I will be back next week with new posts. My uncle burned in a house fire this past tuesday. Our family has had alot to deal with since then and is very saddened. Once things settle back down I will be back:)

Made this thank you card and I realized that it belongs here. I am thankful for all of you that come here to read, comment and encourage me. I appreciate each and every one of you!

I'm thinking we'll need to do some blog candy soon, perhaps after the holidays so stay tuned :)

Here's a site that will be listing all the deals, if your looking for some!

Even though its early, I saw a friend make a list and thought it was a good idea. I'm thankful for so many things, all year, not just at thanksgiving. Here is a short list, many more but these are the ones off the top of my head.

1. Family - I think you are only RELATIVES because of blood relation, but you are FAMILY by how you treat each other and how much you love each other.

2. Healthy children - So so grateful for this. Overall, they are healthy. We have friends who have lost a child and I think that has to be the worst thing.

3. My loving husband. I couldnt list why, it would take the rest of my life to list all the wonderful things about him

4. Creativity - I'm thankful that I am somewhat creative! Sure, there are many others who are more creative, but I enjoy what creativity I have.

5. My dog - he's a rescue and I'm so glad he became part of our family. He's a great dog and is well deserving of our loving home

So what are you thankful for?

My children were home for 4 days straight - the weekend and then monday and tuesday of this week. I tried to entertain them and part of the time they wanted to help me color so I took my prismacolor pencils out and we got busy! Then they "helped" me make some cards, I have some fantastic glue-ers!

As we all prepare for winter here in CT, this image just needed to be colored! I do like winter, I just hate driving in the snow! Thankfully my husband is very good at that :)

We just found out a friend is having another baby! Since its too early to know the gender I made this gender neutral card to send as a congrats on her pregnancy

I thought this little guy was so cute!

Since my birthday is next week, I wanted to make a girly birthday card. Not for myself of course but just to keep for when a birthday comes up unexpectedly.

Isn't he adorable? I thought he was the cutest little guy!

I'm not sure about others but I always have a hard time making manly cards for the men. So I made this one and think it came out pretty cute!

I love my prismacolor pencils and am still learning how to use them. My 8 yr old asked to help so he colored the purple flower, I think he did a great job! I colored the pink one and he was so happy to see me put his flower on my card :)

Kraft paper, scraps and buttons! Love that this came out so simple :)

I've been trying to stock up on these cards. Just so I have basic ones since I seem to be writing notes to the teachers often!

Happy Halloween Everyone! We are going to a party tonight and then trick-or-treating tomorrow! Here are favors I made for one sons class

I decided to try this and love it! It was so easy to make. I'm going to make a few for xmas this year for my coupon friends :)

Here is a link I found very helpful! Super easy to make and much cheaper!

Glimmer Mist Tutorial

Alcohol Inks - Rit Dye

 Spray Ink with Kool-Aid

I use these so often, they were getting quite costly to buy! So I finally read (and read and read) online and figured out how to make my own! I havent printed any yet but I hope they come out great. Do any of you make your own?

Using the same kit I created this second layout. The kit came chock full of stuff! I still have plenty left to make more layouts or cards - it even comes with a 12X12 scrapbook!

I received a kit with brand new product. It's called sweet and it truly is :) Here is my 1st layout and video made with it.

These were made for 1st grade as well. Simple and easy to read for the 6 yr olds :)

I made this for my sons 1st grade teacher, she loved it! She didnt have a room sign due to a new classroom and now she does :)

I made a fast sample of these to show the teacher, I plan to make them for my sons 1st grade Halloween Party at school. I was made the head room mom :) I'm sooo honored and proud and excited! I would do a cartwheel (if I could!). These were pretty simple to make!

I wanted to make some cards that are not the traditional square or circle cards. This one came out so cute! It's going to be for my husbands boss, his wife is expecting twins!

This was made with SCAL! No silly cartridges needed, the file is below. Its in two parts, the first is the bottle shaped card. The second are the "pieces" of the nipple and blue ring to paper piece it :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?i18te135wqk5tvf
http://www.mediafire.com/?nap6y11p9tt542z

http://www.mediafire.com/?tobuyy6ag0vehhz

My kids love these things, do yours? Here are some that are in SVG format for you to cut :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?otfhafr3mo5mf5e

I was a guest designer on this fabulous blog that I wanted to share with all of you. I made two projects that involve cooking. Her blog is quite amazing.. take peek!

Creative Cookbooking

I made this for my sons 1st grade teacher, for the first day of school to go with the supplies diaper cake.

This is for my sons 3rd grade teacher. I filled it with m&m's so she could truly enjoy it :)

Just in time for school!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sjneqr2347355vn

Here is a double hole punched border for today. Enjoy :)


http://www.mediafire.com/?yvsxhbkgb86hbfv

Since I haven't posted svg's in a long time.. and yes I am going back to offering them, I thought I'd start with a very popular item right now! Pennants for banners :)


Scallop Pennant
http://www.mediafire.com/?y41y6jgs24ng9ph

Regular Pennant
http://www.mediafire.com/?vym43xmj68x87h9

I made this today for my husbands boss. His wife is having twins! However they want to be suprised so they don't know if the babies are boys or girls!

I am one of those people that if I don't see it, i forget I have it and never use it. So this is how I now store my brads! They are cork circles and I have them hanging in my scrap area, I use more brads and know when I'm running low on them!

I made a tower out of the school supplies they ask for in the 1st grade. Inside are paper towels, I hope the teacher can use all the supplies :)

I got a few responses on the message board about how to make these. So I made an easy to follow (I hope) video on making the flowers you saw in my previous post on my wreath. If you have any questions just let me know :)

I had soo.. much fun making this. I learned how to make these flowers awhile ago and wanted to try a wreath. It's my first one!

Made this tonight.. hoping to make a whole set of buttons!

I love this, my 6 year old looves it too! Very fast and easy, totally made out of felt and buttons!

I made this tonight, while watching tv for my oldest son. He loves it!

I went to a crop, it was so nice to get out. My husband hurt his back however, so were hoping for really good news this week at the xray. He had a 13 hour surgery 3 years ago and I'm truly hoping he didn't injure anything that was fixed!

Anyways I worked on alot of layouts!


Supplies - All from Joanns

I love how tall my son is! Sometimes it truly shows, like when he stands near a tree!


Products:
Cardstock - Momenta
Owl - Sandylion Essentials
Patterned Paper - Michaels Recollections

I've had this a long time, but finally finished it while Eric was watching a movie in my room. I put all my sketches on rolodex cards that I cut with my cricut and decorated this holder that I found at a thrift store. It's nice and big and holds 100's of sketches (and is almost full!)

With so much going on I wanted a notebook to track my fitness goals in and cute things the kids say/do, etc.. so I picked up one and altered it to better fit my personality!

Has everyone heard of this? I love it! It's like homemade Jolee's! I joined a swap at 2 peas and here are some I made for it. I think I'm going to start making my own embellishments for cards and pages :)


*On a side note I wanted to thank everyone who sent warm wishes for my son. He was throwing up today and spiked a fever of 102.. were going to see the pediatric gastroenterologist again tomorrow. Eric is in good spirits though, he's a tough 8 year old :)

I didnt have my time tonight, as my son has been very ill. We were at the hospital yesterday doing testing, he has a blockage in his stomach and is lactose intolerant. I'm just happy were working on a solution.

So here is my 5 minute card!