Baby Banners

It's baby banner time!  Not for me though.  These are for a lady who makes baby diaper cakes.  She wanted something to help promote her business and she asked me to make some banners for her.  This is my first one, and first banner I ever made!

 I love the little clothes idea, and I had a thing full of little clothes pins that went perfect with them

 I used Zelda Letters from Quickutz.

 I also used the round scallops die from spellbinders.

 The patterns were mine, from my head. :)

 Do you love the baby buttons?

 This second banner is a little more traditional... and yes, I know the letters are spelled wrong on the end, but  I redid them and they are right, but didn't get a pic of them before I sent them to her.

 Here's the letters up close.

 The black and white dots are not brads.  They are half circles, found in the plant section of the craft stores.  they come in every color...

 The letters are Tangerine from Quickutz.

It was fun making it, Hope you like it!

Recipe Time!

I've been creating recipe layouts and some recipes!  Some I got from others, but some are my own!
This one is a sneak peak of the April Recipe Layout for Express the Moment.  I got a new die for my cuttlebug and thought it would be great for this one.  Do you like the pinwheel???

 This recipe came from my mom's neighbor.  After you make cake with pie filling, you will never want to eat just plain cake again.  I had fun lacing this one.

 This is another sneak peek at April...but when I saw the alphabet paper, I just had to share my alphabet soup recipe.  I have never been  able to find alphabet pasta in the pasta section.  But, in my town, if you go to the Mexican food section, they have it there...

 These sliders are my families favorite and are sooooo easy to make.  I always keep these ingredients on hand so that when its time for dinner and I've been busy throughout the day, I can make something filling and something hot they love.

 This recipe is my friends.  She also designs for ETM.  I re-designed them to make them my own.  So here is the first one for Cheesy Bread.

 I re-did the Lasagna Soup...

 This one was kinda hard to re-do because the paper was already cut in the chevrons.  But I only used 3 of them so you could see the paper behind, and I did two twines...

 I used the leftover twine and the leftover chevron for this layout.  I punched hearts from the leftover pink paper that I trimmed from the recipe.  Not my favorite layout, but not bad using what I had.

Hope you like.

Mandarin Oranges

I love canning.  So the other day I saw where you can can your own Mandarin Oranges.

Yippee.  So, it was closer to Christmas time and there is always an abundance of mandarin's then, so I 

got a couple boxes of them to try. 

 So easy!  Now, when we make Mandarin Orange Salad... I can use the ones I canned!

 What's Mandarin Orange salad?  I pkg cook lemon pudding, 1 pkg orange jello.  Make each separately then blend them together when pudding is cool.  You can fold the oranges in to the jello mixture, or we set ours then top with whip cream and then put all the oranges on the top.  Families favorite salad of all time!

Hope you like!

Bottle Treats

I got these cute little bottles from a bulk buy last year.  They have a cap you can seal and everything.  The only problem was I didn't know what to put in them.  They are kinda big for M&M's, but not big enough for large chunky things.  So they've been sitting in my stash, just waiting...

 Then I was over at a friends house, she was making 3-2-1 cake.  What's that??

 Well, you mix a plain cake mix with a angel food cake mix.  Take 3 tablespoons of the mix and put it in your mug, then 2 tablespoons of water and microwave for 1 minute.  3-2-1

 5 servings fit in my jars!!  So I made some for a valentine treat for a couple of friends and then I made a couple for Birthday presents for several other friends!

 I found some adorable cupcake wine charms.  I should have bought all they had.  But, I can only have a stash so big you know.

 I wrapped ribbon around the jar first, then put the little headers on them, then tied the jar lid with a ribbon and the charm with a tag and directions.

Hope you like!

You know how I love 3D projects.  So I was skimming the internet the other day and came across the neatest blog site ever.  Her name is Brenda Quintana and her site is QbeesQuest.com.  You have to jump over there and check out her stuff.

I did a couple of her tutorials... The first was this cute little tree.  So easy to make and so fun.  I did about 35 for Christmas gifts.

 While I was making the trees, I thought, a star would be neat.  So I made up my own design for a star filled with 12 hersheys kisses.  This is just the first one... I think that I would make the points a little different next time, but the idea is there and it can be done.  Yeah me!!

 Here is the latest from Brenda.  So cute, mine isn't finished, it still needs the arrow through it, but you can see its really cute.

My mind is thinking shamrocks... I have another idea... will have to post if it works!!
Hope you like for now!!

New Babies

For Mother's Day this year, I bought myself two Society Finches.  I had them in a little pen and it is very difficult to tell whether they are female or male.  But I assumed, and I named them Millie and Mo.  Mo has a very distinct haircut, (that looks like the three stooges Mo's haircut)

Well, they really were Millie and Mo and pretty soon I had 3 babies!!!

Those babies are pretty big now and Darla went to live at Nana's house and is now "married" to her Finch, Typewriter.  

But I just had new babies!!!!

Here they are peeking out of their nest..

 See them hunkered down hoping we don't see them.  Two have the distinct "Mo" haircuts, and the third is slick headed.

 Here are the Parents, and the older brother and sister... From 12 o'clock, that is Mia, HE, has a Mo haircut like his daddy.  Mo is at 3 o'clock, Millie the Momma is at 6 o'clock and Spanky, SHE is at 9 o'clock.

 Here's sweet Millie...

 The daddy Mo.  Isn't his hair the best?  I love it!

 Here are two of the first offspring.... Mia and Spanky

 Here are the new babies when they were about 7 days old.

 Here they are hunkering down hoping we don't see them, they are almost 2 weeks old.  Two have "Mo" haircuts, and one is slick headed again.

 This is a picture of the first batch, you can see Mia on the left, and Darla is on the right.  See her little gullet full of seeds?  She was such a piggy.  Now she lives somewhere else, but I get to see her weekly.

 The original three babies, Mia, Darla and Spanky.

That's what's been keeping me company as I scrapbook.  I will share some of that later, but thought you would like to see what fun I've been having with them!