Festive Wine Tag

Its Thursday already!! YAY..almost another weekend..I love it when the weekdays fly by and the weekend is here! Busy as always!! I have alot of fun projects in the works! Over at Blackleaf Studios there is another challenge going on..........

• Use Blackleaf products...there are some freebies to chose from if you just want to see what Blackleaf is all about (you wont be disapointed!)
• Use chipboard!

The DT has also been trying to stay away from cards and think outside of the box...the winner gets a full set of the adorable wine tags I used below in my project.

I wanted to use the blue wine tag with butterflies on it. You cant tell from the picture but I covered each butterfly in glitter on the tag! The tag is also backed in CHIPBOARD. The butterflies are a martha stewart punch and they are also made out of CHIPBOARD (thin white) and I used CHIPBOARD white thickers to spell out "WINE".

I used scrap paper (love when I do that!) to cover the bottle of wine and wraped a matching blue ribbon around the bottle. I also added 3d CHIPBOARD butterflies all the way around the bottle.

Wouldnt this be a wonderful and thoughtful gift for a new neighbor or house warming party!

Well Aiden and I have a very busy day today!! Gotta get going..check back tomorrow for more creations :)

Gerber Food Stage Containers?!?!

You can always make a fun and cute gift (of a well deserved gift for yourself) with materials you have at hand or something really inexpensive.

Aiden doesnt really eat baby food anymore but we have some left and I use to save ALL of these cute little sturdy Gerber stage food containers.

I gave some to a SU demo for her to use, to my grandma, to my mom, to my aunt, and many more people and yet I still find TONS in my scrap room.

Where is this post going you may ask? At Blackleaf Studios the challenge for this time is to make anything but a card and I wanted to use to adorable tea pots.

So I took this (of course this isnt the same one I used..mine was all nice and clean ;) )

And transformed it into this....an adorable favorite tea holder. I will probably give this to my friend who just got a job in an office setting....so she can store her favorite teas at her dest :)

Whats ever better.........all the paper were scraps I had left over for a project I cant wait to show you that I am part off!!!



The paper is My Minds Eye and I got it from Hobby Lobby (3 papers total) and I used copics to color the tea pot, popdots, mini tag, and just a black pen and SU elegant Eggplant cardstock.


It really did not take alot of time at all and yet it looks like I did LOL

So if you have any time and have some Blackleaf projects you should try this challenge and link your project HERE. I know myself and the rest of the DT would love to see what you can do!

Okay well I am off to fix Mr. Aiden and myself some lunch..we got up a little early and were going to eat lunch a little early :)

Altering an old chair

Aiden is getting to that age where he KNOWS what he wants and he BETTER get it or else mommy and daddy are going to pay for it......



Yes...he is starting to throw little tantrums and cry and shake his head no over and over....its almost hard not to laugh at him but thats the attention he wants oh and whatever other object hes not allowed to have.



He is getting braver each day. He is know climbing on things like our kitchen chairs....he can scoot them out and climb them...problem is he cant get off...yet

Today I thought I solved the problem. We have 4 chairs at the kitchen and he kept climbing up on only the same one so I put it in the bathroom so out of sight out of mind. It was going great until a few minutes I heard his "whine that tells me hes somewhere and is stuck"..he had climbed on one that was shoved as far as it could under the table and was stuck basically crouched down under the table. Again. very hard not to laugh....we then decided it was nap time



I can only hope he forgets those darn kitchen chairs when he wakes back up.



So back to my blog post reason lol...our neighbor was throwing out a small little tikes chair because his two girls are too old for it. I guess the other one never made it out of the house in one piece lol...but the chair was kinda beat up cosmetic wise. It was still sturdy and oh so little so we took it off his hands or should I say the garbage mans hands.



We created a time out chair for Mr. Aiden

How cute is that??? We had some extra paint left over (blue is from our bedroom and the green is from his) and it can work in the future for any little girls we are blessed with (hopefully!) I then hand painted a clock onto the seat of the chair and used my cricut to cut black vinyl lettering for the "Time Out" part. I love it and it fits perfectly in our kitchen and close by where we usually are. We have had to use it a little..but not very much.

I think Aiden likes it..hes climbed on it and couldnt get off it for a few times but I think he still wants his time out chair to be this one..

Aiden: Please mommy let this be the time out chair. I promise Ill be good

Mommy: Im sorry Aiden but I think you would always get in trouble just to never have to leave the chair....the wooden chair stays as the time out chair Aiden

Aiden: But mom............

That would be the conversation if he could talk...I just know it lol

Speaking of Aiden I hear him talking and ready to get out of the crib.