG Attic's Fall Harvest Favor Boxes. The little caption is available as a freebie on the  Cuttin' Up Blog along with several other

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I have been asked to be on another Design Team for an SVG designer!! Woo Hoo! I am so excited about this new postition, my dear friend Jani from Paper Compulsions, has started a new blog for svg challenges.  Cuttin' Up With Class   There will be weekly challenges (with prizes for 2 winners) plus she will be giving out free files for the first challenge! In fact she already has a freebie up on the

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Sorry for the lack of posting! I have been going going going non stop lately, but it's my Design Team Friday with SVG Attic today so I thought I would share these adorable invitations I made with you!! It's a little early to be showing these, since I haven't even handed them out yet, but they turned out soooo cute!  My son is turning 5 this week, and at his request we are throwing him a Puppy

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SVG Attic just released an awesome new set of grocery shopping svg's called Stop N shop!! It has the cutest 3-D objects in it!! I got the chance to play with it before it's release and I know you're gonna love it!! I made a quick little cereal box by googling pictures of Cheerios boxes, printing them out and gluing the sides together! Do you like my little bag of Wonder Bread?? Lol! I used a

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Well, summer's over. At least here it is. The kids went back to school this week, and EmmaLee started 1st grade!! Can't believe I have a 1st grader! Weird! Although summer is gone, why not have one last hoorah?! How 'bout a "Say goodbye to Summer - Ice Cream Social" Obviously an ice cream party should feature.... um...ice cream duh! But, mine doesn't-since it's my Design Team Day over at SVG

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   I entered my adorable party hats into the contest over at SVG Attic! The rules are simple, just use ANY of the svg files from SVG Attic to make something, anything, 3-D. Easy. You could make a bag and put some cute cutouts onto it and it will count! So why haven't you entered yet? The contest only goes until August 21st! And the prizes are awesome! 1st place gets a $20.00 Gift Certificate to

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A friend of mine asked me for some party ideas and as we were brainstorming we totally loved the idea of a circus/carnival party! I know there have been a lot of them floating around on party blogs, and I knew we could get some cute ideas from them! I also have a couple friends who let us borrow some fun concession food machines for it! We had a Cotton Candy machine, a PopCorn Machine, and a

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So I was completely swamped with projects when SVG Attic was having their Lantern Contest a few weeks ago and although I got mine started, I just ran out of time to finish it. Lol! But here it is nonetheless, I spent a lot of time designing it to look like scenes from our most recently favorite Disney movie "Tangled". If you haven't seen the movie, you probably wont understand the lantern. But

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Hello friends!!  Sorry I haven't been around for a while. My in-laws were in town and we have been running around showing them Alaska. Which is a rather large state, so it wasn't exactly an easy thing to do! lol! But I think they had a good time, they caught LOTS of Salmon and Halibut, saw several Moose along the roads, and experienced a few HOT Alaska summer days (73 F)!!  It was fun to see

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A few weeks ago Jessica Bashaw, of Jessica's Crop Corner, asked me to be on her Design Team for her new store SVG Attic, which sells SVG files to use with your personal die-cutting machines. I couldn't believe she wanted me!! I mean, yeah I applied for a spot on the DT, but did I really think I was gonna be picked? No! Totally blew my mind! Go check out her stuff, browse around the store, and if

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Even though I'm probably one of the worst bloggers out there, I have managed to meet some really special new friends through my blog and the crafting blogs I surround myself with everyday. It's fun to get to know people in blogland that are too far away to ever have actually met in real life, but I find myself having so much in common with. Lately I have gotten to know a little more about Jani

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So, many of you have heard me talking about SVG's right? And how I use my Cricut to cut these types of files instead of purchasing lots of Cricut Cartridges. I've even designed a few of my own SVG files. But there are a ton of shops online now that sell these SVG cutting files. One fun place is called SVG Cuts. They have some adorable files and cute 3-D projects. Like these 3-D letters! So if you

