Morgan's B-Day!

Morgan had her birthday this week! She turned 10!!!

This is how her cake turned out!

THIS is how her cake SHOULD have turned out...

BUT someone got into the M & M's!!!

I won't mention names! Don't you hate it when that happens?!?!

DUCT TAPE Father's Day Boutonniere

Jenica came over and helped me to learn how she made Zack's flower for prom!

You start with a piece of wire about 3" long...

I started out with 2 then decided to only do 1 flower!

Tear off a piece of duct tape about 2 to 3 inches long... fold over one side

fold over the second side and add a small strip of contrast color along edge!

Wrap around wire. Repeat until you have the size of flower that you want!

Cut out two leaves

Add a small strip of same color and attach to the wire.

Curl end and then YOU ARE DONE!!

Just in time for

FATHER"S DAY!!!

I am linking this post with

My girl decides to be a BIG one!

I have been working with Morgan lately to KEEP her room clean! It seems like a never ending battle! So I had a talk with her about wether she wanted to be a BIG girl with grown up things or a little girl with toys... I told her we would change her room BUT that she would have to choose which toys to put away because there would not be room for both!

This chair is the last piece of the hair center... (I don't know what else to call it!)

I got it for $3 or $4!

Of course I had my helpers HELP!!!

After we got it all stripped down to the bare bones (YES those are STAPLES!!!)

I took a pattern and cut out the material!

Then I sewed them together and we stapled it back on!

I gave the base a new coat of paint!

Now she can do her hair in her room!!!

I still have to add a few more embellishments... but I got her chair and boxes done today!!!

I am linking up with...

I can't believe I forgot Graduation!

Things have been a little crazy around here is my only excuse... I totally forgot to post Zack's graduation pictures from High School (not WSU)

Jenica & Zack

Awards Assembly

Among lots of other awards... Meg got a plaque for her 4.0 CUMULATIVE Grade point average!!!! She was a little worried that she lost it this last term... but her teachers took pity on her and she is still a 4.0! Way to go Meg!!!

3D Sunflower!!!

I LOVE Summer and all of the FUN crafts that go along with it!!!

This year I wanted to make a 3D SUNFLOWER...

This is what I came up with!!!

You can see more of my crafts HERE

I am participating in Jen's blog hop over at tatertotsandjello.

I used DecoArt....

Marigold

Avacado

Terra Cotta

Dark Brown

I also used Gorrilla Glue to connect the 3D petals to the base!!!

I LOVE the finished product!!!

DecoArt Link Party!

I am participating in tatertottsandjello's blog hop! Jen is featuring projects that use DecoArt paint and I sure do alot of that!!! Most everything I make HERE uses DecoArt paint!

One of my FAVORITE new crafts is this gnome!!!

Some of the colors are...

Tuscan Red

Flesh Tone

Hauser Light Green

Calypso Blue

Brayden turns TWELVE!

Brayden had his 12th birthday on Monday! He wanted to make these cupcakes for his Birthday! They turned out pretty cute!