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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Go GREEN!

Well, of course I have to GO GREEN today!

All these beautiful green items are available at etsy.com

do a search by seller and type in the name BELOW each picture!

BUY HANDMADE!

Seriously... how CUTE is this?? Made by a fellow Michigander!

check out her store:

mymarketstall

ipod, cell phone case! love it! MUCH cuter than you could ever buy at the nextel store!!

by:

wiggletiggy

Aren't these PRETTY!!?? Perfect for Spring... I think!

by:

KerreraSkye

You know my love for the granny square and this reminds me of one... I'm in love with this cute kids hat!!

Go check her beautiful crochet out at:

FuzzyLumpkinCrochet

Beautiful glass beads!

Find this beauty at:

CharlotteRumple

I have a weakness for all things "pea pod" and personalized so could this be any more perfect?

Go to her shop and have her make you one!!

artofsilver

LOVE peacock feathers... aren't they beautiful?

These hairclips are from:

prettypeacockshop

and... TODAY she's offering FREE shipping on these $15 clips!! That's a great deal :)

and how pretty are THESE!!!

It's an actual photo of a peacock feather, cool! Find these at this shop:

DesertArtisan

Oooooo, pretty!! love this simple style!

by:

lazygiraffe

I don't know about you, but this is just about the cutest necklace I have ever seen!

Pendant! Miniature! House! Holy CUTE!!! by:

elukka

Well, what do you know... guess who this is by?!

ME!!

Yep, this is in my papercutsarecute store!

and the banner below:

there's SOME green in there :)

Pendant from MY store: chinamommy

cute, hun?! I think so and you know i AM one to toot my own horn!

soon to be in my store.... crochet headbands!

maybe I'll brush her hair next time and NOT blow out the color with a flash, brother! It was SO beautiful out yesterday I had big plans to photograph DD in my crochet headbands, but... something sparkly caught my eye and the photography thought was gone- surprise, I know! It actually wasn't sparkly, it was something MUDDY- my car! You could barely see it anymore, so I washed it. Then Darling decided she wanted to learn to ride her bike with no training wheel (yep, last summer we were down to 1). How do you explain how to ride a bike any more than "get on and peddle as fast as you can"...

Anyway, Hope you have a grand St. Paddy's Day!

Go drink a green beer and don't get pinched!!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Oh Alice!!

So, I saw Alice in Wonderland... AGAIN!

Darling daughter wanted to go see it and even though it IS a bit creepy and not really a little kids movie...

She ❤❤❤'d it!

Go figure, this is not your frail girly 6 year old.

Before we went, I warned her that it was a bit "creepy", not scary, just creepy- she was down for it.

There were a few times I'd lean over and kind of explain to her what was going to happen or what was going on (don't worry, we were sitting in 2 seats off by themselves in a huge theater that only had about 35 people at this showing. Don't ya just wanna throw a brick at those people that won't SHUT UP during movies?? I always keep one in my purse, just in case!).

When it was over I said "So... what'd ya think?" and she said "I loved it". That is quite a statement from my reserved little girl!!

I wanted to share some of the Alice in Wonderland papergoods going into my new etsy store:

papercutsarecute.

❤Queen of Hearts❤ page topper and 1 Alice will be sold as a set.

(see the cute bunny? I won him from the uber talented Little Miss Crafty! Have you seen her blog? Go see it, her art work is DARLING!).

Alice and ❤Queen of Hearts❤- embellished with rhinestones!

Then I've got a new embellishment that I'm not quite done with but I'm giving you a sneak peek:

and another banner:

~Family~

This banner comes with cream tulle and is all put together and ready to hang!

Well, the SUN is out here so that must mean it's going to be a good day, right?!

