Five Fave Fridays

I swear I thought today would never come. What one long, sluggish, draggy sort of week. Yet in the midst of it all, I did manage to find some great things....so on with the show!



#1. Allrecipes.com- If I need a recipe the first place I head is...no not foodnetwork.com but allrecipes. User friendly, can find just about anything and everything there and I found 2 gems this week.
First up is the BEST blondies ever. So easy to make and oh so sweet and tasty!
Next is a great sugar cookie recipe. I am the Queen of Crappy Sugar Cookies, but this one turned out fantastic.
Check those recipes out next time you are in a cooking mood!

#2. the 2009 Dodge Challenger- I am in love with a car. My lil sis Ging can attest to this. She was in the car with me when I drove by and saw this gorgeous work of art at the car lot and about crashed. If only Santa loved me enough to have one of these wrapped up in the driveway on Christmas morning!



#3. Hashbrowns with sausage gravy- this is my favorite breakfast. I could eat it every day without tiring of it. I am not much of a breakfast type of person, but throw some sausage into the mix and I am all over it.



#4. Paper and Stitch blog- along the same lines as my other faves- scoutie girl, designmom and modish, Paper and Stitch highlights all kinds of cool handmade goods, has awesome give aways and is fun to spend a good half hour at! Check out each of these sites when you have a good spare hour to kill because ALL of them have GIGANTIC giveaways going on right now!



#5. Scrappy Fave of the Week-there is something to be said about a good vintage trim. I love lacy frilly trims. I just can't seem to get enough!

So that is is that for this week!
TOMORROW the Graphic 45 blog will be featuring the Bad Girls Design Team. This month the Bad Girls Kit was full of Graphic 45 shabby goodness. So stop on by and see all the wonderful things that both Bad Girls and Graphic 45 have to offer!

Now I have to go make myself pretty for the Alcan Christmas party. Wish me luck, cause I am going to need it tonight!

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway

Is going to be going on at Design Mom. If you don't already read the blog it is fantastic and she sure knows how to host a giveaway.
So mark your calendars for this Friday!
Check out more about the giveaway HERE!
And just take a peek around in general.
Happy Wednesday :)

Hey You Guys....

Just a little Goonies line for ya there.

Today I just have a few layouts to share.

Here is my lil monkey at the pumpkin patch. She picked out not one but 2 pumpkins. A big one to carve and one for a pet. And wouldn't you know that I NEVER took a picture of the pumpkin after it was carved?!?! I used a mix of Basic Grey and Amy Butler papers, Making Memories ribbon and journaling spots

This layout has pictures of my Gram when she was a young girl. I love how dolled up she is in these pics. I used Prima papers, flowers, recycled a bit of their packaging and their oh so gorgeous bling and combined it with Making Memories journaling spots and some Thickers letters.

This last layout makes me wish I was 25 again LOL. I found some lyrics from a Fleetwood Mac song called Songbird. I used papers from Prima, Creative Imaginations and Hambly. Added some Prima bling again and the Making Memories journaling spot that I can't seem to quit using. Added a few Prima flowers with Little Yellow Bicycle metal brad centers and some Making Memories ribbon and Heidi Swapp letters.

So that is all I have for now peeps. Have a good evening!

Monday, Monday

So this Monday wakes me to insane cold and fog outside. BRRRRR my tootsies, they are a-freezin'.

It also means I have some Bad Girls and Design X goods to share with you all.

This month at Bad Girls the December kit was filled with tons of Graphic45 and vintage goodies.

In keeping with the vintage theme, I used heritage photos in all of my layouts. Be looking for my article in the upcoming Bad Girls newsletter on using heritage photos!

I found this picture in a pile of OLD photos. My Mom estimates it was taken anywhere between 1890 and 1910 and on the back of the photo/postcard is a letter from one of my ancestors describing his hardships and inquiring about the whereabouts of one of his sisters. Pretty amazing really!

This layout has pictures of my Mom and Aunt on their new bikes. My mom said that her sister hated her bike but my mom remembers being so excited to have one.

This layout turned out to be my favorite that I did this month. I found an enormous amount of pictures of my Gram when she was younger. I couldn't believe how happy and light hearted she was in all of these pictures. Totally different Gram than the one I knew. I adored the beautiful Prima flowers in the kit this month. They are gorgeous!

Is that Bad Girls post card not the cutest thing or what. It is the little things like this that make BG kits so much fun. This layout was made in response to Wendy's challenge for the month of December.

For my project this month I made a Welcome to Our Home sign using Graphic 45 papers. I cut out the cute little city buildings and little car and used some Jenni Bowlin crepe ribbon for the trim of the roof.

At The Design Experiment, the challenge this week is to scrap the craziest thing that you have done. I have done more crazy things than I can think of but here is one of my crazier times!

