An Award {or 3} for Me???

I was first given this award early in the week by Em, then Sherri and last night Jackie posted the Brillante Weblog award to me…

Here are the rules:

1) Display blog and the link to who gave it.

2) Nominate at least 7 blogs.

3) Add links to these 7 blogs.

4) Leave the nominees a message that they received the award.

I would like to pass this award on to:

Mt. Hope Chronicles I get the greatest ideas from Heidi {thank you very much}

My Lily Eden She makes the cutest crafts and sells them in her esty shop {check it out}

Raising Allikaye  she has a little cutie, and she even hosts a cooking blog too!

Then there is Bienvenue GREAT home decor ideas {psssst I think she has already received this award}

My happy Little Life her blog cracks me up, she is very real…

Joy’s Hope always full of happy colorful ideas….

and Make and Take talk about fun ideas…

* Update* Honorable mention…. BECKY the dear sweet friend who introduced me, link and all to the world of blogging is another funny read… She has a very comical out look on things… Luv Ya B

There you go I hope you enjoy visiting all these wonderful blogs, they are on my daily visits.

 

 

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What has she been up too??

We managed to have a HUGE garage sale for Spike’s uncle which was able to bring in a nice contribution for them.  I have been back to school shopping for all of the boys, going to kindergarten orientation and junior high orientation, this was all last week… and this week…

I have been BUSY filling out THICK back to school packets with emergency cards, and all of those other repetitive papers that come home the first day of school {which was yesterday for us}… One is time consuming enough but I got to do it times 4!  Sheeeez…  This week I will be getting my school routine down, but I can already feel that craft itch coming… I did sneak in a quick Goodwill trip yesterday and only bought one thing…

I am sure this little beauty took someone hours to create, but I am going to disassemble it {maybe keep the little bird}? and give it a make over… stay tuned….

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Happy Birthday Spike

Happy Birthday Daddy…

We LOVE you!

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Goodwill Green

Look at the “green” I got at Goodwill

The vans are my oldest sons size and he is SUPER into green right now…

The dishes I just couldn’t pass up, all my purchases came to…

$8.25!

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Cutest Cupcake

Cupcake, cupcake where have you been? 

I’ve been folded in the form of your napkin under your chin.

How happy and sweet, if only you could see my grin!

My secret sister {the best one EVER} sent me this little cutie in the mail today!  I was SUPER excited when I opened it… Thank you so very much, you know me so well!  This was a really sweet treat… Now I need find out where you found this treasure so I can get more!

Just look at those polka dots…. Ahhh I am in LOVE!

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Cupcakes, Cakes, and Nests??

I just listed some favorites in my shop.

and of course NESTs…

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Uncle Sonny

Meet Uncle Sonny and Aunt Kathy… They are the most generous loving people you will ever meet.  They have a great need however, it’s their turn to be on the receiving end.  Uncle Sonny is going in for emergency surgery on July 25 to have 3 disks replaced in his spine along with a whole bunch of other risks and complications.  This will leave him at best not being able to fully move his neck, at worst paralyzed.  He works for the state and state employees don’t have the option of paying into state disability.  The doctors have already informed him, he will never work again.  Please pray for his healing, the surgery, their finances, aunt Kathy’s health, their three children, five grandchildren, and the mental, physical, and financial strain this is putting on them.  I am also praying the Lord would provide us with an opportunity to bless them with funds.  Any fund raising ideas would be greatly appreciated, we are going to try and do a garage sale with “treasures” others in the area no longer need or want.

Update: They have moved his surgery to July 30th.

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Designer Diaper {burp cloth} Tutorial

I decided to make fun designer diaper burp clothes, because every baby needs something designer to spit up on!  I have a few new babies coming up and this baby’s parents didn’t want to find out his/her gender, I love the robin’s egg blue and taupe colors and thought this fabric was neutral enough… So here goes….

Pile of washed cloth diapers, I highly recommend washing them as well as your fabric in HOT water first, that way you won’t have the shrinkage factor on the finished project.

