Top 9 of 2009

These are my top 9 photos of 2009:



















I hope you enjoyed these...some are just fun and cute!
Thanks for looking!

Love and Hugs!

Christmas Crafts

Here's a simple project the girls and I did together.


We made very pretty ornaments for our family. I just love handmaking gifts for people. I don't know if they enjoy receiving them as much as we enjoy making them.

Here's what you need for these ornaments:
Clear bulbs (we bought ours at Michaels)
Tim Holtz' alcohol inks
make up sponges
die cut machine
vinyl
transfer tape for the vinyl

First we dropped some ink on a sponge



Next we dapped or smeared it all over the clear bulb. I prefer dabbing b/c it gives a cute polka dot design. Gigi was more of a smearer. Lexi is a dabber like me.


Next we let them dry.

Then we cut out different images with my Cricut using SCAL (I <3 SCAL) on the vinyl. We used the transfer tape to adhere the images to the bulbs.

All we have left to do is add some ribbon to the hoops and waa-laa we are done.


Even our Elf is getting into the spirit of craftiness!!



Blog at you soon!
Love and Hugs!!

The Timmy in me

Well that kind of sounds weird....I attempted to do a couple Timmy tags. I have to say that man is uber talented.

These are my humble attempts.



Here's a Timmy inspired Holiday Card. I used ton's of embossing powder. It was so much fun to make.


Here's a Halloween LO, I did this week. I haven't scrapped it awhile, but I feel like my mojo is coming back. :D Hopefully there will be more to come.


Here's some keychains, the girls and I made for different people for xmas presents. I think they turned out really unique.


Here's the Christmas card insert that going out to family and friends. I took the photo myself and I was lazy and bought the template of 2peas.


I hope everyone has a fabulous holiday!!

Hugs and Love!
Beth :D

Poor Little Blog

I'm sorry little blog!! Life is slowing down just in time for the holidays!

Cheerleading is officially until summer. Gigi's squad came in 2nd place at competition. They worked their booties off.


Lexi is doing well in Kindergarten. I'm so proud of her. She's adapted to school quite well. She just adores her teacher.

Now that life is getting back to normal, hopefully I'll be scrapping more. I miss playing with paper. I was gonna scrap Sunday, but I didn't get around to it. But, here's the last LO I made. It's Lexi in her ladybug Tu-Tu.


Here's my favorite picture of them right now. I took it Friday while there were playing in leaves.


I hope everyone has a great week. I'll be back soon!
:)

A great crop!!

Last night I went to an incredible crop. CJ and I cropped until 10:30pm. We left the crop early, we must be getting old. LOL She was out of pictures to scrap and I ran out of mojo.

Most of these were just for fun but a couple were for challenges.


This one is for Sketchy Thursday and Ad this!








This is for Got Sketch!

Thanks for Looking!
Have a great Day!

I'm alive

I'm alive...we've just been so busy. I've turned into a taxi for my children. Today was the first day in forever we haven't had any plans. whew!! I'm still in my sweatpants. LOL sorry for the bad mental image but they are comfy.
Here's a run down of what we've been up to.
*Cheer Practice- Gigi has it 4 days a week Lexi has it 1 day a week.
*Football games on Sunday
*School- Gigi is a 3rd grader and Lexi is in Kindergarten.
*I'm a volunteer a couple days a week in Lexi's class.
*Lexi has started dance class on Thursdays once Gigi is done with competition cheering, she'll be in dance class.
*Weekends we been doing fun non-cheer related stuff. Late summer was birthday parties and swim parties. Now it's fallish activities. I LOVE FALL!!





We are just having fun as a family!

I've attached the last 2 LOs I made. I feel slightly inspired right now so hopefully I'll get scrappy tonight.



I'll blog again soon!
Love and Hugs!

catching up!!

I finally scrapped. Whoo hoo!! I did a LO and card. It felt good to play with paper again. I even made cute bookmarks for back to school.



Tomorrow Gigi starts 3rd grade and Thursday Lexi starts kindergarten. I should be able to play more, I really don't know what I'm gonna do with both of them gone. I'll probably clean and organize and maybe play.

I don't want to overwhelm y'all with tons of pictures...but we've played, gone to the zoo, gone swimming, hung out, been to a bon fire, cheer practice, football games, birthday parties and just have had tons of fun. Oh and Gigi celebrated her 8th birthday.

In 2 weeks Gigi should be completely healed from her broken arm and she's decided she wants to do competition cheer. So I guess, we'll continue to be busy once school starts.

I hope everyone has a great fabulous week!!

Love and Hugs!!