Have you heard of Craftsy?

I love to craft when I have the time. I've made everything from Candles, lotions, necklaces, bracelets, earings, baby headbands, bottlecaps, wood crafts, tutu's...the list goes on and on. Over the last year I haven't had as much time to do things like that but I've really been in a crafty mood lately since I have a little more free time and all my kiddos are in school this year! I like to learn new things so Craftsy is perfect for that!

Craftsy is on online shop with great craft supplies, but also fun classes! Learn quilting, sewing, cooking, cake decorating, woodworking and so much more! There are a few great sales going on in November. November 8th there a will be a HUGE craft sale on supplies for 1-day ONLY! Up to 70% off Craft supplies! Check it out!

Black Friday is coming up as well!! HUGE SALE for classes and craft supplies Black Friday- Cyber Monday.




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So many things to learn about over at Craftsy! So maybe this Holiday season you can give a gift that's homemade! :) Go check out Craftsy and get your craft on!

It's in the Details

My Little girl turned 8. I can't believe how fast time flies. The age of 8 is special in our family because it is the age of which one is baptized a member of our Church.  It is a special time and our little girl is so excited! I wanted to get some cute pictures of her in her lovely White Dress, so my sister Kim helped me and took some amazing pictures! They all turned out so good, I think we had to choose through about 300 or so...haha. Before the picture taking began I made a couple cute little gifts for her.  Every girl loves a little Bling right?!  

You can find this little lovely & other designs in my newish Etsy Shop, (I've had the account for a while and finally ready to fill it up :)) It is interchangeable. Fun!!

I made her a cute white bracelet to match.

At the last minute I made this Hair flower wrapping satin ribbon around a long folded strip of tinfoil and then rolling it up, kind of like Here, that I saved to one of my Pinterest boards. I then added a clippie and a few sparkly beads in the center.  I loved using the tinfoil and ribbon, worked great. 

Of course we painted her some white glitter nails on her fingers and toes, Can't see the toesies to well, but the shoes....Love the shoes! :)

8 Balloons :)

Since I had the beads out I made a few other fun bracelets.  I love me some chunky stretchy bracelets :)

My favorite place to get beads is Firemountain gems and  Artbeads, & you can sometimes find some of the good silver plated beads on Ebay.... in case you were wondering *wink*. 

Sometimes the Little Details can make you feel that much more special on a Special Day. But, the event is definitely the most special part! So proud of our little girl!!

Partying with:

Fabric Flip Flop Makeover

If you haven't noticed, I LOVE to fix up flip flops.  Check out my other flip flops from the past Here & Here. But recently I saw This very simple and cute way to make them over with Fabric.  So, of course I couldn't wait to give it a try. I added some little fabric flowers to give more detail.  These or These Fabric flowers would be way cute too! I actually had a couple pairs of brand new flip flops from Old Navy stashed away in my craft room, luckily in  the right sizes. I promise they fit my girls, they look big in the pic...haha..oops! And Please Don't mind the non-updated pedicured tootsies :)

 

Still working on mine, one down, one to go :)

So Fun & Cute Right?

Hope your Summers going Great!

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Don't Lose your Marbles!

This is a strategy that is extremely effective and helpful to me as a mother of 4 cute Kiddies :) and even more so now that School's Out for Summer.... 

talk about losing my Marbles already....haha.  I love my kids dearly :) I do, but they love to drive me bonkers a lot of the time too! :) I'm sure Mom's everywhere might agree with me..LOL.

So, I hope this will help you out like it does me!

The system is super simple:

Everytime my kids do something good- help me out in some way, do chores, read, eat dinner all gone, play nice with their siblings, etc, (you get the picture) they can get 1 marble (or more-depending on how much you think they earn for what they did) put in their jar.  If they do something bad- hit their sibling, talk back, be mean, etc. they can lose a marble. 

You can decide what happens when they get so many marbles.  Here are a couple ideas.

*They can spend marbles every other friday night at the "family store"- where we have goodies, coloring books, stickers, glow necklaces, etc. filled in a bucket available for "purchase" for so many marbles each prize.

*They can trade in their marbles at the end of the week for money/allowance.

*They can try to get their marbles all the way to the top and be able to buy a certain toy they've been begging to have, or go on a super fun date w/ Mom and Dad, or go somewhere really fun!! Maybe even Disneyland!! You decide!

How to make:

I simply had a few mason jars around the house that I used.  I made up some cute design on my computer using digi scrapbooking.  (I like to use Memory Mixer). I printed it out and mod podged it to my jars. Super Easy! You can also print it out on Sticker paper or something like that and Mod Podge over it for a good seal or packaging tape also works great for a clear, waterproof seal.

You can kinda take this idea and run with it, so many creative possibilies and things your kids can learn & earn.

So heres to a happy Summer with your kids, less fighting, more listening and a more sane Mommy! :) I'd love to know if you try it and how it works out for you!

Linkin Up!