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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
24 Hours from Now.....
We will be here!!!
I have been busy packing and cleaning the house today. I love to be able to come back to a clean house after vacation. :DI hope the blogging on the road works! Start looking tomorrow for posts from Disney!!!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Yum, Brownie Pops....
So tonight is the Teacher Appreciation dinner at Spencer's school. I had seen these Brownie Pops made on the Creating Keepsakes message board by Erin Lincoln and thought they would perfect for this!
I got the mold at Michaels. Actually I bought two of them, because making only eight 'pops' at a time would have taken for ever! It took me a while to get the hang of how much to fill the molds without having them explode out of the top. And Erin over at CK was so helpful. I had lots of questions for her and she gave me all kinds of little tips on how to make them work. And I have to say that I am so proud of how they turned out! And they are really delicious too.
The box I put them in has floral foam in it so the pops would stand upright. The box itself is actually an old shoe box. I took some craft paper and stamped all the different apples using the Teacher set from PaperTrey Ink. I love this stamp set! I then wrapped the box in the paper. The sign was made with my Cricut and then some American Craft rubons.
Next, I took one of the sentiments from the same Teacher stamp set and made this tag to put on the front of the box. I used my circle Nestabilities to make the tag. I thought it dressed up the front of the box nicely.
The little thank you tags I cut with my Cricut. I used the Plantin Schoolbook cart with my Design Studio Software. I just layed the apple image on top of the tag and welded them together. So when Cricut cut the tags out, the apple was cut out as a negative image. The thank you stamp is again from the Teacher stamp set.
And here is how they look unwrapped. Don't they look delicious!
It was fun dipping them in chocolate and then sprinkling on the sprinkles. Every now and then, I would look over at the ones I had done and I would discover one would have slide down the stick. I guess it got a little too heavy with the chocolate and sprinkles and gravity would claim it. The boys would love that though. I would yell out, "I've got a slider, who wants it!" And all three of them would run to the kitchen to claim it. I think they ended up with 2 each last night. So my big tip would be to make more than you need because when you get to the chocolate part you will have some casualties. It is a great way to taste test your 'pops' though!
Thanks again for visiting me!
I got the mold at Michaels. Actually I bought two of them, because making only eight 'pops' at a time would have taken for ever! It took me a while to get the hang of how much to fill the molds without having them explode out of the top. And Erin over at CK was so helpful. I had lots of questions for her and she gave me all kinds of little tips on how to make them work. And I have to say that I am so proud of how they turned out! And they are really delicious too.
The box I put them in has floral foam in it so the pops would stand upright. The box itself is actually an old shoe box. I took some craft paper and stamped all the different apples using the Teacher set from PaperTrey Ink. I love this stamp set! I then wrapped the box in the paper. The sign was made with my Cricut and then some American Craft rubons.
Next, I took one of the sentiments from the same Teacher stamp set and made this tag to put on the front of the box. I used my circle Nestabilities to make the tag. I thought it dressed up the front of the box nicely.
The little thank you tags I cut with my Cricut. I used the Plantin Schoolbook cart with my Design Studio Software. I just layed the apple image on top of the tag and welded them together. So when Cricut cut the tags out, the apple was cut out as a negative image. The thank you stamp is again from the Teacher stamp set.And here is how they look unwrapped. Don't they look delicious!
It was fun dipping them in chocolate and then sprinkling on the sprinkles. Every now and then, I would look over at the ones I had done and I would discover one would have slide down the stick. I guess it got a little too heavy with the chocolate and sprinkles and gravity would claim it. The boys would love that though. I would yell out, "I've got a slider, who wants it!" And all three of them would run to the kitchen to claim it. I think they ended up with 2 each last night. So my big tip would be to make more than you need because when you get to the chocolate part you will have some casualties. It is a great way to taste test your 'pops' though!Thanks again for visiting me!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
One More Week!
