NieNie Love

So I'm taking a time out to ask you to help a blog-friend.

If you haven't read her blog before it is here at

Nie and her husband were in a serious plane crash in Arizona and are currently in a coma with burns all over their bodies. The pilot of the plane died (they were in a small private plane.) Some of you might have heard through other blogs and through the news in Utah and Arizona. You can read the news story here http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=4054762 and here http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=273958 .

They, like me, are LDS and she is the mom to four young children. They are a young family with a love for each other like no other. Nie's blog has been one of my favorites for a long time and I loved to see what was happening in her world and to "hear" her thoughts on many things.

You can go to her sister's blog http://blog.cjanerun.com/ and read more of the story. She is keeping 3 of her sisters children and expects to have them for months. She is excellent at sharing and writing and seeing our Heavenly Father's love for her family and her sister and brother in law. She gives updates on Nie and the children for all of the small blogging world.

The point of this post is that there are some auctions happening in the blog world today and the next few days at various blogs. You can see the list at this blog....http://www.designmom.com/

This blogger decided she could help by organizing the blog world together to raise some money for Nie and her care that she is receiving. The bills will be huge and they are doing all they can to help Nie and her husband raise some some while they are in a coma and don't know what they are in for.

I hope that you can at least check out Nie's story and c jane's blog

and send a little prayer up for them if nothing else.

I'll return to regular blogging tomorrow!!

Thanks for helping out!!

ps I don't know how to do those fancy links so you get the

old school way at this blog!!

Milk Cartons for teachers

Today was the first day back to school and that means that for my committee assignment I needed to bring the teachers a little snack for the first day with students. So here is what I took in this morning.

They didn't take too long. I downloaded the template and printed them straight onto the paper. They are filled with mini brownies with Reese's peanut butter cups in them....yummy!

I took the picture last night so the color is off and they aren't the best pictures but at least i remembered to take them this time. I only had 15 to make so this is a sampling of the papers I used. They are all papers out of the DCWV School Stack.

I'm Back!!!

So I've been a terrible blogger but now that we are ready for school to start tomorrow and we are all getting back on a schedule I think I'm going to be able to be blogging more. Our family is a summer family..late nights, sleeping in, do whatever whenever, eating dinner at 8pm because we decided to have ice cream at 530 pm instead of dinner, breakfast for lunch or snaking all day.

We really like the non-scheduled part of summer.

But school starts tomorrow and the scheduling is coming right back. I'm pulling out the calendar and my planner and my hubby's planner and getting us all back on schedule again.

With all of that scheduling I tend to organize too.

So the boys love to have their "own" money and love to save it up for Wii games or DS games, but they don't have wallets and don't

really want one so we found a couple jars for them. I wanted to

add their names on them so we weren't arguing over whose was whose so I pulled out my fancy (well not that fancy) rub ons from Making Memories.

And this is what the boys ended up with.....

Long Time, No Blog

Wonder if I fell off the edge of the world?

Well I didn't. This year for my Mom's birthday we decided to throw a family surprise party so I have been doing that. Since my last blog I have been planning, creating, and than traveling and pulling off the surprise with my 4 siblings and their families.

It was a big to do since 3 of us live in the Mid-west now and my parents are in Washington DC. It was a lot of fun and Mom was surprised. Imagine driving up to a front porch full of your grandchildren, in which none of them live in the same town as you. She was happy and we were too.

So we did a bright table with pinwheels etc.

(picture taken before the kids climbed up and started "testing" everything out and before food was added on top of the rounds down the middle)

I did one pinwheel at home in Vegas and than showed two brothers and two sister in laws how to do it and they finished 11 more while I started cooking. So here is the pile before they got the straws hooked onto them.

We had lots of fun and now I'll try to get back to regular posts and crafting.

I couldn't post about the party in case Mom looked here and found out and that was all I was working on so sorry for not sharing earlier!

Fun Easy Simple

All three of those words describes these cards. All 35 of them only took about an hour. Punch a flower, run flower through the cuttlebug, stamp sentiment, attach flower and you are D O N E. I really needed something simple tonight since I need these for first thing in the morning.

I had these white cards and didn't want to decide on what color to make the flowers out of so I decided to do white on white. I love the look of white and white and I have decided that when I do white on white it means I need to add texture to the whites to make them stand out from one another. I think that way the white on white works. There is one flower that wasn't run through the cuttlebug and I don't think it stands out enough. But I thought I'd leave one that way so you could judge for yourself.

The cards are part of those boxes of cards you can buy at Michael's and the sentiment is PTI.

Happy Sunday!

Let's Talk about that "flag"

Okay so I wanted to share about the "flag" on the previous post....the pullout cupcake card.

All I did was stamp a scrap piece of paper...I didn't measure the scrap, I just tried to find a piece my sentiment would fit on. Than I cut the two triangles out of the end pieces than rolled the paper around a pencil but only halfway. Than rolled it halfway on the other end so the paper would have a wave in it instead of being all rolled into itself. Try it, it will make more sense than....But I just wanted to share that in case you wanted to try it at home....So go ahead and try!

Yummy Cupcake card

So I have been wanting to try this style of card since I saw Jennifer McGuire's how to video on the hero arts blog. I think this is my favorite style of pullout card!

I see this card as a Christmas card for my family this year but I really have to figure out a fast way to mass produce this one. Hopefully after this first try I'll get better and faster at it.

This view shows you the "flag" i put the sentiment on. Just so you can see the dimension behind it all since it is hard to see in the first picture.

The cupcake is actually a sticker that is pop dotted together. The Stamps are inkadoo brand. The inks are SU.

This is what happens you you pull up on the ribboned tab.

And this is what the card looks like from above when it is "opened."

I'm thinking this is a card to hand deliver, with the big wide ribbon and the flag on it, but maybe it will survive in a package or bubble envelope!

Baby Frames

Well this is another item I made for the craft fair back in November. I did this one, one that said "joy" and another "family". They were a lot of fun to make and once I figured it out they went really fast. I will give this to a friend who is expecting a baby boy in the fall.

For the picture....it was hard to get all the frames in the same picture. So here is another view of them.

It is funny to look at them after all these months....I think I will add some ribbons and other embellishments to make it not so simple looking. Each frame is 4X4 and I found them at Joann's. The paper is crate papers and the letters are covered chipboard.

Do you like this?

I'm not so sure about this card. In fact it has been hanging on the board in my scrap room while I try to decide. Like it not really---but I like the idea of it. The square with the words on it is actually popped up off the base of the card and the lines are hand drawn brown lines. Maybe with a different paper or maybe I should just stick with two PPs instead of 4. Any ideas of how to fix this one?

Oh and do you like the ink pad stains on my Scrap table? It seems to be getting more and more "permanent damage" from my hobbies!

Pink Cards

Here are two cards I don't think I have shared before. The anniversary card is my favorite anniversary card. I think I give this one all the time and need to stop because everyone probably has it by now. It is made with a dollar stamp from a long time ago.

The thank you card was originally for a baby shower I did for a great friend. When I throw showers I make Thank Yous for the person that match the invites I make so she got these that matched her pink and brown invites. I printed the Thank You on the paper before I cut it apart into the right sizes for the cards. A little cheater way of doing things but it is easy and fast.

The color seems really off in these pictures. IRL the pink is very bright and the white is white. So sorry. I guess I should only take pictures in the monring light I suppose.