Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Crafty pics...

So I finally got around to taking pictures of some crafty things I've been up to...enjoy!

I happened upon this FABULOUS already vinyl covered fabric at a quilt shop this weekend, it spoke to me...I had to have it and when I saw it I knew what needed to be done with it. I love it so much, when Mom and I drove home I asked her if she would lay the fabric out on her lap so I could glance at it while I was driving, it's a happy feeling. The actual recovering of the chairs took all of 15 minutes and then I just kept looking at them. So beautiful, so perfect, so me. Infact, when I had washed my face and brushed my teeth down stairs, I had to tip toe back upstairs and take a peek at the little beauties before I went to sleep. Now that is what I call a satisfying craft project!


BEFORE CHAIR...not my style...

After chair, exactly my flow...
My cute mom, testing em out...and a cute new pair of chairs!

This little darling is Penelope. I got the idea from a shop in Etsy, but the yo-yo feathers were my idea. She is SO cute, she turned out much cuter than even I imagined! :) Love when that happens. She will have a prominent place in my classroom, which by the way is coming along, if ever so slowly! :)


I scored this FABULOUS IKEA lampshade that has my name written all over it at a yard sale for 10 bucks, the lady had just taken it out of the plastic that day, LOVE IT!!!

This is my new craft space, it is ever so handy, and large and lovely. I have all my fabrics and crafties in just the right places, (I got the white shelves for free, they are brand new ikea shelves, I love my life!...long story)

Mom was here for a few days, much to my delight! we talked and went to visit grandies and talked and went to get ice cream and talked and went to a movie and talked and painted our nails and talked and ate yummy food and talked and talked and talked. It was SO good to have my mom all to my self for a lot of her visit, it was a much needed momma therapy! Thanks mom, I love your face!
The green and teal containers were from the dollar store, the handled totes I had already and I labeled them with my cricut and brown vinyl lettering.

This mobile was so fun to make! I got the idea from Jessica's blog, I think she made hers out of paper, these ones are double sided, one side is felt, the other is a fun scrap print. I glued the top circles onto an embroidery hoop. So fast and fun!

That's all for now, i have more to post BUT the rest of my cute stuff is at school!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Almost an entire month...

Okay, so I have been checking blogs ALL month, but have had little motivation to update on my own. The weird thing is, I have tons to blog about...I'm just too busy to do it all at once, and it seems daunting when I have a LOT to catch up on, you know?

-Well John's birthday was last month, it rocked. I took him on a date to a YUMMY chinese restaurant in bountiful and to see a musical called "James Blonde" it was a spoof, very ridiculous, but entertaining :)

-I went to my family reunion in Idaho, with my family, John couldn't come :( but we had a great time camping and swimming and eating and playing!

-I've been crafting my guts out!!! All I ever want to do is craft CUTE things, and shop for bargains to make cute things out of!!! I don't have any pics right now because I just haven't got around to taking any, but TRUST me, I will post pics soon and you will be amazed!

-I've been doing homework...a LOT of it. I'm stuck right now because I am writing a literature review, but in order to write it, I have to read TONS of academic journal articles, which are basically written in a foreign language, its just a lot to process at a time, so I am not moving as fast as I should.

-I went to GIRLS CAMP!!! My favorite thing ever! I love being in Young Womens! I loved the testimony meeting, the songs both fun and spiritual, the hikes, the crafts, but mostly just getting to know the cute girls and rockin leaders in my ward! (It was stake camp, but we camped in wards).

-TOO MUCH DETAIL ALERT!!!
I have been literally melting for a month. I had some irregular cell action on my cervix, my pap came back irregular, so I had to have my cervix frozen. My doc literally stuck a freezing wand up in me that was hooked to a freezy-thingy, and froze my cervix for 3 minutes, waited a minute and froze it for another 2. Apparently tons of people have this done all the time. He said it wouldn't hurt, that I didn't need anyone to come with me (I asked John to come anyway) and that I would be just fine, just a little bit of cramping...WHAT.EVER! It hurt so bad, and my doc office is 45 minutes away, I was so glad John was there to drive me home, I felt like someone had stapled my ovaries to the ground, it hurt so bad, I had to stop along the way home to puke and poo...it was bad. So since I was frozen, I now melt. You would think, how much could it melt, it's not like there's a lot of surface area in there to freeze, how much could it be? Well, a lot more than you think that's what. I've gone through more pads than I have ever seen in my life. It feels like when you're on the first or second day of your period, adn you have a heavy flow, and your tampon is full and you can feel that you need to change it...NOW and you can feel warm ooze coming out...yeah, like that for 2 weeks, and now it's lighter, but now the dead skin is making its exit. I ahve no idea about childbirth, and what happens after, but maybe this was a good prep. A new sensation to say the LEAST! :)

-Had a stellar barbeque for the 4th of july at Nate and Amy's. Did some fireworks, ate some good food and played with the kids.

-What else, some friends have had babies, Sarah, welcome Ivy Mae, and Emily, welcome Carly Renee! YAY for babies!

-And my best friend in the world Amy was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer. A treatable cancer that was caugth early enough for good treatment and recovery, but still draining, exhausting, scary chemo and all that comes with healing your body and ridding it from the cancer. Amy is so amazing though, her sense of humor keeps everyone's spirits up and she is a fighter! I'm working on some crafts for her, if any of you crafty ladies would like to help, let me know. Amy, I know you'll read this, I love you so much! Can't wait to see you in August!

-Weel, that's mostly it, I just feel overwhelmed with life right now, it will all be fine when my papers are written! Whew, so that's the update and I am such a loser for taking so long to write. Love you all!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Jenni (my SIL) had a photography class to go to and wanted me to come wrangle the little one, she said I should get all dolled up just in case they could use me too, I stood in a few with Amelia (SHE IS SO ADORABLE) and then she took a few of just me, I'm getting some printed for John for his birthday tomorrow, hmmm....convenient! :) The thing is I haven't decided on which one(s) so if you could mention your faves, I would appreciate it! I'll be headed to Walmart tomrrow noon-ish (I am not worried about him seeing, he rarely checks my blog unless I request it :)

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

pattern



Denise and Danielle, here's the pattern :) I used version D...I made the dress four inches longer because I wanted to make it plenty long because I am tall, but I ended up cutting off at least that much when I was done;)
Enjoy!
Butterick B 5181
JoAnnes is having a sale starting Monday, it includes patterns, but I don't know if Butterick is included:)

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Dylan, Kaci, William, Lily visit!

