Rest In Peace Mr. Jackson..

you will be missed.. bless you Becky, Mike, Matt and Sarah... big hugs to you all...

What is it with Blogger???

Dadgummit.. for weeks... months I can't get signed in.. so annoying.. I can post but always show up as not signed in.. can't respond to any blogs out there.. I would love to leave a reply on blogs.. just am not able.. so very annoying!!! gaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Hey Honey's ... I'm home...

... although you didn't even know I had been anywhere.. hahah.. Went to the beach for a few days with Rik, Cindy, the girls, Courtney, Spencer and the boys.. didn't see much of the beach but what we did see was great. Zeke was too cute charging towards the ocean...

Maddie made treasure maps and hid buried treasures for us to find.. way too cute!


Sophia ran circles around us all....

And Ben sat in a hole...

so much fun.. I am so blessed.. the only thing missing was Christopher, Michelle and Jace...

Ever had one of "THOSE" days?

I've accomplished a lot today.. cleaning, sorting, dusting, hanging with the grand daughters.. lots of stuff.. however, I can not for the life of me get this one project completed.. lots of wasted time and material.. but, I'm determined...


to be continued... LOL

Today's mini craft project

is brought to you by.. Mod Podge, an old CD and scrapbook paper...





I'm pretty sure this will become a toy for Jace and Sophia so I'm in the process of making something a bit different.. yet the same...

Happy Sunday folks.. I hope your day is filled with sunshine and love!

Baby Wipes container...

take 3 or 4.. maybe it's 5 or 6.. not sure now... I've cut, recut, glued, undone, glued again ... and have finally decided to leave it alone.. and start a new one~! I've discovered... a couple of times no less.. that "LESS IS MORE"......
I have also discovered these little cases are definately habit forming. I can see them done up for every holiday.. and special occasion.. just like women need a purse and shoes to match each outfit a baby must have one of these cases for every outfit/occasion.. whoa.. wait a minute!! Unless I have married a Rockeffeler or robbed Fort Knox I need to come up with a way to change these out instead of making a new one each time.. hmm.. Putting my thinking cap on here...*SMOKE shooting out the ears...* I could do those little sack things I've seen but that's just not the same.. I'm pretty sure these are not going to be switched out containers.. so, maybe, just maybe, I did marry a Rockeffeler after all...

Baby Wipes "revamp" take one.. or 2 depending on how you look at it!

UGH..

so, I gave up the mod podge notion.. for now.. let's just say it's on the back burner because I just have to have one of these cute wipes cases revamped.. today.. as in .. I really, REALLY wanted it done yesterday... enter one night of no sleep.. one great day of shopping with BFF... one afternoon of playtime with the sweet grand daughters.. so.. needless to say.. no project was even attempted.. which, is a good thing.. considering...

UGH... I somewhat patiently... okay, impatiently cut the pieces needed.. I even took photos.. Yea, I know.. imagine.. anyway.. I cranked up the glue gun... and got to work.. do you hate glue sticks as much as I do? ...The next try will be with something less stringy as these glue sticks I have.. they must be left over from the old Carol Duvall days..

I glued the felt to the top.. let it sit for a bit.. then added the cut piece of fabric.. that went fairly well.. until the glue began to gang up on me.. UGH...
stringy, hot, glue.. I weathered on and finished the bottom exactly like the top. I've seen some options to only use fabric and no backing but I chose to back mine.. it's your decision... *I keep assuming someone is actually reading my posts... when in reality no one does... haha*

I chose a green ribbon to trim the piece with.. let me just say.. it looks perfect with the pattern I chose, however, all that glue that ganged up on me is now becoming layers of glue.. yes, it's bad.. no, I will not be gifting anyone with this particular project.. it's mine.. to keep.. and pout over.. and I will!

That being said.. I'm off to the 2nd one.. with more patience.. less stringy glue and a determination to make it "gift worthy"...

I'm pretty sure I see an exacto knife in my future.. Take That STRINGY glue stick mess!

Mod Podge project gone bad...

yep.. it's one of THOSE days... Hot, lazy, summer days.. so, I got the bright idea to Mod Podge something.. a cute little baby wipe container.. I've seen them.. have been researching them but have yet to find a tutorial for a Mod Podged one.. I thought to myself

Self

You can do this.. you're smart, fairly young??, self motivated woman.. get on it...

So, I did... hmm.. let's just say.. take one... FAILURE.. no pictures.. just take my word for it.. but, I will persevere... tomorrow is another day.. and another opportunity for success... or disaster.. depending on how you look at it! I will not give up.. I will succeed.. besides.. I NEED one of these.. I just do..

Hair bows, hair bow, hair bows...

everywhere. Tracy mentioned the other day the only bow that would stay in Macie's hair is the one I made her.. that set me off... I couldn't let that sweet little dumplin go around thinking she was a newspaper with one of those elastic headbands on her poor little punkin head .. so, I made hair bows.. several.. in lots of colors.. I'm delivering them today.. however, I began thinking last night.. yes, I know, that's dangerous but.. I did it anyway.. and I've come to the conclusion I may have used the wrong clip..so, this morning I'm going to duplicate those bows on a different clip... just in case... Macie can thank me later by taking care of me in my old age! hahah.. I'll be Aunt Polly.. she'll be my "aide".. hahah...

Starting a new adventure...

in crafting.. This summer I've been some what busy with a few crafts. I see something I want to do on a blog the follow a different blog and then another and before you know it.. I'm lost in blog-land and have done nothing all day... I have managed to complete a few things such as wreaths.... I have much more I'd like to do but for the time being wreaths seem to be where I'm at...