tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66807565076447529782024-03-13T00:33:46.514-05:00Be Sew CraftyHaleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-77793091619079579852012-07-20T11:56:00.001-05:002012-07-20T11:56:16.456-05:00Even more fabulous finds! Yikes!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amazon has been my very best friend for quite some time now. And thanks to some of my recent treasures I think we may have upgraded to husband and wife. I'm linking up (for the second time) with Fun in Room 4B for Fabulous Find Friday to share them with you! I haven't even made one single thing with these bad boys and it's killing me. It's also killing me that I just talked to my new principal and found out that I won't be able to get into my classroom until the first week of August! This is super stressful b/c two days that month I will be out of town and one day is the husband's birthday. That only leaves me two days to work in my classroom b/c I have to start new teacher trainings the following week!!!! Eeeeeek! I'm always back working in my classroom by now. I like to have everything set up and ready to go by now. Anyway, back to my treasures...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First off is my new printer. It really isn't any thing that great. But, my super nice laser printer died and I've been living off a crappy $20 ink jet for too long. It's really hard to create cute things for school with that kind of equipment. This sucker had really good reviews and it scans and prints. What else do I need???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I ordered this thermal laminator at the beginning of the summer. When it arrived I realized I needed a new printer. The things I print out with my current operation are not worthy of this laminator. Every school I've ever worked at has had a laminator for teachers to use. I assume my new school is the same. However, there are some jobs that are smaller and/or need more sturdy lamination. Plus, some days I get verrrrrry impatient and I can't wait until I get to school to laminate. I can't wait to use it!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, I purchased this scanner back in May. I plan on using it along with the classroom organizer app/program from <a href="http://classroom.booksource.com/"><span style="color: lime;">Booksource</span></a>. I think this is going to be awesome. My hopes are that this increases accountability (I will know exactly what books each student has) and that it will help them remember where to return the books (you can type in locations for all of your books as you inventory them). You can also use an iphone or and ipad instead of the scanner. However, I will not let those 5th grade paws to touch my personal ipone/ipad. </span></div>
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<br />Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-75577636704987140742012-07-16T10:27:00.001-05:002012-07-16T10:27:25.665-05:00Bookshelf #2 - Monday Made It!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm linking up for my second Monday Made It at 4th Grade Frolics. I have pretty much completed my second classroom bookshelf. You might notice in the pictures below that there are a couple of spots at the top and bottom that need a little more white paint. I can't get to the bottom until we move this big boy out of our home office. Plus, you can hardly even notice it. And yes, I know I need to add one more dot at the bottom. I can't decide what color I want. I've been debating for a few days now. I'm leaning towards green. I made this one to sort of compliment my blue & green zebra bookshelf that I posted last week. I would love to just have a turquoise, lime and zebra themed classroom. However, I have way too many things that are all sorts of bright colors and I really can't afford to replace them. I definitely can't justify changing it just because of the color. So, I made this one so that it would match just about any other color that may be in my classroom. I just threw the colored baskets in there for fun. This bookshelf is typically full of books. I have approximately one million and one books! And these two bookshelves don't even come close to containing all of my books. I usually have about 6 bookshelves in my classroom. My new room is tiny and I gave away sooooooo much stuff at the end of this school year. I'm really hoping these two shelves will hold most of my books. I also have a couple of shorter shelf things that go along the white board. I'm thinking those will need to come in here pretty soon so I can beautify them as well! