Mady's First Day of Preschool

So my youngest finally had her first day of preschool today.  She loved it although there were a few tears shed (mostly by me) but I think for her she really just whined for a second as I left.  When we left and I was crying a little my husband asked me if I wanted to go get a puppy.  I said why so I can have one more thing in the house who doesn't listen to what I say, LOL.  Maybe one day.  She was so happy when I picked her up and was telling me all about her day.

Last year when he sister went to preschool I decorated her bag by using my Imagine so I decided to break it out (it has not been used since last September...yikes) and decorate Mady's too.  It actually came out much better because I learned a lesson or two when I did Ally's last year.  I used Alphalicious for the letters and Best Friends for the little girl.  I think I may make my nieces some pillows this year for Christmas using this cartridge and the iron on.  It is so cute and really so easy.  It would be a good excuse to open my sewing machine that I have never used too!

Here is the bag:

I chose the little girl with the lipstick and girl power shirt because my Mady loves lip gloss but is a strong willed little mama who says she will play football, not be a cheerleader when she gets older.

Mady has not seen it yet but I know she will love it when I show her!

Here is picture of my littlest girl on her first day before the bag was decorated.

Thanks for stopping by, have a crafty day!

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer designs, you should stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/09/link-tuesday-19/

Iron Ons From the Imagine!

As soon as my daughter brought home her preschool bag (they have this instead of a backpack to make sure items fit and everyone has the same thing) I knew I wanted to use my Imagine (which I NEVER use).  It took me about 10 tries but I finally got it!  LOL.  The first time I used iron on "paper" that was not meant for dark fabric so you could not see her name (from Lyrical Letters) or the little ballerina girl (from Best Friends).  So I finally went to Michaels and purchased some iron on "paper" meant for dark fabrics, thank goodness for my coupon.  Today, I printed it out about 4 times before I got it right (I only used 1 sheet of the iron on).  I need to change the pressure and speed to get it cut out without ripping and even in the end I had to do some touch up on the Ballerina.  FINALLY it was done and ironed on, YEAH!  I know Ally will love it :)  TFL.

St. Patrick's Day

Even though I am not Irish, I have always loved St. Patrick's Day.  Maybe because our Parish for so many years, where we were married and where all 4 of my children were baptized was St. Patrick's Catholic Church or maybe it is because green is one of my favorite colors!  I have always done silly stuff for my kids, like making food green, so of course they wanted some green stuff this year.  For school I do green cream cheese on bagels for lunch.  I also attempted green popcorn (not that successfully).  Tonight for dinner there will be green macaroni and cheese and green eggs (and a pork loin but no attemp at making that green :))




Also, the kids (my 7 year old started the idea) wanted to make t-shirts to wear to school because they were having a tag (out of uniform) day to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and to raise money to send to the Japanese and New Zealand Earthquake Victims, so I printed and cut out printed 2 shamrocks from the Spring Cards cartridge on my Cricut Imagine and put those on the girls shirts and they also helped color some too (using fabric markers) and we used a little bit of fabric glitter for the pot of gold :)





Lastly, I wanted to make something for my children's teachers and the administrative staff.  I found this cute idea on http://paperboutique.blogspot.com/2011/03/saint-patricks-day-candy-box.html so I made some Hershey Nugget boxes for the teacher's.  I bought the patterned paper at AC Moore, I cut the scallops in white and green (Creative Memories paper) from Winter Woodlands and then I used a $1 stamp (that I got for $0.60) from AC Moore.  I used pop dots to put on the scallops.  For the back closure I used a cute small button brad I had in my stash.  Happy St. Patrick's Day and TFL.