Thanks and Love

I've had a few creative moments lately thanks to Ms. K. I love this Valentine card, so I had to purchase the heart punches so I could play along. I {HEART} my new punches, now to find them a new home. :)









I loved playing with this color challenge from a few weeks ago.
My creative side loves this color combo and I had to make another card.

You can click on the pics for a closer look. :)

Lost 'Glass' Slippers

Ms. A received a Treasure Chest full of dress up clothes for Christmas. It has been her favorite present to play with. Every day her Cinderella dress comes out and she tries to wear it everywhere. Yes, Princesses go to Target, the library, friends' homes and sometimes, even WinCo.

The past week or so, she has added a new way to play. I will find one slipper mysteriously laying on the stairs, when questioned Princess A responds: "Cinderella lost her slipper on the stairs." When I asked who was going to pick it up, she responded, "My Prince." Then she flits over somewhere to continue her play. I love watching our little princess.

the lost slipper

Princess shoes

Smiling on the stairs

Another Trifle

After my great success, I decided to try another recipe out for my trifle bowl. Lemon Blueberry Trifle. We invited some friends over to share since there was so much to eat. We loved the company and enjoyed the yummy treat. It was delicious, not as sweet and rich as the Chocolate Raspberry Trifle, but still good. It felt like summer had entered our home. :)

Here's the final product.

Here's the directions revised but originally from Pampered Chef.

2 Lemons
1 Pound Cake, frozen for easier cutting

8 ounces of Sour Cream
8 ounces Whipped Topping, thawed and separated in half
1 1/2 cups milk
2 small packages of Instant Lemon Pudding

18 ounces fresh Blueberries, put 10 aside for garnish
2 ounces White chocolate, grated, I used Ghiradelli's

Zest one lemon, put zest aside. Squeeze juice from the zested lemon. Gently toss lemon juice in with cubed pound cake.

Mix sour cream, milk and half of the Whipped Topping, Lemon Zest together until well blended. Mix in pudding. Stir until it starts to thicken.

Add 1/4 to 1/2 of the grated White chocolate to the blueberries.

The layers are as follows:
1 Pound Cake with juice
Blueberries and Chocolate
Pudding mixture
Repeat two more times

Garnish with remaining whipped topping, blueberries and chocolate.

Kristina's 40th Color Challenge

Time for another fabulous Color Challenge by Ms. Kristina. I love her color challenges. This time around the colors are: More Mustard, So Saffron, Taken With Teal, Old Olive and Whisper White.

Stamps: Spring Solitude
Paper: So Saffron, Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Patterns Pack Designer Series Paper I
Ink: So Saffron Stamp Pad and Taken with Teal Marker
Misc: Horizontal Slot Punch, Love and Happiness Rub-on, Old Olive Twill Ribbon

Stamps: Priceless
Paper: So Saffron, Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Petals and Paisleys DSP, Patterns Pack Designer Series Paper I
Ink: Taken with Teal Marker
Misc: Scallop Punch, Paper Piercer and 1 3/8 Square Punch

Shaving Cream!!

I was speaking to my mom a few weeks ago looking for ideas to entertain a certain three-year old. She mentioned at the end of the school year, some teachers spread shaving cream over the desks and let the children play while they clean the desks. I thought what fun idea. When I saw a similar idea from a curriculum program we tried out, I thought I'd try it out. Well, tonight was our first attempt. I learned a couple of things:

- Explain first how it's not food (whipped topping, now that would be messy and sweet.)
- Loads of fun
- Cannot be contained to a cookie sheet
- Blue Food dye is cool
- Mommy makes a GREAT target! :)
- Aprons help a little
- Keeps a three-year old busy for 20 to 30 minutes :)
- One three year old can make quite a mess especially when she claps her hands full of cream :)

Overall it was a blast. She had even more fun washing her hands, face, hair, apron, cloths and cookie sheet.

Here are a few pictures and a short video.

It's Raining, It's Snowing

Our former paper shredder gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago and we welcomed this AMAZING new shredder into our family. It cross cuts paper and shreds credit cards or CDs. VERY COOL! It even has a sensor around the opening of the blades. If you touch it, the machine turns off. Makes me feel much better, but Ms A is still closely supervised by mommy. Whenever there is paper laying around our home, Ms. A and I race to the shredder. She'll giggle and dance as the paper enters the slot. She will also get down on her knees and declare "Mommy, I see the knives cutting the paper!" (with a HUGE grin.) She loves to watch the paper 'snow' down on her evergrowning mountain of paper. Thank heavens she hasn't figured out that she can empty that mountain on the floor. :)

FYI : If you need any paper shredded, let Ms. A know. :)