Husband of the Year Award goes to.........

Ok if there was a husband of the year award I would totally be giving it to my husband right now. First I'll have to explain. So we are finishing our basement so that my hubby's brother, wife and 2 kids can move in. Well that means that I had to loose my awesome toy/school/craft room since it was in the one room that was finished in the basement. So I was planning on moving all of that into the guest room we had upstairs, the only problem was that the guest room was going to be very crowded with my stuff and my girls toys since the room is significantly smaller. So my hubby willingly gave up his office to let me turn it into my very own craft room. So I was super excited for that. Then while we were planning the kitchen in the basement we realized that the kitchen cabinets that we had previously gotten off of ksl for a steal, wouldn't work in the basement. So instead of getting rid of the whole kitchen set my husband agreed to let me put it up in my craft room. SWEET! So I got to work right away on cutting the counter and rearranging how I wanted the whole set to go up in my room. Then my awesome hubby lugged all the cabinets and counter top and put it all together for me. He has definitively spoiled me this year. Not only do I have my own very organized craft room he had also earlier got me the best serger I could have ever asked for. I am going to be having so much fun this coming year.

This is the before picture of the cabinets. The wall cabinets are behind the counter so you can't see them.

These are the pictures of my craft room.

Now I can't wait for the spring and summer time because I think I'll give the cabinets and counter top a new fresh look!

A Temple gift

So recently I had a friend of mine go through the Temple with her family. I was so excited for her so I wanted to do something special for her but had no clue what to do. So I hit up google to try and find a gift I could make but I could not find anything that had to do with just going through the temple. Great I had to come up with an idea on my own crap. So I thought I wanted to do like a temple kit or something before she went through the temple but freak what do I know I have never been through the Temple, so that idea was out the window. Then I decided to make a little "BASKET" full of blessing as a gift to help remind her how blessed she is. So I called up my visit teaching companion and we got to work. We kind of did it like the candy bar posters but I wanted it to be cute so we just put everything in a basket and I made the cute little cards with my digital scrapbooking program My Memories Suite. This is the best scrabooking software and if you would like to purchase it type in STMMMS99421 at checkout and get 10$ off and then 10$ to use in there store for embellishment. It will be the best purchase ever! I use it all the time.

This is what all the little cards say.

-A "BASKET" full of blessing. (basket)
-There are many "RIESENS" why you are blessed for going through the temple. (Riesens)
- Your family will be "EVERLASTING" (everlasting gobstoppers)
-You will be "SODA"-lighted to being one step closer to God. (her favorite soda)
- "U-NO" your marraiged has been strengthened. (U-NO candy bar)
-You will be able to "ACT" upon the spirit. (ACT popcorn.)
- Your kids will have a "PASTA"-tive example to look up to. (Pasta)
-There is "MUFFIN" like an eternal companion. (Her favorite muffin)
-You will have "JOY" beyond "MEASURE" (almond joys in a measuring cup.)
-It is an invest-"MINT" in reaching your eternal goals. (mints)
-You "SKOR"-ed one againsted Satan. (SKOR candy bar.)
-We're "NERDS" for not doing this earlier.(Nerds)
-"HUGS" and "KISSES" ~ Emmie & Jessie (Hugs and Kisses)



This could be a real cute idea for a bridal shower gift too. Well I hope you enjoyed. I loved how this turned out. This is my first time I have come up with an Idea all by myself with out relying on Pinterest, sugardoodle, blogs, or google. Yeah me. Maybe I will break through this creative block I am in.

Potty Training tips for the Independent child.

