thankful

thankful for my family.

thankful for my friends.

enjoy your thanksgiving with yours.......

7 things

just some cards i made a while ago i never posted.
ATCs

cards made ith leftover scraps

my friend kiara passed on this bloggy award to me. it's a MeMe award where i am to tell 7 secrets/facts you might now know about me. in random order.

1) i am addicted to lip balms. have to have some on all day & and night. there's one in every room of the house.

2) i ran track (starting in the 8th grade) and cross country (starting as a freshman in HS) competitively in school til end of college. i HATE running now.

3) i was never afraid of the dentist as a kid but fearful of them now

4) i stay up all hours of the night watching reruns of cold case & without a trace on TNT

5) i am such a stickler about conserving water (i am known to turn off the water when hubby is using it when i think it shouldn't be running). i do it so i can take longer showers . j/k

6) i hate to cook

7) i take a ton of pictures of the boys

ok---sorry so B O R I N G !!!!!!! have a great rest of the week!

rubber heaven

never too early to get started on gifts for the upcoming holidays!
i recently got to go to a Stampendous warehouse sale. i found this cute teacher set and scooped it up (along with a bunch of other crafty goodness--see below).

the above is a plain ol' calendar covered and embellished with the stampendous set (worm is from imaginisce).

to the left is an altered composition notebook all prettied up. very easy to make!

for you teachers out there, what DO teachers REALLY like besides giftcards? food? sweets? any ideas would be greatly appreciated. i am thinking these would be useful but IS it really? or just crapola?!

i got to go to the Stampendous warehouse sale this past weekend with a friend. it was a great sale. i was given cash from my hubs (thanks!) and i didn't spend it all!! i came home with $$ which bought [only] 3 drinks from starbucks. the deals were great and the ladies who rang me out were super nice & generous! i won't even tell you how much the stuff i got was total cause i really got all of this for practically NOTHING!

i bought extras of sets so i can give to some of my blogging/crafty friends

:-)

unmounted rubber and wood blocks.

look at all that rubba goodness! oh-- the little things that make me happy!

not so dreary deery

battling the case of the sickies here in our house. had time to make this card this morning while brandon was back in school. he missed school monday. he had a fever thursday-friday. then he was ok saturday & sunday. sunday night, he had a hard time sleeping----he was wheezy & starting to cough. took him to the pediatrician monday and waited most of the morning there for our appointment. still dunno what he has exactly---comes & goes. but the MD gave him the go ahead to return to school tuesday. apparently, whatever he has is not contagious. i hope it just goes. now, i have the case of the sniffles and bryan is telling me his tummy hurts. hate this time of year...............

happy halloween

loving the pics of the boys from the pumpkin farm! such a beautiful backdrop!

so here are my cards i made for brandon's kinder class----ALL 35! like my cupcake holder? funny---i don't think i'll ever really use it for cupcakes since i don't really like to cook/bake. don't get me wrong, i'll never turn down a yummy cupcake! but thanks to my hubs for getting me this perfect cupcake holder! :-)

these were very quick & easy to do---really. even to my non-crafty friends, these were fast & easy to make.

cards and halloween treat bags all ready for brandon's class.

more of those treat jars filled with halloween colored M&M's, regular candy corn (boring) and caramel candy corn (fun). bryan has his eyes set on the M&M's. i still have some left over so he may just get lucky if he's a good boy!

happy halloween to all! brandon broke out in a high fever (103) thursday night. hope he isn't going to be sick. poor thing keeps waking up, tossing & turning. hard to see your baby sick.........

***some of you emailed & asked what was in the treat bag & the paper used***

besides the pencil, halloween card & bat/spider rings, a little individual fun dip was inside. (one of my fave candy growing up except i really didn't care for the flavored powder sugar---i liked the stick the best!) the mini cards fit perfectly hanging outside each treat bag.

paper used were from the dollar section from target. treat bags were also from there.

die cuts from K&Co.

s m i l e

just sharing some crafty things that i've been up to in between school, work, swimming, play dates, housework, naptime and staying up late :-)
love bryan's smile----i can tell him to say cheese and it'll still be a natural smile (unlike big bro's!).

some treat jars for teachers, the crossing guard, swim teacher and friends. looks familiar? it's a starbucks frappachino bottle recyclyed & run through the dishwasher. the lables on those bottles come off so easily! i drink waaay to many of those on days i cannot get a "real" coffee! i made a few others that i will post later. this one is filled entirely of M&Ms---almost a whole big bag (9oz.). that was the 1st one i did. the next ones i did were filled with other candies--candy corn as a filler. i got these caramel candy corn because they were all out of the regular candy corn [go figure] but those caramel ones are actually VERY yummy!

some mass produced halloween cards. they are mini sized, quick & easy!

a lolli flower thank you card

this is a birthday card for brandon's kinder teacher. her birthday s on oct. 30th.

back with more halloween goodness friday maybe?? i'll see if i get around to it!

pumpkin patch

sharing some pictures from the beginning of the month when we went to visit a farm. the kids got to pick their own pumpkins right off the vine! such a huge place! below is a picture of brandon picking carrots. there are areas there where you can pick your own vegetables.

here, the boys are picking string beans.

here is an oinion......

fun cutouts of veggies

nice big splat of bird poo on that poor pumpkin. obviously, we passed on that one!

brandon thought the faces on veggies he eats were hilarious!

his signature silly face!

here are the pumpkins we chose. i talked brandon into picking a pumpkin with a little green in it like mine. it ws so pretty with swirly designs. little did i know-----the green disappeared a week after we got it home. :-(

look at bryan's itty bitty pumpkin!

such a fun day! look at the endless sea of pumpkins! this was just a small area we were at. we were too lazy to walk to the other patches of pumpkins.

the boys enjoyed running around the farm. brandon is happily holding his bag of veggies while i was not happily juggling 3 pumpkins.