Archive for the 'American Crafts' Category

{Not my} Favorite {day}.

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

Holy hat, how did it become June already?! Well, I have to tell you, I am writing this whilst locked in my room.  My husband and my Godson, and my kids (off and on) are painting the living room, dining room, kitchen, and the hallway.  I chose the colors at Lowe’s yesterday – a more […]

Explore today.

Saturday, May 31st, 2014

I’m up bright and early this Saturday morning as my son’s got a baseball game today.  He’s almost 12 and this is his first year playing baseball.  That’s probably a little late to start him, but out of the blue last year he mentioned baseball, and here we are. I’m having knee surgery this coming […]

Happy Mother’s Day – card, day 4.

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

Welcome back to day 4 of an entire week of Mother’s Day cards. Today’s card is a lot like yesterday’s card – featuring patterned paper and embellishments from American Crafts’ Dear Lizzy collection. I’ll let you in on a little secret….:  I had no intention of making this card (and yesterday’s card) with the angled […]

Happy Mother’s Day – card, day 3.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2014

Now that we’re done with cards for the mamas, today we are starting 4 days of cards for the grandmas. All patterned paper and embellishments are from American Crafts’ Dear Lizzy line. I just gush over those puffy hearts.  They take me back to like 7th grade! A whole week of Mother’s Day cards continues […]

Breakfast cupcakes.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

What’s the difference between a muffin and a cupcake anyway? I call these breakfast cupcakes, because they have a pretty paper, and I made a cute lil’ pick, and calling them cupcakes gets the kids more excited about them even though they’re full of good stuff and not covered in frosting.  Now I don’t know […]