never again...

I never want anything simply or easy...I want to die fighting...

Easy Birthday Present

Jadan came home yesterday and said it was his teachers birthday today....so as we were walking home from school I was thinking, what am I going to do? I didn't want to go anywhere, I didn't want to go spend $, I knew I would end of going to Target which only leads to a bad place for me, I LOVE that place! Then I remembered I have been making my crafts, and learning new ways to package things to sell at the shows etc. And wallah! April had a FANTASTIC b-day gift any girl would love!

The magnets are made out of glass bead things you get at the craft store to put in a vase with scrapbook paper mod podged on and then a magnet on the back. I then had Randy get me a box of washers from Home Depot which are glued on the back of the card stock and then the magnets sit on top not moving...CUTE!

The necklace is a scrabble game piece that is glued on the back side (so you can see the letter) once that is dry I use a glue called Diamond Glaze that I put on top of that. It dries clear but has the same texture/feel of glass. That takes about a day or two to dry. Then I went to Shipwreck Beads and bought the balls that go on the back to hold the chain and then you have a cute, one of a kind necklace!


I made the little flower too :) Which is on a hair clip with everything clipped together with Jadans little note!

House

Here is the house from last weekend. The inside view is from the loft area looking down over the family room. Dad is our fantastic model on the stairs :) We will go this weekend and take photos with the walls up in each room, it will make more sense then the ones I have where you see through everything into the other room....they might even have it painted if it stops raining around here today!

Tracker's sleepy friend

Mr. Tracker is by far my most snuggle baby yet. He needs to be help, touched, kissed at all times. Usually he just needs the momma and will sniff me to make sure it's me and then he is perfectly content. This also leads me to the concern that this little mister would rather sleep right next to me then in his crib! Which I love, but pretty soon momma goes back to work and I won't be here to snuggle through every nap, and I have a feeling Daddy, Yia Yia and Twylla will all be cursing my name the first few days...sorry in advance! So I found this on a ladies blog, she made one of those rice bags you warm up as big as the length of the baby and place it next to them and they think it's the body heat from momma. It does work as long as he falls asleep before it cools down :)

:::sing::: The weather outside is frig---

genUNBELIEVABLE!!!! forget frightful for frick sake! A quick glance at the thermometer reads -25 degrees...that is not a hyphen...it is 25 BELOW zero outside...
I tried to crack open my windows to feel the air, but I can't, my windows are frozen shut. Brrr...

UN LOCK THE BLOG!!

I have spoken!

Jadan's new scooter

Jadan got one of those Razer scooters for x-mas from Randy's mom that spark. He has always wanted one but it only has two wheels and since Mr. Scaredy pants still won't ride a bike without training wheels (even though the one on his bike don't touch the ground just kind of wobble if he tilts) I didn't think he could do the scooter....but he is a PRO!





Ella didn't get hers for x-mas....but look at that cute face!

Crafty handmade hair ties and flowers

I did the button covered hair ties up in just a few minutes. I got button making kits at the craft store and then used scrape fabrics to make them and then added Ella's little hair ties to the part you would actually sew onto the cloths for a button.



The flowers are made out of strips of fabric that are sewed together at the top and then braided together. Then the long strip of braid is rolled up stitching them together as I roll. ( I did this during a football game with the boys) Then I hot glued them to felt, then hot glued them to hairbands which fit miss Ella and myself :) Any time either us wear them we get tons of compliments.

Crafty!

I made these bags (designed and painted) all on my own! I bought the canvass bags at the craft store with a coupon for 3 for about $5 and then used some fabric, felt, paint, glue and a sharpie marker and got busy. Took only 10 minutes to paint all the bags we only had masking tape so I roughly measured out lines and painted in the middle. Put them out on the porch over night and then designed and cut out felt and fabric and played around for a little bit and came up with these beauties for the kids!




Jadan's is the orange
Ella's in the dotted one with the bow
Tracker's is the one eye monster

Dreaming Rudolph...

is the name of the ice cream cake we had. A Korean tradition for Christmas and New Years are cakes....there are literally just piles of them stacked up outside of bakerys and inside the ice cream shops like Baskin Robbins 31 where we bought ours. Three different flavors inside...was pretty good...but I realised from the previous post you might not recognize what it was...so we performed an oral autopsy on this specimen for you...

Oh my Cham-lord...

Here's some shots of our first night of 2011...making Chambord cocktails...

Goodbye unruly beard...hello, err..beard...

What happens after a three months of untamed facial hair gets trimmed...well, I look just slightly more presentable for public consumption.