Perfect little gifts

For anyone in your life.  Just added this little bag with matching notecards to my Etsy store today.  Still working on 100 items!  Getting closer and closer. 

Getting Ready For School

From my Back To School Fun class coming up this Saturday!  We'll be making this and filling it with cute coordinating goodies!

Power came back up last night around 7:30ish!  Phew!  Thank goodness! 

 More getting ready for school got some new clothes for the girlies today.  We really only need a couple more things!  The girls are getting excited!

How was your Weekend?

Somehow we seemed to go from Winter to Cold to Rain to 90 and humid here!  So our weekend was great well if your into sunny and hot!  I'm not sure where our spring went?  I remember thinking 2 weeks back I was still too worried about a frost to plant flowers and yesterday I was sad I didn't have any on this bright sunny summer day.  Oh well I'll get it done by this weekend!    Anyway we had Copic Classes and Dance Recital this weekent.  Copic 101 and 201 were great nice groups for both classes.  The kids and Dave went to dress rehersal while I taught and then brought me lunch between classes they were so cute!   We grilled steaks(sort of) for dinner and had our first corn on the cob of summer.  The steaks were more FLAMED than grilled since I found them on fire soon after I put them on the grill and the corn on the cob was expensive and a little bland, but you know what we ate all of everything and loved it since it was the first time of the season! HA  Sunday was the actual Recital and the girls did FABULOUS!  Emily had a staring roll so she got to move to a dressing room out of the cafeteria with the little girls.  I didnt' get to see her much of the show but when I was taking Abbi's class to and from the stage.  I did get to sneak backstage and watch her tap!   Grandma came to watch and stayed for lunch afterwards.   Everyone was exhausted when it was all over but it was a super successful dance season with our park district.  Now we can walk home from school  on Wednesdays since we don't have dance right after school anymore!  Woo Hoo well for the next 2 Wed anyway!  HA

The card above is a style card I made last summer as a sample for our LSS which I didn't work for at the time.  Then I made it again as gifts for friends, teachers, family around the holidays with some locally grown honey.  And now I'm adding it to my Etsy Shop mostly because I love to color this hive so much!

Hope your having a wonderful Monday and Wonderful Sunny Summerlike Day!  I know I am I just brought in the sun tea and I'm going to settle down and create with a tall icey glass!

Happy Happy Monday!

It was a busy weekend.   Kinda glad it's Monday well except for the Monday part and the snowing as usual part!  HA  The kids had a great time with their cousins.  Dave and I went to the Lucky Monk for dinner(yummy).  Before that I got a mini trip to Blick to pick up a couple of markers I wanted badly.  Then Sunday AM we picked the kids up at church and got to watch the Puppet Team perform.   Add in a dash of the Olympics and some serious game time and everyone was happy!

Nothing exciting here today.   Just working more on the shop.  Here are some new mini note cards added to the store this week.   Who wouldn't have a Happy Birthday with one of these?

Back On Track!

New Stuff in the Etsy Shop This week.  My Mom totally got me remotivated to add new things to my shop.  After I talked with her, I sat down and created lots of cute/fun/new things!  Love these matching piece the Cherry Mini Note Cards and Hang Tags.  Cute cute cute. 

It was nice having a day to myself yesterday to create and take pictures, edit and upload.    Abbi was so excited to go back to school this yesterday she was up at the crack of dawn reading her AR books to an apparently sleeping Emily.  Which did not make Em happy to say the least!  Abs claims she didn't realize it was bothersome to be read to while you are sleeping?  She of course sleeps so hard she wouldn't know anyone was reading to her! 

Hope everyone is having a FANTASTIC Week!

Snow Snow Snow Snow - BAM Earthquake

It snowed all day yesterday, all night last night and then we apparently had an Earthquake way early this morning.  I remember waking up trying to figure out why the wall was shaking and it was silent outside there weren't any snow plows going to make that happen?  It stopped I gave up and went back to sleep. 

So this morning the girls were loving the snow.  It is crisp, sunny and beautiful outside.  All white and sparkley.  No one has run through the yards to make it all messy the plows are working their way down so there isn't a lot of muck in it!  Plus they found it very amusing they could wear their PJ's out in the snow today since it was Pajama Spirit Day at school!  Hopefully they won't freeze too much at recess.  Ok little side comment about Abbi - Shhhhh don't tell her I talked about this.  Today is messy art day and we were instructed to send her in old clothes or a smock or something to cover her good clothes.  So Dave went through his closet and found an old golf shirt he never liked and gave it to her.  I kid  you not that child wore it to bed, it hangs down past her knees, over her pajamas.  She has to button it all the way up to keep it on.  Then she got up this morning and changed into the PJ's she was wearing to school and put it back on over these PJ's.  I told her she could fold it and put it in her bag but she said she was pretending it was a nightgown.   She looked so cute!  No memory card in my camera and we had to run out the door.  BUMMER 

So the mini note card above is from a set I put in  my shop.  The papers are Making Memories, Fleur de Lis is EK Success, Other stamps and punches are Stampin Up.  Just a little project to step away from Valentines for the day!  Needed a break from pink for a moment!

Hugs and Kisses all around!

Mini Note Cards Created with Bazzill Cardstock,  Stampin Up White Cardstock,  Amuse Stamp(Tree), Savvy Stamps(XOXO), Momento Ink, Copic Marker, Fiskars Heart Punch, Tweezers and lots of patience!

