Last week I showed what my craft room look like before I destroyed reorganized it.  It has been a SLOOOOOOw process attempting to clean it back up.  I started this project because I wanted to get rid of the brown desk that was taking up so much space and to actually know where things like googly eyes and eyelets were hiding. 


I can honestly say that I am happy that the desk is gone but I would be lying to you if I said that I knew where the googly eyes are.  I can tell you that I am working on it.




This is my newest addition.  I bought it, along with the drawers, at Target.  I really like that it goes with my current color scheme.  As you can see, I still have stuff on the floor that I need to go through. 




I am working diligently in attempting to organize my paper and have come to the conclusion that I am a paper whore.  I mean I have 15 different shade of red.  What?  Really?  Yep.  It's bad.  So bad that I may need to join a support group and attempt to not buy a single sheet until January 1st.

January 1, 2014.

Some of my friends request teachers for their children.  Perhaps an older sibling had that teacher or maybe they just heard great things about them. I don't do that. I've never requested a teacher for any of my children. 

I might request someone I think would be most awesome only to find out that my son would have done better in a totally different atmosphere.  I am very happy he ended up in the 1st grade class he ended up in.  It was exactly what he needed.  How exciting is it that he is looping to 2nd grade with the same teacher?  She knows his strengths, his weakness, she knows exactly where he is at.

Over the course of the school year she went from being just my kid's teacher to becoming my friend and I couldn't be happier that he will have her again.

Let me know if you are posting a craft today.  I'd love to pop over and visit.

We are finishing up teacher gifts in our house.  Each of my three kids made four of these.  They had a surprising amount of fun making them...even my 12 year old.  Above is my son working on the one he made for his teacher.  He messed one of them up (the paint ran a little) and he wasn't happy.  He couldn't even think about giving her that one.  We had to buy a new one so he could start again.  He's such a gentle, caring soul.  I hope he is always like that.


Oldest got super creative with hers.  I think the flowers are very impressive.  She decided that she was giving all of hers to the lunch ladies.  It's hard with her lunch lady  mama to argue with that.

 Middle daughter took just as much time with hers as youngest.  She went so far as to decorate one with her teacher's favorite football team logo and colors. 

The have a pack of Extra gum inside of them.  They are super simple to make.  Just wrap the gum up in card stock, add a belly band and embellish.   On the front I stamped Moo-chas Grass-ias


On the back is a label that says Thank you for all the "extra" things you do that often go unnoticed.


Have you made any creative teacher crafts?  Leave me a comment and/or a link and tell me about them.

Welcome to the 2nd Cricut Fairy Blog hop.  Cricut what?  That's right I said Fairy.  This blog hop is being hosted by our commandor Crystal who started this group over two years ago to spread good cheer around the world.

Since then the cricut fairies have participated in over 650 card creating missions all over the world, sending a little cheer to those that need a smile or a good thought. If you are interested in becoming a fairy please let Crystal know but sending her an email at cricutcardfairyarmy at gmail dot com.

Our hop today is being sponsored by Regina at the The Cutting Cafe. She generously donated all of the digital stamps we are working with today and has agreed to provide a random commenter with three cutting cafe stamp sets of their choice. To win, you must comment on all the blogs participating in the hop. Crystal will be posting the winner on Monday afternoon.

For the last few weeks I've been working on end of the year presents. I think I put too much time and effort into them as I'm not sure anyone cares if they get anything at the end of the year. However, my kids enjoy giving them and I guess that's what really matters.

The card sets have 12 cards in them. I thought I would share them with you over the next couple of days.




The cow was cut using the Create a Critter cricut cartridge; The inside says Moochas Grassias.

Here are a few Easter greetings I made. The cups are new from Stampin Up. They already have adhesive on them and I really like them. They fit perfectly with their circle punch.


The ladybug is a stamp my mom got me for Christmas and it is also my first attempt at using my new Copics.







Here are the other two cards I made. I have no idea why blogger is insisting that they be turned this way. I hope it's not too annoying as I can't be bothered to change it.

Blogger is being a butt today. I'm pretty sure it's blogger because it looks like it's effecting other blogs and not just mine.

Anyway, here's a better late than never Weekend Update. (insert theme music here)

I'm feeling a little blah.

I think I have my Welcome to Spring Cold. It's kind of a tradition. I'm trying to figure out a polite way to part ways with this tradition but so far I'm at a loss.

I finally starting wearing that pedometer* I talked about in my New Year's Resolution post and after averaging approximately 8,500 steps a day I managed to walk less than 5,000 over the entire weekend!

That's right. Takin' it easy. I don't feel bad about it one bit.

I did manage to make a few things....




including this wreath for my friend, B, I still need to put the finishing touches on it, but I like how it turned out. The picture of it kind of sucks, but that's because I took it with my phone and apparently I do not know how to center it.

• 25 more cards (at least)


• 4 more wreaths

I'm trying to get ready for a craft show. I really don't know why. I never sell much of anything and should probably not waste a whole Saturday trying to but it was for my church and the clincher was they were providing the table and I didn't have too.

I'll show you some of the things I made on Friday. The show is not till next Saturday, but I feel like I have nothing done yet.

off to get crafting....

We had a fun weekend visiting with family and friends and celebrating Easter just a wee bit early.  The kids enjoyed coloring eggs with Grandma.  My hands and theirs still reflect this activity.