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I'm on a Design Team!! YES! The super talented Jessica from Jessica's Crop Corner, and owner of SVG Attic, has chosen me, along with two other lovely ladies to be on her design team. We get to use her amazing SVG files to create projects to share with others!! I'm BEYOND thrilled! She has these super fun collections like: Backyard BBQ Give A Hoot Cape Cod Luau Just Beachy Little

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Actually that's a VERY LONG list! Lol! But lately....I've been gardening!!! If you would have talked to me a year ago, I would have told you that you couldn't pay me enough money to put on a pair of gloves and dig in the dirt. I hated gardening. I didn't like weeding, planting, watering, squatting or kneeling, all of it. Things have changed. I don't think I've ever been able to make something

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Hi peoples! Sorry for the sporadic posting lately. If you usually come here just for the crafts and parties, you might want to skip today's post, as it will be mostly a deeper look into......... me. First of all, I hope everyone had an enjoyable Father's Day Weekend and got the chance to spend time with your family. I wasn't able to get a hold of my dad on Father's day. I don't even know if he

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Hi guys and gals! Sorry I've been away for so long.... I know I say this ALL the time, but I've been super busy. Again. Really, I do it to myself. I take on way more projects than I really have time for, what can I say, I guess I love the stress! ;) For any of you out there who may have been on the fence about buying a mobile from me, I just want to give you a heads up that I am going to raise

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Thanks for coming to visit! If you just came from the Paper Dolls then keep reading for all the details about my guest designer project. If not, GO visit them right away, then come back! Lol! So anyways, I feel especially honored to be one of the first guest designers on The Paper Dolls blog! Tamara and Thienly are seriously amazing and uber talented women! I have stalked admired their blogs

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Re-upholstery projects that is. We scored these great kitchen bar stools on Craigslist but they were in desperate need of a makeover. Plus, they just didn't match my kitchen colors. And lets face it, I'm a matchy-matchy kind of girl. Now if I could just finish painting my kitchen I might actually let you see a picture of the stools in all their glory by my hideous tile countertop.  They have

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If you are familiar with lots of paper crafting blogs, and namely ones that use SVG files, then chances are you might have heard of these two AMAZING gals. Tamara @ Happy Life, Crafty Wife and Thienly @ Mod Paperie. Well they have ventured out and decided to start up their own fun svg challenge blog! These two women seriously are DOLLS, who love playing with paper, hee hee. Hence their new

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Seems like when you don't have any money, the best gifts to give are edible treats! People still know that you care and that you took the time for them, and they remember how amazing your treats tasted! Well, a bunch of events just happened and I just didn't have the funds to splurge for gifts. It was Mother's Day, and my friends birthday (on mother's day), and my sister graduated from High

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Teacher Appreciation Week is May 2nd-6th and National Teacher Appreciation Day is May 3rd. What are you doing to tell the teachers in your life "Thanks"? Personally, I feel quite indebted to the remarkable educators who spend so much time with my daughter each day helping her to reach those milestones and develop into the little smarty pants she has become! Although she is a little behind

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This party was pretty much canceled, so I wasn't going to make any decorations for it. Then, the night before, (it's always last minute with me, right!) I decided I wasn't gonna let the fact that I had no funds deter me!! So I stayed up ALL night, which I've been know to do quite often when I'm pressed for time.... and created this EASTER CARROT PARTY! I arranged the tablecloths like this to

Anna Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18268993508216894682noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198535644806479012.post-43329855956140762322011-04-25T13:22:00.000-08:002011-04-25T13:22:52.006-08:00

These photos are courtesy of Babies R Us website. Here's the mobile I made to match this bedding set. Honestly, this mobile is my FAVORITE!! I love the teal glitter paper, and the metallic shiny teal paper! It was just so sparkly hanging up in my living room while I made it! The colors flow so well, I just LOVE it! Thanks for checking out yet another mobile. Seriously, if you're getting sick of

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Here's a picture of the room I made the mobile for. The customer requested that the mobile have a lot of white so it would tone down the wall colors but still complement the room's color scheme. And here's what I came up with: One of my favorite details on this mobile is the white origami flowers with the turquoise center! I just folded the paper inside out to make it that way! So pretty!

