Thank You Card Workshop

 Thank You Card Workshop!! May 18, 2013

Preregistration required. Space is limited!

 The available time slots are:
12:00- 2:30 and 3:00-5:30

Cost is $10.00
 
All supplies will be provided for you. A very simple workshop. Perfect for every skill, (or lack there of) level!

Thank You Card Workshop May 18th



Card Workshop, Floral Option

 

Thank You Card Workshop May 18th

 Black and White with a POP of color

There are three pop of color options to choose from.

 Blue, pink or red.

Happy Easter Card

 

Made with Close to My Heart paper and a Whipper Snapper stamp, prisma pencils .

November 29

Okay so it's only one more day until December 1. Still haven't finished my list! However, I've put a huge dent.

Also received my Christmas cards from Snapfish. Which I spelled Family wrong on our card. Famiy, nice.

Yikes..... we only have one more week left of October! I feel like I have accomplished nothing this month! Football is finally over. Yippie! No more spending hours driving back and forth to practice and racing to games after school. Or early Saturday morning games.

I've been able to purchase a few Christmas gifts. Not many.However, it's a start. The youngest child is easy to buy for. It's that older two where it get a bit more difficult.


Off to start my day.

Happy First day of October! Only 12 weeks till Christmas. Better get my shopping on! I only have 1 big gift for one of the kids. My goal is to be  done shopping by December 1st. I want to be able to enjoy the holiday this year. We also decided to stay home for Christmas and not travel back to family on Christmas Eve. Which makes me a little sad but happy too. I really want to wake up in our own home Christmas morning. We haven't since we moved out here. I must be on a goal setting kick:)

Yikes!

Well it's been a while since I've posted.... ANYTHING! Yikes. Time just goes right on by. My goal over the summer was to get caught up on my scrapbooking. Well i made it to Christmas 2010. LOL:) Not that far.

We have had a super busy summer and now fall. I got a job outside our home last year and have continued on with that this year. It's only 4 hours, but I'm finding it hard to fit in everything I want to do and work. Is that lame or what? I miss my free time. Why did I ever seek out a job? What was I thinking!?

Rick and I just celebrated our 14 year wedding anniversary. Yep that's right. We rock. I love him so much. Super lucky to have him in my life.

Okay so it's never to late to start a new goal.... New goal, be faithful in my blogging. Created and participate. Yep, that rhymed. I want to get back into doing layout challenges and checking out all those creative ladies blogs again. I really miss the card/scrapbooking world. Guess I'll have to give up my facebook addiction. It can happen, really.

My surprise!!

I had gone away for the night with a girlfriend. Had the best time ever! So refreashing! I can home to a spotless house, a welcome home sign, and this. My husband and 3 boys made a trip to Ikea and fixed up the closet I scrapbook in! He hung the fabric got matching rugs. New chair and desk. Even a wood block to go on my desk for when i need to hammer. Another bookcase, and several new containers. An Owl picture, because I love owls. All this in just a 24 hour period. Best surprise ever. I cried and cried. Then my husband even made dinner and cleaned up after. Told me to just relax.

Had a moment

Whats New?

Sick, Sick and more sick! When will we not be sick?! I haven't had much time or energy to do much. Except for trips to the doctor. With Super Bowl Sunday coming, I'm hoping to get more scrap pages done.

My birthday Gift

My oldest drew this for me for my birthday. I love it!

My birthday was spent on the couch with a horrible sinus infection:( Along with a child was sick. Not really sick, he seems to be developing a alergic reation to something. Which is really scary. Being that we have no idea what the issue is. He keeps breaking out into hives. So no shell fish, nut or chocolate till we see an allergist.

snow, snow, more snow

We have snow! Finally after months of nothing. Just in time for my birthday! I love the snow.
Hoping to use this weekend to get a few pages punched out!

2012 Not a Resolution

I'm not going to call this a resolution. Like many people come this time a year, I've been looking back at the year. Thinking of all I wish I had done or accomplished. Not as much as I hoped for.
So not resolutions.... just things I would like to try to accomplish. LOL:)

1. get back to scrap booking. I'm 2 years behind. Want to be caught up by summer.
2. read at least 2 books a month
3. plan family meals and make 3 new recipies a month
4. family game night... actually do it every week!
5. Lose that last 10 pounds by June. ( I'm down 1.5 lbs already:)

I'll be adding to the list I'm sure as the year goes by.

Cards, Cards and More Cards

So happy to be making things again. I made all these over a weeks time. I'm also making progress on my giant stacks of 2 years worth of photos. My goal is to be caught up on my albums by Christmas. We'll see how that goes. My giant stacks have over a thousand photos. No lie:) Hopefully I'll be able to use my Cricut Expressions more. My wonderful husband gave to me for Christmas, I've only used it a few times. All to help the kids with school projects. They turned out beautiful. However, I want to use it for me!
I love this card. The stamp is from Verve.

Stamp is Greeting Farm

Greeting Farm stamp

Another Greeting Farm stamp. The waves are part of a boarder that came in a paper set. I've had my paper sooo long I'm not even sure where I got it. LOL:) I used 3d dots to make the waves pop.

A Stamping Bella Stamp.

This is one of my new favorite stamps from Greeting Farm. I'm all about cupcakes. I even wear my hair the same way as her:)

Another Verve stamp.

Well over all I was able to save $200.00. Not bad. Still still trying to get down to $250.00 in savings a month.

month has come and gone

the month has come and gone. I was able to spend $200.00 less in groceries. However, we did have to buy new glasses and tires. LOL:) so much for savings. That's life right. Can't wait to see what I do this month.

This week

Okay, so this week I've spend $140.00. More than the $100.00 I was aiming for. However, I was able to purchase meat for next week, buy one get one free. I saved 103.11. $30.00 in coupon savings. I also received a $5.00 gift card from Target. I was able to get a total of 4 things completely free with coupons. I guess you can't know all the ins and outs in a week. I still feel I did a good job this week.

I've asked my parents to save any unused coupons for me. I think I'm going to ask a few more people as well. Really max our savings.

See ya next week!

adding on....

I'm adding on to my challenge. Our grocery bill is out of control! While I'm loving the Extreme Couponing tv show on TLC, I don't want 100 tubes of toothpaste. Or a ton of junk food stock piled for my family. I'm super picky about the type of products I buy. So my add on goal is still to coupon more, but only for products we use and need. Also to cut at least $200.00 out of our grocery expense.

I'm also going to try to get full grocery's twice a month with fillers in between for perishables. To help me do this, I've made out a dinner list for two weeks and bought items I'll need for those dinners. I've also started a spreadsheet divided into sections to see just where in the store I'm spending the most money. This will help me know where I really need to try to save more. The bulk of my bill is in fresh fruits, veggies, dairy and meats. We eat a ton of fresh fruit and veggies, which is great. However, I'm sure I can find good deals on that as well as boxed foods.

So for this weeks shopping I spent a grand total of $340.43 for my family of 5. ( and 2 dogs)
I was only able to save with coupons $13.12, and a total of in store savings of $80.51.

We'll see what next week brings. My goal is to only spend $60.00 on perishables.

month almost over

Well the month is about over, and I did great with my challenge! Right at my $40.00 limit. I did buy a few new pairs of short, however they were needed. I only had 3 pairs of shorts. So I didn't add that into my budget. Can't wait to keep on going!