Getting ready for Christmas

I saw this little craft in a magazine recently. I thought it would be perfect for the kids at church. Ok, one craft down...how many to go?

Jazzy Paper Challenge #15

I think you will love the challenge over at Jazzy Paper this week. Check it out!

My inspiration was Cassandra Wilson's Silver Pony.

Great Breast Cancer Awareness Printables

I just stumbled upon these great printables for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They will be perfect for my Hooping for the Ta-Tas party on Saturday.

Hooping Good Time

I know I have left this blog abandoned for quite some time. I have had so many irons in the fire lately. I must however share my new love with you...HOOPING. Check me out.

Jazzy Challenges

Hello all,

Tenia and the rest of the team did a great job on the last challenge. Check it out.

Birthday celebrations are finally over

The Kid celebrated his birthday for over a week. He started with the baseball party at a local batting cage, then a day on the town with a friend, next the GA Aquarium, World of Coke, and Braves game. He even got to run the bases at Turner Field. I think he had a great time.

Jazzy Paper Design Challenge 11

Hello all,

Tenia has a great sketch for you this week. I foresee many interpretations on this one. Have fun. I know I did.

Baseball Birthday Invitations

The Kid's birthday is just around the corner. It will be at a local baseball training center. The boys will enjoy time in the cages and on the field with a baseball coach. I still have so much to do for this shindig. Wish me luck.

4th of July Tablescape

I had a great 4th of July with the fam. It was a very low key day at home with amazingly nice weather for July in Alabama. Even though it was just a simple day at home, I couldn't resist the urge to set a festive table for us.

Feeling Jazzy

Hello all,

I hope you are feeling jazzy. The ladies at Jazzy Paper Designs have yet again created some fabulous projects. This week, a member of the DT, Betty, is sponsoring. You will love her images. Come on. Join in on the fun.

Hello Blog

Hello blog,
It's me, Tina. Perhaps I am dating myself, but does that greeting remind you of anything? "Dear God, it's me, Margaret." Who remembers that? Anyway...
I'm not lost or dead. I have just being super busy with work, a trip to D.C., and Vacation Bible School...all while while nursing a bad neck. Here are a couple of pix to show how I've been spending my time.

Jazzy Challenge

It's time to head over to Jazzy Paper Designs for this week's challenge. The colors this week are absolutely fabulous...turquoise, yellow, black, and white. You will love what the DT came up with. Check it out and play along. You could win a pretty cool prize.

Music, Music, Music

It's that time again...time for a jazzy challenge over on Jazzy Paper Designs. The ladies have created some truly beautiful cards. Head over and check them out.

Long Time No Blog...Again

It has been a very long time since I actually posted anything. Life has been so busy. I've done several projects during this time, but I actually don't have pictures of the things that I was most excited about. I did the dessert table at our church Easter Egg Hunt. I loved it....pastel marshmallow pops, M&M station, cookies, lollipop bouquet, and a deliciously sweet spring punch. I was so busy with everything that I got no pictures. I can't believe it! This week I created a lunch box for my office assistant with an assortment of gift cards to area restaurants. I think it turned out quite cute, but again I have no pictures.

Well here are a couple of pictures of the cards that I have done.

Hello Springtime

When I saw the colors for this week's challenge at Jazz Paper Designs, I immediately thought of Spring. Perhaps, it is because I have been off this week with the Kid for Spring Break, and my tulips are breaking ground. I can't wait to see how they turn out. This is my first time planting tulip bulbs.

Anyway, be sure to check out this week's challenge.

The Easter Bunny is Coming

Getting ready for Easter, I made this shutter card. I'm not sure where I fold the instructions on how to do it...probably Splitcoast Stampers. I definitely found instructions for the acetate box there. The boxes will be perfect for Easter treats for my work peeps.

Communion Gift Bags

First Communion is fastly approaching. I'm using the first part of Spring vacation to get some crafting done. While I am sure I could have found a similar bag on one of the Cricut carts, there is something very satisfying about cutting stuff out yourself. I found the tutorial for this on Splitcoast Stampers. I have no idea what I will put in these bags...perhaps the rosary kit from Oriental Trading.

Time for a Jazzy Challenge

Hello all, it's that time again. Time for another challenge at Jazzy Paper. Join us for your chance at a really cool prize.

CCAYR

I wish I were keeping up with Christmas Cards All Year Round. I would have 10 cards put away for Christmas by now. Oh well, perhaps I will catch up with things soon. There just aren't enough hours in the day or days in the week. CCAYR has an interesting challenge for March. Use mostly green and a snowman on your card. Check out what the CCAYR designers have done.

Easter Tablescape

Lately I have been very interested in party/tablescape blogs. Over on Maddycakes Muse, there is an Easter Tablescape/Spring Party contest. There are some seriously talented people out there doing parties and table design. They gave me the inspiration to give it a shot.

