Friday, December 28, 2012

Giveaway- My memory suite software

MyMemories has willingly offered to give one of my readers their own MyMemories Suite Digital Scrapbook Software! To see how cool this product is watch the video below!

See how easy it is to use and how quickly you can put that needed scrapbook together? Who has time to print out all their pictures anymore? Their Website also has more pages for sell than just the ones the program has to offer. Their priced between $10.00 and free! So you can decide how much you want to spend .
My Calendar:

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All of these papers I got for free. I have yet to spend any money on Mymemories. (We are poor grad students) I must say I have been SO tempted to get some of the cute pages but sometime in the future I’m sure I’ll be buying up the whole store!

The only thing that I don't like about the mymemories is the downloading process. I own a silhouette and it has spoiled me. It does all the downloading automatically for me. I just have to say yes. With mymemories program you choose what you want and then you have to choose which download, PC or MAC and then apply it to the software!urg! and the list of papers you buy don't ever leave the download page so it can be hard to know which ones you have already download from buy to buy. (Warning: this might not be making sense!) Other than that it's good after you play around with the program for a few days.
Not only do we have the giveaway but also for those of you who don't win or can't wait to get your own Software can use this code: STMMMS70034  and get the MyMemories suite software for only $30 instead of 40 and also gets $10 of free product as well! Savings of $20!
So how do you enter the giveaway?
1st- You MUST me a follower of Sew, Cut, Paste (leave message stating that)
2nd- Go to Mymemories.com and tell me which paper you like the best. (leave separate message with this info!)

Monday, December 17, 2012

Snowmen and ornaments

Last year I made these cute little snowmen with my sister and mother as well as some ornaments. The snowmen are so fun and easy to make. It’s a great way to use up old clothes and scraps.  All that is needed is the following:

Old socks (I don’t recommend socks with holes :) )

Beans or rice to fill them with

Buttons, ribbon, twine decorative socks , and or fabric to decorate the snowmen with.

Glue gun

Start by filling your main sock with the rice or beans. We used rice. We had to stretch out the socks a bit. So they would be big enough. I used my husbands socks that had lost the other pair. Some of them had holes in the toes, so I cut off the toe and tied it.Having the tied portion on the inside of the sock for the bottom. (the knot is inside the sock.) Then you tie up the top. We used sleeves of old shirts and decorative socks to make our snowmen clothes with. They were the perfect size and already the right shape! My favorite one I made was this one with the sweater sleeve. Add twine, ribbon and or buttons to embellish these little guys to cuteness. We used orange felt for the nose.

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Here is what is looks finished and the other snowman I made.

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All of our snowmen together. All of them were made with shirts except the stripe ones those were socks.

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My sister had just gotten married that summer so she had no ornament and no tree at the time that I decided to have this craft day for her. My sister doesn’t do crafts. She also had no money to go to ornaments. She wanted something to decorate with so I was on the job to find ornaments that were easy to make and also cute.

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Look at all that scrapbook paper we went through! Thanks to Julia who gave me a good amount of scrapbook paper when she moved to Colorado. See I really do use it and for others too.  :)

 ornaments3 This one was going to be the top of her tree. She had a painted tree in one of the rooms in her apartment. She ended up getting my grandmothers tree so instead she used it as a wall decoration. She put it up again this year.

 

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The ornaments were so simple. The one above you just cut circles the same size fold them in half and stick them together with ribbon or string in the middle. The ones below you cut paper into strips 3 different sizes. We cut our  scrapbook paper into 1 inch width, and then I think the lengths we did were 6 inches for the center, 8 inches and 10  inches. and yes both of these were seen again in her apartment again this year.ornaments4

My sister and mother aren’t crafty people. Here is my sister getting frustrated with the papers not gluing and staying together….poor thing. :)  Don’t worry I came to her rescue after taking a picture…

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Happy Holidays!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Giveaway winner-Mymemory suite

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We have the winner chosen! and the winner is:

 

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#10  Chace and Shareesa said...

I like the Boardwalk Art and 100 of my favorites vol. 2

 

Congrats cousin! Please email me and I’ll get you the information to get you your memory suite.

 

Those of you that didn’t win remember that you can use this code: STMMMS70034  and get the MyMemories suite software for only $30 instead of 40 and also gets $10 of free product as well! Savings of $20!