Oh and just a little "funny" mommy moment from yesterday:

Yesterday the Mr. went to the Dr. (yes, he is better thanks to a shot and a Z-pak) when he got home he asked me what time I went over to the bus stop to get Darling. I said 3:15 and he says you mean 4:30? I said WHAT? and then I realized I was looking at the clock that hangs ABOVE our cabinets... the clock that DIDN'T get changed (NOT the one on the microwave or store right below- yes, we have THREE clocks right in a row!). Oh brother- you wanna talk about someone peeling (NOT peeing, but I was close!) out of her seat! I went FLYING out of the house so fast the Mister's ear buds (from his ipod that were hanging on the key rack) went flying into the garage with me!! I started my car, threw it in reverse and... it died! I started it again and tore over to the stop. Lucky for me (and DD), the bus was running a bit late. I was laughing and told her what happened and she just shook her head, rolled her eyes and said "MOM!"

I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal... what can I say?!

Happy Tuesday!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Help, there's a sick man on my couch!

Short and Sweet today...

The Mister is sick and i'm following him around with bleach spray and my steam cleaner! I've got him headed to the Dr. in a bit and am going down to work on

papercutsarecute.etsy.com

Queen of Hearts page toppers

Alice in Wonderland paper dolls

CUTE Kawaii cupcakes

and lots of Princess goodies!

Plus new banners!

Hope the sun will show it's face to I can get some photo's....

See you all tomorrow!

Here's some pretty Magenta eye candy....

all pics found on

weheartit

~Happy Monday~

Friday, March 12, 2010

The sticker club from.....HELL!

It seemed innocent enough...

a sticker club!

Darling daughter brought home a paper 2 weeks ago about a sticker club. You send stickers to the girl listed as #1 on the sheet, move girl #2 to spot #1 and put yourself in spot #2. Make 6 copies of the sheet with addresses and 6 of a sheet without addresses and give 6 of your GIRLfriends the pack of 2 papers.

Sooooooo, I write our address on the 1st sheet in the #2 spot, move #2 girl to #1 spot and make 6 copies, then I make 6 copies of the 2nd (blank) sheet and staple them together. I tell darling to give SIX of her GIRL friends a packet.

The 1st day she comes home and says 2 of the girls she wanted to give a paper to weren't on the bus and then she gave 1 sheet to "naughty boy" (a boy in her class that is quite intriguing to my good girl!). I say

"why did you give it to "naughty boy? (NB from here on out) It's for girls, I"m sure the girls don't want to pick out yucky boy stickers and NB probably doesn't want to send them girly sticker! I told you to give them to girls only".

Of course, I know that NB is NOT going to participate anyway and you're suppose to do this within 6 days and now we're running out of time and we're already got 1 down for the count, so I run another copy of the 2 pages AFTER I dig through the recycling bag

where I've thrown the originals because I thought I was DONE with my part...

In the meantime, I address an envelope with girl #1's name and address and put her stickers in the mail to her. So, today.... which is FRIDAY at 7:43 AM, darling daughter mentions something about the 12 girls she gave the sticker club papers to.

TWELVE GIRLS? i scream.... "why 12 girls?"

She says "well, you gave me 12 papers"

Well, this, of course, send me off for my morning melt down because

THERE ARE GIRLS COUNTING ON US, THERE ARE STICKERS INVOLVED, THE EARTH COULD END!

It's Friday, we're now 2 weeks behind (the deadline was 6 days and people, I DID MY PART which proves you can't trust a 6 year old girl to do the important things in life!!).

I rush to the printer (rush because it is now 10 min before we have to leave for the bus stop) where I am printing off a request for garnishment (due to the fact some IDIOT owes me over $30,000 and hasn't paid .01 in almost 4 years to date.... but I digress...). I notice the paperwork is printing light which means I have to get a new black ink cartridge- lucky for me I ordered $50 worth at Christmas! I wait for the paperwork to print (SLOWLY) and then start the RE-printing of the sticker club sheets.... I'm down to the wire, but I work best under pressure! I'm printing, I'm yelling "did you wash your face? do you have your lunch? is your folder ready? over my shoulder, I'm collating, I'm stapling, I'M ON A MISSION!

