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Things Mommy made with her paper supply.

Aug1

Summer goals

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I found this great idea HERE, and liked the fun way to remember the fun things we wanted to do this summer. The original idea was to have your kids do chores in order to pick an activity, but C1 is a bit little to have regular chores.

Some of the things listed on our summer fun list is:
Library
Bowling
Fireworks
Swimming pool
MSI
Make crayons
Children’s museum
Hotdog stand
Aquarium
Field museum
Self family pictures
Navy pier
Movie day at home
Planetarium
Gherridelli
Play group 4 times
Play with grandma and grandpa
Visit cousin in WI
Art institute
Sox game
BBQ
Botanical gardens
Play group 4 times
Beach
Taste of Chicago
Face fountains
Go fishing
Cold stone
Six flags
Get a fish
Beach
Zoo

We have just about done them all and a few of them wont get done this summer, but that’s ok.

I liked this idea so much, I decided to do a list for crafts and me things I wanted to get done this summer.

On my list:
Pillow cases
Catch up on farmers wife blocks
Learn to play 1 hymn on the piano
Jog a personal 5k
Yoga mat – gift
Sewing lesson
Pin cushion on machine
Swim robe
Be attitude quilt top
Finish a book
Pillow shams
Baby snuggle wrap
Jenny’s garden quilt
Donation quilts
Art smock
Makes ties to sell in UT
Scan photos for dad
Cut squares for space invader quilt
Circle jean quilt
Quilting practice quilt

I think I will continue this format for each season of the year to help me break down my 101 in 1001 goals.
I also get a bonus this summer because I get until the end of September.

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Apr13

Oh, Wow.

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It’s been 3 weeks since my last post.  Sorry.

I’ve been a little lost/out of it.  Hopefully it was all for a good reason.  I mostly took a nap when ever C1 did, so I wasn’t terribly productive these past few weeks.  I do have some things to post about, so I should be able to get back on track this up coming week.   My goal is to post every week day, so I may take this weekend to pre-write some of my posts about the few things I have worked on.  We’ve had some fun and have some fun up ahead of us as well.

Because I don’t like posting without a picture, feast your eyes on this: Rules of the Home:

I found it on pintrest, but apparently didn’t pin it myself, so I can’t link back to the designer.  I’m so sorry designer.  If you know who it is, let me know so I can credit them properly.   I may see if I can adjust the colors in Photoshop and hang it in the kids room or play room one day.

AAAAHHHHH it’s Friday the 13th!

Feb3

January Goal Review

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I have a few goals each month that I’ve set to work toward my 101 in 1001.

Make 2 Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt squares each week:  These got addicting and I made quite a few more.  I was aiming for 9 and I made 11.  I already have 3 more done for the month of February.

Make 1 Be Attitudes square each month:  I was so wrought on what fabrics to be using.  I went through my scraps for the applique pieces and still very unsure with my choices.  I took it to my Mom with a plea for advice.  I switched out a few fabrics and got all the applique pieces cut and with fusible webbing on them ready to applique.  She also helped my decide what fabrics to use for the background log cabins.  I just need to cut out the log cabin pieces each month, sew it together and stitch around my applique.  I’m actually hopeful I can get this done by mid year instead of end of year.

Read 5 pages from the Book of Mormon each day.  I missed an entire week completely and I’m not great about remembering every day.  I’m suppose to be on page 160, but I’m only on page 99.  Not too bad, but not where I set forth to be either.

DigiScrapbook the same month from the precious year.  Once I looked to get started on this my digital paper was all disorganized and I couldn’t find what I wanted.  January was a busy month last year because that’s when C1 was born.  So I decided to start with February; I only got 1 page done and I should have at least 8 or so for the whole month.  I need to take the time to organize my paper and embellishments, so it’s more enjoyable to work on this digi scrapbook.

January had a bonus goal; Nothing New; to stop me from spending money needlessly.  I did really pretty well on this.  I didn’t follow my rules exactly, and I did spend at least $60 on fabric I hadn’t planned on buying.  But it was something I was keeping my eye out for and hadn’t seen it at my regular shops.  Now I have another quilt I want to make.  I’m in the works of designing how I’d like it to look.  Decisions, decisions.