 

Also keep your eyes open for this same giveaway again in December. This is the year of giving. :)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Giveaway- My memories suite software

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MyMemories has willingly offered to give one of my readers their own MyMemories Suite Digital Scrapbook Software! To see how cool this product is go HERE. See how easy it is to use and how quickly you can put that needed scrapbook together? Who has time to print out all their pictures anymore? Their Website also has more pages for sell than just the ones the program has to offer. Their priced between $10.00 and free! So you can decide how much you want to spend . Here are some past pages I’ve done:
My Calendar:
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Scrapbook page and blog headers. I’m not so good at the blog ones yet But I’m getting there.
peekabo pages-001  Organizemylife!-001
All of these papers I got for free. I have yet to spend any money on Mymemories. (We are poor grad students) I must say I have been SO tempted to get some of the cute pages but sometime in the future I’m sure I’ll be buying up the whole store!
The only thing that I don't like about the mymemories is the downloading process. I own a silhouette and it has spoiled me. It does all the downloading automatically for me. I just have to say yes. With mymemories program you choose what you want and then you have to choose which download, PC or MAC and then apply it to the software!urg! and the list of papers you buy don't ever leave the download page so it can be hard to know which ones you have already download from buy to buy. (Warning: this might not be making sense!) Other than that it's good after you play around with the program for a few days.

Not only do we have the giveaway but also for those of you who don't win or can't wait to get your own Software can use this code: STMMMS70034  and get the MyMemories suite software for only $30 instead of 40 and also gets $10 of free product as well! Savings of $20!
So how do you enter the giveaway?
1st- You MUST me a follower of Sew, Cut, Paste (leave message stating that)
2nd- Go to Mymemories.com and tell me which paper you like the best. (leave separate message with this info!)
Winner will be announced November 20th. Just in time for Thanksgiving. Someone will have one more thing to be thankful for!

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Halloween

I wanted to quickly write about what we did for Halloween. I wanted to show off some of the decorations I have and the costumes I made this year. I just finished sewing them! At least I finished them with one day to spare! Thank goodness!

My piano decorations:

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The framed pumpkins are my favorite decor. and it was so fun to make. I had no idea that the pumpkin was made of Styrofoam. :)

The shelves:

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The walls:

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Our pumpkins:

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Sorry for the poor lighting. It was SO late! kids didn’t get to bed till 10! Kids chose their faces on the pumpkins.

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Our kids just can’t wait to get to trick or treating and ask periodically if they get to go do that today. What are you/kids being for Halloween?  I love this time of year! Except the cold weather that comes along with it! Be safe tomorrow! 

Oops! I forgot to put the costume on here!

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Knights and dragons! Boys will be the knights and me and daddy will be that dragons. I’m going to be hit with swords a lot tomorrow! Here is were I found the dragon tail tutorial if you want to make your own!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Egg Olympics

Have all of you been glued to the Olympics as I have? It will be sad and good when it goes. I will be able to focus on other things! It has been fun to watch the kids reaction to the games. They are almost always running around and trying to do what they see. The other day they ran over to the wall and put their feet on the wall and started running from wall to wall in their ‘race’.Then they stood on the big chair and jumped off backwards saying they are jumping into the water. They can always think of something!

With the Olympics coming to an end I was trying to think of some kind of fun that we could actively do to celebrate, like a closing ceremony. I automatically thought of the annual tradition we do with Easter and knew it could be adjusted to this awesome event! The tradition? Egg Olympics.

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Every Easter my husbands’ family has an egg olympics event with all the hardboiled eggs we bring. It is a blast. I decided to introduce my family to it and now have done it the last 2 years. I made a score chart to keep track of who played. We gave the eggs out like crazy. Anyone who did it and worked hard at the events got one. Now onto the events!

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Egg Race:

Put eggs on the starting line. Everyone pushes the eggs to the finish line with their noses! Great fun to watch!

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Egg Toss:

A classic egg game. Toss to your partner. If egg survives take 1 step back and continue. If egg drops but doesn’t break continue to toss until it does! Our finalist tossed it the entire length of the yard corner to corner. Not bad.

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Egg Relay:

Divide into 2 teams. We had 4 on each

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Then equipped with spoons take the eggs back and forth. First team back to the beginning wins!

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Egg Wrestling:

Place wrists together count one… two…. and on three…. collide the two eggs, whichever egg doesn’t break continues on. Both break? Tie, both out.

