Welcome new followers and more pages

Wow, how fun to open my blog today and see 8 new followers!  Welcome!!  Hope you like the projects I have posted and maybe I'll be more motivated to post more often now!!  Thanks also for the kind comments you left for me! I promise to visit your blogs and do the same!

Well, I finished the book for my mom today!  Or, at least it's up to date for now, I plan to add more pages as the years go on.  I won't bore you with all the pages, but I will post some of my favorites!  Hope you enjoy them and have a great weekend!

project for my mom

So, I have been trying to get this scrapbook finished for my mom...it was supposed to be a Christmas present, but the holidays snuck up on me, and well, it didn't get finished!!  I barely finished wrapping my presents, let alone squeeze in time to be creative!  Anyways, I finally gave her a partial book the other day when we got together with the promise that there was more to come!!  Here are some of the pages:

It's an 8x8 album and all the pages focus around things my mom does with my girls in the kitchen.  My mom is a baker, so she is always helping my kids decorate cookies and cupcakes, etc. so I thought it would be fun to make her a book of some of their special moments together!  My mom LOVED it!  Well, like I mentioned, it's not finished yet, but she loves what she has so far!  I have about 6 more pages finished upstairs and I think just 1 more to go and I will be up to date...I'm so close to being finished!!! (I should really finish it up today and feel so accomplished!)  I need to take pics of the newer pages still, and it's sunny today (for a change) so I need to do that today.

Oh, and did I mention, I made a title page? I have never done that before, but I thought since the focus of this book was special times between my girls and their Grandma with mostly baking involved, the first page of the book says: "Grammy and the girls; a recipe for fun!" isn't that a cute title?  Too bad I forgot to take a picture of that...I ws rushed to get the book together for her that evening... oh well.

More pages coming soon!!

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Baby's 1st Christmas LO

So, I have been busy, busy!  Just trying to get the house ready for Christmas and shopping done is a little overwheming! Ugh, I'm still not done shopping, and the more I buy the more I'll have to wrap!  I have to admit though, I do kind of enjoy the wrappig part! I haven't had time to craft too much, but I wanted to share something crafty here, so here the 2 pager I made for my little one's 1st Christmas.

These pages came together super easily thanks to a DCWV Christmas stack!  I just love the way it turned out!





Christmas explosion box

So, Christmas is coming!  I LOVE Christmas! I can't wait to decorate the house...but I will...until around Thanksgiving.  I won't wait that long to put some projects here though, lol!  And since I can't spoil any surprises for this year, I thought I would post this explosion box that I made for my mom last Christmas. I used the papers from a DCWV Christmas stack form last year...I knew she would love the blue tones.

Sorry these aren't the best pictures, but my mom really loved the box and I thought others may be inspired as well!! Happy decorating!

"Spooky" mantle

I love Halloween!  It's the only time I can see spiders without having a little freakout! lol! (I still don't decorate with those big hairy ones you see in the store, though!)  This year I wanted to add something to our mantle...here's what I came up with...

These letters were white and plain when I bought them.  I painted them black then applied a thin layer of mod podge and these Halloween papers.  The next day I cut around them with an exacto knife, sanded them, inked the edges, then embellished them! I really love how they turned out! Here are some close-ups:

As you can see, I used rub-ons, 3d stickers and ribbons to embellish the letters. Happy Halloween!

Clothes dividers

So, I've been in a weird cleaning, no more like organization mood lately.  Which is good, but weird for me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE the idea of being organized...I'm just not that good at it.  Well, lately, I'm getting better!! Yay for me!  So, in my effort to have things organized, I made clothes dividers for my daughter's closet. I felt like school mornings would go smoother if clothes were  already chosen. Well, I showed them to my husband and he said, "these are great...where's the other set?" When I explained that I only made 1 since we only have 1 daughter going to school every day, he replied simply, "yeah, but Kayla is harder to dress." Point taken! Another set made last weekend, so now both girls have their clothes set up for the week.

Here are some close ups:

And a veiw from in the closet:

They seem to be working out pretty well! The girls love them and we don't need to help them every morning--They can get dressed while we are in our own bathroom getting ready!