Flip flops

I bought these at AC Moore for $1.00 and DECORATEDDDDD. How cute are these!!!?!?!

Yay for Babies!!

Earlier this month my bestest friend found out she was pregnant! YAYYYYYYYY

Congrats Amanda and Kevin!!!!!!

Sadly, my Amanda moved to NC. I live in NJ. I miss her dearly, but that won't stop me from making this baby everything under the sun!!! So naturally, I've been crafting away. 

I started with water colors of baby animals I thought would look adorable in any babies room. Then I found frames at AC Moore (I was gonna make em myself but they were on sale so I went for it!)

How cute will these looks in a nursery?!?

Before framing

After framing

words got cut off but still cute

Who doesn't like to color?

Some of you may know I work at an extended day program in the mornings before school. The kids there eat breakfast, play games, do crafts, and color. Well, it can get boring because half of the time the kids are still half asleep. So many times I'll plop down next to them and start drawing. One day a student asked if they could color in my drawing. Then another, then another. Before i knew it I was making coloring sheets on the daily. It started with one or two, and now I'm up to about 30. I even started making licensed characters (shhhh dont turn me in to the officials). I eventually got so many I binded them up and created my own personal coloring book. Here are just a few pictures of the pages (30+ would totally overload this post). If you have any requests let me know, I love to draw when I'm bored, and I'd be happy to send it to you.

P.S.- I forgot to mention that people liked these coloring sheets and they are now being used throughout the entire school (for rainy day recess days) and even at some of the teacher's children's birthday parties! HOW EXCITING!

Alien

Squirrel

Cheshire Cat and the Rabbit

Bowser (The kids loveee Mario Bro. I did the whole crew!)

Forever and a Day

So I havent died. I'm alive and well and well, lazy. I have been doing things but the process of uploading them just seems so time consuming. So, like always I did a bunch of stuff and now I'll post like 45678 entries to document it all. You'll see, it was worth the wait.


I'll start with something simple and pretty and happy.

One of my great friends got ENGAGED TODAY!

I'm so excited for her. CONGRATS BRITTANY!!!

So naturally, being a good friend I got her a gift. Something small and dinky, BUT Oh does it look elegant. Pretty paper and a BIG cream colored bow just made this simple gift look awesome. 

So to start my 90 entry rant, a beautiful, simple project- a wrapped gift.

 

For Japan....

As you all know Japan is going through a terrible time. Between natural disasters and nuclear reactors their homes have been lost, families have gone missing, and the devastation is unimaginable. The fabulous people over at Ever Ours and Utterly Engaged are stepping up in the blogging world to help out. They have organized this:

They have organized a day of silence within the blogging community and also they are collecting funds to donate to Shelterbox in order to help those in Japan. 

So head on over to their sites for more information or to donate. They are really doing a great thing.

Kudos Ladies!

Not craft related entry

Lately Ive been obsessed with eye shadow. Crazy, cool, colorful eye shadow. So I went online and ordered a palette of 120 eye shadows. I got it today and am SOOOO excited I just had to show it off!

blues and greens

purples and pinks

whole thing

cracked in the mail.. BOOO

another crack. STUPID SHIPPING! At least the shadows weren't cracked

 

Finished the Dresser!

If you remember the dresser I decided to finish even though it was being a pooper, I kept my word! I actually liked the way it turned out. It was cute. And that annoying, uncooperative top, ended up being my favorite part. Here are pictures!

Finished top after hand painting.

close up of details

front

owl

blue bird

The whole dresser