We survived!

Yup, we survived Danielle's 18th birthday.  I still can not imagine that I have an 18 year old child.  It seems I was just taking her to kindergarten.  The time really does fly by ~ you have to cherish it.

I just wanted to show you a couple pictures of her day yesterday.  She had over a few friends and it was a nice afternoon that lasted until the evening...

All she wanted was an iphone for her birthday.  That's all I've heard for weeks.  I told her that I was not getting her one because we've bought enough phones and that was it.  Well, me being the evil mommy that I am...

I wrapped her presents last Monday and set them out in the living room.  After all, we wrap Christmas gifts and display them under the tree for a month, don't we??  But see the packages of walnuts on the table?  I took a big mailing box from the post office and wrapped her phone up.  Then I put it in the big mailing box with the walnuts to add the weight.  I took empty wrapping paper rolls and wedged them into the box so the phone would not slide around.  The box was a little heavy too.  She never suspected a phone.  As a matter of fact she "knew" for sure that it was not a phone...  he he he.....  I know, evil I am Ü

Then after they all wanted to play Twister.  When her boyfriend asked her what she wanted she told him that this is all she wanted was the Twister game.  So there was 5 of them in the living room playing Twister.  It was hilarious to watch.  She asked us if we wanted to play and I told her that if us "old folks" played we'd probably end up in traction for a week!

That's behind us now.  She is legal.  She can now vote.  She can now buy lottery tickets.  Now I can officially show my grey!

I hope to get some crafting done today ~ so after a (quick) walk with the dog I'm off to the craft room.  It looks like it's going to rain soon - thus the quick walk.

Have a super great day!!

Shhh... Danielle's birthday card...

I think that I'm safe ~ Danielle really does not look at my blog.  I guess it's not "cool" enough.  So I want to share with you the card that I made for her.  Ricky's birthday is next month and I was going to make this card for him - but that was too many candles to cut out Ü so I thought that I'd do it for Danielle.

I knew what I wanted to do with the candles, and I thought that I'd have to cut them all out on my own ~ but then I pulled out my Cricut cartridges and I found something that would work for a candle base.  It was on the George and Basic Shapes Cartridge.  Then I needed something for the candle flame.  I used one of the leaves on the Walk in my Garden cartridge, it was perfect!  Now for the cake.  I had no idea.  I really thought that the cake was going to look kinda funky - what would I use??

So my book for Walk in my Garden was kinda tossed over to the right of my desk and I looked and I found it!!  I knew what I was going to use.  Can you guess??  It is actually 2 flower pots from Walk in my Garden.  The bottom is the full flower pot cut out of Chocolate Chip card stock at 4".  The top layer is a flower pot cut out at 3".  Then I cut some daises on the border setting for the "piping" on the cake.  I was so happy that the cake turned out.  I so hope that she likes it!! 

The best part of it was I used up a lot of scraps that I had laying around!

That's all I that I have for you today.  We've got some storms coming so I think that I'll shut the computer down for a while.  I hope that you have a super great afternoon!

Sorry, I've been away....

I'm so sorry everyone, I've been away. Last week was hell week and I am so glad that it is over. Last night I just sat there saying how nice it was to be over, feeling more like a wet noodle than anything.

Doctors appointments, ortho appointments, Mothers day, company from out of town, brithday party planning, SUPRISE birthday party planning..... It's over!!! Then this morning I work up to get hubby off to work and he had to call in. He's had the worst tooth ache and we had to take him to the dentist. My DD is not feeling well and she's not at school today ~ I had a vision of last week all over again! But now everyone is resting, the birds are outside chirping and I'm posting! Ahhh, life's good.


I thought first of all I would share with you pictures of my DD and her "parties".

This was a picture of the get together we had at home on Friday evening. Just family and her BFF Alicia. They wanted to make tie dye shirts to wear. Alicia's birthday is exactly one month later so they thought they'd make shirts. They were a little disappointed when the shirts had too much white on them. I read the directions and did what it said, but I've not made a shirt like that since the 1st grade!!!

Yes, the hat.... When I first moved out here I went to the party store and bought a necklace that had beads and said "It's my Birthday". I make everyone wear it on their day. Well, last year on my birthday someone popped out with this hat. I could not find the necklace so the hat had to be worn. I had to wear it in public, Danielle was lucky!!

Then Satuday night we rented the party room at the bowling alley. They end up there every Saturday anyway. So Alicia and I made the invites and passed them out. We were hoping for a better turn out but the first truck pull of the season started and a lot of people went to that. But that's fine, we had a good time. My BIL was the DJ for the evening. Danielle and him spend time together a lot. He's like a big kid himself and they like the same music so I knew that he'd be a hit! He even dressed the part!

She had a lot of fun, and that's all that matters. Yes, she turned 16, but no car yet! That's something that I'd like to put off as long as I can. It scares me how many accidents happen. So many lives lost. And working in body shops for many years I see what can happen to a vehicle. I know I need to trust her, but it's not her. When I got my licence (I waited til I turned 18) my Father told me to drive defensively. That's what you have to do. And no, I'm not trying to hold on to her as long as I can. Ok, maybe just a little bit.... but I just want her to be safe.

Well yesterday afternoon I made a few thank you cards for Danielle to hand out. I thought she was going to school today, but nope. She's caught some type of bug. But at least the cards were made. That's something that I've always taught her too! You need to send some type of thank you, it's only polite. She could of made her own, but that would of taken MY fun away :)

One of her favorite color combos is pink and anything. Pink and brown, pink and black. Pink, pink pink!So I chose pink and black for this card. It was pretty quick and easy.

The base card is Basic Black. I layered it with DP from the Uptown Girl collection and a length of black grosgrain ribbon. All the stamps used were from the Gift With Purchase stamps from theangelcompany™. I stamped the swirl flourish with Pink Passion ink. I then took my scallop punch and punched a circle from the same collection cs. I stamped the "T" in black ink and punched that out with my 1 3/8" circle punch. I stamped the "T" again with Pink Passion ink on white paper and cut out the word "thanks" and adhered that over the other stamped in black.

For the inside I took a piece of white cs and stamped the swirl inside with Pink Passion ink and glued that down. Now she has a clear piece of cs to write on.

Well, that was not very much creativity for today ~ sorry. But I will get back on track in the net few days!

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share our lives with you!