Coordinating fabric

Measure the thick middle part, then give your self an extra 1/4 inch per side seam allowance, in my case I cut a 6 inch strip of fabric.

Fold fabric about a 1/4 inch for a nice neat finish, pin in place.

Leave about an inch over hang on each end of the diaper.  Sew strip in place, I used color thread on top and white thread in my bobbin.

Flip the diaper over {note you will have already sewn the strip into place it won’t be pinned as in this photo}

Fold over and pin into place on the back.

Sew into place.

All done!

*Did you notice the birds were upside down?  Hahaha hopefully the momma will throw it over her shoulder with the birds right side up. 😉

Update, I have since made another batch and have made a few modifications, I like the way they turned out better… Instead of the little flap folded over on the back side I fold the fabric strip even with the cloth diaper, meaning there is No over hang on the back.  I also changed the setting on my machine to a small zig zag {on my machine it’s a 2 setting}.  Anyway, I stitched right on the edge and it looks BEAUTIFUL…

 

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ABC’s of Me…

A. Attached or single? Most definitely attached!

B. Best friend? Em

C. Cake or pie? Cake

D. Day of choice? Monday

E. Essential item? my laptop

F. Favorite color? right now apple green

G. Gummy bears or worms? bears, but I don’t like either really

H. Home town? Not giving that away right now for privacy’s sake.

I. Favorite indulgence? Shopping

J. January or July? January, I love the cold weather dislike the heat

K. Kids? Yep, lots of boys

L. Life isn’t complete without? a happy relationship

M. Marriage date? Nov 9 1990

N. Number of brothers and sisters? One sis

O. Oranges or Apples? Oranges, but I like golden delious apples very much.

P. Phobias? spiders, make that all bugs!

Q. Quotes? “Cultivate your curves, they may be dangerous but will not be avoided” ~Mae West

R. Reasons to smile? My hubby, kiddos, family, friends, and friends kiddos

S. Season of choice? Autumn. I love the colors, the smells, Thanksgiving, my birthday…

T. Tag 5 people: nope I just won’t do it.

U. Unknown fact about me? I MUST sleep with not one but two security blankets {my night nights}

V. Vegetable? POTATOES!!!!!

W. Worst habit? Snacking when I’m bored

X. Xray or ultrasound? Ultrasound. In fact I was offered one a couple weeks ago!

Y. Your favorite food? Chocolate {it’s food right}?

Z. Zodiac sign? Don’t know, don’t want to know either.

 

 

 

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{Funky Funks}

Where has she been??  Why hasn’t she posted??… Well, I have been in sort of a funk if you will… You could call it “bloggers block” but it’s really more like the blues… There are many projects I would like to work on, but don’t want to spend the funds to do so, especially after seeing the receipt to fill up my car, $102.00!  Yikes…. But that kind of stuff doesn’t bring me down, it’s the realization that in two weeks my boys {all 4 of them} will be starting school.  I know some of you will not be able to relate to what I am about to write, but… I get this way at the end of every summer.  Only this summer it’s worse…. I have NEVER not had a little person home with me.  In the 15 years I have had my babies, one of them has always been here, meaning when one little monkey was ready to start kindergarten I would still have another little monkey here.  Not this year, my very last baby is heading to kindergarten.  This REALLY grieves me terribly, it’s not that I don’t have a million things to do and he will only be half day, it’s the thought of him going to school.  I enjoy my boys so much and summers are never long enough.  I love the days the car never leaves the driveway and they stay in their cool summer jammies all day.  We play, read, snack, and enjoy each other.  No schedules to keep and hectic homework/dinner/sports filled evenings.  Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh even typing about it makes me blue….

Ok enough of that on to something more happy… Today in the mail, I got Romantic Homes magazine from my Secret Sister,  our MOMents group  is having our Secret Sister event…. Boy is that fun, we fill out these great questionnaires and draw a name, then we buy little goodies and send little notes to our secret sister for about 6 weeks, then we reveal who had us!  It’s so much fun, and I have to tell you the timing of who ever drew me was perfect.  My magazine will bring great happiness to my funk today!  Thank you Secret Sister!

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