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm looking forward to my next project. I need to print things out, but my really nice laser printer died on me for the last time. I have decided to go back to inkjet. We had so many problems with the laser printer. I ordered a new printer from Amazon and I'm waiting until that sucker gets here before I get started. I saw a really cute idea to help organize my chapter books. Hopefully it will get here soon and I will be able to share my project with everyone for next week's Monday Made It!</span></div>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-24971264170242309042012-07-14T20:14:00.000-05:002012-07-14T20:14:22.189-05:00My Fabulous Finds!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided to link up with Fun in Room 4B for Fabulous Find Friday! Pretty much every one of my amazing treasures were inspired by several recent blog posts (sorry there isn't really anything new). I tried going to Target several different days to get the awesome clear communicator boards. My trips were a disaster because all of the bins in the dollar isle were empty. I tried multiple locations on several different days. :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because I am moving to a new school district this coming year I finally get to use <a href="http://hsosnik.scentsy.us/">Scentsy</a> warmers in my classroom. I immediately ordered the full size Zebra warmer for myself. I've also scoped out some pretty awesome scores from Dollar Tree, so I went to every store within 40 mile radius to get exactly what I wanted (I surely didn't NEED any of this). The blue and green rectangular containers might be good for books or journal storage. I also picked up 12 of the more square baskets with the circular cut outs. I have no idea what I will use these for. Also, I'm a little worried where all of these baskets will go in my tiny <strike>shoebox</strike> classroom. Those multicolored little things in that package are magnetic clips for the whiteboard. I am queen of clipping all sorts of things to my whiteboard. When I saw the small dust pans and mini brushes I thought they would be perfect to attach to each table group using one of those command hooks. These will come in handy this year because my new classroom does not have carpet. I'm super sad about this and it also leads me to my final purchase.... This super cute rug from <a href="http://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/control/rugs">this website</a> that only cost me $19.99. And when I say $19.99 I mean $19.99 exactly! NO SHIPPING AND NO TAX! I know, I probably should have told you to sit down before I laid that one on you. They have larger sizes. This one is about 3'x5' and I'm just hoping I will have that much space in my classroom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a trip to Ikea planned for sometime before school starts back. I've had my eye on a few items that I'm looking forward to sharing within the next few weeks! :)</span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-70762582843801093302012-07-09T15:19:00.000-05:002012-07-10T14:47:04.624-05:00Classroom Bookshelf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally completed classroom project #2. I have had several useful, yet hideous bookshelves in my classroom since I started teaching 5 years ago. They were given to me by my aunt. I was lucky enough to start teaching the year she retired. This year I will need them more than ever. I am very excited to be working in a new school that is much closer to my house. However, this room is about 1/3 the size of any classroom I have ever been in. Plus, I have always had a wall full of storage cabinets. The classrooms at my new school only have ONE cabinet in each room. Storage space is seriously lacking. I had to purge about 75% of my classroom materials just to get in the room. I am seriously worried about how everything will fit in this tiny <strike>closet</strike> classroom. Like I said earlier the shelves I have are plain and ugly. Revamping these shelves is at the top of my summer project list. This first shelf is where I store the majority of my chapter books (organized by author's last name). I decided to go ahead and paint it my favorite colors (turquoise, lime and zebra). I had my doubts about how it would turn out, but I really like it. The blue and green won't seem so bold once the books are in the shelves. I just used old pain that we had in the garage. Now to get started on my giant shelf!</span></div>
