Friday Fill In's

1. The last band I saw live was my kids rocking rock band in my living room.
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is having my grandmom home with us for the day from the nursing home, I am really hoping that happens. (-:
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is well underway, thanks to some great deals found on several of my favorite blogs!
4. Thoughts of fundraising for Collin's Robotics team fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear my pajamas all weekend long....soon enough soccer season will be over and maybe that can happen.
6. Bagpipes and men in skirts.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hopefully sewing, tomorrow my plans include Collin's Ramp Riot Robotics Competition and Sunday, I want to catch Michael's soccer game and if that gets cancelled head to a college fair with Collin! Busy weekend, and I am tired already! But its a good thing! Hoping for big wins on both days!

The Crayon Roll - An Easy Gift Idea!

Thanks to the incredible amount of inspiring blogs out there, I have been able to get some frugal ideas for Christmas like this crayon roll. The inspiration for this project came from the tutorial at The Idea Room....another blog that has monopolized all my time with so many awesome ideas!

I just finished my first Crayon Roll and I was very happy with the way it turned out.

I think this is a great gift for a toddler or a preschooler. It gives the kids a nice visual, organized way to keep their crayons rather than just dumping a box and I can keep it in my purse for when we are dining out or going to the doctors. I think I'll make one to take up to the nursing home with a coloring book so when we go visit my grandmom, my daughter will be occupied.

This was a quick and easy project to make and a great way to use up fabric scraps!

Alright, I must get back to work, I have a couple of blankets that I am making for two charities

that I hope to share with you by the weekend...

one has to be done by tomorow since we have a busy weekend.

Wish me luck on that! (-:

For the LOVE of Horses!

My daughter LOVES horses!

It's really amazing because she has been in love with them for as long as I remember. So as she becomes more of a preschooler and less of a toddler, I have been wanting to redo her bedroom to be less of a nursery

and more of a little girls room so we decided to incorporate horses into her decor. Luckily I was able to get some clearance "horse" wallpaper border for $1 at Lowes awhile back, but only enough to do one wall,

therefore I have been brainstorming other ways to add to the horse decor.

Since money is non existent in our household these days, this redo is of the free and cheap kind thanks to one of my FAVORITE blogs, This and That! She basically made Picture Frame boards using MDF and scrapbook paper! Check out her blog for lots of inspiration!

Angie's tutorial for this project was featured at favecrafts, another site I adore!

So here is my finished version using Angie's tutorial...

I was able to buy a small sheet of 1/2 inch MDF for around 8 dollars. I then cut 8 12"x12" boards from this MDF sheet with my jigsaw. I only needed 3 boards for my daughter's bedroom since her room is particularly small.

I found scrapbook paper on sale at AC Moore that would coordinate with my daughter's bedroom and used an old horse calendar for the pictures that I scored at a yardsale for FREE!

Gotta love a freebie!

All you need to do is modpodge the scrapbook paper to the board....I haven't modpodged since grammar school, and the odor brought back A LOT of great memories! Then I framed out the horse picture with a coordinating piece of scrapbook paper and attached with modpodge to the board.

The first board I did, I modpodged over the pic thinking it would protect it better, but after that one I didn't care for the glare on the picture since I only had glossy modpodge so I just left it unprotected. I think it is high enough that my daughter won't mess with them...but that remains to be seen!

While modpodging, I pulled out the white letters that spelled her name from her closet and updated them by modpodging them with some more of the same scrapbook paper.

I am linking this post to Kimba's blog, A Soft Place to Land as part of her Tuesday DIY Day! Check out her blog for tons of inspiration! I know I sure will! http://asoftplace.net/

Also next week I will be posting another project in Ally's room, which has been a big hit with her! Stay tuned to find out! (-:

Praying for Stellan

Many of you follow MckMama's blog as her son, Stellan fights SVT (Supraventricular Tachycardia which involves his heart). He is such an adorable little boy who has already been through so much!

They are currently in Boston at a top notch hospital where little Stellan is now recovering from surgery. While at the hospital, prior to surgery, this poor little boy flatlined, but he was brought back to life as his mother watched...I can only imagine how terrifying that was for her! His surgery seems to be generally sucessful with some unresolved glitches.

I know this family is in my thoughts and prayers as they face the challenges of a surgery for their little guy, and being away from their other children. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as they continue to seek the best medical care for their son and continue their journey to save their son's life. What an amazing little boy!

Happy Halloween!

Our little witch is ready for trick or treating!

She is at the perfect age to really enjoy this Halloween!

This year the boys are ditching us....Collin is working, and Michael didn't want to get dresseed up, but I have a costume on standby should he change his mind when his friends show up.

Our pumpkins are carved and ready to be lit!

Hope you have a VERY FUN Halloween this year!

I know we are going to have some serious fun, and I can't wait!

Trunk or Treat...and the "afterparty"

Tonight we attended our first Trunk or Treat and we had so much fun! It was a spur of the moment decision, but I am so glad that we decided to go!

Ally in her witch's costume and my nephew Colt in his pirate costume..

My brother, Randy with his youngest son, James..

Colt with his cousin...

The kids had a blast...while we walked around with the younger kids, the older kids handed out candy to the younger ones, which worked out beautifully! We will definitely attend next year!

After trunk or treat, we headed out to create a little mischief...just some good old fashioned fun.My Aunt and Uncle expect us every year on mischief night...

it's a family tradition.

This year, my aunt tried to dupe us by sneak attacking us with a water gun! Fun times!

Then my uncle shot the kids with the hose... as you can tell below Michael got pretty wet, and then he spent most of the time kinking the hose so my uncle couldn't get him with it. What great memories of time well spent!

I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

I just wanted to thank everybody who has called and emailed me regarding my accident on Tuesday...what a stressfull week!

For those of you that didn't know, Ally and I were in an accident on a major highway Tuesday while on the way to Ally's doctors. It was quite scary, but thankfully it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Nonetheless, I was rather shook up and sore, but thankfully Ally was no worse for the wear! She was quite convinced that we could fix the durango with a little sticky tape, although it took a bit more than that!

The Durango is now fixed, and we are moving forward, but I just wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. I greatly appreciated them and we are both fine! (-:

P.S. As my cousin reminded me, "Never drive faster than your guardarian angel", and thankfully I was going slow that day! (-: