Lady bug

My mom and dad.  So cute they love eachother so much and are a great example to me.  This is from a family reunion we had.    This ladybug is from create a critter.

I embossed the heart and inked around all the edges.

I inked around this too.  This was fun to make!  It was my first time using the inks.

The5happygirls

So I decided to start an Etsy shop.  I know, I know it is going to be FUN!  I currently only have one thing for sale.  It is my Today is a Gift wall hanging it looks like this:

  It is on Etsy here.  If you think you would like one, go ahead and buy that one.  If it has been sold (crossing my fingers) then leave a comment on this post and I will make one just for you!  Thanks!

Wondering

This is a Poem my 10 year old daughter wrote.


Wondering
I sat on the velvet sea of grass
rolling in great waves of the ocean
being lightly sprinkled by dew-droppy fronds
while drinking the fresh sweet pine scent
and a pure morning glory dew
carried by a playful wind
who toys with my hair
tossing it back and forth
a tangle of wild horses
then I looked to the sky
and let my mind go
letting it soar like a hawk
and touch the clouds
thinking
wondering
who am I?
then plummeting
down
down
down
to my brain
to reality
and once more I looked up
up to the sky
but chained my thoughts
to my head
so they didn't
float away
like a bunch of balloons
drifting off
to some mysterious place
then I  thought to myself
what is up there?

and felt like a loose thread
hanging

then thought again
what is up there
in the great huge dark universe
who stretches her fingertips to the
edge of eternity
then looks at herself
at earth, mars, Jupiter and all the planets
all the moons
and stars soaring in the sky
next to feisty comets
in millions of Galaxy's
looked at it all
and laughed at herself?
and I looked up
farther then the sky
past the clouds 
and finally felt
a sensation like none other
for I looked at
the world
above.
but that
is only
an old memory
a picture
with edges
curled and yellow
in some ancient
album of thoughts
stored in a box
in the attic
of my mind
but someday
I'll rummage through
those boxes 
and find that old memory
of sitting on the grass
and wondering
wondering
what heaven
is like.

Give her some love.  She would LOVE to read your comments! 

Looks like Spring

I made this for the FCCB challenge this week!  It is any spring time theme.  I made this layout for a 5x7 pic.  The pic will hang below the mat to almost the bottom of the page.

The little girl in the corner is from a childs year.

The base is from twinkle toes and the phrase is from straight from the nest isn't it cute!  

Kissing butterflies are from Straight from the nest I just cut two and flipped one around.   The border is a Martha Stewart border punch and then green stickles of course! 

Rosemary sign is from freshly picked and the butterfly is from SFTN.   Complete with stickled wings!  Every butterfly needs some bling after all.  :)  Come join at FCCB and let us see what you came up with! 

I also entered this in at  Scrapbookaholic By Abby Challenge #2

And Bug Bites buggy challenge

For my friend

Ok so if you have visited my blog in the last week or so you know about my friends little boy Porter age 3.  He is at Children's Hospital in Seattle recovering from brain surgery (to be reffered to as BS from now on! Per her sister!)  Anyway he isn't doing as good as hoped and has different struggles daily.  Which makes her struggle.   She is AMAZING (this is her second child with serious health issues, you can read about Payton here on make a wish) and I feel like I should DO something, which we all know I am no brain surgeon (or heart surgeon), so I can't really help.  SO I did what I can do and made this for her:

So this says "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."  At the beginning of her latest trial she emailed her friends and at the end was this quote.  Of course she probably isn't feeling like these days after the surgery are a gift, I'm sure she is glad that yesterday is HISTORY!  :)  I hope that sooner than later, each day will be a gift to her again.

Love you tons my friend!  Please know that we at our house are praying for your family!

For those of you that are from cricut blogs this is a board I got from micheals, and I painted it with black acrylic paint.  I let it dry, and then I painted a cream color over the top letting the black show through.  Then I used my gypsy and welded the letters together.  It is gypsy font on both of the fonts.  The flower and little flourish are from accent essentials.

Ok so I decided to enter this into a linky party at Getting Cricky Because I made it for a friend that I just love a ton! 

No sew Tutu

My mom came to visit and she helped me make a tutu for girl #3 and her little doll.  Sleeping beauty is her very favorite princess, so of course that is the doll she wanted to match!

Here is the finished product and very happy child!

A bit closer of the tutu.  I feel a little guily cutting off her head, she was so excited to show off her tutu she was smiling BEAUTIFULLY!

Here is a close up of the tutu.  I got 2 yards of the camo tulle at JoAnn's and used a strip of a dark pink tulle every 4 strips of the camo.  The title is a "tiny" lie because you do sew the elastic into a circle.  Then you take the tulle and cut it into about 2 inch wide strips.  Double the desired length.  Then you  take the tulle and fold it around the the elastic and tie two knots.  It will end up looking like this:

I used 1/2 inch elastic and just measured it around her waste.  Sorry to my friend Jen who is a loyal follower.  She requested a more "boyish" craft.  I don't have any of those (boys I mean), so it is a bit harder for me to get inspiration.  But I will REALLY try!  LOL.  I would LOVE to see any that you make.  TFL!

Real Santa

Another one of my "firsts" I only had george at this time.  The "snowflakes" are a small hole punch and a piece of white paper behind.  Girl #1 was on the hunt for the "real" Santa.  She finally found him!