Valentine Heart Crayons

I know it has been a couple of weeks since I first told you about making heart shaped crayons with my littlest chick. The Valentine's are finally complete. Believe me I took WAY longer than I should have to finish this project. It really is quite simple. You can look back at my first post/tutorial here.

To finish these Valentine's I put two crayon hearts into a small clear treat bag and stapled it to a piece of card stock. At the bottom of the card it says "Be Mine for 'Crayon' Out Loud!" and "Be My Valentine for 'Crayon' Out Loud!" I don't consider myself to be good with words so I borrowed and tweaked How Does She?'s cute little phrase. Lastly I used a dot of hot glue to secure the red bow, it covers where the staple is.

I am happy with how they turned out and my little chick loves them. She asks every couple of days if it's the day to give her friends crayons. Maybe being prepared three weeks in advance wasn't such a good idea. Oops.

Blessings.

Linking to: Just A Girl, House of Hepworths

Dum Dum Valentines

Every time I hear dum dum I think of Night at the Museum "Dumb dumb, give me some gum gum." My girls love that line.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, dum dum Valentines. I talked to all three chicks about making their Valentines this year and showed them some ideas I have seen in blogland and in magazines. They each wanted something different from the other, so I was super excited. I could create three different blog posts just on making Valentine's. Doesn't every blogger think to herself "This could be a blog post!" when a new project is about to begin?

Instead of three posts I am only making two because my older chicks both wanted to use dum dum suckers. I am sure you have all seen the the little flower Valentines with a dum dum sucker in the middle. I have always wanted to make them for one of my little chicks and this year I actually thought far enough in advance I have made it a reality. So we have flowers, cupcakes and ice cream cone Valentines.

My middle daughter loved the simple flower design so I used my Cricut to cut a bunch of hearts. I used the George cartridge but several cartridges have heart shapes so you could use whatever you want. Next I put her to work using a single hole punch to put a hole about 1/4 inch up from the bottom point of each heart. When she was done with that she took three hearts, lined up the circles and glued them together with a little Elmer's glue. Once they dried we popped the sucker through the center and bent the hearts up a little so they looked more like petals. And we were done. Now all she has to do is write names and hand them out.

As for my oldest, she knew she didn't want the same thing as her sister, however she did want to use the dum dums. I went through my Cricut cartridges looking for something that might work. On the Straight From the Nest cartridge there are cupcakes and ice cream cones with cherries on top. I thought "Well, that might work." So we cut a bunch of cupcakes and ice cream cones, punched a hole where the cherry was and put the dum dum in. Now instead of a cherry on top there's another sweet treat.

They're not real fancy but they're cute, just like my girls and we're happy with them.

Blessings.

Linking to: Get Your Craft On, Tip Junkie

FanFest

This weekend in Seattle is Mariners FanFest. Our family has made FanFest a tradition the last couple of years. Tall Man, the chicks and I will go spend a long weekend with my favorite in-laws and check out FanFest for a day.

If you're not familiar with the Seattle Mariners you may not know what FanFest is, well it's a baseball fan's amusement park! Okay, so there aren't any rides but there are so many fun things to do it's like a bunch of rides except your face isn't green when you're done, it's Mariners blue! For one weekend a year baseball fans have access to the whole park. SafeCo field is opened up for guests to check out the club house, gym, dugouts, pretty much everything. You can hit one out in center field (they set up a tee and you can belt one into the stands!) You can play catch in the outfield, catch pop flies, test your speed in the bullpen, sit in the away dugout and run the bases! Holy buckets! There are interviews going on all over with former players, new players, announcers and more. It truly is Disneyland for the Mariners fan.

This year we're unable to make the trip. We're all very disappointed we can't go visit with family and check out all the fun again. So instead of getting our faces painted, sporting our M's gear and "sliding" into third this weekend I'll be looking back on the fun we had the last couple of years.

Check it out for yourself...

FanFest 2010

My favorite mother-in-law, my chicks and I with our faces freshly painted.

Yes, that says Griffey as in Ken Griffey Jr!!

And yep, that's Jay Buhner.

My middle chick and her Papa.

The late Dave Niehaus.

My Tall Man catching a fly ball!

Earlier when I wrote "sliding" into third, this is what I was referring to. Dork!

FanFest 2009

Papa and his girls.

My two older chicks and I.

Me, because if you intentionally take a bad picture, is the picture really bad?

Tall Man, the girls and I by the first base line.

Wishing we could be there but maybe next year. Only eighteen days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. If my blog suddenly stinks, you'll know baseball season has officially started.

Blessings.

ACK!!!

Yesterday started like any other Tuesday in our house. Wake up, coffee with the Tall Man, devotional, shower, wake up the little chicks, breakfast, then it was time to actually get ready. I have a Tuesday morning women's Bible study I attend so it wasn't a "put on a hat" day, it was a "do your hair and make up" day. So that's what I was doing. I was twisting my grown out bangs back to pin I noticed something in my hair. What was it you ask? It was this...

At first I thought "Oh my gosh these stinking dogs, their hair is literally EVERYWHERE!" But no, it wasn't a hair from our white and black dog. This hair was actually attached to MY head! So did I embrace this new stage in life and stand proud in the mirror with my sole grey hair? Heck no! I did what any woman would do, I grabbed the tweezers and yanked that sucker out! I carefully examined this hair, placed it against a black shirt so I could see the true color. Let's just say it wasn't blond!

My next move was a text to my Mom. It said, and I quote "HOLY CRAP! I just found my first grey hair!! When did you get your first?" She then writes back she was in her mid thirties, however she has always colored her hair. I on the other hand color my hair every six to nine months. She goes on like any good mother would and tells me I am a beautiful person inside and out, the color of my hair will not define me. So sweet, thank you Mom.

You may be wondering what I did next. Well, I can tell you what I didn't do. I did not cancel the hair appointment I already had scheduled for yesterday afternoon. I went to that appointment and darn it, I had my hair colored! I can honestly say I already had plans to have my bangs trimmed and hair dyed dark again and that's exactly what I did.

I think grey hair can be beautiful. I see some women with their silver hair and hope that one day when I do go grey and Au naturel I will have beautiful silver hair like theirs. But let's be real here, I am 28 years old! I am not ready to be grey. I've always joked that my hair should be turning soon, after all I do have three chicks and a Tall Man with a few surgeries in his past. I guess I didn't really think it would actually happen before the big 3-0. I know this is just the beginning and it will most likely take years before my drivers license lists grey under hair color. And I'm okay with that. I do however think I'll be scheduling my hair appointments a little closer together from now on.

Oh and by the way, my Tall Man, he thinks this is hilarious. He's eight years older than I am and has always been very sure his first grey hair sprouted within weeks of dating me. I used to be his "hot mama" but now he's asked if he can call me his "silver fox!" I don't think so babe!

Blessings.

Like Dandelion Dust

I've shared with you my love for books by Karen Kingsbury. Today I get to tell you one of her books has become a movie and it is for sale on dvd TODAY!!

I haven't seen Like Dandelion Dust yet but I have read the book. Yes, it is an incredible read. My mother-in-law saw the movie when it was part of a film festival in her area, she said it was fantastic. She also got to meet the talented Karen Kingsbury. Pretty cool!

No craftiness involved in today's post. Just wanted to share this with you!

Blessings.