So back to my obsession with Valentines.  I have a ton of  little projects in the works.  Here is one of the first I completed.  I thought this was going to be so simple really.  So why not do multiples.  Then I got down to it and it took forever to glue these little punched hearts on.  Oh well I love them they are so sweet!  But 12 was my limit!   These went into my Shop, but I'm contemplating taking them out and using them myself.

Well the week is well underway. An entire week with the kids in school. What am I going to do? Upload to Etsy! HA Got lots of new things coming this week. Yesterday I added 2 new sets of Alice In Wonderland Tags. Today I'm going with JACK!

The kids seem to be happy with school. It's hard these first couple of weeks lots of rules lots of testing etc. And for them it's the height of allergy season so we're fighting that! But dance has begun. At the studio this week and at Willow next week. They are excited about that. Em took her first Ballet class in a really long time last night, she loved it. Speaking of dance Abbi had been invited to Audition for the Nutcracker at Prairie Center For the Arts. We got the call Sunday she didn't get in. It's all good, having to be out of school for some performances and rehearsals and running right at the holidays would have made me even crazier(no one needs that). We were excited to be asked though since it was her first ever Audition and it was by invite only.

What else. Oooh the cards above those I made to slip in the kids lunch boxes once in awhile to give them a little smile. The lace paper from KI with the apples is awesome. I printed the greetings on the computer and punched them out. I have 2 left so sometime this week I'll sneak them in. I also got sandwich cutters from William Sanoma over the weekend. And wouldn't you know it I totally forgot until after I had the lunches packed! Lesson Learned never make lunches BEFORE Coffee!

New Cards + Avoidance

Here is a set of new cards I made this week. The flower is by justjohanna's Odd Bird Planet and one of my favorite stamps. I colored them with my Copics. I so love coloring with these markers.

These cards though bring to mind my Avoidance issues. I'm a list maker I make to do lists, to make lists, to get lists, to list lists, you get the idea. This week I have a healthy to do list for home because well summer break has begun and I want things in place so I can relax a little bit. Then my to make list is long because well I have a bazillion ideas swimming around in my head but can barely grab them when I need to + the YART sale thing. My response to these lists.......Don't do any of the things on my to make list. Make these cards. Don't do anything on my home to do list scrub the kitchen from top to bottom with bleach(I swear I did this, not that it didn't need it but it wasn't on the list). WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? Maybe I should erase some things from my lists and then I will feel some urgent need to complete them? I clearly have issues I just don't know what they are?

Anyway the beginning of summer break has been chilly to say the least. We're hoping for warmer weather by this weekend. Em has a pool party on Saturday and we're have a BBQ. It has to get warmer.

Hope everyone is having a nice week.

New Stuff

Happy Wednesday! So yesterday I missed the Kindergym Final Celebration, all because I thought it was Monday. ARGHHHH Well things feel a little more normal today. Tonight is Scrapbooking and there is a new inspiration piece up over at the Schnockered Blog. I got that 50 cent tank cleaned out with CLR and it looks pretty good I want to rinse outside with he hose and then do a vinegar and water wash on it. Don't want to poison the rats with their new home. It was really ridiculous me wrestling the giant box of glass while standing on a stool in the kitchen so I could reach inside it. HA

It's gloomy and rainy here today which isn't all bad I'm back to organizing and laundry.

So yesterday and today are big Etsy load days for me. I have lots of new stuff to share, all quite random for the most part.

We have the Summer of Reading Aloha Bookmark Set then the Sail Away Happy Fathers Day Card, A Pink Damask Bag and Gift Card set and lastly a Golf is the Game Pop Up Fathers Day Card, which actually sold a couple hours after I put it up but it was so stinkin cute I still had to share. I've also added some more stamps and I have a couple of Anniversary cards as well. As I said it's random and all over the place. As is my brain I suppose!

So today is sweep and mop and clean day! See it's good it's gloomy I don' t feel so bad hanging out inside then!

Hope everyone is having a great week so far!

We went Sailing today!!!!!

Ok not Sailing but out Sale-ing Garage Sale-ing. It was fun I had stopped and scoped out some yesterday. Today we went to the best ones I found. The girls went nuts they got a Microphone with a stand, a American Girl Doll Chair the kind they use in the restaurant downtown, a sewing machine, a slip and slide(NIB), a talking/purring cat and accessories, hair bows, a fishing pole(NIB), matchbox cars, some figurines(yippee I love to dust), a marble maze, a lamp for their bedroom with horses and I got them a Kerplunk game as it came with my bingo set. They really did well, not that I did too shabby 2 table lamps, a couple of silver serving pieces, some clear glass plates, Bingo, 5 black candlesticks, a Kate Spade bag for winter and some iron on interfacing. Total we probably just spent a little over $25. It was a lot of fun. It a gorgeous day outside so that was just a plus!

Ok so these are some new card sets I'm adding to the Papertivity Etsy Shop. The little shopping tote/bag was the inspiration for the note cards that fit in them with room for a little extra giftie to be added.

Ok so now we're off to set up for the Sleep Under and I have to talk about taking every Webkin we have in our house on her sleepover. Totally not a good idea it's like 20 Webkins packed up in a big shopping bag. Forget PJ's or a toothbrush just taking my Webkins! HA

Hope everyone is having a Stellar Weekend!