It's great to be a SUNDEVIL!!

It's official...Yesterday Sanford became the Head Varsity Football Coach at Mt. Carmel.  He's already immersed in reading coaching books, meeting with mentors, looking for inspirational quotes , and all things pigskin.  Football widowhood has begun...and it's only February!  :)

I made this for him to put on his desk...I guess a smiley Sundevil probably isn't all that intimidating...but I do cute, not scary.

  My friend Kim and I took a class this weekend to learn how to make the cute chickie box below...I just gave it horns instead of a beak and my devil was born...I might have gotten a little carried away with my new "Sparkle" Modge Podge...I think my Sundevil is a girl...but don't tell Sanford!  I filled the jar with Atomic Fireballs...It seemed appropriate..they're packaged in red and yellow and they're HOT!  I just crack myself up!

Here's the chickie box that started my current paper clay phase...I am loving this stuff!  Easy to use, forgiving, and seriously...it looks like you might actually need some kind of talent to do it (not true of course, but it looks impressive!)

Here's a close up of his cute little face...yeah, I'm not sure why I think it's a boy when it has a pink collar and a bow on it's hat...guess I'm just open-minded !  LOL  The eyes on the original were a lot more traditionally retro looking, but it's just not me unless it has beady little eyes.  

I also made some cute stuff for Connor's teacher for her birthday that I was going to post too, but my computer-inept self managed to delete the photos before they  made it safely to iPhoto...I guess you'll just have to imagine how cute they were.

Thanks for looking...and make sure you tell Sanford congratulations when you see him... He really is great with those boys...I sure hope they have the season they deserve!

Hmmm...

Long time no blog!  

Two weeks ago Sanford and I spent the weekend at a B&B in Julian.  It was very nice.  We woke up Saturday morning to snow on the ground...visited cheesy, over-priced tourist traps, napped, and I took at least 3 baths in the whirlpool tub.  Very relaxing...then it was back to reality when the principal called on Monday morning with my son in her office.  Connor had forged my signature on a paper so that I wouldn't see it and he wouldn't be grounded while spending the weekend at Grammi's.  So...my little "John Hancock"   raised the stress level just a squidge in our house!  

Plus I've been a little busy with the Valentine creations...

I made 4 of these...

5 of these....

4 of these....

5 of these....the wiggle eyes on the frogs crack me up!

1 of these....isn't it too cute!  It's a timeless template...easy, quick, but I like it.

5 of these....

these bags to put the daycare Valentines in...

3 dozen of these....

3 dozen of these...

I also decorated 27 big ol' suckers  for the daycare kids and Connor's class and I had to make some little prizes to send in to the ladies in the office at Connor's school.  Part of his punishment was to miss recess every day and they got stuck babysitting the chucklehead...so, really, a little chocolate was the least I could do.  

I made a few other odds and ends but all of those pictures are stuck on the other camera and I can't find the cord to put them on the computer...oh, well....I'm sure you all think I'm nuts any way !  It's only Valentine's Day for Pete's sake, not Christmas!  I'm off to start crafting for St. Patrick's Day...LOL!!

Connor is a VIP

So...Connor was "VIP" at school this week.  We made a poster of things he likes/dislikes last weekend for him to share and he's been able to bring in a few things every day this week to show the class.  He's brought in his ukulele, Robosapien, post card collection, and today he brought in his Disco ball alarm clock.  I think perhaps his teacher should be nominated either for sainthood or the loony bin!

Everyone knows that Connor believes that chocolate is a food group and should be allotted the largest chunk on the food pyramid.  So, I thought that he should bring some in tomorrow to celebrate his last official day of "VIP-ness"...he's a VIP every day at home...at least he thinks he is! 

I made these for him to share tomorrow...I'm sure he'll also bring in some wacky paraphernalia from his room to make sure that our family looks like a bunch of complete freaks...but at least with the cute chocolate goodies our weirdness may be tolerated...I hope!

Packaging...

Here's the box I just made to put Sanford's Bday gift  in.  All I had were gigantic gift bags,  so either I had to make something or put it in a brown lunch sack....He probably wouldn't have cared, but a paper bag  might have bothered me a little.  I guess the colors are a little girlie...but I like it.  10 minutes, some scraps, and a cricut...ta da...good enough.

Shhh...Don't tell!

So,  for Sanford's birthday tomorrow,  I made him this coupon book so he'd have something to open...We're going to a bed and breakfast in Julian this weekend for his gift...good present, but you have to have something to open on your actual birthday...it's like the law...section 142 of the birthday code I think   :)    I got the little photo album in the $1 section at Micheal's on clearance for 50 cents.  

I paper pieced the cover...

And computer printed all the writing...I used all scrap paper.

Then I got lazy and just drew in all the corny pictures...he sooooo wouldn't have appreciated 6 hours of paper piecing, so why bother?  25 minutes and a few markers did the job.   The art work is Kindergarten quality, but you can tell (with the word prompts)  what the pictures are supposed to be!

For him, the aesthetics are just not that important.  I do have to admit, that since he got his "chick job" as he calls it (ASB Director),  I at least have a chance that he will notice a few details or ask how I did something.  But generally,  he is the stereotypical clueless male.  Besides, I'm sure he'll be much more interested in eating the warm cookies than dissecting my drawing of them!

Hopefully this will be the best 50 cent gift he's ever gotten ...LOL

Heart Basket

I totally stole this idea from HERE...but I didn't have that stamp set or punch or use her dimensions...but it's the same thing.  It took about 6 minutes...gotta looooooove the Cricut!

Look....I even added foof into the picture to make it look cuter...okay...it doesn't really help...but I couldn't put those 9 M&Ms back in the bag now could I?  I guess accessorizing my picture was really just a cheap ploy to have a little chocolate  :)

The colors are a little funky here...I was playing (unsuccessfully) with the adjustments in iPhoto.

I don't know how well you can see it, but I coated two of the basket sides in this glitter.  The glitter was on clearance after Christmas at Michael's...I think it might have been $2...but I'm not sure it was even  that much.  The pieces are big and look kind of retro.  It's awesome.  I like the super fine Martha glitter too...but this is really nice for something different.

Family Science Night

Last night was Family Science Night at Connor's school.  Here are the boys in the "Anatomy Room".  Sanford told Connor that this was who he dated before me...he said he couldn't stay with her because she only had half a brain.  That husband of mine.....he's suuuuch a comedian!  

Here they are in the "Physics Lab" hooking up the balloon to see thrust in action.  Once Daddy got the balloon on the right way...they were off...

I know it looks like a big picture of nothing ~ but look at the bottom...see the boys looking up at their balloon?  You can see just a little bit of their orange balloon at the very top of the picture...It all happened very quickly and I might be just a tad slow...okay, I'm a lot slow!

Here Connor is playing Mad Scientist.  He's doing an exothermic experiment...making heat in the test tube with a chemical reaction.  One of the reagents was yeast...the whole area smelled like a brewery.  I'm pretty sure that's a BAD thing in an elementary school!

One of the other experiments in the "Chem Lab" was to make Pop Rocks.  Connor is showing how the real packaged ones pop on his tongue.  He just wanted to make sure we had a clear view of the data!

Connor had a "tremendously good" time...he's asking for a set of test tubes and a microscope.  I hope he's  happy with a  Diet Coke and some Mentos!