CELEBRATION OF YOU - BLOG CANDY

Just scroll down to celebrate YOU with some blog candy!

THE TOOTHFAIRY FORGOT - AGAIN!

I am so ashamed!!! My dd Vanessa lost one of her front teeth yesterday, and of course expected her toothfairy reward this morning, and was very disapointed to find her tooth still under her pillow. In the Toothfairy's defense, I was so sleepy yesterday evening, I could have fallen asleep standing. My dh had to work late and I tried to stay awake, so I started painting the dinningroom wall and completely forgot about the Toothfairy's responsibilities.
So now the Toothfairy has to write an apology and leave her reward when Vanessa is in school. She probably came when I walked the girls to school!
The sad part is that this is the second time this has happened to her. Mind you, her sister lost her eyetooth on Sunday and she forgot and did not check her pillow first thing, which gave the Toothfairy the chance to sneek her reward under her pillow before she went to school. So she did not feel special at all. So now the Toothfairy has to make up for this mistake. And then I want to do some stamping. The scetch challenge is great today on Splitcoast. I want to try it!

BLOG CANDY - A CELEBRATION OF YOU!

Good Morning YOU,

It is a lovely Monday morning and I just have the urge to celebrate. So I want to make a celebration to YOU. Thank YOU for dropping by and leaving your comments on my blog. I want to give YOU a small gift.

It includes:

SCRAPBOOKING ON THE GO - great small scrapbooking ideas

2 6X6 pads of decorated paper, 1 in soft green tones, 1 in classic earth tones (I really like this one!)

2 clear stamp sets

2 finishing accents

I would love to get to know you a little better, so I would like for you to tell me something about your stamping life. It can be: what is your favorite stamping technique, what time of day are you most inspired, where do you get your inspiration, who is your favorite stamper, where do you stamp??? I will ask my hubby to give me a number Thursday night. So be back on Friday for the WINNER!

I have found out that I get the best ideas when I am lying down. Unfortunately that is usually at bedtime and I am tired. So, that is a very short time. I really like the layering, and am trying to practice it. I love the cracked glass technique. I love the doodled look and am working on that. I love altering items, because they can be displayed in your home. My stamping space is in our unfinished basement. Unfortunately I do not get very inspired being in the dark, so most of the time I pick up my stuff and go to the dinning room table. So here is a bit about my stamping life. I will be looking forward to reading about yours!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

MATTHEW'S FUNKY HAIRCUT!

Hi,

No stamping yet today. Today the girls are having Sports Day at school so I am spending most of my day there. Thankfully the weather is great. It has been rainy all week and is supposed to rain this weekend, so this is an answer to prayer that the sun is shining.

I just want to share my ds first professional haircut experience. My dh needed a haircut so he suggested that we get Matthew's hair done too. He is a very active little boy and has not let us give him proper haircuts at home, so I really hoped this would work. He was a bit hesitant to sit on the chair and I had to hold his hands for quite awhile, but after that he actually seemed to enjoy this experience. So here is a before and after picture of Matthew. They added the green colored spikes, which his sisters thought was really funky.

FAUX CLOISONNE INSPIRED

I have been wanting to make this altered frame as a gift to my niece for her graduation. So What I had in mind is to use the frase "FOLLOW YOUR DREAM" and the use of a flying butterfly came to mind. So obviously I had to use WINGED THINGS and as I seem to not be able to make anything without flowers, I had to use IN FULL BLOOM which is a close relative to WINGED THINGS. I had asked my niece which colors she likes and she said Orange, Green and Blue. I found this great package of dp in COSTCO which has a few sheets of Burnt Orange colored papers. So I used those to modgepodged the frame. Now as for how I was inspired with the faux cloisonne, I thought I could do this technique for the butterfly and the flowers, but faux cloisonne calls for glossy magazine paper. I wanted to use the same dp I used for the frame, but as it is not glossy I just stamped with Basic Black and used a staszon maker to deepen the color of the edges. I guess it would have been a closer Faux cloisonne if I would have gold embossed the image, but that was not quite the look I was going for. I modgepodged the images to stiffen them a bit. The background is Mellow Moss sponged with close to cocoa and Marigold Morning. The sentiment is on Marigold Morning sponged with Close to Cocoa.

Sorry, I do have to say that it looks better IRL. It is really bugging me that I cannot get the images to look as good as I see them IRL.

Now I am off the school to my dd Vanessa's Puppet Show. She is the narrator and she is all excited about it.

EDITED: ADDED THIS BETTER PICTURE OF MY FRAME. I WORKED ALL AFTERNOON TO GET A GOOD PHOTO AND F I N A L L Y!!!

HAVE TO SHARE SOME BLOGGING FUN

Hi there,
No stamping yet today. Hopefully after I get the girls from school. I'm typing with one hand as my little ds is falling asleep on my lap. So I'm just blog surfing and I came across this blog translating site http://babelfish.altavista.com, and I thought I should try it in Spanish so I can send my link to my spanish speaking friends. It is too funny. It translates word for word and some sentences just do not make sense. If you have time to have some fun, try it out.

ELEVEN - MY FAITHFUL NUMBER!!

Happy Friday everybody!
We are going camping this weekend. How about you?
So, lately when I check my counter, it seems that there are 11 of you who come back to check me daily. So I want to Thank You. To the ELEVEN FAITHFUL ladies (I'm assuming LOL!) that come by to visit my blog, please leave a message and I will send you a RAK next week. I guess you will have to leave a comment including your name, but also send me an email with your address. In your comment, please tell me what your favorite colors are. Hopefully I can make you something close to what you like!
THANK YOU my faithful 11!!