Love is a Battlefield

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

 

 Admit it, you are singing that song in your head right now!  You are welcome!

It's Valentine's Day already!

Hey friends!  I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend!  Praying for all of those that have had horrible weather over the past week.  Snow storms and tornadoes...weather is such a weird and unpredictable thing!

How is it possible that Valentine's Day is this week?  Wasn't Christmas, like yesterday?  Time is just going WAY too fast!  (I think I say that a lot...but wow, I feel like my life is just slipping away!)

Thankfully, I have until Thursday to finish Jameson's, but I had to get on the ball and finish mine for work this weekend!

I saw this idea on Pinterest last week and thought it was adorable.  I really didn't think I would have time to design something similar, so I just left it on the back burner and tried to figure out something else to make for my co-workers.  I found a couple of things, but nothing was as cute as that one (that wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg to make!).  I showed several ideas to Marty, and he loved the same one I did, and encouraged me to try it.  I worked on it for a while and finally was able to come up with my own template.  I am thrilled how well they came out!

The M and M's on the top are supposed to be all white....but seriously, there are only about 10 white M and M's in a large Valentine's Day bag.  HAHA!  I wish I had taken a picture of the back, where you can see all the M and M's.  I stacked them in shades of red->dark pink->light pink->white.  It looks all OMBRE back there! LOL  I hope my co-workers will love them!

My goal was to complete Jameson's Valentines today, too...but I bought the wrong size ink for my printer. So, I'll have to make another trip to the store and spend big bucks to by the correct size ink!  (In the same note, does anyone need any size 125 Epson ink?  I can make you a real good deal.  LOL)  Normally, I try to go all out with his classmate treats, but he is OVER that.  He picked out a super-simple Valentine and that's all he wants me to make.  Here is an image of what his will look like:

It will be attached to a plastic Army man.  No candy tubes, no super time-consuming treats....just a simple heart with an Army man.

**sigh**

First Chelsea graduates, and now this.  Where did I go wrong?  HAHA!

These next two things aren't Valentine's related, but I thought I would share anyway.  

I had the pleasure of designing an invitation for a surprise baby shower for a friend.  I had to block out all the information for now, because who knows if she will see it!

The background behind the dots and the damask is actually a very light pink.  It doesn't show up well in the photos.  I stressed out about these and almost printed them with several misspelled words!  It doesn't work well to do something like this when you aren't 100% fresh!  LOL

This is another one of my sequined shadow boxes.  I made this for a friend's daughter who was re-doing her room.  This is the first one of these I've done that isn't holiday related.

 

 

The words are actually silver and they just sparkled right along with the sequins and glittered background.  I loved the way this came together! 

Well folks, that's all that I have for today!  I hope your Monday is calm and uneventful!

Mama's Mumblings

Hey friends!

  We've had days and days of rain (with a few periods of no rain, but still clouds).  I know we need the rain, but my mood sure would benefit from a little bit of sunshine!  Maybe the sun could shine all day and then it only would rain at night.  That sounds like a good idea to me.  LOL

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Basketball continues around here.  Jameson had two games last week, and both opponents were from other areas.  When we saw each team warming up, we knew we were in trouble.  The other teams looked like pros compared to us.  However, after both games were over, we found out that our 9 - 10 year olds were playing their 12 and 13 year olds.  Huge difference when it comes to sports.

Jameson's second game

Final score.  We are HOME.

 

Jameson's third game.

Final score.  We are GUEST.

The kids have been disappointed in their losses, but they have really been doing great!  We told them that they managed to score 10 and 12 points against 12 and 13 year olds!  That is a HUGE accomplishment!  We have really enjoyed basketball and we hope that Jameson will continue to like it and want to play again over the years!

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Speaking of basketball, you know we had to have parent shirts, right?

Front

As was pointed out on Twitter, yes, his team name is "Munford White".  The teams are color names like Red, Blue, White, etc...  I know, real creative.

Back

I think they turned out pretty cute considering how quick I put them together and didn't have a clue what colors their jerseys were going to be.

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Sweets continues to cause many laughs around here.  Here is how I caught her sleeping the other day:

She is rotten!

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Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so I have been working on a few things.

Red glitter heart t-shirt.

"With all my heart" shadow box.  I love these shadow boxes.  They are so much fun to pick up and shake and watch all the sequins move around.

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I hope you all have a wonderful and fantastic week filled with sunshine!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I just wanted to wish all of you a very Happy Valentine's Day to ALL of you!

See, I did manage to find something to do with all those suckers!  LOL

And the kids wanted to say Happy Valentine's Day, as well!

 

From HERE

It's funny that both kids LOVED this Valentine's Day treat!  I guess they are both obsessed with their iPods and thought this was fabulous! 

We all hope you are having the best Valentine's Day ever!!

Sometimes, you just have to say "Forget It!"

Hey y'all!

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.  It has been COLD, COLD, COLD around these parts!  It's the first "real" winter weather we've had this season, it seems.  I like cold weather, however, so it's been fine with me.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and as usual, I've waited until the last minute to finish all my products.  During Halloween and Christmas, I went WAAAAAY overboard and almost had a nervous breakdown trying to get everything finished.  Thanks to Pinterest, I almost made the same mistake for Valentine's Day, too.

There have been SO many absolutely adorable ideas on Pinterest.  Of course, I want to make every single stinkin' one of them!

From Here

 I've had these candy cane hearts pinned since before Christmas.  I even bought candy canes on clearance after Christmas just to make these.  I realized after I bought them that the candy canes I got were way too long to make these.  I worried myself sick trying to figure out how I could make these work.

