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A Disney Day

July 29, 2007 by Tsoniki 2 Comments

I feel like we watched only Disney movies today. Between the laundry, dishes and homeschool research I have to say The Lion King is still the best movie they put out! I’ve always loved that movie. We also watched The Little Mermaid – and I so love it that Alice wants to watch these movies. Jake isn’t that interested but that’s okay.

They had a good, restful day. Alice’s voice is gone now and Jake’s is coming back. I hate it when they are sick, they make me feel so bad. I’ve been having to give her lots of meds because she’s had a fever that just won’t go away. In the middle of the night last night it was 102.4 and she was shivering, I forgot that you got the chills when you have a fever. I took Jake to the dr the other day and (long story VERY short) after the dr saying nothing was wrong with him, he gave us meds anyway. I don’t usually rush to take them to the dr so the visit was very annoying, and I don’t look forward to another!

But Alice was feeling well enough to start a popsicle stick purse. We got halfway done today and ran out of sticks, so once we get more and finish I’ll show the pictures. It’s a project taken from the Craftster book – very fun, fast and easy. She’s having a great time building it and when I mentioned I thought it would need a little bag inside of it, she offered to jump up and get her sewing machine first thing. It’s a purple, green, red, blue, yellow, orange purse so who knows what fabric would look good in there! I’m going to look through my stash tomorrow before going out.

Did you do any crafty projects this weekend? We borrowed the Craftster book from the library so I’m going to see if there is anything else we have to do before returning it.

[tags]Crafster book, popsicle stick purse, Disney movies[/tags]

Filed Under: Kids Crafts, Ramblings

Blog Challenge

July 27, 2007 by Tsoniki 6 Comments

It seems that I go back and forth with the frequency of posting to this blog – and so I’m participating in a challenge! Check out the other blogs listed here and I encourage you to join in the fun. We are going to be posting to our blogs every day for 30 days.

I’m excited about this!

Crystal Misener of Happy Mommy Thoughts
Jenni Hunt of Snacks For Toddlers
Diana of The Cravings Coach
Kristine McKinley of Financial Tips For WAHMs
Marie Ynami of Mommy Community
Courtney of Mom Needs A Clone
Carrie Lauth with her own Carrie Lauth blog

And of course my blog – Tsoniki of Me Being Crafty.

I’m going to get to posting more on this blog and then work around to my others.

Filed Under: Fun Links

Personalized Fun

July 26, 2007 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

We all know I love school supplies – and that love gets bumped up a notch when you can personalize them!

I really can’t wait until my kids are a few years older and I can start ordering from a service such as Identity Direct. This particular company has over 400 personalized items for kids and I am loving the pens and pencils. When I was a little girl my Grandma always gave us (my cousins and I who were around the same age) all personalized pencils for Christmas – I think we got either a set of so many, like 20, or a small box of them, probably 20 there too. I loved them! I remember just being thrilled because 1 – they were school supplies and 2 – they had my name on them! Since my kids are mini versions of me, I know they will be just as excited. The site has a wide variety of items – from pens and pencils to personalized story books, clocks and labels. I even had a personalized backpack when I was in high school and a daytimer with my name in college.

Filed Under: Fun Links

Sock Puppet

July 26, 2007 by Tsoniki 4 Comments

My Mom sent us a sock puppet kit for Christmas last year and we made one and then never got around to making the other. It wasn’t too hard to figure out though I remember it taking a little while. So here is Fluffy! You can’t see but he also has a belly button because, duh, everyone has a belly button! He has mismatched eyes too but they are the same size, which I guess was more important to Alice then them matching colors! You were supposed to cut a tie and put that coming out of the top of his head but the only ties we have are ones that Chris just bought and there was no way we were cutting them up – so it is a ribbon. The ribbon kind of hangs in Fluffy’s face, but he doesn’t mind. It distracts from him not smiling I think.

Most of the time Alice or Jake sleeps with him, or he has a special place on Alice’s bookcase. Now there is a gift that she still loves too, Fluffy. She wants to make more but we just haven’t. Maybe we’ll do that this weekend, Fluffy does need a friend.

Filed Under: Finished Projects, Sewing/Quilting

Altered Notebook

July 25, 2007 by Tsoniki 6 Comments

Well, kind of altered. Maybe more like covered. A few weeks ago one of my girlfriends started looking for wedding things – ideas for centerpieces, dresses, etc. – and she mentioned wanting a notebook to keep notes in. I’ve had a few moleskine (love them!) notebooks for a little while and wanted to cover one so I said I would and send it to her. Her colors were going to be a teal and chocolate brown. I wasn’t sure I could get the teal right, but I tried!

covered Moleskine notebook

I used a few different Stampin’ Up stamps and paper, and sparkly rhinestone things from A Muse. From the picture it looks like a lot of teal – but really it all blended very well. I used a few quotes (my favorite stamps are quotes) as well as the Doodle Alphabet stamp set for spelling out “Julie”. The two eyelets hold vellum onto the paper under them and can swing out so you can read the quote. Of course you can see it a lot better in person as well.

The chocolate brown paper was a lot of fun to do – I just used versamark ink for the stamp and didn’t put any embossing powder or such on it. I just stamped and then dried with with my heat gun. It just makes the mark stand out and looks so good!

The space in the middle is for a date – I’m not sure for 2007 or the full date or what. They have a tentative date right now, I think.

When I talked to her last she said the notebook was too nice to use and she hadn’t written in it yet! That made me laugh although I know how she feels. I just love how this came out – it took a couple to a few hours and after I was done stamping, figuring the layout took quite a bit! I’m happy with how it looks and so is Julie and her Mom so I figure it’s a good job.

I’ve done quite a few cards lately too – it feels really good to be back into crafting!

[tags]Stampin’ Up, moleskine notebook, altered items[/tags]

Filed Under: Finished Projects, Inspiration

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