I LOVE being an aunt, I know I will love being a mom even more, BUT until that happens I love playing with these munchkins. We had them over for 2 nights last sunday and monday, I was a tad nervous about Will and Lill sleeping over, they get sad at night sometimes without their parents, but they did SO great! It was so fun, I adore these guys so so much. I really treasure the time we get to spend together, they are hilarious and fun and cute and cool. :) In a nutshell, this is what we did while they were here...Watched Emperors new groove, ate popcorn, played Littlest Pet Shops, made heart, star and bear shaped pancakes, ate watermelon bowls, took a LONG walk to the park, played for two hours at the park, scooter-ing, munching on carrots, marshmallows, and potato chips, played duck duck goose, went crazy on the tire swing, went down the wet slides, caught bugs, stared at the sky, played hide and seek through the wooded area, had fun "drinking" (more like squirting each other) out of the water bottle, watched the ducklings, talked a lot about ducks and robbers (there were neighborhood watch signs along the path, lily was concerned with the picture...) ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, WILLIAM LOST HIS OTHER front tooth (a huge deal!) he looks so cute! played in the backyard, made fluffy fuzzy magical pillow creatures with buttons for eyes and "magical" stuffing!(the stuffing was 'magical' because once you put it into your little guy, he would keep you safe in the night, and you can tell him all your dreams and wishes, and if you're scared he can make you feel better). Ate dinosaur chicken nuggets and rice for dinner, played in the sprinklers, ate popsicles, sang songs with my guitar, told jokes, took a giant warm shower (they all had their bathing suits on, don't worry, and i was NOT in the shower with them...just so you know ), watched Robin Hood, fell asleep on the couch watching it, (I took William into the bathroom to pee before I put him in his bed, he was totally asleep...I pointed to the toilet and said here's the toilet, go pee, and he started taking off his pants so I left him to do his business, I came back into the bathroom to see him finishing up peeing in the trash can....nice) snuggled and talked in the morning, ate yummy sweet cereal for breakfast, wrote letters to uncle Elder Andrew, made some science field journal drawing books, went to the dollar movies to see "race to witch mountain" and on Tuesdays everyone gets free popcorn!!! Had a picnic at the park, Dylan got sunscreen in his eyes, it rained on us so we left early, set up the lemonade stand hoping the rain would go away, (I got this lemonade stand for free from sunkist.com...if you have kids, check it out, it's adorable!) the sun came out, went around the block to set up the lemonade stand (This was Dylan's FAVORITE part, he loves anything to do with making money ;) )Made NINE dollars in one hour! What. Ever. (when I was little we sold lemonade for 10 cents a cup, and we were amazed when we made more than a dollar!) waving and looking cute at each car that passed by, really worked! (John took a study break to come buy some lemonade, and he rode his bike, I recognized him from far away and said oooh, here comes somebody so handsome, I don't know who it is but I can tell he is veeeeeery handsome! SO they were all looking, when William recognized it was John he was quite dissapointed, he said "ugh, it's just John!" and went back to waving at cars...but Lily got this wonderous look in her eyes when John rode up (she's really obsessed with Princesses and Princes, and 'true loves kiss' in fact she's convinced she's going to marry william, because he is her 'prince' it's actually really cute)...anyway, after he left she started making a pile of treasures on my blanket, including sticks, rocks, pine cones, grass, leaves, etc...I finally asked her what she was doing, she said "it's all for John, I don't know how to ever thank him for being SO handsome!" pretty darn adorable!) A lot of people stopped to buy lemonade, the Schwan man, and even some Police officers! They were really sweet with the kids, they turned on their lights and did their siren for them, but before they could get some lemonade they had a call they had to get to right away, but promised to come back when they were done...we ran out of lemonade before they came back, the kids were pretty sad they didn't get to give the officers lemonade. Kaci was an enthusiastic waver to all the cars, after one particular car passed without stopping, she matter of factly said "I'm sure they're allergic to lemonade, oh well" she said it kind of under her breath, it was so funny! We divied up the money, two dollars and 25 cents each, so we went to the dollar store to spend it! They took a half hour deciding and changing their minds and finding something they would rather have, and wanting to all get the same things, etc, it was pretty funny and cute. They all felt so 'big' to pay with their OWN money, to get their OWN reciept, to get their OWN change, and have their OWN bag. When we got back from the dollar store Nate was there to pick them up and take them home, they were so sad to leave, we had such a GREAT time, Nate told me Lily cried the whole way home "I want Courtenay to come home with us, I want her to live with us again" poor thing. It was so fun though, I am so glad we had them over!
These are the cutest sour faces ever! They were eating lemons..so tarrt!


one of the visitors to the stand, a beagle puppy! He was so mellow and adorable with the kids!
i love this picture of William and Lily, it highlight their adorable relationship, William teases Lily, but loves her to pieces, and Lily LOVES william, even wants to marry him :) NOTICE WILLIAMS MISSING FRONT TEETH, i love it!
The officers stop to show off their sweet sirens and lights


Their 'cute wave' to get cars to stop to buy lemonade
Handsomest prince ever stopped to get some refreshment

At the park, you can kind of see Dylans Fluffy critter he made

Picnic, and getting ready for the lemonade stand

POPSICLES!!!
kaci, is the cutest picture poser ever, if you so much as point a camera in her direction, she strikes a pose! SO glamorous...
fun in the sprinklers, Dylan was a dnacin maniac in the water!


porr tootle-bug, she got a sliver in her finger, and I wanted to help her get it out, it was too tender though, she looks so sad!
Another sassy pose!
This is RARE, I caught Williams pose before he lost it, he's so funny he cannot hold still for a picture ever! He's adorable though!
Dylan asked some teenagers who were also at the park if he could have oe of their water balloons, then he popped it on his head, William and Kaci were right next to him trying to get a splash too :)

Playing littlest Pet shops first thing in the morning


Dylans proudest moments, making money, so cute!