13 years and dollar deals~

So on January 2nd my baby turned 13!!  WHEW...unfortunately I was so sick that we could not take him out for his birthday shopping.  We finally went today and let me just say that when this time rolls around next year I think he and his father will be spending the day together and I'll just stay home.  We spent almost three hours in an archery shop....so boring.  Then it was lipping back and forth and the two of them acting about 5 most of the day...BOUT drove me crazy.  He ended up getting everything he wanted though and got to spend the day with both of us which oddly enough at 13 he still thought was cool!

In between me sneaking away and them finding me though I caught up with some really good deals.  I hit Hobby Lobbys Christmas clearance isle and found kick ass red felt stockings 25 of them.  I am going to embellish them and use them for the advent calendar!! YAY!!  Then at the Target dollar isle I found 6 storage containers that well I couldn't live without so they came home with me too.  The two mesh one have already been put to use in my bathroom closet.  It got cleaning out and straightened up as soon as we got home.  The other four I think I will use for project containers.  I have a bad habit of stretching out my projects because I never have everything at the same time.  With these containers though I can store my papers and the supplies for the projects in one spot so once I have everything I can just sit down and do it.  I actually thought this one through :)

SO....tomorrow is my last day to work on my project before I go into default!!  I'm cutting this one close....oh who am I kidding I am a terrible procrastinator and you should expect this every week.  I will have it done though I promise and pictures posted.

Spirit of Christmas madness~~

SO here are a couple of random projects I worked on before Christmas and actually gave away as gifts.  I am not sure if the people they went to actually enjoyed them or not but in my own twisted worled I am going to pretend like they did and smile psychotically.  These are blocks that I made for my new little niece Paxton.  She was at the time 6 months old and slobbering on anything she could get her hands on.  I thought these would be pefect for her and I wasn't far from the truth.  As my SIL was pulling them out of the bag Paxton was grabbing them and shoving them in her mouth.  There are six total two of each design.

 This was made for my MIL and FIL.  They have always told our children that they love them to the moon and back.  They bought the book and have read it to them several times.  A couple of years ago I purchased a small pillow for my bed that says "To the moon and back" and got in a little bit a trouble because I had only bought one.  In my defense it was a chance sighting another one of those "GOD'S WILL" moments on Ebay no less so I jumped on the deal and got it.  We were all kind of involved with this.  Heather picked out her kids pictures, Tanner picked out his own, Ryan picked out the frame, I put everything together.  We decided to leave all the lettering which we cut out on a Cricut a little askew to make it look more childish.  I would have really like to have each of the kids sign a placard under their picture but I think we ran short on time.  It still turned out cute!

 Every year for Tanner's Godparents I try to do a gift basket of some sort.  This year I got a little carried away.  I cute the lettering out on the Cricut and glued it to the tub.  The tub contained two Christmas mugs, hot chocolate for two that I bought from Hallmark (yes I know, shame on me), homemade turtles, homemade carmel popcorn, one mason jar of monster cookie mix, one mason jar of peanut butter brownie mix, a Christmas card and a school picture.  I also deco'd the bags that I put the popcorn in and they turned out really cute.  Whew I had a busy Christmas! 

Glitter me giddy!!

Okay so while trolling web sites the other day I happend across a page where a woman had one of these hanging in front of her fireplace and I thought...HEY I really like that.  The more I looked at it I thought hey I want that and I can make it.  So later that same day I'm strolling down the Hobby Lobby Christmas clearance isle and there it was.....it was a sign from GOD!  There in front of me at 75% off was a cardboard Christmas stringer...woo hoo!  I grabbed it paid a little of nothing and primered, glitter and mod podged my way to this gloriousness.  Oh I just love it when things go my way!!  Now I just have to wait until next Christmas to use it.  I know it seems like forever but surely I can remain patient!?

 Here is a shot of the back side.  I primered it but did not glitter it because well I was sick when I did this and sneezing and glitter don't mix well.

 Oh look at it....let the shine lure you in.  You know there is just no better place than those dang clearance isles.