A Fun Day in the Stamp Room

I had a Wonderful Day today, got caught up on alot of stamping and swaps. A few of us stampers in my area get together every month and stamp and share ideas. Our next month get together we were given a challenge. It was to decorate a tiny post it note. She mentioned doing something other then a match book. So this is what I came up with: This is the size of an ATC

2 1/2 by 3 1/2. The bottom half flips open to reveal the post it note. With a calendar on top the picture uploaded a little blurry.

This is the other post it note holder, more in the shape of a pack of gum. Which I thought would be perfect with a pack of gum in it for the kids to take to school as a Valentine's treat. I may be making more of these. My 5 year old will need to take treats to school. Let me know what you think of these.

I also had time to make up some more ATC's for swaps. I used the Bridal Bella with a rose for a rose swap on Split coast stampers

This is an ATC I created for my pals that I swap with every month. It is a small calendar with the saying "Take time to smell the dewdrops on the flowers" Just something I typed up. I thought my pals will enjoy having a calendar set up for the year to enjoy.

Happy New Year! Be Safe!

Christmas Gifts and ATC's

How is every one in Blog Land? Did we all have a great Christmas?

I had a wonderful Christmas. I received a sizzix, with 12 die cuts and an alphabet set. Soo much Fun! It was something I wanted and had to order myself to make sure I got what I wanted HAHA!

My husband did go out and get me two bamboo cutting boards a small one and a large one, along with a new frying pan. Which was also a few things that I wanted for the kitchen. He also got me three new sets of clear rubber stamps. I will try to post pictures later. My Lovely mom gave me a new House Mouse stamp and a carry and go ribbon case because she knows I have an addiction to ribbon.

From my secret sister I received a cigar box, undecorated, so I can't wait to decorate that! Inside was a moose and bear stamp, along with ribbon, stampin up ink pad, and a box filled with chocolates. And three tag christmas cards. A wonderful surprise just before Christmas.

This is an ATC I made a while back. It is stamped with Stamps by Judith. Obviously the camera shot is not the best.

My mom and I joined an ATC

House Mouse swap on split coast stampers, where we had to use a certain House Mouse and incorporate it into something else and this is what my mom came up with. She sprinkled glitter all around the globe to make it look like a real snow globe and that is a real picture she took of her home while it was snowing. This picture does it no good it is totally a neat idea! I had to share with you!

This is what I was able to come up with, not quite as neat as the snow globe, but still pretty creative. I needed some more inspiration before I worked on this. But what canI say!

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I have been very busy trying to work and get ready for Christmas. My lovely Husband helped me out and wrapped all of Santa's presents for the boys and hid them in our closet. Well the oldest boy told me last night that there were presents in my closet just fo him and that they should be under the tree. So Santa presents were spotted. Darn now where am I going to hide them. Any way we are going to have to rewrap with different paper and hope he understands to stay out of mommy's room. So that Santa can still bring them. I think we will take them to the neighbors house for hiding.

We have 4 inches of snow on the ground and it is pretty! Wish I could stay home and stamp but I have to get to work. Have a great Day!

Day 4 Maria's Blog Challenge

I have been trying to keep up with Maria's Blog challenge. Today is Blog Candy Challenge Day 4. Today Maria wants us to show off our Christmas Tree. I have a few pictures form my son's Birthday Party of out decorations. First off would be our fireplace where the stockings are hung!

This second picture is the bottom half of our tree where we have a train trck set up under the tree and a train goes around and around, gives the boys something to watch.In this picture you can only see the track, there is a toy semi tracker trailer sitting in front of the tree. This is also my brother in law and my son playing horses.

For some reason I cannot find a picture of the full tree I may have to get back to you on this one. This will be alot of fun to see other people's Christmas Ideas. Well I am off tko work now. Have a Great Day!

School Candy Bags

Dallas's Birthday Treat Bags!

I was cleaning things up and just realized that I did not post the Birthday Bags I made up filled with candy. The bear is an unknown stamp, the balloons and hats are stampin up. My mom punched out the Happy Birthday Balloons on her sizzix. I stamped the Happy Birthday Saying on them, a stamp also from stampin up. Then there is also spots of confetti stamped all over them. For added color, another unknown stamp. Dallas had alot of fun passing out his Birthday Treat bags. I had a lot of fun making them. There was 19 bags all together.


Don't forget to check out my Envelope swap at the Split Coast Stampers. Under cards. It is not going as well as I expected it too. Maybe it is because my numbers are too low and I am too new. Just trying to make myself feel better.

My two year old talks!

This is a video from Thanksgiving. Our two year old Denver Talks. He finally talks on camera.

Here he is saying Goof Ball (our 5 year old taught him that) And All right with a thumbs up. Thanks for stopping by!