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<br />Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-79147757798480136272011-12-27T17:34:00.000-06:002011-12-27T17:34:31.457-06:00Hooded Towel<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, I finished up a hooded towel a few weeks ago and I just realized that I haven't shared it! This is actually a gift I made for one of my cousins to give to another cousin for his little girl's birthday (which was also last week). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here's how you can do it. I'm actually a little embarrassed to tell you how easy it is! All you need is a bath towel and a hand towel. If you want to add any embellishments you can used bias tape, rickrack, fabric, etc. All you need to do is cut the hand towel right down the middle. This will leave each square piece with three finished edges. Fold the towel in half like a rectangle. (Sorry I don't have any pics of this). You are going to want to trim the unfinished edge about an inch or two and then curve the corner. Then sew this up. Attach the sewn hand towel to the center of the bath towel. You can stop here or you can add embellishments. On the last towel I added fabric strips to the hood and some applique hearts to the towel. I usually embroider or applique the name. I know this may not make sense without the pictures. Maybe I will create some diagrams to help out...</span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-46281360859690789092011-12-25T07:17:00.000-06:002011-12-25T07:17:29.152-06:00Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Merry Christmas! Yay! One of my favorite days of the year. Yesterday was my other favorite day... my birthday! I turned 27 and boy was I glad. For months I thought I was turning 28. I felt like I got a year younger when I realized I was only going to be 27. I nearly had a nervous breakdown when I turned 25 because I was half way to 50. I am so freaked out about hitting the big 3-0! Yikes!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, that's not what I got on to talk about. I wanted to share some Christmas pictures with everyone. Here are a few of the decorations we had at our house this year:</span><br />
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</ul><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I just put the milk/semi-sweet chocolate on the foil & greased cookie sheet and stuck that in a 250 degree oven for about 5 minutes. When it came out i just spread it around in a large rectangle that just about covered my entire cookie sheet. Then, I sprinkled just a few peppermint pieces on top.While that was cooling I made a double boiler out of a medium sized pot and a metal bowl. I got the water hot and steamy, but NOT BOILING. I put the white chocolate chips in for about 5 minutes and I stirred just a few times. Near the end I added some peppermint oil. No, I did not measure it. I just eyeballed and waited until I could just barely smell it. I didn't want it to be too strong, but I definitely wanted to taste it. I took this melted white chocolate and spread it over the milk chocolate and added more peppermint pieces to the top. I placed mine in the fridge to chill. After it was completely hard I chopped it up into reasonable sized pieces. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After all of my sweets were done I sorted them and placed them in these cute little tins to hand out to our neighbors on our street. Yes, we do that kind of thing around here and I LOVE it! Our neighbor just brought over some homemade toffee last night and it was delish!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I let it dry for a few hours before I hung it up (just in case). And here it is now:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And before I go I want to give recognition to my little garage troll that kept us company as we worked on these projects. He isn't accustomed to visitors, so I was very grateful that the little demon didn't bite my arm off while I was in his domain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND, one more thing... This is the awesome paint I have been using to paint my crafts. I love the colors. I love the finish. I love the way it covers. Awesome. You can find it at Home Depot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have a few more things that I made as gifts that I am going to post after Christmas. I'm really excited about them. I think everything turned out super cute! I'm even going to the store tomorrow to pick up a few supplies to do some last minute gifts just because I'm feeling super crafty. I've been done with my gifts for a few weeks now, but I just can't stop. Thanks a lot Pinterest! </span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-39460643363600061162011-08-08T17:23:00.000-05:002011-08-08T17:23:15.317-05:00Pinterest... It's a love/hate relationship<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, I've had a <a href="http://pinterest.com/haleyrere/">Pinterest</a> account for a while now. But, I just recently became addicted. I can't stop pinning!!! I've mainly been obsessed with school related pins. It has really motivated me to get back into my classroom (this is very good because I have to go back to work this FRIDAY). I've found all sorts of amazing things I need to try out for this school year. However, I can't stop pinning to actually get things done!