Happy Friday the 13th!  My lucky day (I was born on Friday the 13th).  It's been a looooong time since I've posted here.  I discovered Facebook and Pinterest, and spent most of my "online time" there!  Whoa...Pinterest...I fell in love the first moment I discovered it!

 Tomorrow's Valentine's Day, and I thought I'd try making these pancakes for the family.  Should be easy enough - divide the dough into two bowls and dye one red - heart cookie cutter - icing sugar...voila!

The kids made these mini kabobs for their classmates and handed them out today with their Valentine's.

 We had made these kabob's for O's 10th birthday party last year, and they were a big hit!

Motivational Monday

Motivational Monday

Awesome Scooter Photo

Just wanted to share this awesome photo. My "mister" went out last night with his friends, and one of them took this wicked photo! 1000 Parker Street Studios.

Friday Favourites: DIY with Kids Toys

Friday Favourite's - DIY with Kids Toys.

This weeks "Friday Favourites" theme is: "DIY with Kids Toys".

I couldn't find the source photo for these gold painted magnets...I had pinned them on one of my pinterest boards. Love the elephant bum!

DIY instructions for these drawer pulls found here.



DIY instructions for this cupcake candle found here.

DIY instructions for these jar toppers found here.

DIY instructions for these vintage fisher price photo's here.

Theme Thursday - April Showers

Happy Thursday! Today's Theme Thursday is: "April Showers".

Vancouver is rainy year round, but the Spring rain is different. It can be sunny one minute, you blink, and *pow* a downpour. Blink again, and it's sunny....with a rainbow and pink blossoms.

photo one. photo two.

photo three. photo four.

photo five. photo six.

photo seven. photo eight.

A Few of the Etsy Items Put up This Week

Here's a few things I put up in my etsy shop this week:

Swag Bags

Got Craft? is coming up soon, which means swag, swag, swag!  Each vendor contributes to the highly coveted swag bags which are handed out to the first 50 people in line, for both days.

(Saturday, May 10th & Sunday, May 11th, 2014. 10am to 5pm at the Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver, B.C.)

Here's my contributions to the swags bags.....I've gone washi tape crazy!

Here's a sampling of my items:

A view of my table in action. Had an apple pie/coffee break....there's my son in the background eating some pie too!

Motivational Monday

Motivational Monday

Friday Favourites....Baileys, Caramels, Feathers oh my!

Here are my Friday Favourites!

The Spring craft fairs are about to start up again, and I'm starting to think about my displays. I'm loving these hanging, glitter dipped feathers! The mini bunting flags are super cute too.

feather. mini bunting.

 I'd love these ornaments in my studio...

artdoll ornament. star ornament.

 ...and these!

owl ornament (I can't find a working link for this owl ornament. I found it on pinterest). bird ornament.

 mmmmmm. I'm drooling over these.  It would be fun to set up an afternoon playdate to make both of these recipes.

caramels. baileys.

Motivational Monday

Sunday Recap - A Birthday Party and New Cards

Here's a re-cap of last week's highlights.

Number one on the list - my son turned 10!! We made these candy kabobs as part of his goodie bags.

About to blow out 10 curly candles:

His actual birthday was on Wed, and he prefers pie over cake, so Grandma made him a lemon meringue pie!  It was delicious!

 

I made some new cards this week too:

And put up a card special in my etsy shop:

Sold cards wrapped up and on their way:

Friday Favourites

Here's a random collection of my "Friday Favourites", all found on Pinterest.  Eye candy!

Bird, succulents, spoon, toadstools.

Paper bag, lace bunting.

Pink sofa/art combo.

Happy Valentine's Day!