Dec21

Things you may have missed from October

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I don’t know why, but I just haven’t been in the mood to blog, for months.  I finally sat down and just started writing.  And now I have a ton of posts that are old dates, but I just posted them.  Note to self for a new year goal; post daily so I don’t have to post 10 in one day.  Sorry it’s been a while, but I hope you enjoy catching up with what we did in October.  *November and December will be coming soon.

October 13th Canning

October 20th Sharing Our Bed

October 26th Sunday Shoes

October 28th Halloween Part 1

October 29th Halloween Part 2

October 31st Bed Quilt

 

Didn’t quite make a post for every day and I did skip over some I planned to do, but deemed them not important enough to post anymore.  We’ll see you soon in Novembers posts.

Oct3

Out of Candy

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I combined two different ideas to create this:

I found the great print at Anything but Perfect; she has all sorts of great printables.  And the frame idea was found at A Diamond in the Stuff.  I used like she did the green paint for the background, but I did a larger frame.  I like how her’s has a nice and thick space for the eyes.

How to make one like mine:

Supplies: green paint, googlie eyes, frame, hot glue

1.  Go to Anything but Perfect and download and print the “out of candy” print.  Send her some love for sharing such a great print for free.

2.  Find a cheep frame at any store (I found my at Walmart for $4) with an opening for an 8×10 photo.

3.  Paint your frame green. Let dry.

4. Start hot gluing eyes all over the frame.  Work your way around the entire frame.

5.  Insert your print and display.

Aug3

Journaling

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I was always taught to keep a journal for posterity’s sake.  I do occasionally enjoy flipping through my own old journal entries; well, the once in a blue moon that I did write in one.  And while I do have a copy of my great grandparents journal, I have never read it or have the desire to as of yet.  So my question is, how important is it to journal, and why, and does a blog count as a journal?  As I have been typing up my old journal entries (in case posterity tries to read it and can’t read my handwriting, I’m typing it up) I realize how boring my life was as a kid.  It seems as though all I did every day was watch television, or talk about boys.  I only wrote superficial things, never dug deep in my heart to spill everything I was feeling.

I tried keeping a journal of C1′s birth and our time together in the days and weeks following, but after about a month or so it dwindled to not writing at all.  I’m always trying to play catch up in my journal, looking back on my calendar trying to remember what had happened in my life.  I’m just glad I wrote his birth story down, but I guess sometimes it might be nice to remember what pregnancy was like.  All I can recall was I loved being pregnant.  It wasn’t always perfect and happy, but I loved it.  I’ve tried doing a few lines in a journal every day, but that never stuck either.  As you might can tell, I’m not much of a writer.

So who is journaling really for and why is it so important?  Do blogs or scrapbooks have the same effect as a journal?  What’s your opinion, what do you think?  Do you keep a journal?





*because I can’t not include a picture of my sweet boy.  Why is it that the best moments of them are when they are asleep?  C1 likes to sleep on his side / stomach.  Such a sweet kid.

					


	

		


	
Jul11

	

											
Summer Fun

					
		

			
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It feels as though my summer has already come and gone, because I’ve already done my one big summer trip. For 6 weeks C1 and I went to stay with family, so Daddy could study. We had a great time and C1 got lots of grandparent time and he even got to meet his 5 great grandparents! What a treat. My treat was that I got more time to focus on sewing since grandma was playing with and caring for C1.


I took my own pile of things to do so I wouldn’t bother my Mom about her long list of projects. However, I had so much time, that not only did I finish my list, but got some things on her list done too!


We started by touch up organizing (my Mom is already pretty organized, which is where I get my skills from); we did her sewing room, her paper craft room, her storage room and cleaned out chemicals around the house. That was fun to go through her many books and magazines and collect new ideas and wish list projects of my own.