I put the #*%&# STICKER CLUB sheets in darlings backpack, give her a lecture on the fact that I'm 41 and know how this sticker club works and she doesn't listen to directions and now the entire human race is counting on her to GET IT RIGHT, so get out there, hand those sheets out to the original 6 girls -this is the point where she injects that she's handed them out to 12 and I have to say...ok, YELL "just pick 6 girls and hand them a packet, a packet of 2 sheets, each girl gets 2 papers which I have stapled together for your EASE!!"

We hope in the car with the backpack (sticker club sheets enclosed!), the lunch box and the worlds most needy dog (another day, another story!), back out of the garage (Thank you to the Mister for putting the garage door up on my side!!!) and, fly over to the bus stop. I tell darling how much I love her, how I hope she does well on her spelling test and how I hope she has a wonderful day and to get rid of those sticker club sheets NO MATTER WHAT!

There is a blog out there called "Mommy wants Vodka"...

she must have a daughter in The Sticker Club!

Have a great weekend my friends, I KNOW I will!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thursday? WOW!

Ok, the local girls are on (Take 5), that means I better get movin'... yeah, right- who am I kidding?

When I hear the local girls on TV I know that I've got 1 hour and than that ANNOYING show... with Howie (who doesn't touch people's hands-I'm totally on board with Howie on that whole grossness! If you meet me, I will hug you, but please.... do NOT try to shake my hand cause I'll shoot you down like I'm head of the NRA!). Oh, what is that show... DEAL OR NO DEAL!!! that's it and don't get me started on how much I HATE that show, the long pauses, the corny jokes, the overly obnoxious contestants showing the banker who is boss by slamming down that clear acrylic box!!

Yesterday I picked up darling daughter from school... her teacher walked her to the car, I quickly checked her face to see if her glasses were ok since the last time the teacher walked her out we had this:

but the glasses were fine... the problem...?

have you seen this jacket?

after searching all lockers and giving every kid a cavity check- they came up empty handed.

Last night the Mister started a war, no, not with me.... with the ground moles that haunt him! Think

Caddy Shack with Bill Murray! We don't have a gopher, but the

passion is the same!!

Carl Spackler: "License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."

The evidence:

the solution:

According to the Varmint Man that was out last night setting traps! Yes, people, it's getting serious around here!!

Ok, enough of that I'm headed down to my studio to get working on more banners.... lots of ideas swirling round my brain!

this is the banner that is now for sale on etsy in my store:

papercutsarecute

the DIY version is also available!!

Check out the new shop widget at the top of my blog!
(thanks Ginger's Girl for help with this one!!)

Whewww, i cleared a space!

I'm pretty sure my work area is NOT going to show up in an issue of Sommerset Studio's or "Where Women Create"! I work better in chaos and this is pretty clean so I'm off to trash it up!

My Hello Kitty pillow that I made in 7th grade home ec!

Have a great day... it's almost FRIDAY!!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

General Awesomeness...

This morning Harry from the Early Show was getting a colonoscopy live... I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better way to start my morning than by watching a man named HARRY get his pooper checked out LIVE on TV!

Darling daughter was so excited about this, it kinda made me uncomfortable. The bus was coming so I had to record it for her... I am quite sure my subliminal and NON-subliminal messages about becoming a Dr. are working!!

What better way to start an awesome post than sharing the above info?! and just so you know, his colon is CLEAN! Go Harry!!

Next up:

this awesomeness by

BrassyApple

cool hun? I wonder if you have to sew or do you just glue? I can glue, but sewing is no friend of mine!

❤Queen of Hearts❤

coffee cup sleeves by the awesome TWINKIE CHAN!

the word on the street (or internet) is that these will be available at Red Velvet Art, you know, the super successful business venture by Miss Elsie Flannighan?!