Autumn Exchange Treasure Trade

My friends and I decided to host a Treasure Trade for all our friends to come and bring items they no longer want and trade them for items they did want! We called it the Autumn Exchange. We put alot of work into making it a fabulous night for all our friends to enjoy and it turned out amazing! Thanks ladies for a fun adventure!

 

 

 

I know these pics are a little late, since this was back in October, but it had been so long since I posted I wanted to get Christmas up before I did this

 

'Til next time!!

Family Christmas Card

This is our Family Christmas Card I designed for this year! I made it in Polaroid My Memories Suite

We hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

Christmas Blocks

My sister bought these wooden blocks and left me a set in the Spring and I couldn't decide what to do with them until I realized there are 9 letters in Christmas! Yay!

 The blocks are 1 1/2 inches square and I started by spray painting them red. I mod podged some cute glittery Christmas paper onto them and used my cricut to cut out the letters onto black vinyl. I finished it off by using glitter spray paint to mist some sparkles onto it. Nice finishing touch, if you ask me :)

 What I love most about these blocks is you can arrange them so manu different ways! You can spread them out, or stack them up depending on how much space you have to work with!

 This arrangement happens to be my favorite! Love them!



Canvas Wall Art

I have been wanting something for Cali's walls that matched her bedding I made for her to help with the finishing touches in her room. I had a canvas laying around I found a while back at DI and I came up with this:

I covered the canvas with the main focus fabric from her quilt and added frills with other matching scraps. Then I found a wooden "C" that I painted turquise and sprayed with a little glitter spray paint, which is my new favorite thing! I can't wait to see it up in her room!

Our Christmas

This is what our home looks like this Christmas. I love the classic red and gold in my Christmas decorating. I love how the gold just glows with the lights on my tree

 I also love how my bulb wreath I made last year brings it all together so nicely

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Bathroom Re-do

Ever since Paul framed my bathroom mirror in our 3/4 bath, I have wanted the cabinets black to match. Here are my new black cabinets!! I love, love, love them! Thanks to my fabulous hubby!

 It just looks so nice with my black framed mirror!! We just sanded everything down really good and painted it black with a glossy black paint using foam rollers to make them look real nice. Love it! 

Thanks babe!

Cali's 5th Birthday- A Mermaid Party!

Cali chose a Mermaid theme for her birthday this year! She has also fallen in love with the color turquise, so I thought it was perfect!

I designed this invitation for her mermaid party and sent them around to her friends and then changed the time to 7:00 and gave those to family. Yes, we did 2 parties in one day! Alot of work, but at least I didn't have to decorate twice, and yes I would!!

 

The cake alone was quite the adventure! I have never done a cake before, let alone used fondant! I know, I'm crazy! Needless to say it took me an entire day and into the evening to make this masterpiece! I found the inspiration from bubblynaturecreations.com and the tutorial from bubbleandsweet.blogspot.com. I made the ruffles out of fondant and yes, I colored each layer separately so it got darker as it went down. What a pain! Haha! The topping is graham cracker I put through my food processor. I got the pearls (white sixlets) from Zurchers and Cali and I made the chocolate seashells with a candy mold. She loved helping out!

 The inside was also colored turquise! And it tasted so good too!

 The goodie table

 Cali and I made some Mermaid posters and fishies to hang all over

 I made chocolate cupcakes with a turquise buttercream frosting topped with our candy seashells we made :) YUM!

 I made the kids Cali's favorite, PB&J shaped like fishies! And of course Cali's favorite snack to go with it, GOLDFISH!

 I also made a blue jello fishbowl with sweedish fish swimming around in it! Didn't quite turn out like I wanted, but it was still fun!

 I LOOOve Candy! A party isn't a party witout CANDY! We have blue gumballs, turquise jelly bellys, and turquise and white sixlets!

 We made some seaweed with streamers and bubbles with opaly-white balloons

 The kids jumping in the fishbowl tramp

 and fishing in the pool!

