And because I dont want to leave the parents out of the truly awesome party... sublet bits of hilarious will be all around like this
and this which literally made me LOL
So be ready for a little bit of Potter take over in the months to come!
Freakin' Friday!
So today I want to show you a few really freakin' awesome things! The first being we are having my sons 8th birthday in May (dont judge me lol) and its going to be Harry Potter so of course my pintrest board is filling up fast but lets be realistic how cool are these? They are going to be delivered to his class with acceptance letter... complete with location of their seats!!
And because I dont want to leave the parents out of the truly awesome party... sublet bits of hilarious will be all around like this
and this which literally made me LOL
So be ready for a little bit of Potter take over in the months to come!
And because I dont want to leave the parents out of the truly awesome party... sublet bits of hilarious will be all around like this
and this which literally made me LOL
So be ready for a little bit of Potter take over in the months to come!
Re-Doin it Wednesday!
My daughter gets emotionally attached to the weirdest things... envelopes, candy wrappers, toys, .... but the worst thing in the world has to be clothing! She would have worn a onsie she had that had a lady bug on it till she was 30 if I wouldn't have secretly thrown it in the trash one night, which lead to days... and literally weeks of 'looking' for it. I thought about putting it in our pass it down bag but I was in fear for any friends baby that might sport it in her sight :) Dresses seem to stay in the drawers the longest, first as dresses, then to short dresses, then to shirt, but last week when my darling daughter was trying to squeeze her 5 year old self into an 18 month dress she was mortified to learn the arms were just to small to move in, after about and hour of tears she emerged from her bedroom and said "fine, make me a new one." '"Unfortunately I didn't make it to begin with so all hopes of that were out. I did however come up with a cleaver way to make it fit... we turned it into a skirt!! (which hopefully she wont be sporting to prom...)
Here is how we did it. ..
Here is the old dress (Yes its 18 months and yes she is a tony 5 year old)
Her favorite part is that the dress is so soft (velvet) and it has a black (jack halloween) bow.
So I measured up 3 inches from said waist band and cut.
(Tears ensued and in the end I had to pay her to let me throw away the top section.. although Im thinking about making a headband but shuuu dont tell her that)
I folded the top over and pinned and stitched
Half way around my needle broke and actually got me in the eye... who knew you needed safety glasses to sew....
And a quick bit of elastic stung inside and we have a new twirly skirt!!
See how happy she is.... now if she would just brush her hair.. but that is another battle for another day :)
I bragged about myself on these awesome blogs!
'Ello 2012!!
I'm not sure if there was another person on earth who was as happy as I was to see 2011 end! It was so crazy and horrible from January to December that I totally wanted to skip ahead in time around June. But now that 2012 is here I am going to make the most of it!! Thats right I paid my dues to Karama and this year is destained to be amazing. So I think I'm going to start off with some resolutions... well lets call them goals because I work better under pressure :)
1. I want to loose 30lbs before my 10 year reuinon (which to be honest I probally wont even go to but just incase... like I said I work better under pressure)
2. I want to clean up my craft room and get it oraganized for some serious me space!
3. I want to get all this stuff I made on my Etsy store and I want it to sell. I want to be doing well enough on there that I can let go of this kid I baby sit... my sanity will be my deadline on this one!
4. I want to get my little kids reading. I know that might seem like a big goal but by September I want my daughter to start Kindergarten reading, and to be honest its her goal so im sure her insistance will get us there.
5. I want to spend the whole year inspiring and lifting up my friends and family. This might seem odd but the responce I had from my 27 day challenge was AMAZING!! (This one is also for selfish reason to because I am addicted to the way making other people happy makes me feel inside, and I guess its a truely happy feeling!) I have found some really great sites online that I have booked marked and plan to share with you as the year goes by. There are some truely selfless people out there and thei are so inspiring!
6. I will stop swearing. Lately it has been almost everthing I say and I need to nixs that right out of my life!
7. I want to learn to knit and croche, and I plan to learn on youtube so wish me luck!
8. I want to take more pictures of my kids doing kid things, because I realized there is alot of stuff we do I would love to pull out pictures and remind them about.
9. I want to make more time for me. I often give my husband full days out of the house away from everything but I NEVER let my self have that kinda time, and this was one I wanted last year but once again I ended up neglecting me, so this year imagunna do it :)
10. I want to make time for husband wife night. We use to always be on the same page and im worried we might be drifting apart and Im not going to let the love of my life slip away, so I think we owe it to us to spend as much time reminding each other why we love each other as possible, so please pass on any date night ideas you have!
So that is the official start to the year for me. I hope I remebemer to come back through out the year to remind my self of the things I want to accomplish and maybe let you know how they are going.
How do you keep yourself on track for youre resolutions for more then just the first two days ?
Merry Christmas... and happy birthday to me!!
