Happy Canada Day!

As promised here is my lil sweetie in the sleeper I altered from this post. Isn't she just the cutest little canadian you have ever seen??

Hope all you Canada born people had a super day. As for my family we just chilled at home and we might catch some fireworks off of our deck later this evening.
I am so happy and proud to be Canadian! Happy Canada Day!

Mom, I am so Thankful for you - Emporium Card Pack

My mom has been here helping me since Thursday and she will be staying until this coming Friday. I wanted to give her something to show my appreciation (she has been a tremendous help thus far: cooking, cleaning, running after the toddler,etc.). I had made this card pack up for her a couple of weeks ago. I got the original idea from here. Vicki had used it as a Mothers Day gift and had made the box to look like a purse (I opted to get rid of the handles).



I made two each of the following six cards to go inside (with envelopes too, of course):






Close to my Heart products used:
- Emporium Paper Pack
- A handful of stamp sets
- Cocoa, Sweetleaf, and Heavenly Blue Ink
- Liquid Glass
- White Daisy and Spring Blossom Collection Flowers
- Sweet Leaf Ribbon
- Mocha Opaques
- Black Button Brads

I am so glad that my mom has been able to be here for Thia's first week it has been such a blessing. Thanks again mom!

A little Surprise

Well on Monday I was going to post something to the extent of "The Final Countdown: 10 days To Go Til Baby Arrives" and give you all an updated version of the list I had brought up in this post. Sharing with you what I had gotten done and what still needed to happen before babies arrival,
but.....
my plans went askew when I WENT INTO LABOR!!!

One stressful ride to the hospital and another emergency c-section later, we were able to meet our 3 week early bundle of joy!
It's a Girl!! Meet S's little sister, T.



We just got out of the hospital yesterday and we have been settling in quite nicely, although S is still at Grandma's til this afternoon. We'll see how it goes once she shows up, T will be mauled with hugs and kisses, among other things such as poking and prodding.



Interesting Tidbit: S was born on my Grandpa's birthday(my mom's dad) and T was born on my other Grandpa's birthday (my dad's dad)....so we have two very proud great grandpa's! Go figure!

We had such a sweet surprise this week, I guess my list will have to wait a little while to be completed. Be patient with me in the next few weeks because I'm not sure how much I'll be able to blog. I might be too busy cuddling my girlies!

Did you have any 'little surprises' this week?

Snips and Snails...that's what lil boys are made of

One of my closest friends had an adorable baby boy at the beginning of the month and I got to meet him last Monday. I made this cute card to accompany his gift (A sock monkey and two tigger sleepers).

This was another idea I found in last months Scrapbook Etc. magazine. I just loved the snail and had to try it. You simply cut out all the body parts and add googly eyes! For the shell you cut a large circle and then cut again to make a spiral, distress the edges and then adhere back together so that it is like a little bowl. Use a 3D dot to adhere to the card and you got an adorable snail embellishment! I'm pretty sure I'll be using this guy in a layout sometime in the future, he's too cute to pass up!



I used these CTMH products:
- Miracle and Emporium Paperpacks
- Sweetleaf, Bamboo and Heavenly Blue Ink
- Babylove Stampset
- Chocolate Waxy flax

A Night Table Refinished

I found this night table at a yard sale for $3 and I thought 'that would be perfect to replace the TV tray in our guest bedroom!'. Haha, I'm totally serious...TV trays make great night tables if you have nothing else available and no extra cash to go out and buy one.

Anyways of course I had the plan all along to repaint and switch out the handles, but as I perused other blogs to see what everyone else does I found that plastic veneer is not the best thing to work with. None the less I was still determined to make my $3 buy a good one. I first sprayed it with a plastic specific spray paint, twice, and it still didn't look anywhere near decent so then I just decided to use some good ol' latex paint that I had in the garage (leftover from the trim in our house I think..). We had a couple handles left over from our kitchen cabinets (how did that happen?) so they worked perfect to bring a more modern look to the table.

Tadaa, a new-looking night table for the guest bedroom!!!



Night Table - $3
Spray Paint - $16 (had to buy 2 cans, I should have done just one coat and saved myself $8)
Latex Paint - free
New Handles - free

Total cost = $19



The guest bedroom reveal should be coming soon!

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