Recap

I cannot believe it is almost Thanksgiving!  November is flying by.  I have been busy scrapbooking.  I cannot believe I am almost caught up, this is so exciting because I was a few years behind not too long ago.

 

Here is what we have been up to lately.

 

We had some really bad storms the other day and it was fun/scary watching it race in and the clouds changing and moving so fast.

 

 

Scrapbooked a little

 

 

Created my Christmas deco mesh wreath.

 

Here is the "before"

 

And the after.  I love the way it turned out.  It was weird working with a shape other than a circle at first.  Its very sparkly in real life.

 

Hope everyone has a great week!

 

Teacher Gifts 2011

Hello!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  We are still enjoying our Christmas Break and Aiden goes back to preschool on Tuesday. 

Wanted to share the teacher gifts we made for his teacher and class helper.

A fun giftcard holder, where you untie the ribbon

and out pops a gift card.

 Also made some candy jars for them!

Had so much fun making these! 

Fun Giveaway Im trying to win!

Hey There!

Aiden is in love with everything Christmas this year, especially the tree and holiday cartoons (how many times can he watch Frosty?! LOL)

On a blog I read I noticed Jenn is giving away a chance at a free picture with
Icaughtsanta.com

Its where you upload a picture of your tree and add Santa into the picture to "proove" he came!  Aiden would love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I am blogging about this fun website for a chance to win a free picture!!!

Making Progress

Hello!

Time is slipping away, like usual for me :)

Just trying to enjoy all my free time with Brent and Aiden and prepping our land for building next spring/summer.

We donated the old house on the 5 acres we purchased to the local firefighters to train in and burn down in the end.

 Left with a big mess LOL.  At least this is no where close to where we are wanting to build our home.  Time to clean up a little, but trying to get it done before Winter might be a challenge.  Its always so windy at the land because its just alot of big open space, not like what were use to here in Indianapolis LOL.

Also decorated some Christmas sugar cookies....they may or may not be almost gone either ;)

Aiden really does like them :)

(and mommy and daddy!)

Christmas Flew By

Hello Everyone!

Christmas felt like it flew by here for us...you as well?!

Aiden got spoiled like always (Brent and I didnt do too bad either lol ;) )

Christmas wore Aiden out..he has been sleeping till at least 10..but he doesnt want to go to bed till midnight or later either though. Hopefully we will get his schedule back on track soon.

I will post some Christmas pictures of videos here soon!

In the mean time here is a card I made for Valentines Day and also my aunt and uncles anniversary.

I love those K & Company puffy hearts

Anyways...so the good news I was talking about in my last post it.................

We got an offer on our house!!!! We countered offered and they accepted!!!

So now..all we have is the inspection and hopefully the deal will go through! Of course we cant get too excited until its finalized but everything is moving really fast and so far so good!

Christmas is next week!

Christmas is next week, no really it is! CRAZY I tell you.

We are pretty much done at my house..I just need to get a Starbucks gift card for an add on gift to make totals equal for someone. Other than that..I am finished!

Did you like the sneak peak of our new family photos we had taken right before Thanksgiving?! I love the way they turned out! We have over 500 pictures on our cd we received and let me tell you...its so hard to narrow it down and be able to purchase prints that I want LOL.

I had several custom orders last week/early this week that I needed to get out so now hopefully it calms down a little so that I can create cards. Have you missed seeing cards!? I cannot tell you the last time I actually sat down, colored and made a card (besides Christmas cards).

Here is an item that has done really well in my Etsy Store lately.

They are adorable 1x8" cello bags that hold smaller candies such as skittles or m&m's and even jelly beans. I need to start working on some of my Valentines Day images for these!

I probably wont have chance to show you a card (or even make one LOL) since Brent went to the Pacers game directly after work...so its just me and Mr. Aiden all day/night and he is not so nice with my markers.

AND...were getting MORE SNOW and of course wouldnt you know it...we have another house showing tomorrow so Aiden, the cat and I have to load up and drive around in the inches of snow of ice we are suppose to get...on top of the snow that is left already. I am going insanse with all these house showings, especially in the winter. I just wish the house would sell or not until Spring you know...its so hard keeping the house clean with a 2 year old tornado around all day

;)

*Keep fingers crossed!*

Gingerbread Houses and banners

December seems to be flying righ on by! Since Mr. Aiden woke up at 6am..and it looks like no nap is in the future soon ( I could wish couldnt I..lol)

So I wanted to blog real fast, share something I made today and I hope to wrap the Christmas gifts...all by NOON!

We went to Brents parents house not too long ago and we decorated gingerbread houses together. Here is Brent and mines:

and the aftermath.....
It was alot of fun. I havent decorated a gingerbread house since elementary school. Aiden of course ate all the m&m's...that is why I had to switch back and forth between sno caps and mm&s for my roof.

Here is the Merry Christmas banner I made this morning to decorate our entertainment center. We do have a fireplace/mantel but it is in arms reach of Mr. Aiden and well he and paper dont really seem to like each other ;)

In real life the letters can be read vey good. The flash likes to wash out white things. I didnt have time to take another picture either because I was at that point blocking Aidens view of Toy Story and he wasnt having that. I just love mornings where he wakes up super early...hes always so grumpy and fun to be around LOL.

Well I am off to fix an early lunch and get started on wrapping gifts!!

By the way...I can make this banner for your house as well. There is one listed in my Etsy store for purchase and its 20% off!!

Sunday Funday

Hey Everyone!

Happy Sunday! I love Sunday's when we do not have alot going on...time to relax and usually clean up the house from letting it go on Friday night-Saturday night.

We had a busy day yesterday...we braved Toy R Us in a busy city...with them having 2 day mega sales...and everyone was there. I am pretty sure of that LOL. We got Aiden a few of his Christmas gifts and soon realized t hat this is probably going to be the last year we can do so with him with us....hes okay in the cart but when we get home he sees all his new boxes and wants them!

So far we are getting him so Dvd's, New Tricycle, Imaginext pieces, and still need a Zhu Zhu pet for him so he will have another one and then some stocking stuffers.

I have been busy working on orders..I feel like I have been saying this alot lately LOL.

Newest item in my shop

Toystory Cupcake Toppers

And I also made a custom card for Stephanie...her brother just got engaged to his gf and she wanted a card to send to them and wanted bling and Fall colors.

Well its time to get lunch ready so I need to get off here..but come back later for more!

Go Colts!

Gift Tag

Happy Friday Everyone!

It was my turn today to post the Freebie Friday images over at the Blackleaf blog and it was my day to create a project with them.

I was able to make this fun holiday gift tag. I love that its still a hint of traditional color but I threw in the yellow to make it pop.

You cannot in picture tell but I used the Copic clearn spica glitter pretty much all over it :)

I also wanted my ribbon to have holes in it as well so it matched the scallop circle I punched holes in!

If you want this digi stamp (save to your computer and print from word) than head on over to my post over at Blackleaf to get the image!!

GO HERE FOR FREEBIE!

There is also a free matching digi paper that I didnt get to use on this project.

I am so ready for the weekend to be here! My mom and sister are coming here on Sunday and we are going to go shopping and hopefully do a little Christmas shopping..I am so ready to be done!

I also did a craft video that I need to upload and share with you all this weekend!

See you soon