Farm Fresh

I'm really bad at this whole blogging thing... MARCH was my last post?! Wow... I have SO many things stored to share. Ugh!

Well this is the latest - Last week I stopped by our local vegetable stand to see if I could pick up a few of the produce items on my list as I was headed to Safeway. Imagine my surprise when I found out they had EVERYTHING I wanted (except for cilantro!). I bought:

2 Dozen brown eggs

5 Lemons

3 Green Bell Peppers

2 Zucchini

1 Yellow Squash

2 Heirloom Tomatoes

2 Red Onions

2lbs of Red Potatoes

2 Garlic Heads

1 Celery Stock

and

1 Jalapeno Pepper

My total was $20.89!!!

Once at Safeway, I did a little price comparison and all the exact same produce would have cost me $32.93!! That is a whopping $12.04 people!

What's the point, you're wondering...? Well I'm saying go to your local farmers market's or stands! It helps the community and is good for you!

Another card D-O-N-E ! Woohoo!

Ashlynn is attending a birthday party at Build-A-Bear tomorrow - Naturally that meant I had to dig out my Build-A-Bear diecut/stamping stuff. Here's what I made in about 15 minutes late last night...

Check out the Easter Baskets!!

Today while shopping at Lowe's (for material to make a nesting bag... blog to follow) I found these lovely child size gardening bags! How cute are these?!

Contents Include:

1, Tote

3, Garde Tools: Shovel, Trowel, Rake

6, Jiffy Pots

1, Sesame Street Seet Packet

6, Jiffy Quick Soil Mix

1, Green & Growing Tips & Activites Booklet

6, Labeling Stakes

1, Sticker Sheet

and growing instructions

all for just $10.99 per Kit!

So, now all I need is a stuffed bunny and voila - my kids' easter baskets are done!

Stamping from boxes!

Recently, an old customer came out of the wordwork to place an order for 7 different cards and a baby gift. I didn't take any photos during the process but below are the pictures of all the card and the baby brag book (which technically was already made - waiting for a customer) that were made. This whole thing was exciting and very frustrating at the same time. As you know, we moved almost a year ago now and 90% of my craft items are in boxes. I couldn't turn down this order, but let me tell you... I've gotten stuff EVERYWHERE from pulling it all out frantically looking for items I already have etc. Happy to have the sale, glad I made it through it.... :)

Be sure to check my Etsy store frequently as I'll sell anything I make on that site from now on. Thanks!!

Jaybird Quilts has an awesome new giveaway!

My fellow followers (yes, ALL 7 of you!) there's a blog that I've been following recently called Jaybird Quilts - it's fabulous. I'm really in love with all her patterns. Today she posted a new giveaway for some kits from Wonderous Woven Fabrics! Go check it out!!

1st Valentine Exchange

Ashlynn just had her very first Valentine Exchange. I'm always on a hunt for something different/cute with a FREE or nearly free price tag. I found these lovely things at Stampin' Up! on their clearance rack for just $3.99 - for 30 of them! Then we filled them with candy watches from the dollar tree - oh and freebie coupons from McDonalds.

First we punched them all out, got Ashlynn's name on them and got them folded up - they came pre cut and scored!

Ashlynn stuffed them all - see, so easy a 3 year old can do 'em!

Added the sticker closures and D-O-N-E

My Ry-Ry turns 2!!!

Two weekends ago, was my youngest sons birthday party. We are officially entering the “terrible two’s” (I think the 3’s are worse…). After lots of searching for a place to have the party, we ultimately just decided to do it at home. We live in a tiny little townhouse so space was going to be an issue, or so I thought.

Everyone had a blast. I took great pleasure in making some cute little pieces of added fun to the party. Like:

We went with a Disney Cars theme as Ryan loves Lightning McQueen! I made this Happy Birthday Banner. It’s hard to see just how detailed it is but I love it. I used my cricut to cut the flags and the Route 66 shape. Then I folded and fanned the little pinwheels from scratch paper I had on hand, used my Sizzix Die Cut machine to cut out the letters and used some brads that looked like real screws to put it all together.



I made a Welcome to Radiator Springs sign for the front door – This was supposed to be on a steak in the grass originally but Mother Nature decided to rain.











For the food table, I printed another sign to hang above the table, “Flo’s Café”:














For the food, I created labels on the juice boxes that said “Dinoco Coolant”, the yogurt got “Dinoco Fuel” and the pretzels were “Dinoco Dipsticks”.









Lastly, I made some Pit Passes for the guests to wear. I found these great Lightning McQueen lanyards as I was walking through Party City and thought “oh my these would be SO cute” so here they are, of course I didn’t think to take a picture of the lanyard itself!:




















The cake was great too, although I had NOTHING to do with it other than calling the order in!
















It was crowded, and loud and a bit crazy at times which to us meant it was PERFECT. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves, including the children. Here is a picture of our playroom after everyone left. OH MY!! Haha!