Girly Girl

You know when you get this feeling that your little girl is growing up in front of your eyes??? 

Yeah, she won't stop!!!

I have been mulling over some ideas for a bit, 

Thinking Kimberly needs a few "Big Girl" things in her room. 

No, she's not really a big girl, but she thinks she is.

 I found the idea for this {here}.

...And wanted to put my own spin on it. 

Then one day while hunting through Silhouette Studio, I found the files for some Dress Forms, these dresses, and a bunch of fonts that I loved at first site. I got the files, and knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. 

Kimmy watched me cut everything out, and put everything together with so much excitement that I was being told "I Love You Mommy!" and "They are so cute, I love them!" 

I'm so glad my Princess loves them. :) 

Valentine's Projects

For a trip coming up I wanted a way for the kids to earn money. This idea was borrowed from a good friend. Every time the kids do a good deed they get a warm fuzzy. 

I've saved this plate for several years waiting to do this... 

 We laid the mail boxes out for everyone to write notes to each other on little hearts. Everyone loved writing notes to each other that we're leaving them out so we can surprise each other with notes. 

Kimmy loved her note from her Daddy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today I have a Valentine 4 in 1 for you.

To download this fun little file of templates go {HERE}. 

{Word Art & Layout}

I have been spending some of my not so free, free time doing crafts here and there. Yesterday while my son and daughter were back in school (on a federal holiday) I got the chance to create something. I haven't been able to get much done with both kids home from school. So working on this was really fun and very therapeutic. 

 I found an image like this on Silhouette, but it was a square. I needed a printable. So I spent some time from scratch trying to re-created it, but so it would fit to an 8x10. I also love that I got to chose the fonts I wanted, and I added the line art. 

It's also time for a layout. I have been playing around (mostly in my head) with the idea of doing a photo-strip. I really like the way the look, and I love playing with them. 

I really hope you enjoy my template. 

Which can be found and downloaded {here}. 

Kids Shirts {attempt #1}

I attempted to make the kids shirts today after school. The process seemed a lot easier than it turned out to be for us. I had recently purchased white flocked heat transfer vinyl and black glitter heat transfer vinyl. The glitter vinyl wanted to be difficult so both kids ended up with the white flocked vinyl on their shirts.

Here is how Kimmy's turned out! 

I will have to try again when I can find the color shirts I am looking for, and I have more time to practice my heat transfer craft.

...And here is how Hayden's turned out. 

Magnets, Ornaments and more Oh My!

Many of these All of these crafts were inspired by Pinterest in some form or another. 

The idea for the ornaments started with this nativity. 

For how to make this nativity ornament look {here}.

But blossomed into so much more. 

Silhouette is doing 12 days of Chirstmas freebie shapes.
This "Joy" is one of my free shapes.  

I've been dying to try some subway art but didn't have any frames and didn't want to spend a lot.
with a tip from a friend:
I found this at the dollar store.  

When I found this nativity on pinterest I was ecstatic. I had just bought some magnet sheets for my silhouette and was hunting for things to do with them. 

This Nativity can be found {here}.

While playing around with my 100 page packet of transparency paper I thought of how my mother in law loves having a family tree, with pictures of all of us. So I printed and cut out recent pictures of all of us on transparency paper and made my mother in law some ornaments. I really hope she loves how they turned out. 

Template Tuesday

On Sunday we put Gingerbread houses together as a family. 

I used Christmas Whimsy for this layout. 

Looking for a good DPD kit? 

If you are look {Here}.

For todays template look {Here}.