Oh my this month has just been crashing down around me. I did a wonderful challenge with my friends with some amazing good deeds that were done. Challenging them to make the last 27 days of me being 27 a random acts of kindness over load.. and over loaded with awesomeness it was! We had a steller nutcracker birthday party... 
the fallowing day my big brother took his own life :(....
that pretty much put a giant hault in everything else of grandness that I had planned for the month. My head was and still is in a fog.. I keep sitting down then forgetting what I am doing or what I have done. We had a VERY VERY SMALL cookie party because we had already had plans for it and figured the kids needed to be around people who were happy since we have been so so sad.It was a nice gathering of our close friends and it was a happy time
Brooklyn has her first ballet recital. Which was so cute and she was so so excited!
after words we went out to dinner .. because we all deserved a treat.
. We threw my side of the family christmas dinner and that was very very somber. Each day we keep getting better but loosing someone like my brother was a very hard and very unexspected blow. I didnt take the time when making christmas gifts to blog about them or make tutorials but I have lots of picture that I will upload soon. For christmas my hunny got me a new super awesome mixer... oh yeah look for baking madness to over take my blog here shortly. And then for my birthday, which was yesterday (the 27th ) I got a serger. Yeah for sergers... but to be honest it scares me so Im just going to look at in sitting in the box imagening all the wonderfullness that Im going to make with it :) Well I better get back to cleaning up from out crazy christmas but I will leave you with a glimps of cuteness
Christmas morning! Look at those cute matching PJ pants and New hoods I made.. oh and those happy kids!
baby dress up so cute!
My best friend making christmas wrapping awesome!
With 4 kids santa had to put the tree in a new spot to get all the gifts around it
My birthday gifts
the fallowing day my big brother took his own life :(....
that pretty much put a giant hault in everything else of grandness that I had planned for the month. My head was and still is in a fog.. I keep sitting down then forgetting what I am doing or what I have done. We had a VERY VERY SMALL cookie party because we had already had plans for it and figured the kids needed to be around people who were happy since we have been so so sad.It was a nice gathering of our close friends and it was a happy time
Brooklyn has her first ballet recital. Which was so cute and she was so so excited!
after words we went out to dinner .. because we all deserved a treat.
. We threw my side of the family christmas dinner and that was very very somber. Each day we keep getting better but loosing someone like my brother was a very hard and very unexspected blow. I didnt take the time when making christmas gifts to blog about them or make tutorials but I have lots of picture that I will upload soon. For christmas my hunny got me a new super awesome mixer... oh yeah look for baking madness to over take my blog here shortly. And then for my birthday, which was yesterday (the 27th ) I got a serger. Yeah for sergers... but to be honest it scares me so Im just going to look at in sitting in the box imagening all the wonderfullness that Im going to make with it :) Well I better get back to cleaning up from out crazy christmas but I will leave you with a glimps of cuteness
Christmas morning! Look at those cute matching PJ pants and New hoods I made.. oh and those happy kids!
baby dress up so cute!
My best friend making christmas wrapping awesome!
With 4 kids santa had to put the tree in a new spot to get all the gifts around it
My birthday gifts
12 days before christmas countdown days 9-5
We have had a horrible family tragedy this weekend so I'm sorry to not have gotten these out sooner. here are the last few days signs for our countdown
#9 Thursday. We had fun making these today we sent off some candy cane bark. it was so yummy! We used our gift molds and they looked adorable!
#8Friday, we packed up all the weekend stuff to, but for today we Packed up a chocolate box of cake mix and found these cute little cupcake papers with picks and bowed them together with this card
#7 Saturday, We got cute cards and added a few ugly sweater lottry cards... silly story, I had never bought them before and was red faced and felt so guilty buying them. It was like buying beer... i dont do it often but I feel all dangerous when i do, then this guy was trying to flirt with me at the machine so I was all flustered ha ha ha it was so funny ;)
#6 Sunday, we got cute starbucks mugs and filled them with hot chocolate packets
#5 Monday: We made some really super cute starbranch orniments.
#9 Thursday. We had fun making these today we sent off some candy cane bark. it was so yummy! We used our gift molds and they looked adorable!
#8Friday, we packed up all the weekend stuff to, but for today we Packed up a chocolate box of cake mix and found these cute little cupcake papers with picks and bowed them together with this card
#7 Saturday, We got cute cards and added a few ugly sweater lottry cards... silly story, I had never bought them before and was red faced and felt so guilty buying them. It was like buying beer... i dont do it often but I feel all dangerous when i do, then this guy was trying to flirt with me at the machine so I was all flustered ha ha ha it was so funny ;)
#6 Sunday, we got cute starbucks mugs and filled them with hot chocolate packets
#5 Monday: We made some really super cute starbranch orniments.
Last 27 days of being 27... amazing news!
