The Candy Bar Game

Hope you are having a great Saturday!

Today we are celebrating my mom's birthday with brunch at Joe's Farm Grill. Not only is it one of my mom's favorite places to eat, it's one of my favorites too. I love their focus on fresh and locally grown food. I'm getting hungry...

I wanted to share a layout with you today that I made with the upcoming Scrapbook Circle March Kit. Lots of Echo Park For the Record and some new Jenni Bowlin on this page.


I know banners have been popular and some people may have grown tired of them, but I still love them. They add a playful element to pages.


Although I am not a good scrabble player, I really like the look of the Scrabble Alpha Stickers.


I'm very excited to get to reveal more of this kit over the next week. It's one of my favorites!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Fun Finds Friday #3

I'm excited to share a few of my favorite blog finds from the past couple weeks with your today.

Even though Valentine's Day has passed, I'm adding this cake to my baking list for next year.


This Rainbow French Toast looks so pretty and delicious. What a great way to get a healthy dose of fruit in the morning.


I love kraft colored embellishments and these kraft heart stickers would be prefect on layouts, cards or used as envelope seals.


Dishtowels are such a pretty way to easily spice up the kitchen. The bright, happy colors on these dishtowels plus the looping ribbon make them something I think I need in my kitchen.


Do you love to travel or have a few favorite travel locations in the United States? I think this map from JanuaryJonesPrints's etsy shop would be a fun way to track your travels.



This bracelet would match almost any outfit since it includes so many colors. Isn't it so pretty?


That's all for this week. I hope that you had a wonderful week. Happy weekend to you!

Teaching at Creative Estates

Have I mentioned that I'm teaching at Creative Estates in April? I'm so excited that SheyB offered me the opportunity to teach a craft class at the event.

I've been thinking up class concepts for a while and I think I've finally decided what the project is going to be.

Here's a little peek at the project.


More details will be coming soon!

Happy Valentine's Day

We've enjoyed celebrating Valentine's Day all weekend. These Bingo cards were a success with our friends this weekend. The kids didn't want to stop playing!



We also baked, frosted and ate way too many sugar cookies.


I've also done a little Valentine card making today with a FREE printable that Scrapbook Circle is offering on their blog.

The little hearts are my favorite element on the page. Plus I really love those little banners! Here's a look at what I've done with the printable so far.



Be sure to stop by the Scrapbook Circle blog and pickup your own free copy of the Valentine printable.

Hope you have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine BINGO

This Sunday we are getting together with friends to celebrate Valentine's Day and I thought it would be fun to have a game the kids could all play.

While I was looking for game ideas, I found this fantastic Bingo template on the eighteen25 blog.

They share a Photoshop template that can be used to make Bingo cards with photos. If you are interested in making the Bingo cards, they share the directions on their blog.

Here's a look at one of my cards.

There will be eight kids at the party, so with 24 squares, they each get to be on the Bingo card three times. I just had to make sure that they are not in the same column twice.

I made eight different boards by just switching around a few photos on each board.

The file was uploaded to Costco and I had the Bingo cards printed at 8 x 10 inches for only $1.49 each. I've also laminated them so that we can reuse them next year.

Hopefully the kids will enjoy playing with these this weekend!

Are you doing anything fun to celebrate Valentine's Day?

Love Banner

Yesterday I mentioned that I was working on a Love banner with some doilies as the base. The banner is now finished and I'm excited to share it with you.


I just folded the doilies in half and hung them on some large white ric rac. The doilies are glued together, but not glued to the ric rac.


These Vintage Valentine Tags from Elle's Studio added such a fun touch to the banner. Plus, the Design Embellishments from the Fancy Pants It's the Little Things line added a perfect "love" touch to the project.


I used my Silhouette to cut out the "LOVE" letters and several hearts from fuzzy white vinyl. On the L piece of the banner, I misted one of hearts a dark pink before sticking it to the doilie. The fuzzy white vinyl is great because I can mist it any color I need.

For the O piece of the banner, I cut those tickets with the Silhouette and then layered them with a Glitz sticker and the O.

For the V piece of the banner, I layered more misted fuzzy white vinyl with a Vintage Valentine Tiny Tag from Elle's Studio.

I really like how the dark pink misted heart contrasts with the pink doilie.

I finished off the banner with another Fancy Pants card and an Elle's Studio tag.

There's the full banner. I having it hanging in our family room on a mirror that hangs over our fireplace. I just taped the ric rac to the back of the mirror.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Are you working on any Valentine projects?

Grandma's Sugar Cookies

We have been anxiously anticipating Grandma coming with sugar cookies. She always make them for us around Valentine's Day.


Grandma came over yesterday with a cute heart container filled with cookies for each of the kids. Plus one for Ward and I too. Delicious!

Thanks, Grandma!