Happy Mother's Day

I hope all you Mom's out there are having a great day. This isn't the easiest job in the world, but it has it's rewards. I was rewarded with several homemade cards by Dart and Audrey last night. Including one that Dart made that said "Mom you are the best mom in the World. Tomorrow you can boss me around." Oh Buddy, that's my job everyday! He really thought that would be a great gift. Will have to try and get pictures of my cards later.

I remember being little and hearing mom's say "my favorite gifts are the ones my kids made." I remember thinking, "are you nuts? I want stuff." Now I am one of those mom's who loves the homemade stuff. Of course some of that comes from being a crafter, but most of it has to do with the fact that they took their time away from a video game or barbie/babies/littlest pet shop to make something special for me. And the look on their face when they give it to you is worth all the glue all over your fingers in the world.



So to the 2 who made me "mom", thank you for letting me be your mom. I have made many mistakes and will make many more. I'm sure I will get my fair share of "I don't like you's" and "You're the meanest mom in the World's", but in the end no matter what I will always love you.

Make it Monday part 2

So I forgot in my last post to show you what I made this week. Saturday was National Scrapbook Day and while I didn't make any scrapbook pages I did manage to get a few cards done. Mark is in Tennessee right now so playing single parent over the weekend didn't leave me time to do much. He is stuck there for another day because of the flooding, although he is no where near Nashville, they do have to go through Nashville to get home.



I made this card for my mother in law who has a niece graduating soon. I designed this for money to go down in with the pen and pencil. Can't wait to hear how she liked it.



Just a card to have on hand. Got lots of birthdays in the month of June.



I've had several friends have babies in the last couple of months and know of others, including my cousin who are due this summer, so when I saw the 3 owls and the Look who's here sentiment it made me think baby announcements.

Make it Monday(Tuesday this week)

This week my make it Monday is going to be a little different. I do have something I made that I will show you at the end of the post, but I have found myself drawn to my camera this weekend. I'm rediscovering my passion for photography. I've always loved taking pictures, in fact if you were to look through my high school yearbooks my name is listed many times strictly for credit for the picture. There is something about looking through pictures that makes my soul smile. I love what a random picture can capture. I love taking candid shots, posing is too much work and for me loses some of the personality of a person. I love watching people interact as if the camera isn't there. That to me is when you truly capture a memory.



This is so Dart right now. If he's not playing a video game or outside he is doing something math related. He LOVES math. This is something I want to remember forever.



This picture is not at all "correct", but it has become one of my favorites. I was trying so hard to capture Dart scoring, but half the field was in the shade and the other in sunlight. I had just taken a few of the boys on base in the sun and didn't have a chance to reset my settings so this is what I ended up with. I so want to blow this up and do something fun with it for Dart's room.

I don't know if it stems from losing so many important people in my life or what, but I can't get enough of pictures. I love looking through my scrapbooks(although some of the pages make me cringe) and seeing the pictures and remembering the memories behind them. Thankfully for the invention of digital photography I can get my fill of pictures immediately.

Graduation Card

The calendar reads May 1(at least for 28 more minutes) and with that comes Graduations. These days one of the most favored gifts by grads is MONEY!! Who doesn't love to get money. Giving money can seem a little boring, so you need a card to make it fun. Designed this for my mother in law to give to a high school grad.



Since I made it for someone else I didn't get a picture of it with the money in it, but I designed it so that the money will go down in with the pen and pencil. Great way to make giving money a little more exciting.

National Scrapbook Day

Today is National Scrapbook Day! I haven't made an actual page, but have been creating some cards. Looking to open an online store soon(this week maybe), just trying to decide where. I'm also wanting to make some banners, thinking Graduation might be fun.

Just some more cards I made recently.






Just one week until Mother's Day. Also don't forget graduation season will be upon us very soon.

Make it Monday

So my Monday only has 52 minutes left in it and I realized I never wrote a post for the first Make It Monday. Had a bit of a crazy weekend, which included a call Saturday night from the mom of the son Dart was spending the night with. He tripped and hit the corner of her coffee table, while she was cleaning the cut up, he passed out on her. We are heading to the doctor bright and early in the morning. I'm hoping they will be able to give us some answers as to why this is happening(this is the 2nd time in a little over a month that he has hit his head, not major blows and passed out).

I do want to share a few things I made last week. Right now I'm sketching ideas for cards I want to make for Mother's Day gifts. I am also working on editing pictures I took on Saturday for a very good friend at her son's First Communion.



I love reading and usually have several books going at once, therefore I need lots of bookmarks. These however were not made for me, made these for the PTA President at my sons' school who is leaving us after this year. Her family is avid readers and unfortunately she didn't get the bookmarks...her daughters stole them before she could even claim one.


If you are working on something right now, leave me a comment, I love seeing what others are crafting.

Mother's Day gift idea...

With Mother's Day just around the corner are you looking for something different for the women in your life that they will love and could even pass on to others? I think snail mail, especially of the happy kind is becoming a lost art. Part of the reason is email is so easy, but another I think is the cost of cards in a store, especially if you are sending them "just because". Why not give mom or the other women in your life a set of greeting cards? We can do themes of all kinds from traditional holidays to those just saying hi. With so many people trying to conquer clutter and in general have less stuff a set of greeting cards would be a wonderful gift.


Here's just a few cards I've made recently(gave them to a friend of mine and she almost lost them to her daughters).