B-day cards

I spent a few hours this morning with some friends, and really enjoyed my time just chatting and not worry about children. I am in a card group, and we get together once a month and make cards. One of us designs the cards and hosts the party at their house. This month was my month so it was my turn to get creative. Here are the cards we made today. I think everyone had a good time. I'm just glad to have some birthday cards for the upcoming celebrations of friends and family! I'm hoping we do another birthday card next month! AC #5


As a side note...Halli has been into book so much lately. This past week I have rarely seen her not carrying one around. In fact when I put her to bed tonight she insisted sleeping with one. I love that she loves books! Here is a photo of her after waking up from nap yesterday-books in hand!

Playing Catch-up

Ok we are finally feeling better, and our house is being taken care of so I'm ready to get back into blogging again. I've given the blog a much needed facelift, and will keep up with posting now. First off, the house has been "drying out" for 2 weeks now. It usually only takes 3-5 days, but our hardwood floor isn't drying so the big fans have been going forever it seems like. They are now off, and will be picked up in an hour.

Good news about this whole leaking sink issue...we now get a new hardwood floor! Because it isn't drying properly we have to get a new one instead of just refinishing the current stuff. So I'm excited to have that done! It is going to make me want to change the whole kitchen though. I guess I'll have to hold off on that until we get the funds to do so. We want to do some major changes like paint the cabinets, change the backsplash and countertops, and paint the walls of course. I'm guessing maybe that will come this summer, or maybe next summer haha. Sometime, but not now...another project for another day. I'll also be getting a new ceiling in my craft room, and possibly a new wall. I believe I'll find out when the guy shows up in an hour.

Even though my craft room has a big hole in the ceiling I have been busy at work down there. I have been doing my projects and am happy to finally post some of my work. I'm going to be starting over with the numbering of my projects because my goal is to do 52 this year (avg. of one a week). So here are projects 1-4, and I'll have another one done Saturday.

First, my sisters and I made tutus for all my nieces (and Halli) while we were all together at Christmas. Here's a photo with all of them modeling them! AC#1

(this one is my favorite...loved the green, pink, and brown)

Here's a scrapbook page I did two weeks ago. (Yes, I'm two years behind on my scrapbooking!) AC#2

I've been wanting to make a little box for our treats and snacks we have to eat, so I used a tissue box and turned it into this. AC#3

I finally got to use my sewing machine I got for Christmas and made three bibs this week. Halli never have enough bibs so I will be making more and trying different things in the future. Not too bad for my first sewing experience without my mother! AC#4

I'm so excited to be going with my projects again! Just FYI, I am on top of all 6 goals I have made for myself in the new year. I've completed everything for January so far, and am beginning my Feb stuff. I'm looking for a good book to read for next month ANY SUGGESTIONS???

2010 Goals

I did get sick after all. I woke up yesterday morning not feeling well, and stayed feeling that way all day. I am feeling better today, but it still stinks that I got sick. And while my sister and her family are visiting! I didn't get my AC project done this week with the leaking mess we have been dealing with, and all of us getting sick. So...I thought I would write down my goals on here so I can clarify my creativity challenge. So anyway, here are my goals for the year.

• Read one book every month (I already read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck...very good book-definately recommend it!)
• Write in my journal at least once a month...it will beat doing it only 3 times last year!
• Do 52 house/craft projects this year. This will be my AC Challenges, but I'm changing it a little bit. Sometimes they aren't things that are super creative, but things that I just want to try to do...and some weeks things will come up so I'll do 2 projects some weeks and none other weeks (like this one!).

I have a few more personal goals, but these are the ones I am sharing with the world. I'll be blogging about the books I read and the projects I do, and this is basically an online journal (not that I am counting this for my journal entries!) so I was willing to share these goals I have set for myself.

I hope you have all set some goals to help improve and stretch yourself this year. It is looking like it will be a busy year for me!

Not Happy

So this morning I was going to take a photo of my project for the week...which by the way isn't anything big. I was only home half the week, and was busy running around catching up on everything so I didn't have much time. I still haven't taken a photo of it. I went downstairs into my newly repainted/updated craft room to find a wet ceiling. I AM NOT HAPPY.

The pluming under our kitchen sink had been leaking for a day (I noticed a wet rug all day, but just thought Halli must have spilled something...never stopped to check it out-first mistake). So I went to church today, and left Ryan at home with a sick Halli to try to stop the leak. He wasn't able to stop it so we called a plumber. He came, and after he got here I thought oh I should have called our home warranty company. Yeah I called them...it would have been covered for only $60, but now I just paid him $235-second mistake. He also told us we need to have the ceiling and wall replaced downstairs in my craft room. So now we get to pay our insurance deductible (not cheap) to get that done, and possibly part of our kitchen floor replaced. Needless to say I'm not going to be blogging about my AC projects or great family vacation we just returned home from. That will have to come another day. We'll let you know what happens with the restoration.

Still here

We are alive. I haven't forgotten we have a blog. It's just been a while and I have so much to catch up on so I've just been avoiding it. It's late, but I'm still awake. The rest of my family is slumbering and dreaming of sweet things I'm sure. So I thought I would sit down for a moment and notify the world that we are still alive, and have just been enjoying ourselves too much. This is why I haven't been in the blogging world. We went to Utah and spent the holidays with all of my family...but more of that information will come in a post tomorrow. I will update on my AC projects, the holidays, our fun activities, and upcoming events. Hope you all had a wonderful december. Oh, and if you were looking out for our Christmas card (cause I asked for addresses, you know)...I didn't send them. Yours didn't get lost in the mail, and no I didn't forget just you. I just didn't send them. I had the cards made, ordered the photos, but I just didn't know what to write for a Christmas letter. So I just didn't do it, and I thought it would be dumb to send a cute handmade card, a photo, and a signature. So I'm saving the cards for next year, and I am already working on the Christmas letter. I've got 11 months to do it so I promise I'll have it done and out to you NEXT December!!!