Why this dog is lucky i LET him live...

1st: Apparently he tore tiny holes in the trim around his bed...

 I washed it and then proceeded to pick fluffy stuff from my dryer...

 Next he tears the bottom part of his bedding apart, and again I wash his bed...

Lastly, I throw the bed away and he sleeps on a fleece blanket...

Yes, he IS a lucky dog!

I've been walking around GROWLING and picking fuzz from ALL over the house....

I've also been trying to take pictures and list a bunch of goodies in my etsy shops...

paper cuts are cute

Now to try and get a few more shots while the sun is out...It's Michigan in the winter, I have 20 min!!

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~

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? 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!!

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?!

a van that says "blue jeans", nuff said!

these spool dolls by 

STUDIOofWHIMSY 

on etsy.com

❤faux cotton candy❤ 

by

scrumptiousdelight

Crochet birds by attic24

go grab your FREE pattern from this awesome gal!

❤

this idea from ahootandaholler

just cut out hearts and stick to your wall, then pose!  

GENIUS and... awesome!

I think I'm in love with lavender...

My 1st house in GR was done with a LOT of dark purple/plum and I totally purpled-out, but this color...

AWESOME!  Thank you J Crew!

and now let's check out my awesome project listed on 

etsy.com

in my new store:

papercutsarecute

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42362717
ok, I just checked and my link above doesn't work that is
NOT
awesome, but the banner is!

I'll also have these available as a DIY

This banner is available now!!  Go grab it!

have an awesome day!

Crochet, Paper Cuts and lazy dogs...but not in that order!

every time I shut off my camera or just unplug it from my mac it says: The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off.

THERE IS NO DISK... it's just my camera, why must it say this to me and why can't I figure out how to do it the way the mac says i should?  i like rules, i like to follow rules and everyday when I load pictures onto Mac he yells at me.. I don't like to be yelled at by anyone, let alone Mac, cause I heart mac...

Let's move on...

Is this the life or what?  Please don't notice the fly swatter under the seat thingy (which has become a dog tanning bed apparently!) or the dead fly that I haven't swept up or the fact my window has no trim...

We are redoing all the trim.  I (yes, ME!) took the trim off in our bedroom when the Mister was on that elk hunting trip (when I repainted the room robin egg blue) he noticed that you could basically see the outdoors and since we don't live in Hawaii (yet??? Please dear God, please!!??) we need insulation!  So.... this sets the Mister off on the quest for warmth and he starts tearing the trim off everywhere and stuffing chunks of pink (pretty!) fuzzy stuff in the window sills.

I went to the dentist this morning (invisalign check up, nothing too bad!) and then don't you know my car just took off for Joann's!

I had a dream about this book... I knew it must be mine and all crochet/knit books are on sale!  When I took the picture I noticed it says "....to Knit and...." 

KNIT, I yelled out loud, I don't knit!  Dang, I bet the ones I like are knitted...

**CUTE  CHERRIES**

You know it.... they're knitted!  dang...

OH, here's a crocheted veggie...

RADISH?!

 not my fave, but I think if I leave the long tail off maybe I can make a cherry?!

but look at these other pretties!

Cute hun??!!

but these....?? the flowers are cute, but... 

maybe when I'm 78 and on a beach somewhere wearing on of those giant swimsuits with a skirt!

Then... they were having their $19.99 paper stacks for 

$9.99!!

I realized the other day I have REALLY got to step it up with my papercutsarecute store on etsy...

I spent yesterday working on some DIY paper banner kits...

I'm putting some Easter kits together now and want to have them listed tomorrow...

Better run!

Have a GREAT day!!