 I also made Cali a fishtail mermaid tutu skirt with toole

 Blowing out the candles!

 Happy 5th Birthday, LOVE!

Pillows for Cali's Bed

So....I finished Cali's quilt, but since she has a day bed she needed alot of matching pillows. I made the 4 standard pillows for the back with a ruffle around the edges and made 3 decorative pillows for the front

 This one was my favorite! I love how it just poofs out! I used 2 different fabrics for the ruffles and a ribbon down the center to tie it all together finished off with top stitches down the ribbon

 This pillow just has a ruffle down one side with a strip of fabric over it. I finished it off with a gathered flower that I have yet to add a jewel to

 This one is also a fun one. I took 2 long strips of brown fabric and gathered it on both sides and attatched to a strip of pink fabric and top stitched over it. I am also planning to add 3 smaller fabric flowers together on the top right corner of this one

I love how the pillows turned out and Cali's just loves her new bedding!

Magnet Board

Paul helped me make this new magnet board for our kitchen! I love it! Especially with my new fork and spoon art!! Paul and I decided we wanted new BLACK appliances in our kitchen and I wanted to be sure and take care of them and prevent as many scratches as possible. I am a "Put everything on the fridge" kind of person, so I needed some place new to put everything....

 I found the frame at DI and painted it black. The metal was from Home Depot and we used a thinner board behind it to protect the metal from getting dents in it. It works GREAT in my kitchen!

 I love including Paul in my projects because when he gets excited about something it gets done FAST! Thanks babe!

Hot/Cold Packs

My oldest sister, Janeal, is exactly 14 years older than me and we share a birthday, so we consider ourselves twins. She pretty much raised me, since my mom went back to work full time from the time I was a year old. She was born with cerebral palsy and wasn't supposed to survive, but if she did she was supposed to live her life as a vegetable, not able to take care of herself or do anything. With alot of hard work and therapy she was able to crawl and eventually walk with the help of a cane. She also was able to graduate from college and eventually marry in the LDS temple and give birth to 2 sweet boys. They are now 15 and 17 years old! She is such an inspiration to me of hard work and determination. She is not able to work, because of her disabilities, but unable to qualify for disability benefits. She would like to earn a little money to help her family and is selling these cute hot/cold packs she is making. They would be perfect for anyone with aches and pains or would great gifts for family members or for Chirstmas!

Her friend she makes thes with has a 14 year old grandson who has Brittle Bone Disease and recently broke his femur. After surgery, nothing helped with his swelling including the cold packs the doctors gave him, but these cold packs are the only thing that reduced the swelling and relieved him of that pain. They are not selling these merely to make money, but because they truly believe in the product!

These rectangular ones are 4 in. wide x 9 1/2 in long, and 5 in wide x 10 1/2 in long. You can buy them individually, or in a set. Smallest to largest, they are $6 and $8 or $13 for the set

These squared ones are all 5 1/2 in wide and 6, 6 1/2, and 7 1/2 in long. You can buy them individually, or in a set. Smallest to largest, they are $5, $7, and $9 or $20 for the set

If you would like to buy any, you can email her at pulsatron2003@gmail.com to make a purchase. I am really excited to help her with this and hope you like her creations, they are super cute!

Cali's Quilt!

My daughter, Cali, has a pink room. Bubble gum pink. Pink, Pink. All her decorations are the same as when she was born: blessing dress, pink baby blocks, baby pictures...you get the idea. I was worried it might be a little too little-girly for her, since she is almost 5 now. I decided I wanted to splash in some HOT pink and some turquise, since those are her 2 favorite colors. I made this quilt for her bed, making sure it wasn't too difficult or time consuming, since she is only 5 and could possibly ruin it :). I fell in love with the fabric and also have been working on 7 coordinating pillows to go on her day bed. I am so happy it is finally finished and she loves it!

Love you baby girl!