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3Qq9BdyDgLuHIFrgNxKPAnNtKOBV6pUYtXC0NhiLYTy70D6yR9-dpeGq_c89qp39QCN_Jn28659CheQlGIm8INsg60z6xAg_nu3ULF4dt1DtSlIPkq7g1IvnozCnlfUbe6gVIdGsRkU/s1600/cobb+cougars.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did find some time to try out this cute gift I am going to give to my team that was inspired by </span><a href="http://www.nothingbutcountry.com/2011/06/youre-the-star-of-our-gift-tag/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nothing But Country</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sJrVWkEgxF2G_D38We6e9K22JNMeTcuRY2GHI-dYk-dm3A8NYJYkuaFQE5jPgX0VuXnjAO_4gt57BnITDxMbEL9rABJ6ly2EFqEcmwlYfX7tcUPRcTMLVX9RRFw6YYnBVsUxtTFuzFc/s1600/starburst+cups.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="640px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sJrVWkEgxF2G_D38We6e9K22JNMeTcuRY2GHI-dYk-dm3A8NYJYkuaFQE5jPgX0VuXnjAO_4gt57BnITDxMbEL9rABJ6ly2EFqEcmwlYfX7tcUPRcTMLVX9RRFw6YYnBVsUxtTFuzFc/s640/starburst+cups.JPG" width="425px" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2P742PRZjTGyRwvL8ORGK0T5tR7JJJookaQsGpRz0I57fQTJADJ-gIZNtO2sifDvZHVWbPf1qvxffQ568KPVkuLcwpUv_0D_Bx_qi2GmKFzDvzjnk32KkTSXGWYrKcX6DDqo7pUZGen8/s1600/starburst+cups+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="426px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2P742PRZjTGyRwvL8ORGK0T5tR7JJJookaQsGpRz0I57fQTJADJ-gIZNtO2sifDvZHVWbPf1qvxffQ568KPVkuLcwpUv_0D_Bx_qi2GmKFzDvzjnk32KkTSXGWYrKcX6DDqo7pUZGen8/s640/starburst+cups+4.JPG" width="640px" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I made </span><a href="http://artmind-etcetera.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-make-scratch-off-lottery-tickets.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">these</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> awesome scratch off reward tickets using things I already had around the house!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hopefully I will get some work done in my classroom this week and I can show more of the projects I hope to do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 - 8oz pk softened cream cheese<br />
1/2 cup softened butter<br />
1 cup powdered sugar<br />
2 tablespoons brown sugar<br />
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract<br />
3/4 cup mini choc chips<br />
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts<br />
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Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in powdered sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and chill in the fridge for 2 hours. Shape it into a ball. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill for another hour. Roll the cheese ball in finely chopped nuts before serving. </span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-18732337776334654682011-08-05T10:06:00.000-05:002011-08-05T10:06:12.855-05:00Little Girl's Dress<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This past week I made what might have been the easiest garment ever! I just bought one of those cheap dollar patterns to make a dress for the same friend's little girl to wear on her first day of school next week. I had it done in no time. I even added some embellishments to make it super cute. It probably cost less than $5 to make and I still have material left over!</span><br />
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</div>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-71496239502109059792011-07-16T10:17:00.001-05:002011-07-16T10:23:30.797-05:008 Gallons of Paint<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I haven't had as much time to blog as I had originally planned. I've been very busy around the house. I spent 3 days and 8 gallons of paint to address an issue I've had with the color that has graced almost every wall downstairs. I affectionately call it "cardboard". Don't get me wrong it isn't a terrible color. I might even like it in certain situations. But, I felt like there was soooooo much of it and it really was such a dark color that it made our house feel very cave like. It was practically the same color as our floors. I decided that I wanted gray walls. I have a blue and green theme throughout the house and I thought gray would be a nice neutral.... After spending about a month seriously debating on the exact shade (not too dark but not too blue/purple or beige) I finally commited to Sharkey Gray and got 5 gallons of that crap! I later came to regret that decision. By the end of that day our house went from this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBzOX_9CkSy7ne77zcfpcphd1YmmNcs4gFMx8WgAgiQP_5SgmRa85akIuEp-kMdgQJJSc3BBM_q1PjyVpinntFukdYmJS8FUqjD7E5pvdRfy5JH66GCehf-myAznOY3UOiyPx1_ZgXWg/s320/IMG_4097.JPG" width="320px" /></div>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-11989300915298466642011-04-10T08:29:00.000-05:002011-04-10T08:29:44.622-05:00Lazy Much?