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!!

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~

Weekend Re-Cap, Alice, Alice, Alice!

Saturday I cleaned my whole house so I could get to the art room today.  Monday is usually my "clean like a freak" day!

Saturday night the mister and I went to see 

Alice in Wonderland in 3D!!

I bought the tickets at 4:50 for a 7:05 show,  we went back to the theater at 6:30 and man, am I glad we did!  The movie before us was just letting out and people for the 7:05 were already rushing the door!  Finally a lady came out and said they were cleaning as fast as they could and would we please line up behind the candy machine- so we did, this is not a lady I'd mess with, she's large and IN CHARGE!

I was the 2nd one into the theater 'cause they know who I am!  I was 2nd behind Big-Sweaty Guy!

Big sweaty guy sat in the single seat at the top.  His hair was soaked, he was alone with his bucket of popcorn, but he was wheelin' and dealin' on his cell right up until the start of the movie!  We sat in the top row, everyone crawled across us to get to the other end of the row- why, I don't know, cause there is a staircase on both sides of the theater!

I liked the movie!

3D- no other way to see it in my opinion!!

❤The Red Queen❤ 

Alice

and the delicious Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter!

The Mister, who was not thrilled to see this movie, said "it was better than I was expecting", I guess that's a good review coming from him!

We didn't eat theater food- I REALLY try to limit my junk gunk!

We went to a roadhouse place, I ordered a thing called

"Porkies"

I have this rule (usually) where I either won't order something with a stupid name or I'll call it what it is.  Years ago when I worked for Kodak and was on the road eating junk-on-the-run (I also ran 18 miles a week so I figured a bit of junk wasn't going to kill me, and guess what?  It didn't!) I use to go thru BK every once in a while for breakfast.  They had (maybe they still do?!) these things called

cinna-mini's (550 calories, 26 grans of fat, 7 grams saturated fat and 9 teaspoons of sugar!).  I refused to order them by that name, I ALWAYS asked for cinnamon rolls!  There was a place where I went to college that had a sandwich called the BIG WALLY.... ummm, NO!  I never had that and even if I would have wanted one, I would have pointed.

So anyway... I did order the porkies and I even called them that- what is the world coming to?

Sunday we got up and went to church.  We go to Mars Hill, our pastor is Rob Bell.  Do you know of him?  Go to youtube and type in Nooma.  He's an awesome teacher and a "Christian" that gets it.  You know, not one of those that has to hate everything he doesn't agree with, one that let's God judge, cause, ummm, that's God's job and not ours!  He's a dude, he got in a giant fish Sunday because we're studying the book of Jonah.

 On our way past Michael's I asked the Mister to pull in to see if they had these cricut cartridges that they had advertised for $14.99!  When we got in the store, Mister said "run, run" and am I glad I did- I got the last one!  2 ladies came in after us asking for them and the lady helping them said "well we have 1 left, but that lady (ME!!!) in line has the ticket for it".  Yeah for me!  She said someone had come in right when they opened and bought every one they had (except the one she left for me!!!)

it was the one i wanted too, how lucky was i?

I asked the lady if they were getting more in, because with a $14.99 price you know it's going to be like The Great Cabbage Patch Doll Riots of '84!!

She said they're discontinuing these cartridges, so that's why they were so cheap.  The Mister said "well I guess that gal that got all the others is going to be listing on ebay today!"

So my tips for Monday are:

1. go see Alice

2. Don't order food with stupid names because it will probably kill you

3. go watch a Nooma

3. when cricut cartridges are $14.99, you're going to have to camp out to get your mitts on one!

Have a fantabulous day!  I'm going to go get cuttin' for

papercutsarecute.etsy.com

It's Friday, thank goodness....

Hmmmm, this has been kind of a weird week for me.  

I haven't really felt like i've been on my game...

I've had appts and random coffee/chats and running to get a bucket of blue cheese chunks at Costco, so maybe that's kinda make me go all left brained?!  I guess if I don't have time to hang out down in my art room I don't get that right-brained time... I'm not really the kind of person that can utilize 15 min.  I have to run darling to the eye dr. for a re-check today at 2, it's 9:45 am now, but for some reason I can't get creative if I KNOW I have to do something later... weird, hun?!  There are some of you out there making AMAZING art with a house full of kids where you have to work in small time slots- I'm in awe of you!!  

So, I apologize if the blog is a little dull or out of sorts this week... 

My computer is moving SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO slow today that I'm ready to tear my hair out!!!  It took me over 1/2 hour to load 5 pictures!!!! FIVE!

Ok, deep breath.... deep breath!

these are from my new etsy store:

papercutsarecute.etsy.com

I've been working on the packaging, I still need to figure out a way to print my store name and info on the bag topper!

This is just a stamped tag I did, but it's too big and WAY too time consuming to hand stamp each one...

anyone have any cool ideas they want to share?

I have so many idea swimming in my head, but this week I just never made it downstairs... Next week seems pretty clear so far, so I hope to REALLY step it up next week!!

Look for Weiner dogs doing the hula-hoop and Matryoshka dolls and Make-Your-Own-Banner

 SOON!

and I'm going to give quilt updates on Friday (don't worry, I'll just do it on Friday so I don't give you quilt-overload!!)

This is the last update... 4 squares 

and then there were...

6

If I keep it up, we'll probably be able to actually use it next winter!! Unless, of course I can talk the mister into moving us to Hawaii and then I'll just have a blog giveaway with the quilt (don't hold your breath ladies!!).

Is anyone going to see "Alice in Wonderland" tonight or this weekend?  Darling Daughter wants to go but I'm not sure about that... I kind of want to see it 1st to see if she'll enjoy it (she's 6).  If you LOVE Alice in Wonderland, go grab a copy of:

Somerset Studio March/April

It's full of all kinds of goodies from the story!  I'd share some pics, but I don't want to waste another 9 hours uploading...

Have a GREAT weekend and come back next week for a better blog...