What im working on wednesday!

HaHaHaHa look at me trying to be clever with the name things! Ha! I just hope it keeps me more focused and makes me more accountable for the millions of half completed projects I have sitting around. So here is what im working on:

Im currently trying to find this fabric, to complete a late Christmas gift, its an elephant pillow pet I started before Christmas but I miss measured an ear now my favorite store discontinued the line so the search continues!


Im also working on my sons 3rd birthday party goodness... now I know it might sound crazy to some since his birthday isn't until March... the 26th to be exact, but I like to have everything done just in case, so I have note books full of party ideas. Here is our invite:



Its note perfect yet but like I said a million half done projects sitting around! Then I made a birthday sign for him, using slinky dog stretched out... thinking I was cleaver I thought I would post all about my coolness.. then I saw one on Etsy.. turns out im not as cool as I thought! But at least its one less thing I have to have sitting around half done!

hoooo I am

Ok do Im s little late in the game but I just found this great get-to-know-ya over at Night Owl Crafting Its great, she asks some questions each week, then gives her answers then you post them on your blog and answer and then link back to her! (Ok that was mouth full so here read it here)

This Weeks questions are all about food (yum yum yum one of my favorite topics)

1. Are you fond of cooking?I love to cook, but my family is very picky

2. What kind of food do you prefer eating when you are out? Im a huge meat eater so I really like steak houses, but then again I love love love pasta and im a huge fan of mexican food, so I guess i prefer anywhere I dont have to do the dishes!

3. Which do you prefer, sweet or salty? Im a sweet girl.

4. Where is the last place you ate out at? Humm I think it was Red Robins (And I know you just went YUM lol me too)

5. What's for dinner tonight? We are hypotheticly suppose to have a rain/ice storm so I thought lasgna would be fitting

Ok Now that you know more about me, I want to read all about you to so go fallow Night Owl Crafting and play along (PS and get inpired, there is tons of talent on that page!)

Sewed on a Sunday

I love when people have cute little names for things they do on each day of the week (Example: tutorial Tuesday) So here is mine. I was hoping it will give me a deadline so I actually accomplish more projects. This is what I sewed today, on Sunday (to be honest I started yesterday but i finished today lol I'm not off to a bad start) I made some snugly PJ's for the kiddo, because when you have 4 kids you are bound to see this from time to time.

yes he is sound asleep snoring, standing up ha ha haha I love two year olds!

So I made some PJ's for them. Mind you this was my first time making PJ's and its so so easy, each pair took maybe 15 minutes start to finish for the pants, the shirts took a little longer because I'm still confused about adding sleeves. My machine is just to fat to slide them in so I'm at a loss! But I'm really happy how they turned out and the kids love them, and that's what counts!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!

OK so I didn't win a chicken dinner but in November I won a giveaway.. which was super exciting givin' the last thing I won was a cupcake in like 3rd grade at a cake walk where everyone wins something (my poor pity cupcake, which could be why I love cup cakes now) but back to my winning story I won these over at Sumo's Sweet Stuff (if you haven't checked her out, she gushes cuteness, and she is from P-Town too!!) Now my daughter just turned 4 in December and the story book was a little to old for her so I wiped up a crayon roll and re gifted it to our buddy Miss Coco for her 6th birthday... but my lovely little lady got the puppies! She loves to paint (am I the only one out there who loves that my kids are crafty but have an extremely hard time doing things with them, because they don't do it 'right' yet?) She screamed with excitement for them and begged for two weeks to do them.

She just learned about dieing and was totally upset they heads came out... its ok they bobble

Carson wanted to help... so he ate the card board with his new little fangs,

She gets very serious (it took about 2 hours for her to paint, drove me a little nuts)

And here they are in all there puppy cuteness! She put make up on them, and named them... one two and three... she is working on her creative naming lol

So a big thanks to miss Sumo for the great giveaway and happy girl it produced!!

My resolutions for 2011

Last year I vowed to stop sewing... 12 months later my kids now know that I am a grown up and I can say what I like and they are children so they can not say grown up words.. I tried and I failed. I don't have a mouth like a trucker but GD tends to flow freely from my mouth whenever trouble is afoot...(It might be cute when a 2 year old called the guy who cut you off a douche bag.. not so cute when a 4 year old says it to the kid who took her play-doh at school..) So this year I have put a little more will power into my top five
1. I am determined to loose the baby weight, I know loosing weight is always the clashe' one but really we are done having kids now so I need to the me back into my ME jeans, for me!
2. I am giving up my dependency on coffee (2 pots a day.. i need to seek a CA group)
3. Like everyone else in this blogging world I'm going to get organized.
4. I will make time for a me... I realized this last year that I seem to have lost the me somewhere along the road ,not that I don't love my family but in order to be a better mom and wife I need to have a me too. (dose anyone else feel this way?)
5. I will trim off all the negative weight in my life.... the na-sayers and not positive people


For my blog I also have a few (I like to think of them more as goals.)
1. I will take pictures and post about more of the stuff I make.
2. I will link up to other peoples projects.
3. I will inspire.
4. I will make it a point to get to kn0w more blogging buddies.
5. I will open an Etsy store... just wait and see this year is going to be a great year.!

So dear readers we will see where this new year will lead.
(PS. I am still working on the swearing thing...)

12 hour birthday room redo

This is my 3 year old daughters room. Its been painted like this since we found out we were having a girl. Pretty pink and sweet. A bit of a mix, lots of stuff, and a few 'baby' ish pictures. So last night we coned nana into having the kids spend the night so we could have a night off... but really we were planning a super cool birthday suprise for miss Brooklyn. So we dropped them off, and then started priming (you would think the brown would give us issues... turns out priming over pink stinks) and then two coats of 'big girl' paint, and a new 'big girl' bed set and some 'big girl' accessorys this is what we got (We had her open all her presents then said on wait there is one more in your room... she opened the door to a brand new room and was a little overwhelmed but in love love love love)

My happy 4 year old with her buddies! (brroklyn in orange)

This was after the party. picture it picked up lol Still lots of work to do but this is what we pulled off in 12 hours before a birthday party... sometimes my crazy last minute ideas even surprise myself!


Out lined a star shape with tape, looks great, dont you just love the paint on the celing too? (My husband said we couldnt do it.... 2 coats later and unable to even hold coffee cups this morning he loves it!!)

my darnnit moment

So today I had my kids make my cousin some orniments because her pathtic little fake tree is all lonly in her apartment. So I got some platic globes, filled them with filler dots I got from the inside of a stuffed fish that was in the trash pile (one again im cheap, but you can call me green) painted their hands with modpodge and covered their prints with gliter.. now it looks like they are having a snow ball fight on her tree... but darnit i didnt even think about taking pictures to show you how to do it untill I was done... so this is what you get!

The is my table while they are drying... but still cute none the less...