fall wreath

 I made a new wreath to dress up my front door. I gathered all the supplies ahead of time. then spent a morning making this with a friend while our boys were in school. it was a very good morning having iced tea, chatting away while sitting outdoors in beautiful weather. we even had time for lunch!

so we both have new fall wreaths  for our door! 

 I was asked to make a card for someone who works at our school who was getting married. she needed it the same day so I came up with this very quick card.

my Mondays are often spent hiking on one of the many beautiful trails we have around us. I go with a friend (never go alone!) and we do anywhere from 4-5 miles. definitely a workout and a challenge!

another challenge is figuring out what to pack the boys for lunch. they don't like sandwiches so finger foods seem to be working. i'd love any suggestions!

 

 here is something I can eat often! poke and chowder!

 another fun project to give to friend who is under the weather. I tell you.....if you take Emergen-C at the first sign of thinking you're getting sick, it helps!! trust me! ;)

skittles help too!

thanks for stopping by! 

anniversary

this is a card I made for hubby to celebrate our anniversary.....14 years!! journal card, washi tape and a quick stamping of the S&P (from lawn fawn) for a quick and easy card.

linking this to a challenge here. TFL!

hello yellow

 I was going through my photo files and yellow jumped out at me and thought i'd do another random post. the theme---yellow of course!
 

 farmer's market

a few cards experimenting with water color pencils

 

pictures from the OC Fair this past summer. it's a must for the boys!

Cornelius the corn & yellow bumper car

 hubby won tickets to the fair so we couldn't pass up another chance to go on the last day! and bonus---the free passes included a minion. at first, we thought it was a little plush minion but we were all surprised when they handed us this ginormous minion! the boys were super excited!

 it barely fit in my trunk!!!

 

a touch of yellow on a simple birthday card that required no stamping on my part.

 

 

Brandon in yellow. can't believe he's a 4th grader now!

 

sharpened 60 no.2 Ticonderoga pencils for the boys back-to-school supplies. all I have to say is the electric pencil sharpener rocks! a good investment!

 

bryan at the DDS. I was very proud he didn't need to be strapped down like his previous visit LOL!! both boys-----NO CAVITIES!

 

can you see what these are? lego mini figures!

 

I had an abundant amount of zucchini  flowers this year but only one zucchini. all the other ones turned out to be duds. I heard you can eat the flowers. has anyone ever tried?

 

a card for a friend who had a baby girl

 

sand molds for bryan's end of the year gifts to his classmates

 

did a mud run to kick off summer. the race bib was much more yellow before the run!

[and believe it or not, I salvaged those shoes]

 

what color should I do next? ;)

I V Y

hello! I made this card below for a friend who was visiting California from Canada. some of you know I frequent starbucks often and I always hate to throw the coffee cup sleeve away. so I recycle it. I used my tag die to die cut a tag out of it. I saw the 'panama' card while waiting for my drink one day. it was so pretty and I knew I could incorporate it into a card. (the back of the card has info on the coffee itself) just a little unusual and a different looking card. :)

 

I go running with 2 other moms at 5:30am once in a while and we go on our 'starbucks run'. we park at a starbucks, run and when we're done, we go get a drink. an incentive to run hard! this is what I saw one morning at the starbucks. loving the minion chalk art!

 you won't believe how many times my name gets screwed up! this one was right.

 

wrong

(I used a beautiful mess app to fill it in correctly! LOL)

right

 

yoda chalk art

 

wrong

when I was in Hawaii back in april, I picked this up as my souvenir. I have acquired a couple more since. it's starbucks 'you are here' collection. it's a nice sized mug and everything seems to taste better in it! ;)

what is YOUR favorite drink?

thanks for stopping by. and sorry for the randomness of this post!

Kelly Marie's birthday party blog hop

happy birthday Kelly!!
honored to be a part of this blog hop! you're at the right place if you came from the blog of my good friend,  nancy here.



of course I used all lawn fawn on this card for Kelly! even added a party hat!

supplies used:

into the woods, so much to say, hats off to you, dewey decimal, say cheese (die), lawn trimmings. (all lawn fawn)

I had the pleasure of helping at winter CHA 2012 in the lawn fawn booth. my first time and it was so much fun!

 the lawn fawn crew 2012

here was this past winter CHA 2013



thank you kelly for letting be a fawnie and including me in all things lawn fawn fun! one of the nicest people around and super kind & sweet! kelly & mike work extremely hard along with Erica and the success of lawn fawn is a reflection of that!

lastly, i would like to think this paper is named for me! ;) [picture hijacked at LFHQ while at work]

the next stop is the very talented cheiron here. if you want to start from the beginning of this party hop, go to the lawn fawn blog for the complete list! TFL! have a great day!

hello, foxy

 

card for the SSS challenge here. 

supplies:

into the woods (paper & stamp), critters in the forest (stamp & die); all lawn fawn



back to school--back to blogging

 well, it's definitely been a while but here I am. we had a real busy year and it's the start of another busy school year.
here is bryan....a big time 1st grader now! he had a great kindergarten year! I took on the room mom role in his class which happened to be the year his teacher was retiring. added pressure. more random pictures of the boys' past school year in future random posts.

 and here is my 4th grader. it's so chaotic on the 1st day of school. bringing all their school supplies, finding their new classrooms and trying to get decent pictures. always hard to split the time of 1 parent between the two boys. I think this was the 1st year eddie didn't get a chance to go to school with us on the 1st day.

 I was all excited to have bryan take a picture with this chalk art board I made. had it right by the front door in a bag on the doorknob the night before so I wouldn't forget. so what happens? I forgot. but I came back with it after school and took some shots of bryan with it. technically, it counts!

 can you tell he wasn't amused at me taking pictures?!

 

 some back to school cards. more card catch up to come too.

close up of the chalk board art I made

 hope to catch up on all this bloggy soon. now that the boys are both is school again and bryan doesn't have half day, hope to get back into the swing of things. say hi if you've stopped by here!