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@!!

Two Snow Days!

Wow! It is amazing what you can get done in the week when you get two snow day's! What a bouns. Well, it wont be come pay day....
yesterday the kido's stayed all night at their dads house and when I woke up we had a snow day! So i got to stay home all day ysterday and most of today by myself! Wow, did I ever get alot done!! I couldnt sleep so was up and moving by 6am. I got all the bedsheets changed to our flannel ones, I got 4 clipboards made, I got my mom's xmas gift made (which I can't post here just yet! LOL)
I got all the laundry done, the house picked up and cleaned. I got the groceries bought..gee what else did I do..oh yeah, I wrapped every xmas gift I had! Productive productive....well, here are a few of the clipboards I made. I just whipped them up super quick so they were done. Nothing fancy on any of them. They are for teacher gifts.

I FOUND IT!!

My paper piercer! Yeah Im a dork and yeah it made me super happy! So I had a few thank you notes I needed to make and I had all day to make them. My mom was even in town and wanting to work on cards today but boy I just wasnt into doing anything. I know it was because the kiddo's were home and now I have nowhere "sacred" to craft and I hate dragging it all out on the dining room table.

Are there any other mom's out there that just can't seem to get into crafting with the kids around? It just started when I became a single mom but I just can't get into it when they are home, up, running around, wanting my attention, wanting fed or I'm cleaning up after them.

Anyway.......

I did get my thank you cards done tonight when they went to bed. They were pretty simple (as is everything I do these days).

I used the yellow sheet's from CTMH that my mom gave me today and the pattern paper from Route 66, also the stamp from Library Pockets (CTMH). Got my hands on the new catalog today too. Ofcourse I found some things in there I just gotta have! LOL

Christmas Cards Done!!

I had a few hours to myself today, so instead of cleaning, I got my Christmas cards done!!! It was real fun trying to find everything. They arn't the best in the world, but they work!! I got the inspiration for them from a card I saw on TwoPeas. Then once I got to looking at them, I realized they look alot like the Christmas card I just got in the mail from my friend Marty! LOL

Anyway, I couldnt find any pop dots, so I ran out to Joann's and got some today. Im sure I"ll find my stash now that I bought new. I also could not find my paper peircer, as I wanted to add a brad to them. Oh well.....used all CTMH paper and stamps.

Got one pathetic little card made yesterday. It was a quick card to put my rent check in for my landlord! lol

It was just stuff that I had at my fingertips, which is not much lately> I didnt get down there today to work on my xmas cards, due to the wonderful ice we had. The kido's and I just bunkered down and watched Christmas movies all night and ate very very bad food. Man it was nice to just relax a bit!

Researching

No new new's to report yet. I am in the midst of researching my Christmas cards. I just can't sit down and pound out 30 cards. I have to do a week's worth of research first! Looking up cards on line and in magazine's to get a feel for what exactly it is I want to do. I think alot of my creative block is coming from the fact that my craft stuff is spread out in various boxes and totes throughout my basement. It is not readily at my hands anymore. I gotta get organized! I did get a few cards made, but was so disgusted with them I dared not share! lol
I am also needed to start my Christmas gifts I am making. I guess I better get moving huh???
Hopefully I'll have some things to post soon.
And yes, I did get my first Christmas card in the mail already!! (That used to be me! Getting them out the day after Thanksgiving!) And it was a very lovely card Marty!!!