My Maryland Peeps

Hope all of my Maryland peeps are enjoying the snow. Bahahahahahahah......
Sorry. (We got a good amount in VA. But definitely not as much as you all!)
Don't you just wish it was SuMmEr TiMe!?!?!?
XOXO

Hand Made Marbled Cards

These cards are so cute! I made these with my class the other day and also made some for myself! All you need is shaving cream, liquid watercolors, white cardstock, and a pan or cookie sheet.
The first thing you need to do is spray shaving cream on your pan and use a scraper or spatula to cover your pan or sheet. Then, sprinkle a few dots of liquid watercolor (I used 2-3 colors per paper). Use a toothpick or the back of a paintbrush to make big swirls or designs through your shaving cream. Then, lay your cardstock over the shaving cream, press down gently, and scrape off shaving cream. Viola! Marbled paper! Looks so neat! Then, I cut them and pasted them to blank note cards.
This project is SUPER easy to do with kids. They all turn out looking so unique! What a great gift to give!

Decoupage Fun!

Over the long snowy weekend, I was a busy bee decoupaging! I found that fabric is so much more fun and easier to decoupage with rather than paper! Chad and I hung our initials from the barn at our wedding. I knew I wanted to do something with these letters one day when I had enough time. So this weekend, was definitely the perfect weekend to work on them! I took my country fabric scraps and decoupaged them to the letter R. I even cut out some of the roosters from the pillows I made for the family room. The R turned out great, but I LOVE the letter M the most! I used all my colored fabric with polka dots, flowers, paislies, etc. It looks so good! I made the M to go in my craft room, but it would look perfect in our guest room because of the colorful quilt I have on the twin bed.

I also decoupaged a flower pot for my grandmother’s birthday. Too bad I will not be seeing her until I come home in March. Her birthday is today. I hope she has a great day!

So here are the pictures of my letters R and M!! All I need to do is spray them. So much fun! I can’t wait to decoupage again!

Power's back on!

So last night my power went out around 3pm. Ugh. It was not fun at ALL! I took the dogs for a walk and then when I returned home, I got all the candles ready for when it got darker. I decided to do a few things around the house before it got too dark. I put away laundry, loaded the dishwasher, and decoupaged for a while. Then, it was time to light the candles. I hung out on the couch with candles lit all around. I read a little of my Life Simple magazine and then started reading a new book I bought at Barnes and Nobel the other day. I think I fell asleep by 8. I woke up at 11 and the power was back on! Wahoo!
This morning, after walking the dogs, I decided to take my camera and go for a little walk on my own to capture some pretty snapshots of the snow.


My backyard. It looks all white to me!

The birds are all over the holly tree. Yum for holly berries!

The Weather Outside is Frighful!

Wow! What a blizzard we have here!! I am home alone with my 2 pups wishing and hoping that I do not lose power! Chad is in Minnesota for a summer internship interview. I was secretly hoping for his flight to cancel just so I would not have to be alone during this blizzard, but I know this is something he NEEDS to do. So now I am here laying on the couch looking through some pictures I took when the dogs and I took a walk this morning. We walked over to the high school so the dogs could play off their leash in the tennis courts. Boy did they have fun! Somehow Pepper found a tennis ball???





Check out this video of Norma asking Pepper for the tennis ball! So hard to share....



Here are some pics I took yesterday. I was a little bored! What can I say?! I love my dogs!

Come on Snow! I'm ready to be crafty!

So they are calling for lots and LOTS of snow starting tomorrow morning. Some people are sick of the snow! I know I am not. I cannot wait to be stuck in the house for a few days. I bought tons of junk food and have lots of crafts up my sleeve. It seems like ALL of my friends are prego and I am trying to make some hand-made gifts for them instead of buying something at the store. I think it means so much more to give handmade. I have been finding some awesome crafty ideas online that I want to make one day when I have time. This summer, I am probably not going to be working much. So I have been printing all these ideas out from crafty blogs and putting them in a folder for the summer. Here are a few things stuffed away:

I also want to decoupage the word ‘eat’ for the kitchen. I was watching Modern Family last night (that show is hilarious) and in the lady’s kitchen she had these letters hanging on her wall. They looked like they were decoupaged with either bright colored patterned scrapbook paper or fabric.

There is definitely not enough time in the day to do all of these fun things! Wish this could be my full time job instead of teaching 4 year olds. That would be perfect! Here is a picture of me sledding with the little munchkins today! That hill may not look that big in the picture, but it was huge! I flew down that sucker! (It also looks like there is not much snow, but just the top was muddy.) Notice the boy on the left crying. He wanted to use the saucer. Ha ha! Teachers first! =)

Snow Day!

Yay! No school today! I am so glad I have another day to get things done around the house! This weekend, I drove home to Maryland for my nephew's birthday party. About two hours before the party, disaster struck! Snow, Snow, and more SNOW and NO HEAT! My poor sister and her husband got to the hall where the party was going to take place and the heat was not working. So I drove all around picking up space heaters and by the time I got there Melissa told me to go home. The circuits kept breaking and it would not allow the space heaters to go on.

Soooo..... it took about an hour to get home from the hall (which should only take 15 minutes). The snow was coming down so fast and laying on the roads. My tires are shot and I was sliding all over! Once we got to my mom's house, we were running around like crazy decorating, bringing up folding chairs from the basement, opening tables, taping up posters...

Melissa had invited over 60 people and about 70% of the people could not make it (could not blame them at all!! Dangerous out there!) The party still turned out great. Little Jayden had a great time with his new presents and yummy cake! Oh and of course the rocking chair I painted for him!

Now, I am home in Virginia. I need to get in my snowpants and take the pups for a walk. Ugh. We definatley got a lot more snow than Maryland. Probably about 9 inches. Today, I need to go grocery shopping, go to Patient First to get something for my cough, pick up my dad's birthday present, finish laundry, and plan for teaching this week. I also should be a nice wife and put away Chad's clothes that have been piling up for the past 3 weeks! Maybe I will??