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I'm so excited to share these photos with you! The Invitations When I make invitations I like to embellish and stamp the envelopes as well. It's like a little hint to the cuteness that waits inside! Instead of having people spend money on buying a card to go with a gift, they wanted a cute way to request children's books with a handwritten message inside. I thought it was a super cute idea.

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Seriously, I have been making a ton of mobiles! I just thought it would be easier to keep them separated in different posts. This one was made to match this cute bedding set from Target. Although the bedding has owls on it, the customer really wanted butterflies and flowers, so that's what I did. An Owl mobile would have been SO cute! Maybe I'll do one anyway someday and see if it sells. Anyway,

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This one was an order I got from an ETSY customer. To match her pink, grey, black and white bedding. Originally the picture she sent me was too small to see any detail, but now for some reason it's big. I kinda wish I would have used dark pink fabric for it now that I clearly see the blanket........ dang it. Here's the blanket: Here's what I made: So, I think it turned out pretty. It's

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Okay, so a lot of you might have already seen pictures of this mobile, since I have pics of it up on my facebook, and in my ETSY shop. But it's too pretty not to post on my blog as well. Originally I really wanted to make this mobile with some cute paper hearts like these: Since the room has a quilt on the wall with hearts and diamonds on it. But, I also wanted to make sure that she got

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Sorry, I haven't posted for a while. I really am trying to be better at blogging! :-)   I have been super busy with moving into our new house, and my ETSY shop getting TONS of orders!!  It's great, but a lot of work.  I can't wait to show you the 5 new mobiles I'm making!! LOL! Here's a sneak peak at some upcoming posts... Baby's Name Banner Decorations for a Western Themed Diaper Cake Pink

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Today is EmmaLee's last day at her old school. I figured it would be nice for her to attend the Valentines Day Party that they are having with the kids she has gotten to know there, rather than throw her into a brand new school with lots of unfamiliar faces on this holiday. I really wanted to make her teachers some kind of appreciation gifts, but with the packing and moving and all our stuff

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It's Christmas!! Well, not really... but for some of our family in Utah it is, because they just received their Christmas package that we sent Dec. 19th. So, for almost two months the Post Office has been sitting on our package, they claim they had no idea where it was but from what I was told it looked like something had been spilled onto the box and had a huge HAZMAT sticker on it so that's

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I think this theme is so sweet! Can you just picture how cute a baby's nursery would be all decorated up like this!?!  Here's all the pics on my latest baby shower. Well, I made these up in Photoshop but I couldn't decide which color combination I liked best..... so I printed up and sent out some of all three! BTW, the lamb image is actually from the Cricut Cartridge- Paper Doll Dress Up.

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So, a super talented lady at Create Me Pink found my cupcake box tutorial and put a cute new spin on it! She even made a video tutorial to show you how it's done! It's a little long, but totally worth it if you want to make one. Go check out her blog and see all the other cute stuff she's made too! Create Me Pink: Valentine's Day Cupcake Box

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Today we bought our first home!!!!  I am so excited I can barely think straight! There is still so much to do before we actually move in, but at least now we can get started! Anyways, here are some pictures of it "as is". I will post more pics as we do our updating. The Front The Entryway............ and we have a beautiful glass front door! The 1st Front Room........... with a wood

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Missing: 1 large nondescript cardboard box. Color: Brown Contents: Christmas presents being sent to family members in Utah Last Seen:In Anchorage being accepted by the U.S.P.S. Location: Airport Post Office Delivery Confirmation: Yes Date Mailed: December 19th Expected Delivery Date (per postal service): December 23 Days Missing: 14 If found please deliver directly to the address that has been

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These are the Nativity Blocks that we made at a church activity. I was asked to cut out the vinyl for them with my Cricut. One of the ladies already had a block that she was given a few years ago and she just wanted to be able to "re-create" hers. I was able to photograph the sides of her block and import the pics into Make The Cut to cut out with my Cricut. I changed a few of the images from