I can't believe that in 7 short days we will be heading to sunny Florida! (I hope it is sunny while we are there!) Since I didn't do a great job of planning out all my layouts of our last trip for my countdown (I ran out last week), I thought I would share a few of our very first trip there. This was way back in 2005. :D
At that time Spencer was 4 and Connor was about 18 months. It is amazing to see how much the boys grew in the 3 years between our trips. And this was the beginning of my scrapbooking journey! I believe at this point I was just starting to get involved in the Message Boards and looking at other scrapper's work. And I know this because this book was made from a kit from one of my very first QVC Scrappy purchases. So this had to be when I first starting visiting scrapbook boards because I never even looked at QVC before that! lol!!
To see how much the boys changed take a look at this layout and this one from last trip. The pictures were taken in the same places.
Yep there I am with short hair!
This next layout has a funny story to go with it. Since Connor was only 18 months we really didn't think he would have a clue about getting souvenirs while we were there. We had told Spencer he could get a few things. We were only there for three days on this trip, so each day we let Spencer pick out a little something from whatever park we were at. And we weren't being mean to Connor, we just really didn't think he would know or care that Spencer was getting some things. And for the most part, he didn't care. Until this last night. We were at Epcot and Spencer wanted one of the light up toys. At first we said no, and then we kept walking around and they have these stands that sell those toys about every 100 feet. So we finally relented and let Spencer get one. Again, not thinking Connor would object or want one too. WE WERE SO WRONG! We got about 25 feet away from that cart, and Connor let out the biggest wail of despair that he didn't get a light up toy too. We tried to calm him down, but it wasn't working. He wanted a light up toy, dang it! So we literally ran at full speed to the next light toy stand and this is what he picked out....the Tinkerbell wand. He still looks a little pitiful in this picture but he did recover and his parents learned a valuable lesson. Just because he didn't talk a lot back then (and he has since made up for that-now he is Mr. Chatterbox), he so knew that he was getting the short end of the souvenir stick on that trip and he was done with that!
Thanks for visiting again and reading all my countdown posts to our trip. And don't forget that next week I'm going to try and blog from the parks a few times with my Iphone. I hope it works!
At that time Spencer was 4 and Connor was about 18 months. It is amazing to see how much the boys grew in the 3 years between our trips. And this was the beginning of my scrapbooking journey! I believe at this point I was just starting to get involved in the Message Boards and looking at other scrapper's work. And I know this because this book was made from a kit from one of my very first QVC Scrappy purchases. So this had to be when I first starting visiting scrapbook boards because I never even looked at QVC before that! lol!!
To see how much the boys changed take a look at this layout and this one from last trip. The pictures were taken in the same places.
Yep there I am with short hair!
This next layout has a funny story to go with it. Since Connor was only 18 months we really didn't think he would have a clue about getting souvenirs while we were there. We had told Spencer he could get a few things. We were only there for three days on this trip, so each day we let Spencer pick out a little something from whatever park we were at. And we weren't being mean to Connor, we just really didn't think he would know or care that Spencer was getting some things. And for the most part, he didn't care. Until this last night. We were at Epcot and Spencer wanted one of the light up toys. At first we said no, and then we kept walking around and they have these stands that sell those toys about every 100 feet. So we finally relented and let Spencer get one. Again, not thinking Connor would object or want one too. WE WERE SO WRONG! We got about 25 feet away from that cart, and Connor let out the biggest wail of despair that he didn't get a light up toy too. We tried to calm him down, but it wasn't working. He wanted a light up toy, dang it! So we literally ran at full speed to the next light toy stand and this is what he picked out....the Tinkerbell wand. He still looks a little pitiful in this picture but he did recover and his parents learned a valuable lesson. Just because he didn't talk a lot back then (and he has since made up for that-now he is Mr. Chatterbox), he so knew that he was getting the short end of the souvenir stick on that trip and he was done with that!Give me my Tinkerbell Wand!
Thanks for visiting again and reading all my countdown posts to our trip. And don't forget that next week I'm going to try and blog from the parks a few times with my Iphone. I hope it works!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Testing 1 2 3
I'm sitting in my car right now waiting to pick up Connor so I thought I would try this blogging from my phone again. This is an old pic I had on my phone.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
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