Valentines decorations...

These glittery hearts were originally on picks that I bought two bags of at the Dollar Tree with he intent of cutting down the picks and inserting the hearts around a styro ball-it was an epic fail on so many levels. So I put a sheet of patterned paper into a 5 x 7 frame I had on hand and glued two hearts on-super cute! L-O-V-E blocks-I spray painted 2 x 3 square blocks red before adding a piece of card stock and the letters I'd cut out with my cricut.

Flat Stanley

The son of an old friend of mine back home in Upstate NY is reading "Flat Stanley" by Jeff Brown. He writes in his letter that "it's a humorous tale about a boy who becomes FLAT when his bulletin board falls on him. Stanley realizes there are several advantages of being flat, such as the ability to slide under doors and yes, being mailed in envelopes for long trips." Ethan mailed Flat Stanley to us to go on a few adventures with the twins and I before we pack him up and send him back to Ethan and his classmates.
Here are a couple of pics from Stanley's first two days with us in Virginia...

Flat Stanley arrives!

Braden taking Flat Stanley into the Bat Cave at Jumpin Monkey

Connor taking Flat Stanley on the merry go round at Jumpin Monkey

Connor, their BFF Addie and Braden taking Flat Stanley down the slides at City View Park

PIF crafts on facebook...

a few weeks ago on Facebook there was this post going around about pay it forward craft projects. You'd post it to your status and agree to make one homemade gift for the first five people to comment as long as they promised to post the same status and pay it forward as well.
I mailed out my first two PIF craft gifts today...
One of my rag-a-muffin wreaths is on it's way to a fellow police wife friend of mine in IN.

One of the felt circle wreaths I just started making this year is on it's way to another police wife friend in AL.

I can't wait to see what Jennifer & Jana think of their gifts!

52photos in 52 weeks: week 4...

...Shadow
The trees casting their long shadows across one of the trails I jog at one of our local parks.

Convo hearts...to eat or not to eat...

...not to eat!
I have come across tons of cute Valentines craft ideas using conversation hearts. I think this is an amazing idea because I do not eat the things and they are EVERYWHERE! Personally I think they taste like what I imagine chalk tastes like yet they are super cute!
I tacked a heart cutout on the back of a piece of glass from an old frame I had kicking around and arraigned and glued down my hearts then removed the heart. I sanded down the frame then sprayed it with red spray paint and set a sheet of hot pink card stock behind the glass before placing it up on the fireplace.
Super easy, super cute and way better than eating the candies!

52 photos in 52 weeks: week three...

...Evening
I kept with the main theme (self imposed) of making this project about me with the kids and the hubster just making brief appearances. This is pretty self explanatory. In the evenings (especially lately with that lovely upper respiratory virus working it's way through our house and right to Mommy) I like to cuddle up with my Snuggie (pink of course) and my new nook!

Pocket sized "brag book"

I found this cute little business card holder on clearance at Target and scooped it up-I added a rub-on to the front and inserted a few recent shots of the twinadoes matted on some bright card stock and viola-simple, cute and completely pocket friendly brag book.