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My Newest Mobile: I made this for a friend to match her baby's nursery. She requested something in greens and pinks. I surprised her and made it to match the baby's quilt by adding baby carriages to it. This is the quilt the baby's grandmother made. It's beautiful! I tried to make the baby carriages as similar as the ones on the quilt. This carriage is from the New Arrival Cricut

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So, I guess it's been a while since I checked in and updated you on EmmaLee's status. Obviously, she just turned 6. (See Ladybug Party post) And she's in Kindergarten this year, and loving it... i think. She likes the learning, and the reading and writing... but making friends, not so much.  I'm sure she's got a few nice kids that she plays with. But I don't hear about them. She only tells me

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Okay. Ready for this super easy "How to Change your Blog Background" tutorial? Let's Do it. Blogger's has a sweet Template Designer that eliminates the need to play around with that messy HTML code! It helps you change lots of options on your blog such as font colors, links, borders, templates, AND backgrounds! This is especially nice if you want to create your own background from Digital

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So, I just learned how to change my blog's background, header, font, and font colors!! It's about time too! I've been playing around with Photoshop long enough now to know a thing or two about Digital layouts..... which is exactly what I used for my background and header!!! Do you want to know how I did it?? Guess what, it's SO easy! And tomorrow I'm gonna give you a walk through on how to do

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Let me start by saying, even though I put a lot of time and effort into this party I still didn't get even half of the things I wanted done for it in time........ I ended up scrapping a bunch of ideas, one of which was the adorable Happy Birthday banner than was halfway finished.  Sad.  :-(      I guess I really need to work on my time management skills if I want to make this into a business.....

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So EmmaLee's LadyBug birthday party was yesterday and we got some AMAZING photos! I can't wait to show you! But I need to go through and edit them first, so here's a preview of the cute little birthday girl.

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So I've been kinda busy these past couple days and haven't had time to blog. Plus it takes more time to blog about something than it does to actually do the thing.  Well anyways, you can expect a few more days of silence... because this is what I have waiting for me. We call this our "LAUNDRY MOUNTAIN"!!  It's about 9 loads of clean laundry piled on the couch waiting for me to fold it. Well it

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A friend of mine hired me to make her some paper mobiles for her daughters' rooms. She didn't give me any guidelines really, she just requested butterflies and flowers and supplied me the pillow shams to their new bedding sets so I could match the paper to them.  Here's what I came up with. They ended up really long, like 3 feet or more, but once we got them hung above the girls' beds we just

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I volunteered to make some invitations for a Halloween party my friend is throwing and really wanted to make these coffin boxes for it. People keep asking me how I expect to make any money if I just keep giving everything away... Oh well, I really wanted to do it! I actually had this idea about 2 years ago when I was going to help a friend throw a party, but that didn't work out so I never got

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My most recent party was another baby shower but with a very different theme... Alaska! It was for my friend Ashleen.  Her and her husband named their baby boy "North". They are very much into hunting and all things outdoorsy. First the Invitation: Envelope Front and Back Invite Front and Back Close up of the cool font I used for his name, the Welcome sign, and the Guest Book.  I think

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So now that I've decided to give this party planning idea a go, I made up these hand-outs in Photoshop of my previous parties to give to the ladies I threw the parties for so that they can hand them out whenever anyone comments on their baby showers and asks about it. (You can click on the pictures to see them larger and more details) Carolyn's Baby Shower So, the more I play around with

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I have wanted to get my hands on these pictures for a VERY LONG time... This is the baby shower I helped throw for my friend Carolyn back in May. I made the diaper cake and carriages and huge tissue paper pom-poms to hang all over the apartment. You can't quite see the counter with the food on it, but I ran some ribbon and tulle along the edge of it, and made some cute little food picks for the

