I am going to be sharing my "Journal Your Christmas" class on my blog this year! stay tuned :)

Our EASTER tree!

I printed out lots of small pictures of Christ, and also pictures of children doing things that Jesus has taught, and we put them all over our branches.
We will leave this up all week, as a reminder of what Easter is all about.
I love that it gives the boys a chance to talk about Christ!

(I supposed I could cute up the bottle on the bottom LOL, but I have boyz, they don't care :) )

Cars Party race box cars

This is just a little peek at one of the party games.
I made these with just boxes, spraypaint, and white paper.

stop back by next week to see what we did with 'em.


I linked up to:

Pinata for Cars Party

I like making Pinatas.
I have made one for T's birthday since he was 3 - he just expects one, so this is my third year!
This year we are doing another Car's party theme.
It took me a while to decide what kind of pinata to make.  I didn't think that I could do a good looking car, plus I didn't think that whacking Lightning or Mater was a very nice idea.  But a bad guy - yeah, we could whack the heck out of a bad guy. 
So came the plans for making Professor Z into a pinata.

Here is Professor Z - I don't know why, but T always likes the bad guys.

here is the start of my pinata
I made it with a big punch balloon and a thin cardboard cereal type box

people might think making a pinata is hard, but it's quite simple - and my method is even less messy than you might imagine too. 
I use:
torn newspaper
simple white flour and water for my paper mache' paste (I don't measure but it's something like one cup of flour and 2 cups water)
and sometimes I need to use a little masking tape
And I use small foam brush to apply the paste, so I stay fairly clean

here he is with a layer of white paper just so he will paint easier

he is starting to look like my inspiration!!!

T was very concerned when he saw it at this point. he said "MOM, don't forget his wheels." "Mom, don't forget his hair" "Mom, don't forget his glasses"
I told him I had it all covered :)

And here is the final project. Thanks for looking!!

The party is later today, so come back again next week to see how he faired -- I always wonder how my pinatas will handle their beatings LOL ....

I linked up to:

black and white

the butterflies are punched out of an old calendar, and the background paper is from my old stash - I LOVED it, but never knew what to use it on.  I really liked working on these.

You are my sunshine

heart in a basket

I can't decide if I liked how these turned out - are they too simple?

Sending you all my love

I liked how these turned out -- I need more red heart shaped brads, so I can make more :)

I made these just out of some scraps of paper that I LOVED - I liked how the dark brown really made them feel more elegant.

Guardians of virtue: Young Women song

another blog

I am adding another blog to my days, just because I want to be able to keep my family blog more personal.  And I still want to share things, so this will be my place to do it.  I am starting with the cards I will create for Operation Write Home, and the stuff I do for Young Women's.