Wow, has it really been that long?

WOW!  Has it really been that long since I posted?  I cannot believe it.  Well unfortunately since Ed passed I just have not had the time like I used to.  I used to love coming to my craft/room office at the end of the evening for a little bit a few nights a week.  Ed would put the kids to bed while I worked and then we would end our night together once I was done.  It gave him time to watch TV which was his favorite past time.

I have crafted a few times since my last post but probably less than 10 times.  I found some pictures on my phone from my daughter’s 6^th birthday so I thought I would post those items just for fun.  If I can find old pics of the other fun items I have worked on over the last year or so I will post those later.

My Mady Moo wanted a paint party but I could not afford to go to one of those pottery places so I looked on Pinterest and found some ideas to host our own.  I rented a room at our local community center but probably could have done it at home since it was such a small group.

I ordered my painting supplies from Amazon, Oriental Trading and bought some at AC Moore.  I set up a little station for each child to paint a teddy bear bank and a small canvas picture.  I also included crayons and markers to color on their placemats.

For decorations I used my new Memory Maker Banner Maker Punch (I am OBSESSED with it-because I can take it anywhere, I can make banners while sitting at my son’s baseball game, in the car waiting for the kids, etc.).  I have used it to make 4 banners so far and I LOVE it!!!!!  I bought stickers (Mombo I think) for the letters and then picked up some different art stickers from Recollections (Michaels) they were actually PERFECT for the banner.  My Mady Moo LOVED it.  

I also made some creative juice by wrapping juice boxes in duct tape (my new obsession) along with some free hand triangle shapes to make the crayons.  I also made some creative juice waters with some free printables I found online (I wish I remembered the site but I don’t, I will keep looking to add it).  I also used rice crispy treats and pretzel rods to make paint brushes using different color candy melts.  I think those and the banner were my favorite items.  Lastly, we had to have colorfully decorated cupcakes J

    

Thanks for stopping by :), I will try not to wait so long to post again!

Happy Crafting!

Back to School Teacher Gifts

Hello.it is back to school time in our house.  This year all 4 of my children will be in school.  My youngest will just go to preschool 2 days a week for 2.5 hours but still it will means lots of class and teacher goodies :)  My boys started Monday so I had to have their teacher gifts ready.  Thanks goodness for crafting time while at football practice with my boys and at chemo with my hubby or I would not have been ready.  My 4 year old starts Pre-K tomorrow so I have to get hers ready tonight :)  The same teachers gift for all of them.

I found this idea on Pinterest, here, and just thought it was so cute.  I had already picked up some apple post it notes and some other supplies so I knew it would just take the time to make and put it together.

Here is the final product.

I ended up adding a small decorated container of hand sanitizer and I wrote a note on the top of the post it pad but did not take a picture after that since it was last minute.  I love the little clip chalk board I used for the name.  I bought this in an 8 pack from the $1 section at Michael's and just used white jelly roll pen to write on them.  Worked perfect.  The school paper is a 8.5 X11 paper pack from Recollections from Michael's, I love it.  I used it last year for end of the year teacher thank you cards also (here).

 

Also, here are my handsome boys :)  I cannot believe they are in 4th and 6th grade.  Yikes!

Well I better get to work on my other 4 that I need for tomorrow! (2 teachers, the Principal and the Admin Assistant).

Have a craft day.

PS:  I am linking this up over at Sarah Hamer Designs so stop by and link up too!  http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/08/link-party-8/

Brownies and a cute plate from Pinterest!

Hello all.  I wanted to make some brownies for the nurses at my husbands Oncologist's office because they are so sweet and do such a great job of taking care of people all day each day.  He had to go in today so I made some chocolate chunk and peanut butter chip brownies.  I had recently seen this cute idea on Pinterest on how to upgrade a simple paper plate.  I used a cute ribbon I already had to make my plate cute and to tie the plastic wrap that I used for the brownies :)  I use my pizza cutter to cut the brownies to try to make them nice and sqaure :)

Then I used my My Creative Time XL Label Die and XL Label Borders stamp set to cute and stamp a cute tag.  I then used a cheapy $1 stamp for the thanks so much sentiment, I added a little to it with my white gel pen.

The nurses loved it and I even overheard one of them talking about how cute the plate was :)

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a crafty day!

PS:  I entering this over at My Creative Time's Pinterest inspired challenge (http://www.creativetimeforme.com/2012/08/new-challenge-host-emma-pinterest.html) and linking up over at Sarah Hamer designs http://www.pinkcricut.com/2012/08/link-tuesday-17/ ) .  Stop by and enter the challenge or link up too :)