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So do you remember these cupcake boxes from the last day of school? They are SOOOOO easy and I have had a few people ask how I made them...  So here is my short, and very informal tutorial.  Please don't judge my diagrams, I made them quickly in Paint instead of super perfect and accurate in Photoshop like I really wanted to do. The box is super simple (especially with a scoring tool or

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Okay- I can't believe it's taken me this long to finally get these photos edited to put on here!!!  I was really upset that I didn't get any pictures before or during the party, the only ones we snapped were after it was over and we had already cleaned up all the food and the lovely table display!    :-(     Well, here's Melissa's Baby Shower... You probably already saw the Surfboard Sugar

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I had the idea for quite a while that I wanted to make decorated sugar cookie surfboards for the party favors but really had no idea how. I did some research and decided to just jump right in and give it a try! I'm really pleased with how well they turned out!!  Sorry for all the pics... I can't help myself! At first I just filled them, (which is called flooding) but I thought they

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So I am throwing my friend a baby shower in 2 weeks and I am so excited I have been making all kinds of decorations for it!! You know me, I tend to go a little overboard sometimes... The baby's nursery will have a beach/Hawaiian theme so I wanted to keep the baby shower along the same lines... but I really didn't want to do a Luau... So it's beach/surfing themed!! Here are the invitations- I

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Well, we have had a lot of new traffic coming to my blog from our new friends on FaceBook via the Netherton's Syndrome Research Group And we say WELCOME! It really is comforting to meet all of you out there who are going through the same thing as us. I am truly inspired by this lady Carly Findlay who has Netherton's and has not let it dictate how she wants to live her life. She looks happy, and

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I've been working on making some more desk organizers to put up for sale on my Etsy shop... Hopefully I'll get those finished and on there this week! Check out what I do have for sale!! (images are linked)

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Some friends and I got together for a craft night and wanted to learn how to make "freezer paper" shirts.  We used onesies since two of the women just had babies!!  There are tutorials all over the web for using freezer paper as a stencil and having the Cricut cut out your design to use. Just Google "freezer paper shirts" and you'll see... Here's how we did it: 1. (Not pictured) Cut your

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A little over a year ago I taught a class where we made these Desk Organizers for a Father's Day Craft, of course not in these colors, I made these ones here for my sister and me. There are 8 little drawers, 2 on each side and the center is a hole for holding pens, scissors, whatever. I used to make notebooks out of cardboard and these inexpensive notepads, so I made one to match for my sister

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Our first run-in with a skin infection, which is supposed to be very common for individuals with Netherton's Syndrome, was last November. The skin culture showed two different types of Staph on her skin and it was obvious that something was not right. She was in agonizing pain, wouldn't let anyone touch her, hug her, pick her up, even pulling down her pants to use the potty was too painful.  The

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Here it is all finished! My second quilt kit from Quilts For Kids. My First one is HERE. You can kinda see the quilting stitches on the front of the quilt... see the waves along the border? What a cute little Crab!! He's definitely my favorite! Okay, here comes TONS of Photos :-) Here's the little sew on label they send with the kit for you to sign it and name your quilt. I guess

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I have been saving old jeans for over 10 years now in hopes to make a jean quilt, well I finally did it! But not for myself, I made 3 full size quilts for Christmas gifts last year and 1 small lap quilt for my 3 year old son. Something about old, used jeans made into quilts makes me think... Cabin. Antique. Old Fashioned. Most of all, Outdated. So I wanted to give it a fresh spin. I know I'm

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Okay, you know the Backyardigans right? No? Well they are great! So cute and creative, it's by far the most imaginative show my kids watch. It's on Nick Jr. You should check it out if you haven't seen it before.Here's a block puzzle even my kids can figure out. The whole gang. Tyrone the Moose Tausha the Hippo Pablo the Penguin Uniqua the... Ant (i think) Austin the KangarooI found the

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Today was Naked Day at our house... Although I did joke that I was getting kinda cold, it was actually only Ethan who ran around Naked all day. When my husband called during the day and commented that I sounded unusually happy, I told him it was Naked Day- which means we all run around naked... and of course he told me to take lots of pictures... Dirty Man! :-) Well, we have been trying to

