Easter decorations

It appears I'm on a bit of a holiday garland kick right now.  Before I had even thought about St. Patrick's Day I had already been playing around with my Cameo and made a cute little Peep Bunny shape.  I posted this picture on Instagram after cutting them out.  I managed to get quite a few bunnies on each sheet of 12 x 12 card stock and cut them out in the traditional Peep colors; yellow, blue, purple and pink.  I decided not to have the eyes and nose cut because I wanted to stamp them on myself.

I planned on using a pencil eraser to stamp the eyes and nose on but realized that was going to take awhile.  I thought about cutting the erasers but instead I ended up using my hole punch to cut circles from double stick foam tape.  I stuck them down on a stamp block in the position that worked and viola, a homemade stamp.  I used a really old Marvy Brown dye ink pad to stamp the faces on.  It was quick and much easier than an eraser would have been.



Here they all are with their faces on.

I stapled them to craft store plain white satin ribbon with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher and hung them up.  Super cute and easy.

Here's a few pictures of some other decorations.  I love filling by big glass jar with seasonal items.  I found the multi colored eggs at Home Goods last year and I got the large solid glitter eggs from Target this year.

The golden egg gets its own special dish.

I really can't belive it will be Easter in two weeks, I've super excited for Spring but fear that our late winter might mean a wet Spring.  I hope to see you back on Wednesday for Project Life, Week 12!

The Hunger Games

Four days ago I knew very little about the Hunger Games.  I had seen all the buzz and I knew everyone was waiting for this movie to come out but it wasn't really something I was focusing on.

Fast forward to tonight, 11:25pm on Thursday and I just finished book two.  I cannot wait to see the movie this weekend!  Thanks Christina for pointing me to this series, its really a great read and has my attention.

May the odds be ever in your favor...

Project Life - Week 11

I knew it was going to be all about the green before I even started and sure enough, its like St. Patricks Day exploded onto my pages this week.  We had a wonderful time this past week, my sister in law is visiting so we've been very busy in the kitchen playing around, doing a lot of relaxing mainly because of all the rain we've had this past week. 

I did another insert this week, the same size as last week.  I hope its my last one for awhile.  It's not that I don't love showing the extra photos but it takes a bit longer and I'm starting to feel stuck in a rut, like the pages are all starting to look to similar and not enough variety.  That could just be me making it harder on myself but I don't want to be just a one trick pony if you know what I mean.

Here's a look at the pages;

Here's the close up of the left side. 

I made my own title card this week with a paper that just arrived in the latest Studio Calico March kit. I also used up a few of my left over shamrocks from the garlands I made. 

A simple entry for Sunday.

I liked the way these two slots turned out, the left is a card from Marcy Penner and the right is from a digital kit that I got from 2 Peas by Erica Hernandez.

These two slots were the same day so I used the same digital paper as background for both slots so it would have a cohesive look.

The latest Studio Calico kit reveal was last week and I love the new kits coming out.  I cannot wait for the full reveal.

A few images from Wednesday, I attached the tag to the photos with one of Tim Holtz's tiny paperclips and the tiny little cloud epoxy sticker is from Dear Lizzy.

Here is the front of the insert.  I cut it down the same as last week.  That chevron background paper is also from the March Studio Calico kit.  The shamrock was left over from my Garland and I also cut out a little sticker from See's that was on Simone's little gift box.

Here is the back, all pictures from our dinner Saturday night.  I used one of the templates Ali Edwards created for last years December Daily as my base.  I ended up changing the sizes of a few of the slots and then shrinking the whole image down so I would have some of the paper peeking out. Its the back of the chevron paper and I liked it to so I didn't want to cover it up.

Here's a look at the right side, lots of color!

Another simple grid template to add more photos from one day, a field trip that Simone had for preschool.

Have you tried Smash Burger yet?  They just opened one here and its really, really good!

Lot's of images from us just hanging out with family and taking it easy.

I added a screen shot from this cool app called Swackett, they give you the weather plus the appropriate clothing options for the expected weather.  I've been waiting to add one and grabbed a screen shot when it was raining.

Are you playing Draw Something?  It's another thing that we've all gotten into around here and I've been having fun playing with my family and a few Instagram friends.  I took a few screen shots the other day of funny drawings I made, it's a lot of fun.  If you are playing and want to play me, you can find me at Babz510.





The last slot is of the process of making homemade Croissants.  My sister in law took a pastry class so she and Larry spent 3 days prepping the dough, the end result was totally worth it and we ate them all. 

I wasn't sure I was going to get these pages done today so I'm happy it came together fairly quickly.  I decided to time myself and it took me 3 hours and 20 minutes to do the whole week.  I did 99% of it digitally and printed out just about everything on photo paper except for the title page and the insert.  It worked this week, but I did miss taking my time and finding things to use and playing.  I guess I missed playing.

Here's hoping you take some time to play this week!

St. Patricks Day Recap

We had a really fantastic St. Patricks Day dinner this past Saturday with family and friends.  There was a lot of green and lots of good yummy food.  My sister in law is visiting and loves to cook and bake so there has been a lot of activity in our house this past week so we've really been eating well. 

Like I mentioned on Friday, Simone was very curious if a Leprechaun was going to visit our house like one did at her preschool so I mentioned it to my SIL and she told me about this cute idea below.  I went to Pinterest for some inspiration and help on how to achieve the foot prints, which I ended up doing with my daughters Water Color paint.  It was simple and so very effective.  It really did look like a Leprechaun stood on our potty and made it green so to speak. 

When she found it (with a little coaching) she was completely tickled with excitement that a Leprechaun not only came into our house but used our potty.

She's pretty smart so she also questioned how he got into the house.

We had a fairly large group of family and friends coming over for dinner but before everyone arrived my husband snapped this shot of me and my two sister in laws sitting at the kitchen island playing Draw Something with each other on our ipads.  We have officially lost it!  My mother in law can also be seen in the background playing Slotomania on my husbands ipad, so yes, we can include her in the "lost it" group as well.

I try to always snap a shot of all three of us before all the guests arrive and this time I actually remembered.  The menu board always gets a special message each holiday or party.  I always get asked where I got it and it's from Pottery Barn a really long time ago, like 10 years ago.

My mother in law and my sister in law, wearing almost the exact same shade of green and looking oh so lovely.

The table before the feast

Our yummy food, that Irish Soda Bread was so good!

I picked up these gold coins at See's the day before and used them to decorate the table.

The Coconut Cheesecake was a huge hit and my sister in law made Irish Car Bomb cupcakes that everyone loved too.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and St. Patty's Day!

I'm really going to try my best to get my Project Life pages done today so I can post it on Wednesday.  If I'm a few days late please forgive me, we are having less rain so we hope to get out and do some stuff this week before my sister in law leaves.

I'll keep you posted for sure.