A Family Portrait of Sorts

When I saw this fabulous idea I knew I had to do it! A bird family portrait painting. With a little birdie representing each member of our family (..of course our family is still three but in a month it will be four so I just went ahead and painted a bird for baby too). I also left branch room for any other 'hatchlings' that show up in the future.

Below is a shot of the background pre-branch and bird:

I absolutely love how it turned out! It was such a quick and easy project that I feel like doing more of them.

You should check out the original, HERE! What a great idea, thanks Laura!

I'm linking this up to:
- Sugar and Dots
- Tatertots and Jello
- I Heart Naptimes

Cards for Six Grand Moms!

These are the two cards I made multiples of for Mothers Day - sent to all the special women that have made our existence possible!
Above is the card that I made for both my mom and my husbands mom, below is the one I made for our four grandma's(being 'great grand-moms' to our girlie!). Each card made complete by including a recent picture of our daughter and a special note to each wonderful lady!



Supplies used:
- random patterned paper from my scrap box (it might be MyMindsEye but not absolutely sure)
- Bohemian Alphabet and Tiny Typewriter Alphabet Stampsets - CTMH
- Juniper and Hollyhock Ink -CTMH
- Green Sparkles

I liked how they turned out, I think the paper ruffle and the bling really add to the simple layout, don't you?

Celebration Robot and Fox

Recently I needed to replenish my stock of birthday cards that I have on hand (I hate when those birthdays just sneak up and you have no time to whip up something). I needed to make cards that were for both genders and for any age. So I started with the two adorable stamps, the robot and the fox, and used the left over paper from THIS layout, added a sentiment and some bling...tada 15 cards later I am sitting pretty for when a birthday strikes!






Aren't they so fun! I've had the fox stamp for awhile but I just bought the robot and I love him! I was so excited to use him on a project, you may be seeing more of him in the future!

The stampsets used:
- Live Loud Collection Robot Rockin~ Imaginisce (robot)
- Twitterpated Collection Foxy~ Imaginisce (fox)
- Something Splendid~ CTMH (sentiment)
- A Little Everything~ CTMH (sentiment)
- Unity~CTMH (sentiment)
- Celebrate the Occasion~ CTMH (sentiment)
Other supplies: Cocoa Ink and Smoothie marker~ both CTMH

Mothers Day Goodness

I embroidered this tea towel for my mom for mothers day (something small that I could send in the mail). It was harder than I thought because the material was more like cheesecloth rather than normal fabric so I had to watch the stitching pretty carefully.
This is another pattern (which I sort of altered) from Doe-C-Doe blog.



These are the lovely flowers that my husband got for me for mothers day,he also made a fabulous breakfast Sunday morning. On Saturday we were able to go garage sale-ing as a family (I LOVE garage sales!!) so that made the weekend even better(although I didn't have much luck at the sales, it was still a lot of fun). I am so blessed to have such a great husband and daughter!



I also made cards for my mom, mom-in-law, and all the grandmas which will be posted later on in the week because I know some of them haven't recieved them in the mail yet!
I have been busy working on four paintings and a photo display wall so hopefully I can share those with you soon! Happy craftin'

Big Girl Room

So like I said a few posts ago, we just moved into our new house the week before Easter. My favorite part thus far has been setting up Sadie's room. It was so much fun!! I was getting totally psyched to do it when I finished her quilt (posted HERE) and when the room was painted. After finding a used toddler bed for $15 I was set to go. It is not totally finished but I couldn't help but share with you.



The curtains I made to match the quilt:


Close up of her bed. Complete with the name cushion which I have a tutorial for HERE.


The empty spot on the wall between the shelf and the dresser still needs a painting to be hung.


First time seeing her big girl room all set-up(grandma had taken her for a sleepover so I was able to get it done in one night). She was so excited, I knew she loved it!


What I opened the door to after her first nap.....


To date she has only fallen out of the bed twice, fallen asleep on the floor twice, and luckily she has only moved that shelf just the one time. Not too bad for our first couple of weeks in a big girl room!

* Update* See Part 2 - Big Girl Room: Additions and Details

Linked to:
Tatertots and Jello
Sugar and Dots
I heart Naptimes