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Block Puzzles.So Easy! Especially if you know how to use a miter saw, or have a very handy guy around like I do. :-)I really wanted to do a Dr. Seuss puzzle, and our favorite book is The Cat in the Hat, but I did not realize until halfway through that ALL of the pictures in the book are Red, White, and Blue. Ooops. It's kinda tricky, and when I say kinda... I mean embarrassingly so. Guess

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These are the cake box party favors I made for a baby shower over a year ago, I'm just now getting around to posting pictures of it. Oh well.It's funny how you look back and remember how proud you were when you made it, but now you look at it and aren't so impressed. I definitely think I could do something a lot cuter now.I made the bottom layer with the windows on the top of the box to see

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Won't my Mommy...be so proud of me. :-) My kids are really into this song right now, so I thought it might be fun to make some accessories for while we sing it. And yeah I know we could just do the hand motions, which are pretty much the same as what I made, but then I wouldn't have had an excuse to use my CRICUT!!OKAY- Get ready to sing with me!!I'm Bringing home a baby Bumblebee.Won't my

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Ethan got this road set for Easter. It was kind of a test run making it out of cardboard because my original idea was to make it on plastic canvas and have all kinds of accessories. I figured I should make sure my kid was gonna even play with something like that before spending HOURS stitching it up!I originally made 16 tiles out of lightweight cardboard, but one got severely warped during the

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I helped throw a baby shower for my friend Carolyn, well actually all I did was make the invitations and some decorations for the shower. But it turned out really cute, this was my first diaper cake, and I wanted it to be kinda elegant, so I didn't put toys or baby stuff on it.I really loved the look of the tiers on the cake, usually I have just seen the layers stacked on top of each other, but I

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I made this quilt from a kit that was sent right to my door by an organization called Quilts for Kids. They are a wonderful group of people that make handmade quilts and deliver them to children who have been hospitalized for various reasons from illnesses and disease to injuries and broken bones.The kit they sent (which you can request online) came with all the fabric you need most of it already

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Well, since so many people responded to my apple cupcakes, I thought I would share some pictures of the flower cupcake bouquets I made for Mother's Day and my friend's birthday.The petals are made out of sticks of gum that I cut and shaped, and the centers are tic tacs.Thanks for looking! :-)

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If I say I'm not, maybe... well we'll see.Here is what I've been up to, for anyone who cares, or still bothers to check.I used my Cricut to cut out the apple on the lid, and used page protectors to make the plastic window.I made the apple cupcakes for Teacher Gifts, and gave them to EmmaLee's preschool teachers and bus driver and attendant. I printed up some Thank You Cards on my computer and

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So...the point of this blogging thing is to share what's going on in our life with our family and friends, but what's the point of blogging if it takes up the actual time you should be spending with your family? We have just been really busy lately, there is so much going on that I have grossly neglected my blog. I appologize and will try to get on track...starting with some pictures of EmmaLee

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I guess it's not so bad after all. He looks pretty cute with spikey hair!! I really did love the shaggy look though.*Thanks for the pictures Kim!!*

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On the left is a picture of my husband Tyson when he was about 2-3 years old. It's so cute how identical his baby pictures look to my son Ethan!! And the right is Ethan now. Well not exactly now, because we just got his shaggy hair cut yesterday and I have to say that I hate it! The lady did not do a very good job. We tried spiking it though and that didn't look too bad. I will be having my hair

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The wedding colors were pink and lime green, so I made a tri-fold card to coordinate and coincidentally it goes right along with Day 67- Think Pink challenge over at 365Cards!! And now some more wedding pictures...My sister Nicole and her (very serious) boyfriend, Chad.

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Oops, I forgot this picture of Em with the bride, Miranda. Her flowergirl dress was really similar to Miranda's wedding dress!

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My cousin Miranda just got married yesterday and EmmaLee was her little flower girl. She was so adorable!! I didn't get a lot of pictures, but here's some cute ones.

