Happy Birthday, Dad!

I'm sure you've seen all the subway art around in the blogosphere;) Well, I just love it, and I love those personalized birthdate plaque thingys that are on Etsy. So I decided to make my own.  We have a janky old word program on our computer, so when I printed out the subway artish plaque for my dad it wasn't what I wanted it to be. The words were sooo far apart from eachother and I wanted a more cohesive look, so I added lines. I initially drew them on....not good! Then I decided to just slice up black paper and use a Zig 2 way glue pen to attach them randomly.  I loved the look.  Here is the final product!

Bitten By The Bug 2 Challenge

Bow ties for little boys

I've been wanting to make a bow tie for my son for quite some time now, so here's how it turned out....

As you can see, in the top photo, my son was very busy.
He was not interested in taking photos at this time.  

 

Then he saw his Papa and, as you can see, his face just lit right up. 

DIY Mothers Necklace

I've noticed some of my friends and their moms have these cool Mothers/Grandmothers necklace, so I decided to give it a go and make my own!

Ribbon Headbands with detachable Korker bows

***** This just in....here is the tutorial I learned how to make these headbands with. go here*******

Here are the ribbon headbands with detachable Korker bows.
Another item for the craft show on Nov 12th.  They
come in many different color combos.
Shown above is royal blue, white, and turquoise with white polka dots
Great for spirit days for school!

Enjoy!

First Day of School

I can't believe my son is in preschool!  Craziness!  Anyways, he's in the 2 year old program a couple of days a week.  His classroom is named "The Ladybug Room".  So I decided to make a gift for the teachers.  I almost forgot to mention, I'm in a group called MOPS.  I'm a table leader, and our table this year is called "The Ladybug" table...I didn't even pick the name!  I lucked out, huh!  So, I made these for the ladies at our table too:)

Ladybug magnets!  They are in the front and in the back is how I packaged it.

For the Magnets:   This project is super simple and you can do this with many different wooden shapes.  Just buy the prepainted wooden shapes and hot glue a magnet to the back of them.  

For the Box: Just assemble the box, put the magnets inside, wrap a ribbon around it and tape it at the bottom using scotch tape.  Then cut out the lady bug in black and the top in red.  Attach them to the ribbon using the dimensionals! 

Recipe:

Cricut: Walk in my Garden cartridge 2 in. ladybug

Black Cardstock

Red Cardstock

dimensionals

Ladybug Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

Painted wooden ladybugs from Hobby Lobby

Circle Magnets from Michaels

White box from Target- 

( I got the boxes many years ago 

and don't know if they 

still have them...sorry)

Have a great day!

Two Two Birthday Party!

My son just had his 2nd birthday!  I can't believe it!  Anyways, it was a ton of fun and here are the highlights:)


                                                    The Invitation

                                                        The Entrance

(The shadow of the tree ended up on my husband and son's face:( This is the only pic we have of all four of us from the party. Can you believe it? What a shame:(  )

The Cake Table

              The cake I learned how to make on BettyCrocker.com This was the first shape cake I've ever made and it was fun and quite simple!

The cake pops were a big hit!  Everyone loved them!  They're easy to make too!  I learned on YOUTUBE.  Just go to youtube and type in cakepops.  They're so fun to make!

The Craft

  

The kids painted choo choo trains with their name on it.  I used my cricut machine to cut out each child's name using vinyl lettering.  Then I put their names on the trains.  The kids used sponge brushes and all different colors of paint.  They painted the choo choo and painted over their name too.  Then when the paint dried they peeled off the vinyl lettering and then their name was on the train with the wood grain showing through. It was a big hit!

The Birthday Gift: Train Table

Fun theme and best of all my son LOVED his train table! 

I LOVE my Husband!

Here is my craft room that my husband built for me!  A special thanks to my father in-law and bro in-laws for helping build it! My craft room used to be in one of our upstairs bedrooms, but we needed that space for my daughter who was just born.  So my lovely husband decided to take part of our unfinished basement and turn it into my craft room!  Did I mention..I love my husband?!

Baby Girl's Nursery

You may have noticed, but I have been quite absent the past weeks.  We had spring break and then I started getting the nursery ready. By the way...tomorrow is my c-section!  It went by so quickly!

   

       Here I am 38 weeks pregnant.    My son is 20 months (I let my husband slide on this photo op, but once baby girl comes... he'll have to suck it up;)ha!  He's a really good sport:) 

Now onto the nursery!
I'm not 100% done yet.  I still need to add her name above the crib, a mirror, and bow holder, but this is how it will look for right now!

The Giraffe table was in my nursery when I was a little girl.  Then we gave it to my aunt to use in my cousin's room when she was a little girl.  My aunt painted it and brought the cute little giraffe back to life by adding a rope tail, googly eyes and pom poms on the handles.  Then she gave it to us when my cousin changed her room into a big girl room.  I'm so glad we were able to have it.  I just love it's history!

I posted earlier about this dresser, but I love it so much I want to discuss it again.  This dresser was in my parents office as an antiquey original wood dresser.  It is actually a child's dresser.The top portion is actually just a shelf that was put on the dresser to give it heighth.  My mom was nice enough to paint it for me (since I'm pregnant).  I knew I wanted it green and white, after my mom and I put our heads together we decided it would be best to just paint the door green.


                                          
We changed out the handles to white with green polka dots (we got them at Hobby Lobby by the way....which they have a huge selection of drawer pulls if your looking).  I just love how everything turned out!

Thanks for sharing my special memories with me!  I hope you got some ideas!

Renewed Nursery Dresser

My parents redid the office in their house and were getting rid of this old dresser ( I wish I had a picture of it before it was painted).  I needed one for my baby girl's nursery.  The wall color is purple and the accent color is going to be green.  So, my mom graciously painted the dresser for me since I'm pregnant.  I'm so excited at how it turned out!  I can't wait to finish the rest of the nursery!

Spring Wreath

This wreath was so fun to make! 

♣Happy St. Patrick's Day♣

Just thought I'd share a few little items I've made this week for St. Patrick's Day.

I wore the pin with a black shirt and I made a bunch of the packages

 for my husband's secretaries.

If you want a tutorial on either let me know☺

Have a super fantastic St. Patrick's Day!

Teen Birthday Gift

My sister in law turns 15 today!  Yesterday we celebrated her birthday.  We had already bought something for her, but I couldn't resist making a few items for her.  Check them out.

Ruffle Bracelet, Button Hair Ties, T-shirt Headband

Jungle Theme Baby Shower

What a crazy weekend!  I don't know if it's because I'm 34 weeks pregnant, chasing around a 19th month old, or both (I think they're both good excuses), but I've just recovered from the weekend!  We hosted a couples shower for our dear friends Saturday night. Then Sunday, we drove 2.5 hours to West Lafayette (Go Purdue) for my friend's baby shower.  I thought I would post some of the games, decorations and such from the shower we hosted.  The theme was a JUNGLE theme. Enjoy!

Boilermaker Bundle Baby Shower Gift

On Sunday I went to a baby shower for one of my dearest friends.  She doesn't know what she's having yet, so I decided to make a gift using the color scheme black and gold.  We met at Purdue and both our husbands went to Purdue as well so I thought it was a perfect fit!  I call this the Boilermaker Bundle!