Crafting

Crafting I made other one if you remember and it is now Sadies, but I made this one last week and am loving it.  

Sewing day

Before... old shirt that my friend gave me that the beads were falling off of..

 a hour later after cutting and making some puckers... Im loving it because the shirt I am wearing under has wide arms so now my little vest thing covers my g's that show with that shirt that I have in black as well..

And someone is turning 1 on Sat. WHAT my baby is ONE noooo... 

Craft night

I saw this at my step sisters house and loved it so I put together a bunch of friends asked Teri if we could use her house and Wallah... 

We had a fabulous craft night with yummy food and GREAT friends! 

   Before-  (mirror I have had forever) 0 dollars

 Sand and spray-paint ($2.50 for SP)

 pick your favorite fabric

 to put behind your frame (my sis gave me this while visiting in ID) 0 dollars

 bought this at Home Depo Hardware Cloth it was $10.30 for 5 ft

so everyone gave me 3$  and I bought 3 rolls

 Turn it around and cut the wire and fabric an inch from the inside of the frame, 

and staple the wire and fabric to back.

 The gals that came.. and the two that missed the first pic

 Here are some end results... looking good-

I know your looking at that one on the right that has really cool stuff, 

that's what I wanted but it was 30$ for a sheet of it..

Here's mine..

 Fun night and love that my jewelry is not in a hep or held up by push pins in the wall-

Last few weeks

 The Lima Bean wreath... I put together a craft night and we sat and chatted not using our brains and did this fun cute craft! Oh and eat homemade ice cream that was the best part!

 Memorial Day we joined some friends with a 13 foot by 100 feet plastic slip-n-slide!! So fun.. even thought I was sore for a few days after... I was doing some serious slip-n-sliding...That's Terri my really good friend that I made here.. She moved here right before us and I became her VTer and have loved ever since!!

And here is my big boy Mitchell.. he is sure getting big- I think he may walk any day- Kinda hoping so because he is soooo heavy, but also kinda wishing he would just stop trying I want him to be my baby forever!!! Oh and see that tan.. Yes I love the sun- but I also need a hat, I want to get one of those hats you see at the horse races!!! I don't want to much sun.. But its kinda hard when your in the pool so much!

fun hats

My friend has a sweet skill.. she did good hu! Way cute- Thanks Heather

Ethan didn't get the smile memo- 

so we went with him-

We are ready... and waiting NOT to patiently

My sister is amazing, and she has skills!! lots of them- but this one I love when I am expecting a baby!! When I was in Preston I ordered this fabric and then went and matched it up, and she made the car seat cover. She's good hu!!


So Saturday I got into a nesting mood again and cleaned my oven, stove, microwave, toilet, floors and I was even cleaning my toaster, and blender, after cleaning out a few cupboards - then at like 11pm I decided to make the next 3 item's so I got to bed at 12:30 hoping with all that cleaning and sewing I would show signs of going into labor! But I'm still around and wondering when my next nesting spurt will come..

27

Here is me at 27 today..

I was telling my sis about the hair zipper flower I made this morning, so here it is, Thanks Brenda for showing me how to make them!! soooo cute!! It looks cute without the zipper in the middle but I messed up on mine and glued it in there. So why me taking picture of my self... well Ethan made several attempts but it just was not working! But here I am another year older, and hopefully for my birthday wish I will have this baby!!
Tonight my friend was celebrating her 30th and I tagged along and kept it on the down low that it was my b.day but it was so fun to go out with some friends!  I know I have a cheeser of a smile..

I must be nesting....

On Tuesday, I pulled the bassinet out to put up and well it had a smell, so I thought, hum, I should make a new one.  So, I just started and by 11 o'clock that night I got done after taking a few hours at YW. 

Ethan wanted me to make him the giraffe, and football so they got added. And the Rino came from Great Grandma and Grandpa Arter.   

clipboard love

i search for some clipboards awhile ago after seeing these cute ideas and then I never put in up on here.

here are some clipboard ideas that i love! mine are like the ones in the top right picture, it works so good for all my business stuff to keep it looking cute in the office.

{i can't remember where any of these came from. if you know... please tell me!}

Super kids

We had Super Saturday this last weekend and I was in charge of helping people make some super hero capes. It was a lot of fun we make some cute ones with other letters! So I think I know what we will be for Halloween!

Giveaway winners!!

So my winners, are Terressa, Kandis, Sheena, Janeece, and Michelle(who might not even know)

YAHOOO!

Now the suprize is that you don't have to post this on your blog, if you did already, Your awesome!

I just want to show you all my love, and thanks for reading my blog! Its great to have such GREAT friends! THANKS!! Now I got to get working... Dont expect anything ANY time soon...

But I would like to know from all of you 5 your favorite colors... Sheena its Pink right??


Oh yea mest up the blog somehow... fix it later, need sleep!

Putting my crafy on 4 u!!

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me!

My choice.
For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. (ha! 9 whole months :)
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.

The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! I do promise fabulosity here folks...

Fun new bag

Saturday night I got a little creative, my friend Emily saw a bag that looked like this that was priced at like 85 or something so I thought I could make one! It was fun, I didnt get the bow to look the way I wanted but it works!
Erik recorded music and I was sewing in the same room, (love me new quite sewing machine) we stayed up until 1 but it was worth it, we both were doing things we love to do!

If I can get Erik to show me how to put what he recorded on here I will it was good!

Answered prayers

So this is where I have been, I have been in search of a sewing machine since mine broke before Christmas. And on Christmas morning my sweet heart surprised me with a sewing machine, he did great, it just didn't do everything I needed it to. So when we got to Portland I went to every store to find what I needed, and of course all of them were WAY over our price range, so I turned to Craigs list.
So thank you good man, I saw this add for this Baby Lock that is priced at the stores for 1300 on sale for 995, and he had it listed for 300 so I get in contact with him hoping its just a really nice rich guy and not stolen or something. Well as you can see HE WAS A VERY NICE GUY!! Not that a 1300 dollar machine was enough he asked if I needed a serger! So I got it for 100 along with more then 100$ in notions and treads and everything he piled on all for 400 total!! He was so nice, it was his hobby last year now he is moving on to painting.
He gave me the receipts for them he bought them last year, they both look and sew like new!! I am still just soooo excited, this machine can do everything- it treads the needle and even cuts the tread when your done sewing, it has 178 different stitches with 3 alphabet. So this is where I have been. Playing and having so much fun with both my new machines!!
My prayers were answered 10 fold.

Now my friend Emily has to teach me how to use a serger!!

Parenting with Love & Logic

We started a group where we are reading Parenting with Love and Logic, it is soooo good we had our first group get together. It was fun to talk about what we read. I am loving it and I have only read the first 4 chapters.
I got a little excited and made Ethan a chart and money, its just an up grade from his plain lines and stickers one. But he was excited about this one, so I laminated it and the money so it would last. So the goal is when he makes it up to the ctr ship he gets a buck and then he gets to buy something from the family treasure chest like cars, candy, any little toys.. (if anyone knows where to get a cute treasure chest, I am looking) Anyways this book is so great it just makes you want to do that much better.
I found the ship chart on SupperNanny.com and I cant remember where I found the money.

9 and 10 months!

Growing way to fast! She is such a happy baby, full of smiles and lots of noises. She will stop crying anytime Ethan sings to her, and Ethan loves doing it, its sweet! She loves her brother! She weighs 22.13 pounds and 29 in long! She is walking along the couches and everything so I think the first steps will come soon! She LOVES to pinch me.. all the time so I made this little soft blanket thing today to see if she can start pinching that instead, HOPEFULLY!!

I LOVE having a little princess!!