We have the winner chosen! and the winner is:
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. :)
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:
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:
The walls:
Our pumpkins:
Sorry for the poor lighting. It was SO late! kids didn’t get to bed till 10! Kids chose their faces on the pumpkins.
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!
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!
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.
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!
Egg Race:
Put eggs on the starting line. Everyone pushes the eggs to the finish line with their noses! Great fun to watch!
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.
Egg Relay:
Divide into 2 teams. We had 4 on each
Then equipped with spoons take the eggs back and forth. First team back to the beginning wins!
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.
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)
All got into the games, young and old!
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!
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. :)
Sorry I have been slacking lately with my responsibilities to this blog! I have so many excuses I could use and make me feel like they are justified, but no one wants to hear excuses. I will share one BIG excuse and that is my son getting burned in a gasoline fire. You can read about it here on the family blog. Its the biggest thing that has ever happened in our family besides the same son trying to drown on the kiddy boat ride at Lagoon. I want you to know I will be back soon! I am working on making a list of crafts I must make and will be back to the schedule in a week. Til then!