A friend and I went to see a WWF match and ended up getting booted out of the stadium and she landed in jail for reasons I still do not know! Too much beer+ two wild and crazy girls=Crazy Ass Shit!

So that is it for scrappy stuff for today. Enjoy your Monday!

Five Fave Fridays Baby!!!

Ohhh dear 5 Fave Fridays, how I have missed thee. Heck I can't remember the last one I posted, and what better post than today my 100th blog post. I never thought I would make it this long. You know, being a serial blog killer and all...

So here it goes

#1. Anna Maria Horner and this crazy cute dress pattern: her blog has been such an inspiration to me the past few months. I find myself stopping over there daily just to see if she has posted any new yumminess and I am totally lusting over her new book!

#2. another dress but we gotta have some shoes thrown in as well. Anthropolgie- if I was only allowed to shop at one store for the rest of my life...this would be it. I totally want to rock this dress and these amazing shoes. Ohhh to dream!#3. I have a thing for scarves and my latest find on etsy has me drooling and no doubt you will too. I present to you FRAY and this scarf that I desperately wish I could make! Every scarf in her shop is a piece of art, without doubt. Check her out!#4. Brownie edges- John's birthday was a few days ago and he requested brownies. The funny thing is he doesn't like the edges and I ADORE the edges. So around here a brownie pan always has it's center missing while I take a week to eat all the edges and corners. How can you NOT like the edges?!?!

#5. Scrappy Fave of the Week-Jenni Bowlin crepe ribbon. Jenni just comes up with the most beautiful scrapbooking products. This ribbon is so versatile and fun to play with. I really want to get some of those cute journaling tags as well!

So it feels good to be back on the 5 Faves wagon again. Did you post today? if so hook me up ok! I would love to read some lists!

and I can't forget to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREE! My friend for 26 years now! Which just sounds crazy. Love ya!

I just had to come back here and say my kitchen literally cried when it saw these cuties!! It wants them, I just know it!

A couple of Christmas goodies

Well as Christmas is RAPIDLY approaching, I have been busy trying to finish up my shopping (only those last super hard people to shop for are left) and I have been making a few gifts as well. This is where teaching myself how to knit has come in rather handy ;)



I realized that I never posted my full project for the recent Bad Girls Christmas Workshop. I made a Holiday Recipe box. If you want to recreate this yourself, the full instructions are still up in the Bad Girls forum. You do have to be registered at the site to be able to view, but signing up is simple and fast.


I love the idea of recipe boxes. I have one that is stuffed full right now and I thought having a pretty decorative box to store favorite holiday cookies, candies and over all yummy goodness would be not only useful but decorative as well.

Paper Trunk's newsletter is up and running! The theme:homemade gifts. I made this little birdhouse ornament.

I bought this cute little bird house at Michael's for only 50 cents people! Go scour your local craft store for super cute ornaments. This whole project cost about a dollar and took about 15 minutes to make.

Tomorrow the December Bad Girls kit goes live so make sure to check back here or at the site to see what all Wendy has up her sleeve.

Til then,

Have a Happy Wednesday...it is Wednesday right?!?!

My poor abandoned blog.

So I think my blog is a bit depressed that I have been ignoring it lately! Poor Poor thing. Well now that Thanksgiving is out of the way there should be a bit more time to devote to this sad lil sucker and get back on track with the 5 Faves Friday!

First things first:

Thanks to Dena Simoneaux for giving me the I love your Blog Award and Your Blog is Fabulous award. She is such a sweet and talented person. Heck, she has to be, her name is Dena right?

Thanks to Audrey, who just celebrated a birthday, for sending me the Marie Antoinette "Real Person" award. I am having such a great time getting to know Audrey more and more each day.

And finally thanks to my girl Jeni for the Kreativ Blogger Award. If you haven't stopped by Jeni's blog before or checked out her work, please do. She is INSANELY creative and talented and funny on top of that! Triple threat people!

Although my blog is definitely not worthy of any of these accolades, I appreciate each person who stops by and takes the time to say hello!

Next up:

How about a peeky at the Bad Girls December kit!

This kit is definitely for those who love shabby chic!

Here is a fun project that I made for Webster's Pages that uses their magnetic Expressions board.

You can customize your own board, by choosing a size and background frame, your magnetic background and the kit accessory board to go with it. Oh and by the way, the backgrounds are double sided so you can reverse them as needed. To make this project, I simply picked up a few $1 items at Michael's and attached them to the board using repositionable adhesive or magnets. This way I can easily swap out my accessories after Christmas is over.

Well that is all for now, I know I am forgetting something..but ohhh well. I am sure it will come to me at 3 am! Have a fantastic Monday. I know that YOU all know just how much I loooove Mondays LOL