Today was one of those days where I didnt want to get out of bed because of the dream I had was so good. Taking me back to when things were simple and my plate was almost empty and my friends list was a mile long. I miss those days sometimes.. not that I dont love my life but I miss those days when I didnt have to be anything to anyone and could be anyone to everyone. But I wake up late for school with pack backs and lunches to get ready and grumpy kids to boot. I was having a bad morning, on the verge of tears, just not a good morning. Putting that I need a change song on repeat
One Thing I Know
Randy Rogers Band
Woke up today and things had changed.
The man I’ve become just ain’t the same.
Wanted to run but there was just nowhere to go.
Living in a dream world, praying it don’t show.
Cause who I am, is who you want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
Living my life on low-fuel,
Telling myself that I’m a damn fool.
All of my friends up in Fort Worth tell me how I’m brave,
Little do you know I almost lost it yesterday.
Cause who I am, is who they want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
I’ve got these demons on my trail.
Crazy and messed up, but no one else can tell…
Cause who I am, is who you want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
Gotta do this all alone, that’s one thing I know.
Those bold lines are the ones that echo in my head sometimes. So I preped for Brooklyns party, got list ready for the cookie party, ended up with a friends kid for the afternoon, the got double daycare kids and then no one paid me today... UGHHHHHHHHH ... then I got a facebook message from someone on my list. This woman is truely an awesome person. She always leave me sweet comments and like my crafty habits I share and she has taken my Late 27 days of 27 challenge to heart. She has donated her time and money and brought glove and blankets to the needy. But today she reminded me that even tho my day is sucky and sometimes I look at my life and feel like I am doing crazy inside myself all the time, there is people worse off and I need to count my blessing. There is a man at her work with a sick wife and 2 kids, and this has been really hard on them this year. Because of my challenge she and her husband gave their holiday bonuses to this man. I honestly cried at her generosity. We all have our off days, but from now on I will wake up with my alarm clock and count those 4 little heart beats that keep me going. Im blessed and I pray that Leah and her her husband are blessed for their random act of unbelievable kindness. And that that man has a small weight lifted off his shoulders and is able to see all he does have even when times are tough.
One Thing I Know
Randy Rogers Band
Woke up today and things had changed.
The man I’ve become just ain’t the same.
Wanted to run but there was just nowhere to go.
Living in a dream world, praying it don’t show.
Cause who I am, is who you want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
Living my life on low-fuel,
Telling myself that I’m a damn fool.
All of my friends up in Fort Worth tell me how I’m brave,
Little do you know I almost lost it yesterday.
Cause who I am, is who they want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
I’ve got these demons on my trail.
Crazy and messed up, but no one else can tell…
Cause who I am, is who you want me to be
But I’m having a hard time, finding me.
Well take my hand darling, won’t you let me go
Gotta do this by myself, that’s one thing I know.
Gotta do this all alone, that’s one thing I know.
Those bold lines are the ones that echo in my head sometimes. So I preped for Brooklyns party, got list ready for the cookie party, ended up with a friends kid for the afternoon, the got double daycare kids and then no one paid me today... UGHHHHHHHHH ... then I got a facebook message from someone on my list. This woman is truely an awesome person. She always leave me sweet comments and like my crafty habits I share and she has taken my Late 27 days of 27 challenge to heart. She has donated her time and money and brought glove and blankets to the needy. But today she reminded me that even tho my day is sucky and sometimes I look at my life and feel like I am doing crazy inside myself all the time, there is people worse off and I need to count my blessing. There is a man at her work with a sick wife and 2 kids, and this has been really hard on them this year. Because of my challenge she and her husband gave their holiday bonuses to this man. I honestly cried at her generosity. We all have our off days, but from now on I will wake up with my alarm clock and count those 4 little heart beats that keep me going. Im blessed and I pray that Leah and her her husband are blessed for their random act of unbelievable kindness. And that that man has a small weight lifted off his shoulders and is able to see all he does have even when times are tough.
12 days before christmas day 10
Last night we had a major melt down over a pokemon game that got erased. Im not sure if it the aspergers that made it unconsolable but it was a hard night for us. We did manage to get the #10 one done but not with out tears and grumpyness, so this day wont be as rememberable. We found this really cute tutorial and copied their grinch pills. Here is our tag
And here is Brother bear holding them because he didnt want to me take a picture of him...
We used some big green tick tacs because they were the only ones we could find at 3 stores... who doesnt eat the green ones.. and who the heck eat the orange ones?!
Hopefully tonights gift will be better... we are going to make pepermint bark ;) wish us luck...
And here is Brother bear holding them because he didnt want to me take a picture of him...
We used some big green tick tacs because they were the only ones we could find at 3 stores... who doesnt eat the green ones.. and who the heck eat the orange ones?!
Hopefully tonights gift will be better... we are going to make pepermint bark ;) wish us luck...
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