National's Mission

I am so looking forward to a great weekend.  I am on a mission.  J's team is headed to Nationals and our team is putting together gift bags to hand out to another team. Each family is asked to contribute to the bag. So I came up with either a koozie or a water bottle.  I was thinking I could take some vinyl and using my Cricut (of course) cut something to put on the koozie or water bottle.  Like "USSSA 2012" or "Nationals 2012". My mission is to find a koozie or water bottle that I like and that is not horribly expensive as I have to do 11 of them.  If I could find purple that would be great because our team color is purple and then I can use white vinyl.  Great idea...right??? I thought so :)

And thanks to Robyn at My Pink Stamper I think I might put together a special "bag" for my daughter only.  Something special to reward her for making it to Nationals. Robyn put together a special tin to give to her daughters at camp and I thought it was a great idea! If I can pull it off I would like to do one for each of the girls but again that's 11 girls..we'll have to see how our finances are. And how extravagent I go. :)

Lulu

Good Afternoon!

The weekend is getting closer. Always a good thing.  This week has been dragging. I really don't know why but it sure feels like Friday will just never get here.

J had another birthday party to attend so I created this cute little card for the birthday girl.  Of course using my Cricut!  I accidentally folded the paper in the wrong spot so to fix it I used a pair of edging scissors to make the bottom look fancy.  Worked out pretty well.

Lulu

B's birthday card

Another update...I made this card for my grand-nephew's birthday.  He loves hockey and his team color was blue this year. He turned 6.  I used my sports mania cartridge for cricut.  That cartridge is getting so much use :)

Lulu

Happy Father's Day!

Wanted to take a minute and wish all the father's out there a Happy Father's Day! 

And to my wonderful hubby a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND! Yes, he get's the whole weekend.  We spoil him way too much.

Lulu

To Do List

Today is a day of crossing items off of my to-do list.  I get to cross off hot tub repaired & minivan fixed. Yea!  It has been a year of repairing everything.  Yesterday our hot tub repairman came and fixed our leak in our hot tub. Unfortunately he doesn't repair pool leaks...there is a hole in our pool liner we just can't seem to find. Now I am on the hunt for someone who can find the holes and repair them.  With everything that has to get fixed I really don't want to have to buy a new pool liner right now.  Pool liner is at the bottom of the list.
Also today, I should (keep fingers crossed) get my minivan back. I have been leaking engine coolant. I do have to say I do like my mechanic. He offered to pay for my rental car while they fix my van because I had to wait so long for the parts to come in.  Thanks P! 
Next on the list is my husband's truck.  The ball joints are loose.  Ugh...when it rains it pours, right!

Lulu

Good Morning!

I mentioned in a previous post that I have been crafting alot but not posting on my blog. So today, I am going to post what I did for Easter.

I created this butterfly box as a gift holder for nail polish. 

This little gift bag was for MJ for his easter candy. It ended up only measuring about 5 inches tall. Not quite the size I wanted - was looking for something bigger.  I need to get myself the 12x24 mat. But it still turned out really cute.

This gift bag was for my granddaughter and held all her Easter goodies.

Have a good day!

Lulu

Love My New Look!

I love the beach so when I saw this template I just had to have it.  For the past couple of days I have been working on updating my blog.  Needless to say I am not a computer guru.  I know some basic information about creating things on the computer other than that I am clueless.  If I have a program or directions I can follow that but designing codes and platforms...I'm lost.  I found this great website www.thecutestblogontheblock.com and they have so many different templates for blogs. They have banners, buttons, all sorts of things for blogs.  That's where I found my beach scene. Check them out.  Thank you cutest blog on the block!

Lulu

Playing around!

Forgive me today...I am playing around with a new picture for my blog. And still learning alot about computers and codes. So it may look a little off but I am in the process of fixing it.

Thanks!

Lulu

Happy Friday!!!

Good morning everyone!  It's finally Friday.  I am so ready for the weekend.  Last night I whipped up a couple of cards that I needed.  One was for a graduation and one was for a birthday.  I did both cards at 4.25 x 5.5.  And both are very simple.  I like quick and easy.  And I'm still so new to card making that it took me a couple of hours just to do these two.  I have the hardest time picking the colors I want to use.  That's what seems to take the longest for me.

This is the graduation card.  Boy I need to work on my picture taking skills with my phone.  The card is beige with a gray background.  The school's colors are blue and white so I used a blue background for the banner with white on top.  And I used blue ribbon to accent it.  This was used with the Happy Graduation cartridge for my Cricut.

This is a picture of the birthday card I did.  The card is for my son's best friend.  They play football together so I did his card in their school's football colors.  The card is white cardstock with a gray background.  The helmet I cut using my Cricut and Sport Mania cartridge.  The helmet is black and light brown cardstock.  The stars were made in the same color as the helmet using a star punch.  I then stamped "happy birthday" inside the card.  I'm starting to really enjoy stamping.  But I am wondering is there a good way to clean the stamps after use?  Any suggestions?

Lulu

Well, it's Wednesday but feels like Thursday.  This is totally going to screw me up.  I am so ready for the weekend!  My house is slowly but surely getting back into shape again.  And our pool is clean...you should have seen it after the winter.  I swear it looked like a swamp.  That was the worst it ever looked.  We have been very lucky after each winter that it still looks good when we open it.  This year...UGH..I even had ducks swimming around in it.  We think they were going to try and make a home there.  The poor dog would just circle the pool trying to get to the ducks - he hates water so he would not dare jump in.  But happy to say after much cleaning and draining the pool looks good again and in perfect time it is going to be in the 90's this weekend.

I made cupcakes recently and I tried the new Duncan Hines Frosting Creations.  MJ loves cinnamon rolls so when I saw a commercial for this frosting mix and one of the flavors was cinnamon roll I had to try it.  At the same time I found a recipe for cooked frosting.  I have been trying to find a recipe for homemade frosting that doesn't consist of lard. So I made a batch of cupcakes (just used a Pillsbury box) and did half of them in cinnamon roll frosting and the other half in the cooked frosting.  Needless to say both were hits!!!!  Here are pictures of my creations....

This top batch is the cinnamon roll frosting.

The bottom row is the cooked frosting. Tasted like whipped cream.

I even got the 7yr old seal of approval - my great-nephew was spending the weekend with us and I let him and our neighbor's two boys who are 6 & 4 years old have one of each frosting and I was informed that "These are the best cupcakes EVER".  Always a good idea to have guinea pigs around when trying something new.  Oh, yea MJ liked the cinnamon frosting ones and J liked the cooked frosting ones.

Enjoy the rest of the day!

Lulu



Oh how I have missed my blog!

I'm slowly getting back to my blog.  I have missed it terribly.  Our family has been so busy that I just have not had any opportunity to get to my blog.  Surprisingly though I have been crafting.  I have a number of projects I've completed and I have pictures of (that's amazing since I always forget). I just have to upload those pictures on to my computer.  I have been making a lot of cards lately - lots of birthday parties.  And graduations are coming up so this week I have a couple of graduation cards to make.

But first I have to vacuum my house.  The dog's hair is everywhere.  I think I can make another dog out of all the hair he has lost and I have barely been home to pull out the vacuum.  I have this week off from the sports so it is catch up week around the house.

Lulu