My Crafting Room

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Our Thanksgiving was wonderful. We went to my grandmother in-laws house. She was going to keep things simple this year and she did not. She cooked way too much food. So of course we stuffed ourselves and then sat around all afternoon talking. The day went by fast, the boys were really good and didn't get into too much stuff that they were not suppose to. We got home around 10 p.m. it was after 11 when we got everyone settled in bed. Then we were up at 4a.m. to hit the Black Friday sales. I swear I will never do that again. We went to several different places looking for a bigger ticketed item for a christmas gift for a relative. (If I say it will give the suprise away) But we got what we wanted and din't get pushed and shoved too bad. We survived!

Well I have been busy making ATC's for swaps that I have joined. Also working on the Birthday boxes for Dallas's birhtday on Saturday. He has to take treats to school on friday. I have also been working on Christmas gifts and cards. And I have not taken pictures of any of my work lately but I did get some pictures of my crafting area. This is a set of drawers my husband created for me to stroe my rubber stamps in. I have two sets of these drawers full of rubber stamps.

This is my crafting area. The cupboards hanging on the wall to the right is full of paper and envelopes and accesories. As well as the cupboards down below the counter. The cupboard to the left holds all my stampin up stamp sets and my unmounted rubber stamps. I just learned to store my acrylic unmounted rubber stamps in Cd cases. Soooo much easier to use and keep organized. So I am trying to convert them all to acylic cushion and get them put into cd cases. Lots of fun!

I am having my son Dallas's Birthday Party this weekend but on sunday I will try to get some pictures taken of the things I have been working on. Have a great week!

It's Monday!

It's monday, I can't wait for Friday. But that is just wishing my life away, terrible. We spent yesterday at my in laws house, my husbands' cousins from Kansas were down for a birthday party and they wanted to see us. It was great to see everyone again, it had only been 10 years. Amazing how some people change and some people don't. Everyone's children were adorable and well behaved. Dallas and Denver had fun playing with all the kids. There was six children there. Haille, Hannah, Taylor, Olivia, Natalie and Kenny, Beautiful children.

This weekend my mo is coming up to Fremont again and we are going to spend the day stamping at our friends house. Yeah another stamping day! My oldest boy is having his 5th Birthday on Dec 1. I am trying to make 20 small cardstock boxes. Or I guess you could call them the goodie bags. The only problem I am having trouble deciding what to put in them. I was thinking a rice Krispie bar, but I was hoping to put something more in them but they are small, nothing to big. This is what the bag looks like, this is the sample bag.

The Birthday bag is going to be yellow with ballons stamped all over it. With a rainbow ribbon. I will post a picture when I see finish them all.

I have been working on cards for swaping this month as well I made 2 of these little Winter cards. i am not sure who the stamp is made by but I printed the saying aff the computer. I love the striped ribbon in red and off white, Very Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, Did I mention that we put up or Christmas light all ready? Yep we had 70 degree weather last week, so my husband climbed the house and we hung our light. We do not have them on yet, but after Thanksgiving we will. We usually put up our tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So if I can just hold off my husband and kids another week we will be in good shape. Otherwise I get tired of fighting the cats off the tree, they just love to play with the ornaments. All though my husband has rearranged the living room to make room for the Christmas Tree. So he is getting anxious.

Well, I have to get to work. And I just realized we are out of Mountain Dew, so I have to hit a gas station before I go so I'll blog again soon. Have a Great Day!

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Halloween!

Hello I hope everyone had a good Halloween! Our boys have been sick with Croup. They sound like seals when they cough or try to talk. So we put out costumes on and only hit family and friends homes that had given us permission to stop by, and were told of our situation. I am not sure what Croup is exactly but it sounds terrible. Not only the name but the boys sound terrible too.

This is all of my boys on Halloween. This is the second time Dad has dressed up as Spiderman. Denver was scared to death of Spiderman this year, screamed at first then he got used to it. Two years is a wonderful age they are so much fun with the learning and investigating.

last weekend I had a get together with my mom and a friend and we had a stamping time. We had a wonderful time! Learned a few things from each other and got to share our stamps and tricks. We are going to do it again next month, at Stephanie's house. Hopefully we will be able to find more people to join in our fun as time goes on. we made the nugget boxes and stamped them up, Using the Stampin up Halloween stamps form this year. We used glittery nail polish to add some sparkle to the boxes. You cannot see it in the picture but it is there. I made two of these boxes for my oldest sons preschool teachers, they loved them. We also wrapped decorated paper around the candy bars. This is a wonderful idea, after the candy is gone you can put pencils and pens in the box. Can't wait for Christmas. What a busy week. I have been spending alot of time in my crafting room. Drives my husband crazy! Not spending enough time with him. i'll post more again soon.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!