Ok so my little miss V is one of those kids that wants to be sooo independent. She has been showing interest in potty training for EVER but every time I step in to potty train her it totally back fires on me so I had a break off of work and finally told her, "Here you do this yourself." And gave her some panties and let her wear them with no pants around the house, and what do you know she did great. Only like one accident a day sometimes which was great! The only problem was I did this 2 days before I had to go back to work. She hasn't done so well when I put pants on her so during the day when I am home I leave her in just panties and at work I put her in  a diaper. Great I don't think she is ever going to be potty train A) because it is not socially acceptable to let your child run around in her underwear all day and B) it is starting to get cold so my poor little miss V can't run around naked. Luckly I was cleaning her room and found one of those little diaper covers that came with an old dress and decided turn them into "Pretty Panties" so that I could continue the potty training at work. All I did was sewed some small lace in rows on the butt then got a bigger lace to go around the entire waist part and viola pretty panties that people will think is a skirt. Now for the cold part, I had made these leg warmers for Itylee when she was a baby but these work perfect for potty training. They keep her warm and she doesn't have to take them off to go potty! Score!!! If there are people interested in learning how to make the leg warmers let me know. I'll do a tutorial if people are interested. They are super easy! I put a panty liner in her panties because there have been times where she pee's just a little bit and this way it doesn't totally wet the panties and keeps her feeling like she is wearing big girl panties. Now some other tips you could do it a visit from the Potty Fairy. I did this with Itylee and she was good to go. Fill a basket with little prizes or treat wrap it up all cute and knock on the door and run. Tell your little one that the potty fairy dropped off this package so every time they go potty they get to choose a prize. Now with Vienna being all independent this did not work instead one time I got upset and told her "Fine you pee pee in the potty you get your potty treat. But you pee pee in the panties and I get your potty treat." Then I ate her treat right in front of her. Oh man did this get her mad. So with the "pretty panties" and the "i get your treat" I think we will be totally done with diapers soon. YEAH!!!!! Don't mind the little stain on the pretty panties I should of taken the picture before she had lunch. dang spaghetti ooo's.

Simple October Gift

Ok so here is what I did for just a little gift for the ladies I visit teach.  Here is the link for the cute witch shoes and for the treat I made some chocolate dipped strawberries and the card I made with digital scrap booking program I have. If anyone would like to share with me on how to upload of file I would be more then willing to share my card with all of you

AND THE WINNER IS..............

Ok first thank you everyone who participated and for the staff of mymemories for sponsering this give away. I have had so much fun with this digitial scrap booking software. I am learning something new everytime I use it. Plus the staff at mymemories is awsome. On their blog they do a different challanges and on their facebook on Sundays they do this thing called speed scrap sunday were in an hour they teach you a different technique but they give you steps every ten minutes for an hour then you post your picture and of course they give out prizes. It's so fun to see how we all had the same instructions but how differently everyone around the worlds tunrs out different. Ok ok ok I'll stop blabbering and get to the good part. AND THE WINNER IS.............ASHLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats Ashley I know you will love this and A.J. can deal with the neglect. Ok I do still have some good news for everyone else If you really would like to still try out digitial scrapbooking mymemories crew has given me a promo code so that you can use get 10$ off of the digitial software plus another 10$ to use to in the desgin shop. The software is only 39.97 so with the promo you only pay 29.97 which seriously is a good price especially for what you get.  If anyone would like to test drive the program too you are more than welcomed to come on over and give it a shot. For those that are interested the promo code is STMMMS99421


They also have also have a cool wedding software if you are in the wedding business or just about to have your own wedding and want to save money you can create thank you cards, invitaition, place cards, ect. Now I just need to find someone I know that is engaged so I have an excuse to purchase it :)

This was my speed scrap sunday picture

This is a card I made to go along with a little gift for the ladies I visit teach. I will post this with the gift in another post since I have not delivered them yet

This is something I made for a friend who is getting married today and again I'll have another post to show you what I did with this

MyMemories digital scrapbooking software give away

Ok so I am sooooo excited to do this give away. Now if your like me you take a lot of pictures and never get them developed or when you do they sit in a box for ever until you finally get the urge to scrap book all of the pictures and you spend countless hours on it and when you have finish it's only one page. Yup that's me and dont forget the huge mess you have to clean up afterwards. I have been wanting to get to digital scrapbooking so I can make a book for every year. My goal is to do a page a month about what we did that month. Can I just tell you how much I love mymemories suite software. I had so much fun and it only took a half an hour out of my day to make this cute page of my girls. The nice thing you can do is just use an already made template where you can just drag pictures into or you can make your own. This page I made myself. No template involved. Not to bad for my first page. The program isn't just for scrapbooking either.You can make birth annoucments, christmas, cards, or even b-day invitaions!

Okay okay now time to get on to the good stuff. The giveaway for a free Mymemories Suite Software. Now it is simple all you have to do is go to mymemories.com and then choose a layout that you like best and post a comment telling me what you favorite layout is.  My favorite one is the glamour and glitz pack. That package is what I used to make my page. Also if you like to add another entry follow them on facebook, blogger, or twitter and leave in your comment which ones you have done. I will pick a winner next Monday so good luck everyone!

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A is for apple

These are our apple faces and stain glass apples. We will be putting our stain glass apples on our halloween tree