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've had <strong>big</strong> plans to get some craftyness going around here.... But, it just hasn't happened and it really is not my fault. I have made about three dozen shirts within the last couple of weeks (in between all of my busy stuff for work). Today I might actually get some work done. Yesterday I accomplished nothing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, you may see it as nothing. But a trip to the farmer's market, lunch, and lounging <strong>in</strong> and by the pool all day was a lot for me! We finally got in our pool for the first time this year. It was cold and I ended up with a nasty sunburn. Here are a few pics from our day!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Z61WlLqVKhFioEZbCRpbB9IrI3FCCHh1vM9xDieuikZ6rmiyb4dRFF7tSFoSlutWQxcYbKEfuoxkQFDdDPZ3NrcPfwdIfLgBrZ0YXc2XnOAlVrkdPpgvoD3unlcd__SG4u7Yy2L7-4Q/s1600/IMG_2978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Z61WlLqVKhFioEZbCRpbB9IrI3FCCHh1vM9xDieuikZ6rmiyb4dRFF7tSFoSlutWQxcYbKEfuoxkQFDdDPZ3NrcPfwdIfLgBrZ0YXc2XnOAlVrkdPpgvoD3unlcd__SG4u7Yy2L7-4Q/s640/IMG_2978.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here you can get a look at how my room and hallway <strike>was</strike> is decorated. We worked soooo hard on this and used just about all of the butcher paper that the school had (and that is not an exaggeration). Therefore, it will be up until the last day of school. And we have a second round of camp before the science test at the end of this month.</span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-50083121358483907532011-03-18T15:44:00.000-05:002011-03-18T15:44:54.733-05:00We're getting closer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The turtle pen/pool bench is almost complete. And I'm pretty sure I love it now! It looks sooo much better with stain. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Plus, we rearranged the patio furniture and I pulled all of the cushions for the furniture out of the garage (they have been sitting on top of Brandon's old Volkswagen for months now) and scrubbed the crap out of them yesterday. And I do mean CRAP.... literally! We have a very nasty dog that lives in our garage. If you ever thought you wanted an English Bulldog you were WRONG.... and I mean seriously mistaken. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Anyway... Back to the new piece of furniture in our back yard. Here is a little sneak preview. It will be so much better when I get all the cushions in place and the plants start to fill in! We can not wait for SUMMER! It's going to be sooooo relaxing sitting out by the pool EVERYDAY! </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And when you look carefully inside the structure you can see some of our box turtle friends...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_cDf0j8NPp9ybwkOT_JhPmByQIlzT8Xbo78lNzLT3rRhhqA4GnrOD0y2VHi6JxkWQVmRiA6OmzOU9BAiG9mQfGjLyvu2hDC_f1iMkK92SEDXJ_uxPWER9SOgfjKP8-rMCuMH-UcRol0/s1600/tortuga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="436" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_cDf0j8NPp9ybwkOT_JhPmByQIlzT8Xbo78lNzLT3rRhhqA4GnrOD0y2VHi6JxkWQVmRiA6OmzOU9BAiG9mQfGjLyvu2hDC_f1iMkK92SEDXJ_uxPWER9SOgfjKP8-rMCuMH-UcRol0/s640/tortuga.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And because I previously mentioned the English Bulldog issue... Here is our little sweetness, Klaus. You see him and just want to grab his little cheeks. Until you start to approach him and he begins to growl. We've decided it's a bad breed. Don't let the pictures fool you!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I've got a Scentsy party tonight that I need to prepare for.... Tomorrow I have big plans to get some sewing done in the morning. Perhaps I might actually get some new shirts done. We shall see...</span></div>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-18828417515421404742011-03-17T21:26:00.001-05:002011-03-17T21:28:12.553-05:00Sew Busy!