From HERE

 I know this is a Christmas bag, but I thought it would be cute to try for Valentine's Day.  I managed to get the design and the spacing correct, but just couldn't make the bags work without ink smearing everywhere.

From HERE

I woke up Sunday morning, way too early, thinking about trying to make a huge batch of this.  I had part of what I needed, but still would have to make a town run to get the rest of it.

From HERE

Oh my goodness.  These were SUCH A PAIN!  I bought tons of cupcake wrappers, all different shapes, sizes and colors with images of beautiful floral sucker bouquets filling my treat bags.  HA!  I worked and worked and worked on these stupid things and I just could not make them work!  The "normal" size cupcake wrappers were WAY too big.  The small wrappers were WAY too small.  They all looked like a mess!

From HERE

I briefly thought about making these for Jameson's classmates, but once I realized how many pieces each robot would take, I changed my mind...quickly!

From HERE

From HERE

When I couldn't get the suckers to work with the cupcake wrappers, I thought about trying to make something like these.

From HERE

And OH MY GOODNESS, this shows up on my page on Sunday night!  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these and wish I would have seen it a week ago!  I have almost everything to make these, but I couldn't find the containers (that I just ordered a month ago).

On top of all this, my piece of junk HP printer refuses to scan anything anymore. I worked on that stupid thing for hours and it still doesn't work.

So, at some point during all of this frustration, it hit me like a bolt of lightning...

I don't HAVE to do ANY of it.

NONE. OF. IT.

As long as my kids have their cute little Valentine's cards (that they picked out and loved), who says I have to do anything else?  When I said something to Jameson about goody bags, he said "Mama, I'm totally fine with having just one thing, really."  (I think he may be a tiny bit embarrassed with me overdoing them).

So, I decided to say "Forget it!" and just finish the kid's Valentines and the ones I'm giving out at work.  So now I am actually DONE with my Valentine's Day stuff ONE DAY EARLY...

And it feels fantastic!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

For the past several years, I've tried to make Valentine's Day cards for the kids.  It's not that I have anything against boxed cards, they are just so "alike".  Never being one who wants to blend in with the crowd, I spend tons of time trying to find cute ideas to make for them.  This year, there were SO MANY adorable cards and ideas out there, it was hard to choose....so I let the kids choose for themselves.

 

After spending HOURS trying to figure out how to save these into my computer, here are our Valentine's Day cards for 2011:

 

This is Chelsea's card.  She didn't really want anything "cutesy", so I just did a simple, fun card.  I added a little heart "bling" to the corner of her picture that's not showing up on the example.

I know this is not a new picture of her, but Marty and I love, love, love the expression she has in this picture.  She loved it too, and that's all that really matters.

Here is Jameson's card:

I got the idea for his card from here.  It does look almost exactly like her example, but I did every single thing myself...from downloading multiple fonts, to printing out black mustache's to attach to all the cards. The actual cards have a big, black mustache attached to the front so the kids can wear them once they get the card.  We had so much fun making these!

And here is my card that I am giving to my co-workers AND to all of you, my most wonderful bloggie buddies:

I got the idea for this card here.  I love, love, love the original!  It took me FOREVER to make that little monkey face, but I think he turned out pretty cute.

I hope you all have a most wonderful and fantastic Valentine's Day, full of love and surprises!  I love each and every one of you!

I'm still here!

I'm still here, y'all!

I've been crazy busy with life and stuff and Valentine's Day cards!

Most years, I try to make the kid's their own cards, and this year has been no exception.  I'm not quite ready to reveal them yet, but let me just say they involve a little bit of this:

and this:

(Yes I know this is not a new picture of Chelsea, but it worked perfectly!)

and a little bit of this:

 The sock monkey may be assisting with MY card this year....heh, heh, heh...

I promise to reveal all as soon as I can figure out how to transfer my images from my Silhouette software to here!

I hope you all have a wonderful and fantastic weekend!

I am about to go on my very first excursion to this place...

Pray for my bank account!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope you have a wonderful, fantastic, and loving Valentine's Day!

{{{HUGS}}}

Nature's Decorating.

For the first time that I can ever remember, it snowed for the SECOND time in a single Winter!  The kids were beside themselves with excitement!  When they went to bed Thursday night, they thought school would be dismissed, however, no such luck for our district.

So, they got up and at 'em, and headed to school for their Valentine's Day parties. 

Here's their loot.  

Chelsea already had her cards at school, so I didn't have them to put on front of her goody bags.

Chelsea and others boogie-ing down at the party.

Chelsea and Brooke

During the party, they announced that school would let out early....as in 45 minutes from then.....so Chelsea went with me to pick up Jameson at his party. Not only did Jameson have his Valentine's Day party, but it was also Pajama day and hat day.

Here is Chelsea, Jameson, and Isaiah.

Jameson's super-hyper-hopped-up-on-pizza-and-candy class.

By the time we made it home, the snow was coming down HARD. Jameson threw some gloves and a toboggan on and was out the door. I only saw him one time before dark when he came in to change into some dry clothes.

The only pictures I was able to get of him was with my telephoto lens...lol

We woke up this morning to blue skies and frozen snow. Jameson wolfed down his breakfast and was soon out the door again. I think this kid would do just fine in Alaska. Since I couldn't pin him down for pictures, I just took pictures of the rest of the environment.

I finally got him to be still long enough to get a good picture!

"OK, OK.....can I go back a play some more NOW?"

That is some well-worn snow right there!

As I am sitting here typing this, most of the snow is melting away....much to Jameson's dismay.

Here's hoping it won't be another 8 years before we see the white stuff again!