I am Jack's Glittery Mess.

Today I embarked on a journey to make a card. I thought about making Thank You cards in advance for the two baby showers I'm having. But, I needed Mumsy for help to bounce ideas off of for that venture.

After organizing Mumsy's craft blocks, with emphasis on the punch drawer I raided our clear stamp drawer and chose a few sets that I could brainstorm with. Two Halloween, one Christmas, and one with a really cute owl.

I decided on my favorite little Skull Girl. Then I went with the new "in" Halloween colors. Black, olive green, orange, and a bold but light purple. Earlier in the day I was crusing some crafty sites looking for some inspiration and I found a card layout I really liked at KWerner Design Blog. So I decided to use that for my card layout.

Once I assembled the layers, and cut my circles, I decided the front needed something more. So I drew some spiderwebs by hand using my Martha Stewart glue pen, and added some glitter. After the glitter was applied and my layers were glued together, I was happy with the final product.



This was a little spidy friend I came up with after the card was finished. I decided not to add him to this card because I didn't want TOO much going on. But he might make his way onto another card..

I am Jack's Baby Shower.

This post is going to be about all of the preparations and craftiness for my baby shower.

It was extremely difficult to figure out a theme for the baby shower. Should we do something centered around the fact I'm having a boy? Should we do something catered toward my wants? Not to mention, I'm really picky when it comes to stuff like this and I don't want to settle for just whatever boy stuff we can find.

I was planning on doing jungle themed invites from PaperCrafts Magazine, but the overwhelming amount of cutting that had to be done, cut that from the list. Then there was the simple fact that we didn't have a theme picked out. It's extremely hard to think of a cute card when there is no theme.

One day Mumsy and I went up to Party City to look at the baby shower supplies they have there, hoping for inspiration. We were getting ready to leave full of disappointment, when Mumsy saw these cute little pea pod favors. Then and there we had out theme. Pea pods and Poppies! Light greens, orange accents, and of course light blues. My favorite color scheme of them all.

Now that we had a theme, it was time to brainstorm baby shower invites. We found some really cute clear stamps at Michaels. Finished product:


Cupcake Pins I made:


Peapod Favors, finished:

I am Jack's Fall Resolutions..

I decided today that I want to do something crafty everyday and blog about it until little Kennedy joins the party.. so for today, I figure I'll post my list as of right now.. and post as I work and/or finish the projects listed.

Baby Shower Invites - finished
Baby Blanket/Quilt
Family Scrapbook for Kennedy
Poppy Decorations for Baby Shower (by 12/6)
Nursery Decorative Blocks
Halloween Costume (by 10/30)
Lucian's Birthday Present (by 11/15)
Sock Animals for Twins
'Pretty' Bracelet (by 11/20)
'Zebra' Bracelet (by 11/20)
'Fringe' Bracelet (by 11/20)

lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here..

First off.. I am soooo honored.. Lolly named one of her FABULOUS patterns after me! :D

Second.. I made some awesome patchworky scarves!

Third.. in need of some creative inspiration.. I began to think about halloween.. For years and years BabyMomma [formerly known as Preggo] and I came up with an idea..

Inspiration::



CANDYLAND!!!

The best part:: I'm going to make our costumes!! I will be going as Queen Frostine. BabyMomma will be going as Princess Lolly. and baby Lucian will be going as Plumpy.

AHHH I'm so excited!!!

I'm Jack's baby birdie induced hand cramp..

today.. oh today.. this morning we got our Christmas tree! yay so exciting.. the smell of Christmas is wafting in the room.. Mumsy and I decided to participate in a Creating Keepsakes ornament exchange thing.. [http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/mb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=201981] where you put a hand-made ornament somewhere kinda random with a tag saying "congrats you found me! go here and tell everyone the tale"..

so I took one of the baby birdies I made yesterday and left it down a row of trees..


When we came home I made 9 more baby birdies to go with the five remaining baby birdies.. and now they're just waiting to go on the tree..