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well... It's almost the end of my spring break and I actually feel like I have started to accomplish a few things. Here are some of the awesome things Diddles and I have been doing around our house.... BTW, I think I love our house and our awesome neighborhood more and more everyday! It's okay if you are jealous... I mean, we have plenty of room for all of our hobbies, awesome places to walk and ride bikes, beautiful weather and everyone knows our names (and they always stop to say hi)!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, let's get back to the projects:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7g0Gw249vAgIJiE4v7bisdTsCdeGpRBgjhgmylPUcQIjOxsxNzac6lCtryDbd7StM7kQVGJu5IHpwebCYXnMUalfnTZq2ygOjaVEXIS-PCSu92UBPV_SEuDO0lWW-9hmpagMqLekC_I/s1600/IMG_2786.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7g0Gw249vAgIJiE4v7bisdTsCdeGpRBgjhgmylPUcQIjOxsxNzac6lCtryDbd7StM7kQVGJu5IHpwebCYXnMUalfnTZq2ygOjaVEXIS-PCSu92UBPV_SEuDO0lWW-9hmpagMqLekC_I/s320/IMG_2786.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this is a shirt I made a few weeks ago for our school nurse so she can support her daughter at basketball games.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCuQ_UniEeOteK6yYlnUsAS5Me1ZM6ODQ3Fn69g8ef-DAkJ-LjweieSg9sORDTIHUq4-6WTP6OpJwH7ZEgVAHh6cvWupEscYlnYMftSWlAf_ypI9wYPRnjrckPiUVU8wDKYd3trjbV5I/s1600/craft+rods1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCuQ_UniEeOteK6yYlnUsAS5Me1ZM6ODQ3Fn69g8ef-DAkJ-LjweieSg9sORDTIHUq4-6WTP6OpJwH7ZEgVAHh6cvWupEscYlnYMftSWlAf_ypI9wYPRnjrckPiUVU8wDKYd3trjbV5I/s320/craft+rods1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is one of the projects I am MOST excited about! I've been desperately trying to figure out a good way to store my ribbon. As I was sitting in the craft room yesterday I looked in the corner and saw some curtain rods that we used in our old house and no longer had a place to use them in the new house. It hit me... DUH! This would be the perfect way to store my ribbon. So, we put them up and added a couple of cafe rods below for wrapping paper. I am soooo in love with this! I also have a few other cafe rods set aside for a couple more rolls of paper. This uses up some of my blank wall space and it makes everything so much easier to access. Yay!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO98mFtcNRnGZxidUsTHoeoX4h4PF6PJNqQaDt_WKCRdx94h5EGqVyfOaRdoAGhqklZPjGnrk91CIYFHyKhMwC4VU5mPo_oQy5efqYXfJHC2NKXkPdpOIcm4rxfFytGaOW69iPyT3-Dk/s1600/turtle+pen1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO98mFtcNRnGZxidUsTHoeoX4h4PF6PJNqQaDt_WKCRdx94h5EGqVyfOaRdoAGhqklZPjGnrk91CIYFHyKhMwC4VU5mPo_oQy5efqYXfJHC2NKXkPdpOIcm4rxfFytGaOW69iPyT3-Dk/s320/turtle+pen1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is the beginning of our new turtle enclosure/pool side bench. Brandon and his awesomely talented dad finished the building process on Tuesday. Today we stained and added a few plants. The turtles should be living in luxury within the next day or two. This bench is HUGE! It may not look like it from this angle, but I'm sure 20 people could sit on it all a one time. I can't wait until the new plants start filling in.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjqXhOWSRdD8SbEKItmiWkoLF2chC4hPPuzPVrtHI-fdtW3YtjJcUkUgg1F4nEaUySIKtHWMd3NHkbVnoNXAz39nlst2qvxOIcYuZ-kI-LrwRydYh-JVjr24KTWDlK0NXiBgaE7uUDQo/s1600/vday+shirt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="213" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjqXhOWSRdD8SbEKItmiWkoLF2chC4hPPuzPVrtHI-fdtW3YtjJcUkUgg1F4nEaUySIKtHWMd3NHkbVnoNXAz39nlst2qvxOIcYuZ-kI-LrwRydYh-JVjr24KTWDlK0NXiBgaE7uUDQo/s320/vday+shirt.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And don't mind some of the ribbons got ironed funny.... That will easily be fixed with a little fluffing!</span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-85189123395503742762011-01-30T07:39:00.001-06:002011-01-30T07:39:56.044-06:00Not your momma's iron ons!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OMG! Have I told you that I am slowly becoming smarter than my <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Cricut</span>! I can't believe it's finally happening. I've actually made a few gifts and things for my house using the vinyl. And just this week was college week at school. AND we were able to wear jeans EVERYDAY as long as we had on a college shirt! **For those of you who don't know - Wearing jeans to work is a <strong>big deal</strong> for teachers!** Anyway, I graduated from college 4 years ago and my SFA spirit shirts are starting to look a little worn. So, I needed another shirt ASAP. And Diddles over here didn't have one at all (and he just graduated like a year ago). His only college shirt has now become mine b/c it is much too small for him. Anyway... Thanks to my handy dandy Cricut and some iron on vinyl I was able to whip up these babies in a matter of minutes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Yes, I know they are super plain. I was in a hurry and this was just my first experiment with the wonderful world of iron on vinyl. <em><span style="color: cyan;"> I looooooove it!