We then moved on to painting the guest room I was in. We rearranged the room and almost got the curtains done too. Much more inviting when the room is painted. It looks so welcoming and I look forward to going back to her home.


Next we took her book/list of projects to do and organized them by type: sewing, quilts, painting, scrapbooks and the like. We then put them in priority order. My Mom is a wonderful woman and has lots of projects started and has so many ideas she’d like to do. She’s just overwhelmed by it all and doesn’t know where to start with the little time she has to dedicate to crafting. So, we prioritized it into doing projects for beautifying the home first; projects as gifts second and projects just for fun third. She now has a direction as where to start and we have goals for her to get things done before my next visit.


My list of projects that I took with me: 3 oven mitts for friends, matching shirts for C1 and Daddy, two skirts for me, buttons on C1′s rain coat, 3 octopi for my nieces, vinyl sayings for my MIL, outline for a quiet book


More projects I found while there: rag rug, 2 more octopi for nephews, one more oven mitt (exchange for babysitting), a little dress, vinyl sayings for my SIL, baby size quilt top, first birthday banner


Projects I have fabric for, but need to still work on: table runner, oven mitts for me, apron, place-mats, hot pads, stuffed pear, twin size quilt for C1 (when he gets a big bed), queen size quilt for me (I did a bed quilt for my bed, but now it’s not my favorite, so I’m going to do another one), Christmas quilt for MIL, 2 shirts for nephews, red bandana 4th of July table cloth, 3 generation quilt, 2pumpkin table runners, left over fabric quilt


Man o man, I thought I had a lot of projects on my wish list before, but now that I list out my new ones, it’s a little overwhelming. I know I can do it though, because other than taking care of C1, I sew, and I make plenty of time for myself to do it.


Pictures of what I have done!





					


	

		


	
Apr24

	

											
April Showers

					
		

			
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So, I hosted a Baby Shower for a good friend of mine, who’s also having a boy. Hurray for boys! I had so much fun making things for this shower.


I made the invitations out of fabric in the shape of a duck. This was the first time I’ve done fabric on a card; not too shabby. I kept the messed up one, so it was the only one I had left to take a picture of. The ones I gave out looked much better than this one.




I have seen these buntings around all the craft blogs and have wanted to make one, and figured this would be the perfect occasion. And after the party I can just put it in C1′s room. Looking at it now, I wish I would have put a space between each of the words. Oh well, there’s always next time. 


We got our duck theme because I found a cute punch on THIS blog and I wanted to make it. Funny thing was, I bought the wrong kool-aid and even still it turned out a funny color. Good thing I used a blue tub instead of a clear one. My bubbles didn’t work out so well either. Darn.




What baby shower isn’t complete without a diaper cake. I also enlarged the invitation to make a pattern to make a stuffed duck for the prize for our Gift Bingo game.

 


My biggest pride and joy of what I made for this shower are the marshmallows. Now, if you know me at all, you know that I’m not a cook. You know that Daddy. makes dinner most of the time. So, the fact that I made marshmallows is amazing! We got ourselves a duck mold and made some mellows. We then covered them in blue candy melt and some in chocolate and some we left square. Since we only had so many molds we had to make some square ones. But we dyed the mellows blue to go with the boy theme.




And here is the spread of food, because you don’t have a party without food.




On the bottom of two plates I drew a duck. Then whoever got the plates with the ducks on them would be my helpers to help note down who the gifts were from and what they got the Mama. And the second person to help hand the gifts to the preggo Mama, since she usually has a hard time bending and reaching. It worked out great and I knew who would do these tasks.


Friend: thank you for letting me channel my creativeness into celebrating your baby boy.



					


	

		


	
Apr17

	

											
Great to be 8

					
		

			
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For each of my neices and nephews I’m making them a special present for their baptism.  A towel.  Well, I’m not making the towel, I’m buying that part, but I’m adding something speicial to it.  The CTR crest (choose the right).  I’m also adding a great poem.  Like always, this was not my idea.  I’m not creative in that sense, I can only re-create other peoples ideas.  Here is the orgin of this idea.


Happy Birthday B




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