Birthday cards

Got a few bday cards done this week. Used CTMH cardstock and white cardstock. Can't remember the name of the co that the flowers came from. CTMH stamps. Thanks for looking!!

Weekend project

Well, so I had most of the weekend off. I work Sunday night. All of Friday at work I was restless. Knowing I had most of the weekend to do something. Anything. I really didnt have the money to go crazy and take the kids anywhere for the weekend. I really didnt want to go "out" with the girls. And since I am still not in a big "crafting" phase yet, I decided to buy paint! Yep, paint. When I moved into this house back in November, I painted every room in it. Except two. The kitchen and the bathroom. (Ok, and the hallway too, but it is not technically a room)So for $20, I got a gallon of paint and painted my kitchen this weekend. Well, I figure it was cheap entertainment, kept me out of trouble, and kept me busy most of the weekend. Ofcourse here it is Saturday evening, my kitchen has been painted and cleaned for hours and I am still bored! LOL Guess I should have bought 2 gallons, one of the kitchen and one of the bathroom.....maybe next weekend!
One crafty side note, I did paint the Welcome sign above the stove!
Here are some before and after shots.

Kinda Crafty

Well, I kinda did something crafty this weekend. I have this little pantry right by my back door. There is no door on it, so everyone who comes into the back door can see all our food and business. I had some material that I got for free a few years back and I finally got a little curtain made up for the pantry to cover up all our junk food! But as fate would have it, this would not be an easy tasks for me. I mean, how hard can it be to fold over and inch and sew four sides right??
Well......
first I'm sewing away and my bobbin runs out of thread.
Then I go to put thread on it and break the damn bobbin! Do you think I could find anther one in my mess of boxes and tub's downstairs...oh heavens no. So it was out to JoAnns I run.
Get there and can't remember the model of my sewing machine, so I am totally guessing on what bobbin to pick out. Did get the right one by some sheer miracle.
Then I finally (two day's later) get around to finding time to sew the curtain and I totally sheer off the top of my finger! Dont even ask how! It is still a mystery! Something about my finger too close to the needle as it was flying.
So needless to say, my curtain is done, my kids know a new four letter word, and my finger hurts like hell. Still, 2 day's later.
Before:

After:

The war wound:

Forever and a day....

That's how long it feels since I have updated this blog! I am sure the 3 of you who are checking it feel that way too! Unfortunalty I have not scrapped or made cards in the last few weeks. Can I still technically call myself a scrapbooker!? I honestly dont remember the last time I scrapped a page. I do not have any plans of selling off my stuff and I view this as a very temporary hiatus! I am hoping this spring to get full swing back into it!! In all honesty, I would like to now, I just dont have the energy in me. After the stressful seperation, holiday's and now pending divorce,working the two jobs (even though one has slowed down) oh yeah, and there are those kids I take care of (LOL) and the bills...blah blah same ol same ol. I did however get one thing kinda crafty done today! I made my Feburary desktop finally! LOL It is only almost the middle of the month! Hey....that still counts. Go ahead and steal it if you want! Just download it to your computer if it will let you and go into display on your computer. That's about it! Happy Feb!!!

Hannah Montana BDAY

Well, I got through it. The birthday party. What the heck exactly was I thinking letting her invite all the girls from her class??? It went well I supposed. The girls were thrilled to come to Claire's house and see her room and all her stuff and all that. We had 11 total. OY! While I wont post pic's of the girls and her at the party, here is a pic of her cake. It turned out so cute! I had a girl make it here in town, she took a picture of Hannah herself and laminated it, then decorated around it. I thought it turned out adorable. Now off to the slumber party....why is noone slumbering????
Ps: funny thing about that cake. she used stamps on it!! I recognized them right away because I have them!! They are Rhonna Farrer stamps! I didnt know you could stamp on cake!

Birthday Invites

Claire and I made her birthday invitation's on Saturday. They are pretty generic as I had to resist my urge to completly take over and let her actually do some of the work. I let her stamp the Bella we used and color her in. Damn that was hard!! I have this horrible urgency to take the freaking cards OVER and do them myself. But it was fun and we got them done that night.
We made 5 cards, to have 5 girls stay all night. Then she changed her mind on me and decided to invite all the girls in her class and only have 2 friends stay all night. Yeah for the sleepover part, but then I had to scramble and make up a bunch more cards to send to her class. Here is my little crafter and her birthday invitations.

2Things.

Im not sure how between working and kids but I did get 2 Xmas gifts made. Well, it helped that I thought I had to work on a Thursday night only to go in there and I was not supposed to work!! HA!! So I came home and got ALOT done that night. The first thing I got done was a board I made for my mom. I found it at a scrapbook shop and I was supposed to get this special glue stuff to make it look like real tile. Only I could not find that special glue stuff. I need to order it off the net I guess and put it on there for her some other time. Anyway, I made it for her of all the grandkids. Used all CTMH paper and Autumn Leaves Alpha.

The next was a canvas that I got done for my dad and his wife. It is a picture of their wedding they had last April in Hawaii. The canvas is painted brown with some background paper on it. Honestly can't remember where I got the paper or what it is! LOL Im alot of help huh????


Well, those are my two things I got done. Hopefully I'll be back before Feb with more new stuff! hahahah...just kidding@!!