</span></em></span>Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-13190898130517348492011-01-23T21:26:00.000-06:002011-01-23T21:26:38.975-06:00Scentsy News!Ok, I had little time to craft this weekend. I just needed to rest. However, I did find out some rather exciting news from Scentsy. Our new Spring/Summer catalog will be coming out soon with new scents and warmers. I can't wait!!!! That also means many of the scents and warmers will be discontinued to make room for the new products. So here is the discontinued list (make sure you stock up before March 1st):<br />
Scents - Guava Nectar, Sentimental Cider, Central Park Pralines, Christmas Cottage, Christmas Tree, Cozy Fireside, Eskimo Kiss, Gingersnap, Poinsettia Pine, Snowberry, Spiced Grapefruit, Winter Wonderland, Twilight, Vanilla Suede, Peligro, Rustic Lodge, Clarity, Rainforest, Pineapple Paradise, Tropical Twist, Cranberry Spice, Just Peachy Ginger, Pumpkin Roll, Toasted Caramel Sugar, Vanilla Walnut, Maple Butter, and Silver Bells.<br />
Warmers - Wild West, Love Life Hope, Blynken, Wynken, Merino, Give Thanks, Sparrow, Canary, Sendai and Prancer. <br />
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I'll post pics and descriptions of the new products as soon as I can! Now it's time to sleep... Another looooong work week awaits! :(Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06753471291442352532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680756507644752978.post-35497244675288472202011-01-17T14:54:00.000-06:002011-01-17T14:54:38.418-06:00Can We Have a Little Privacy???<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before I get started here are a few pics of what I've been doing lately. Keep in mind I have about 20 more where these came from. I've been VERY busy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway..... We LOVE our house. It has a place for everything. 3 guest bathrooms, giant master suite, gameroom (that we started transforming into a home gym), craft room, guest room, pool, 3 car garage, music room for the hubs and even an office to hide our computer and his books. I could go on. But, lets get back to this office. We never really considered having an office before, but this house had one and it was an extra feature that we really liked. Now this office is opens up right to our foyer/ dining room/ living room/ front door area. The office is covered in real wood paneling. It's quality stuff... just a little too formal for us. We may change it in the future. But, the even bigger issue is that the office houses our crappy computer desk that I drug back from college.... And right now the office has really become our dumping ground for all of the things that we aren't sure what to do with just yet. So, it really isn't something I want everyone to see as they walk into our house. So, Friday night I had the bright idea to do etching on the glass of the french doors. I sent Diddles out Saturday to get some stuff to spray on there. Needles to say it was slim pickin's. Right now we are on our 1 billionth coating and it still isnt quite where I want it to be. But, I know it will get there. The next thing on my list is to get the outside part of the door primed and painted white to match all of the trim in the rest of the house..... See what we've done so far:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbK7307mWoZ2pIOQfNgDVeo7GKvEzq0WD4YkAOOboEA_mYS1CUJdibbfwCBrP1Lc7MBWDy9iP-coNonPMJqsKC5gTU62hxriB-yRD_q2JxXbxCJOLkVwmCcopRlkVGDfnitTm9sF83KXY/s1600/doors+befre.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbK7307mWoZ2pIOQfNgDVeo7GKvEzq0WD4YkAOOboEA_mYS1CUJdibbfwCBrP1Lc7MBWDy9iP-coNonPMJqsKC5gTU62hxriB-yRD_q2JxXbxCJOLkVwmCcopRlkVGDfnitTm9sF83KXY/s320/doors+befre.JPG" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the beginning stages of taping everything off.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJM_2A67JFMi6MZXHmrkTKNQXes_fMLBapwQY2IXPjHLLRPzvnq1-tWBOtlrZ_hvUxNRC17iEtK8g2jcKtxq8LITWvksL3FzUfAO-k1BU0_zNTprzgjVhwbY0XMoKT5p45UnLStlW4Ns/s1600/doors+paper+during.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJM_2A67JFMi6MZXHmrkTKNQXes_fMLBapwQY2IXPjHLLRPzvnq1-tWBOtlrZ_hvUxNRC17iEtK8g2jcKtxq8LITWvksL3FzUfAO-k1BU0_zNTprzgjVhwbY0XMoKT5p45UnLStlW4Ns/s320/doors+paper+during.JPG" width="213" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here it is with about a can and a half on it.... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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