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Egg Shot Put:

Stand in line. Throw the egg like a shot put. We took the circle stepping out to make it safer. (They were all aiming for me)

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All got into the games, young and old!

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As I’m sure you noticed a lot of eggs get crushed! Some beyond recognition. Know all eggs will not be edible after. Be prepared to make some egg salad sandwiches for Lunch after. :)

There are 2 more events that we have done but I don’t have any pictures of them. There is the egg dive and a different version of the shot put. I will try and explain them well.

Egg Dive:

Have ice cream bucket full of water. Toss your egg underhand which makes the egg twirl in the air and try to get it to land in the bucket with no cracks. This event is my best and also the one that makes you go through the most eggs.

Egg Shot Put:

I changed this one cuz I think it’s just gross but some of you with teenage boys just may love it! My husband does.

Place egg in mouth and shoot it out as far as you can with air and tongue. The farthest “throw”er wins.

So there you go everything you need to go do your own Olympics. You could even add your own medals like these. What are you waiting for get to it!

Monday, June 18, 2012

Curry Casserole

This is a great Recipe for those pasta haters out there! This is my sister’s favorite meal, and maybe it will be yours too!
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Preheat: 350    Cooking Time: 30 minutes

2 pkg (10 oz each) frozen broccoli
2 cups cubed chicken, cooked
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of celery soup
1 cup mayo
1 tsp lemon juice

Cook broccoli according to package directions, then layer in bottom of casserole dish, next layer chicken, mix the rest of ingredients to make sauce and spread over top. cook. May half recipe and use only one of the canned soups.
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Look at those wonderful layers! YUM!

Monday, June 11, 2012

The Chemists Clock

I have been wanting to share this idea with all of you ever since my husband and I thought up the idea. Yes, This is an original idea!!  Woot Woot!

First the back story:

Andrew’s sister was married in April. The man she married has his doctorate in chemistry. Andrew’s sister will be getting her doctorate in chemistry in December. So we wanted to do something geeky for them. I told Andrew that I just wanted to make a clock for them but use a picture of them as the face (Not a new idea) but Andrew thought up something to make it unique.

 

 

Here is what we came up with:

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The numbers are the first 12 in the Periodic Table of the Elements. Genius I say! Genius!

Here is how we made it:

First the BIG job, making the clocks’ face. We used Gimp2 that is available free online (the poor man’s Photoshop- We are WAY to cheap to get the real thing). We first found a template for the clock numbers so we would place the numbers in the correct spots. (just Google for one) Then we decided on the picture and decided on an added geeky feature, we put atoms behind the picture in purple; one of the wedding colors.

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Andrew worked his magic to get all the shading the way we wanted it and then we had to put white lining around all the letters so the ones in the dark portion could be seen. NOTE: You will be drilling a hole through this picture, right smack dab in the middle, so make sure that it won’t be through an eye or something! Ours went through his ear. He didn’t need that anyway...

After getting that perfect we had Sam’s Club print it off. This cost only 3-4 dollars. (I can’t remember which.) Our clock is 12x12 in size, and Sam’s doesn’t print that size so we added a portion of white off to one side to make it 12x16 for them.

 

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Next we cut some 1/8” Masonite/hardwood board we had left over to 12x12 and painted the sides white, and Mod Podged the picture on.

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Now for the scary part. The drilling. Please wait to do this after everything has dried, and double check it is in the center! We bought the clock parts at multiple places (since I bought one WAY too small first). You can do Hobby Lobby with their 40% coupon making that way cheap. The one we ended up using was from Michaels. They had a surprisingly good selection to choose from. Hobby Lobby only had black, mostly. Keep in mind that some of the clock parts come with a way of hanging it up like ours did. If yours doesn’t you’ll have to figure out a way to hang it up or put it on an easel .

One last look at the Original creation by SewCutPaste

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Want to make your own but don’t want to do the work? Well Andrew has provided us with the files to make your own! Just need to add your picture and do your own shading.  You can download Gimp from this website

FYI: You’ll need to add that portion off to the side if you want to print it off at Sam’s.

Photoshop File

Gimp 2 File

Just click the download button and then you can create your own awesome clock. If any questions or problems let me know I’ll help as much as a I can and then I’ll refer you to Andrew. :)