Inspiration Tuesday

Whew! I have been crazy busy today trying to get an open house organized for this Saturday, rushing to fill some Handmade Parade orders before Valentines Day, and taking care of a sick husband with a man-cold, (you all know the drama that ensues with a man-cold) so I didn't get a chance to finish my Fabric Flower Paper Lollies I was going to post about today. Instead I'm going to send you on another blog hunt to Dear Lizzy-Elizabeth Kartchner's blog.


She is freakin amazing, and she just came out with a new scrapbook paper line, Dear LIzzy with American Crafts as well as a book: 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges that I am putting on my wishlist. I have stressed and stressed about what to do with the twins nursery, and after seeing the pictures of her booth at the CHA show a couple of weeks ago, my mind has been made up. I am going to base the nursery completely on her new paper line, right down to the sweet mint walls, and tons of white picture frames with layouts inside.


She also has a ton of cute Valentines ideas to decorate your house with, like this darling heart banner you just run through the sewing machine. Genius!


Go ahead and waste the rest of your day going through the fabulousness of her blog, and don't be afraid to feed your kids Ramen for dinner because you've wasted hours reading about her (Fawn:)

Project 365-January Layout #5

I skipped over my 365 layout for last week, so I'm posting it in a hurry today-there's so much stuff I have to blog about this week! I took some Maternity photos with my sister Eryn the last week of January (remember the outtakes?) and I posted some on Facebook, but here are some of my favorites I put in a layout for the Project 365.


Do you love the embellishments on the page? I love love love these brushes from House of 3, so versatile!


Speaking of House of 3, there are a TON of amazing projects going on this week on their Inspiration House blog, Rhonna Farrer's blog, Heidi Swapp's blog, and Janet Hopkins blog using all the new House of 3 Valentines stuff so why not waste the rest of your day (and your grocery money) digging into some of these projects? I'll share one of my Valentines projects tomorrow from the Rolled Fabric Flower tutorial Rhonna is showing today!

PS- check the Handmade Parade Blog to see if you are the lucky winner of the Felt Rosette Headband!

Even More Decor

Do you need a cute cheap way to add a little flair to your home? Check out Rhonna Farrer's Coffee Filter video to see how she makes these fab ruffley flowers to hang up all over the place!

Coffee Filter Flowers Tutorial from Rhonna Farrer on Vimeo.

More Decor

Did you all watch the House of 3 webshow last night? It was awesome, there were so many great ideas on there. My favorite project though, was this Valentines Banner Kit. It's $2, which is cheaper than your Starbucks so buy it today and make this for crying out loud.




I cut one up, added some paper doilies and voila! Fabulous banner to coordinate with my tissue paper pom poms. I even added some mini pom poms and crepe paper ruffles to the mix cuz I couldn't resist. Once I finished, I decided to take it a step further and cut out some more embellishments using some other House of 3 Valentines Kits (I used the Vintage Valentines Text Garlands Kit, the Valentines Doily Kit, and some of the Love Twenty Ten Dingbat Fonts). This would have been MUCH easier if I had a Silhouette Die Cutting Machine, but for now I used plain old scissors.

I just stapled all the pieces to a piece of pink satin ribbon and now I LOVE it! I want to put banners all over my house now. Braden wants me to restrain myself.

Wednesday Webshows!

Wohoo! Tonight is another one of House of 3's weekly Webshows! If you've never seen them, they are awesome and lots of fun. They have all kinds of tips, crafts, specials, and giveaways during the show so sign up to watch and chat away and ask all kinds of questions tonight. Tonight's show is all about Valentines Projects and I can't wait to see what those ladies have in store for us. Check out Rhonna's video for a sneak peek!

Chocolate Attack

You know, I'm not the hugest chocolate fan, but sometimes I get hit with a serious Chocolate Pudding Mania. I've never made it before, but it sounded good today and we were out of snack paks, so I found a recipe and whipped it up. It literally took me about 5 minutes to make and it's insanely delicious. I will never eat plastic cup pudding again. It's seriously sooooo good hot, and probably even better cold, especially when you top it with some fresh whipped cream and with a couple of strawberries on top.


Make it for Valentines Day, husbands and kids will love it. Mine sure did.

Valentines Decor

I can't tell you how excited I am that for 2 whole weeks we get to have pink pink pink all over my house. I hung up my favorite decoration pieces yesterday- Tissue Paper Pom Poms.




See how easy peasy lemon squeezy it is here on Martha Stewart of course. I think once Valentines Day is over I'm going to move these into the twins new nursery.