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So we made it to Utah in one piece...mostly. Besides the fact that my kids got a total of 3 hours of sleep for the night! We took a short nap during the day, but they were soooooo cranky! We are staying here for the whole month of May so we had massive amounts of luggage and carry-ons, but we got through the plane ride with minor hiccups.I am a little sad that I couldn't bring all my scrapbook

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I recently went to a scrapbook day hosted by our Creative Memories consultant. I'm not very productive at those things, it's just too much fun talking!! But I did manage to complete this one scrapbook page. I entered it into the page contest, but didn't win. Hope you like it! This layout goes along with a couple others I have already made about EmmaLee's 1st birthday, thats why I didn't think it

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They are a set of 3 Birthday Invitations I plan on using on my son's 3rd birthday coming up in September.

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A new freind I met over at 365 Cards, Rose, has given me an award!! My very first one!! Isn't she so sweet!The rules for the award:The winner may put the logo onto their blog.Put a link to the person who sent you the award.Nominate 10 blogs.Put links to their blogs.Leave a message for the nominees.I'm still fairly new in the blogging circuit but I do have a few blogs that I hover around and

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Day 52- Tuesday's TrioThe Challenge was to use a Brad, Blossom, and Circle. I made a circle chipboard album with a paper folded blossom. I made the album using up cereal boxes. I really did double duty with the circle part of the challenge because not only is my album and pages circular, the blossom is also made by cutting out and folding 9 smaller circles. I'll show you how at the end of this

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We have recently have had a lot of hearing issues arise. EmmaLee gets quite a bit of "buildup" in her ear canals that we can't clean completely out and it has affected her hearing. Which in turn affects her speech development. She hasn't had a "normal" result from a hearing test since her birth. We were going in to see the ENT about every 4 months to have him clean off her ear drums, but it

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I just made this today to try and catch up on all the challenges for Scor-it week. I love this blog and am having so much fun playing along and blog hopping to see everyone's beautiful work, I am feeling a little inferior, but very very inspired! Thank you for all your sweet comments! I'm trying to leave some love everywhere I look for you too! I'll probably end up stamping a sentiment on the

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So from the way I understand it, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has many degrees and varieties. Well, my particular brand has Everything to do with CRAFTS!!I have gone through so many different obsessions lately, first and always it has been scrapbooking and cardmaking, then I found glass etching and went absolutely crazy with it for about 3 weeks. Next I moved on to Plastic Canvas crafts, I

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I ran across this awesome blog and have wanted to join one of their challenges for weeks, but have been having a hard time finding the spare time to make a card. I happened to have just made this a couple days ago!! Hope it will count!I think I made this on the day that they had the Gift Card challenge, but didn't enter it in time. I wish I could get into this whole blogging thing better!! I

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I am so excited! I just opened up my own etsy shop! It's this cool website that people sell all their handmade items from. Check it out!! Just click on the Post Title or on my name at the bottom to see my shop!new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(6787174, 'shop','thumbnail',2,4).renderIframe();

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So I have returned from my little excursion to the states, and will hopefully be able to jump right back into the swing of things. It is always refreshing to be away from my children for a short time, but inevitable that I start missing the very things they do to annoy me!! *smile* Oh well, what can you do.Let's get this posting thing back on track too! I have already written other pieces to go

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It is actually sooooo simple to do, and the results can be stunning. The only drawback of glass etching that I can see is the cost of the etching cream. It is EXPENSIVE! Oh man! A small 10 oz bottle of it was $34.99 at Michaels. Of course you should use a 40% off coupon and save yourself $14.00 to help ease the cost. I also purchased my mirrors at Michaels, for quite resonable prices. Seriously

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What you've missed...For Halloween EmmaLee was Princess Belle and Ethan was her Knight. She demanded that we call her Princess EmmaLee Belle for weeks afterward! Oh, and I was a scarecrow.I absolutely love the wig on her. I was kinda hoping that she would too, since she will never have a full head of hair. I've always been open to the idea that she might want one someday, I thought maybe even as

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