For my Easter tablescape, I used a Battenburg tablecloth that I got from mom. That tablecloth must be at least 15 (maybe 20) years old. Each place setting consists of a gold charger (also very old), blue plates from the Dollar Tree, multicolor dishes from Target, and pastel egg holders (Home Goods) with glittered foam eggs (Joann's). For the centerpiece, I have used three grass slabs from Hobby Lobby with ceramic eggs (also Hobby Lobby), more foam eggs and a large blue craft egg (Michael's).

I have also started planning the dessert buffet. Of course, these samples won't see Easter. At least I have some idea of what I will have.

I had a lot of fun with my first attempt at a tablescape design contest. Thanks to Maddycakes for the inspiration.

Call Me, Lady Luck (or maybe Lucky Lady)

A couple of girlfriends and I started a poker group back in the Spring. We played last night. Yours truly was the night's winner of the New Orleans themed gift bag with some Zatarain goodies. YAY!

Well, the next one is on me. I have already started planning for it. Here are pictures of the invites, snack boxes, cupcake holders and picks that I have been working on.

It's Carnival Time

Down in New Orleans

Where the blues was born

It takes a cool cat

To blow a horn

On LaSalle and Rampart Street

The combo's there with a mambo beat

The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo

Party Gras, pambo, mambo, mambo

Mardi Gras, mambo-ooh

Down in New Orleans

Lyrics to Mardi Gras Mambo

I found inspiration for this Mardi Gras card from Tenia Nelson. She did a spring card on her blog earlier this week. I loved it and found this tutorial on making spring cards.

I'm taking King Cake to work on Tuesday. I made these toppers to go on the slices.

So Sweet

It's that time again...time for another sweet jazzy challenge over on Jazzy Paper Designs. Join in on the fun. Get your projects in soon for a chance to win a super cool prize.

The Saints Marched Home as Super Bowl Champions

I'm still on my Saints high. I wish I had been in Miami at the game, but I wasn't unfortunately. I did have my fellow Who Dat friends over for game. When we weren't cheering on the Saints, we were stuffing our faces. We had Martha Stewart inspired Nacho Supremo with charred tomatillo salsa and black bean and tomato salsa...delicious, Po Boy sliders, and King Cake among other things.

Back to the game, those guys played hard and finished strong. Thanks Saints for bringing the win home for the Who Dat Nation.

Feeling Crafty

Ok, there are so many things coming up...Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, Saints in the Super Bowl, and birthdays. I have done a couple of projects to celebrate these things. The birthday card is for a friend who made a pretty generous pledge for the Kid's Fun Run. The mini pizza box (tutorial on Split Coast Stampers) will be used to house a little Vday gift for the Kid's teacher. Finally the Mardi Gras card is just because I'm a girl who loves NOLA. Oh yeah, did I say, "Who Dat?"

Looking for Candy

Looking for some great candy? Then, you must check out Samantha's blog.

Wine Tag

My Pink Stamper has been doing challenges all weekend. I've been goofing around too much today to craft very much, but I did finally do the MPS tag challenge. It's just a quick and simple wine tag. Will I keep it for myself or give it as a part of the hostess gift for my friend, Stephanie? Decisions...decisions.

First Reconciliation

The Kid is growing up. Last month, he had his first reconciliation with Fr. Oberg. I am so proud of him.

Who's feeling jazzy?

It's that time...time for another challenge over on Jazzy Paper Designs. Tenia will be giving away something really cool. So get your projects in.

For this week's challenge, I have done another V-day card. I have really been feeling the Valentine spirit. Go figure.

Princess Natalie

My BFF's little girl recently turned three. I helped with her princess party, starting with these save the date cards.

The actual invitations were printed on parchment paper and rolled as scrolls for a royal effect.

The party was held at the neighborhood clubhouse (aka Castle). Guests were greeted with the Princess Natalie Crest made of foam board. The castle on the crest was made from the Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge. Also greeting our little friends was a garden frog from my yard adorned with a crown.

Upon entering, guests were encouraged to decorate crowns to ensure that every little one felt like a prince or princess for the day. (Notice I said encouraged. Getting 3 year olds to do things can be like herding cats. I have "re"found respect for the preschool teacher.) Afterwards, we photographed the willing tots with the life-size Princess Tiana.

Other party activities included Kiss the Frog, musical lily pads, and cookie decorating.

Most of the kids were drawn to the castle. The castle was very easy to make. The most difficult thing was getting the box. After many calls to local appliance stores and being told either "We haven't unboxed anything recently" or "We just broke down our boxes," I took a chance and stopped by a local retail chain around 6:30 one morning and made the score...a super big refrigerator box. I cut out a couple of windows and a door and the painted the box blue and sponged over the blue with purple to mimic stones/bricks. The castle was definitely the highlight of the party. I think fun was had by all.