Yellow Makes Me Happy

Success

I went up to Sam's school yesterday to check out how the Market Fair project went.  Holy Macaroni!  They sold all 24 bottles of Wacky Wishing Water in the first 5 minutes of business.  Sam took my advice and only put 12 out, and then raised the price on the next batch because the first half sold so well.  The last two bottles sold for $200.00 and $250.00.  (True, it's fake money, but that was pretty awesome!)

 Makin' deals!

  He partnered up with his buddy who made little animals and lip gloss. 

It has become a yearly tradition for me to bake a pie for Sam's teacher.  I started doing this when he was in first grade and felt compelled to keep it going...

  Apple pie with crumb topping.  Charley was standing there while I was baking it last night and she said, "That smells good, can we make another one so I can have it for myself to smell?"  Funny girl!

There she is all packaged up.  Used one of the Turkey Day cards I made earlier in the week.  I think she liked it.

Happy Turkey Day everyone!

It has begun!

It is officially the busiest time of the year!  Tomorrow is Georgie's Thanksgiving feast at school I volunteered to bring cupcakes... 

Some turkey for you and some turkey for me...  Aren't they funny.  I got the idea from this.  It's the coolest book!

Edited the morning after baking: Do not make these cupcakes.  While they are cute, I woke this morning to every single one of them broken!  The frosting made the cookie I used for the tail feathers soft and they all broke!  On top of all that Georgie was up barfing all night!  What a day!

On top of all the Thanksgiving things I am doing this week, Sam had a book report due today (which he forgot at home and I had to take it to him!)  He also has Market Fair tomorrow.  Market Fair is a project where they each make a product and sell them at little booths in the cafeteria to learn about supply and demand, profit etc.  We made Wacky Wishing Water...

 We had little bottles that we sprinkled with a little silver spray paint, then we filled them with colored water, a little oil, sparkels and a couple of ball bearings to make noise when you shake it.

There's the little label, it says Wacky Wishing Water... Shake the bottle, make a wish and soon you will see the magic swish!  We'll see how it goes!

My last little treat for the day... I don't know if I mentioned this before, I gave up my craft room.  It was located in what was supposed to be the formal dining room in our house.  But we only have a family room, we don't have a bonus room or anything so when the kids have friends over or something, Zach and I have to hang out in the bedroom.  So, I moved all stuff into the laundry room and we are transforming the old craft room into a playroom for the babies!  I ordered a fold out couch for the new room & it came today. 

Isn't it cool?  The color is called Espresso.  It is so comfy!  The kids are super excited to sleep on the new fold out too!  I'll keep you posted on the progress of the room.  I was going to paint it, but I think I'm liking the yellow with the brown couch.  Who know? 

Bouncy Houses & cookin' up a storm!

Hello everyone!  Thursday night I took the kids to the Valley, our local atheletic club.  In the winter time I try to take them swimming Thursday evenings.  Every few months they inflate a bunch of bouncy houses in one of the gyms, so before we went swimming we jumped for an hour.  They had so much fun! 

I stuck my camera under the wall and took this... turned out pretty well...

The awesome Sam... helping G through the maze...

Sissy running from one bouncy to the next, and...

our cousin Avery playin' with G...  She loves them...  They were all so tired at the end!

Today I was a cooking fool... Besides making Mommy McMuffins for breakfast, I made Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie... It was tasty!

   My pie crust turned out really well today, too!  You should try this... It was really fun to make.

I also made BBQ Chicken pizza.  I made the crust that I used for my hamburger pockets.  I bought a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and shredded the chicken chopped up red onion, green peppers & green onions.  I used shredded fontina a fresh mozzarella.  I made my regular pizza sauce (tomato paste, tomato sauce, sugar, garlice salt, fresh basil & oragano) and added a little bbq sauce to it.  I also tossed the shredded chicken with a little bbq sauce. 

Oh... It was so good.  I REALLY enjoyed it!  If you try it, let me know what you think!

Hoop Shooter!

Today was the local Elks club sponsored free throw shoot-off contest at school.  Sam was the very last guy to shoot out of over 20 boys.  He was calm, waited his turn, got up to the line and took care of business!

There he is tying his new sneaks that he got yesterday (basketball practice starts Saturday!). 

  ...visiting with with his homeboys...

He got right up to the line, got into a rhythm and made 5 buckets.  He came in 3rd place overall.  I'll tell you what though, he was cool as a cucumber and if the ball had dropped the way it should've, he would've won!  I was so proud of him!!

I know you can't really tell what's going on in this picture, but there is Sam on the far right chatting with some girls!  WHAT?  I'm not ready for any of that.

I wish I had gotten some pictures of him shooting, but they came by and told me no flash photography!  I took a few anyway :) 

Oh Martha...

Why am I continually sucked into everything Martha Stewart has to offer?  It's true that her craft stuff put out by EK Success is awesome.  However, her magazine always seems to be repeats from past issues or stuff so complicated that I wouldn't even try.  Yet everytime there is a new issue up by the checkstand I reach for it with joy!

  There she is...  I was suprised by this issue.  There were actually a lot of things that I really liked!  Things I am really going to try...  I let you know who they will turn out!

I also made another little card today.  We are making some cards at my Wednesday women's bible study that I go to while the kids are at AWANA.  The cards are going to be given to ladies that are "shut ins" but like to communicate through mail.  While I am not an A Muse instructor, I made A Muse card designs to teach these women!  Cool, huh?

I tried to take a better picture of this because I used my new Scor-Pal and there is a score line above and below the vintage paper.  I like it!  Images and paper by A Muse...

Quickie...

Not like that :)... Just kidding!  It was an unexpectedly busy day today.  I didn't even get a shower until 3:30 and I worked out today, so I am sure I was really stinky!  You were dying to know that right? ha ha ha!  Anyway I made a tag for Heather's spark this week.  So I'll post that, and then you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see more antics from my kids or something I've cooked... or maybe a Christmas project I've been working on!

 What do you think of my little leaves?  They are from a Fiskars punch...  ooo and now looking at this picture I meant to put some brads on those tires... I am tired tonight, so I will do it later.  Everything is from A Muse except the ribbon, and that is from May arts I believe.

TTFN 

I made something new!

I have never made homemade doughnuts before, but I tried it out this morning.  They were pretty darn good!  I used my new measuring cups...

But guess what?  They don't work... They are too big for either liquid or dry.  I had to dump my batter out and start again!  They are cute though...

There they are, sizzling in the peanut oil! (Peanut oil has a really high smoke point=good for frying)

The finished product.  I glazed some with a chocolate glaze and sprinkles, and some with cinnamon and sugar.  I used this recipe.  It was really easy.

I also whipped up a little card for Tracy's sketch challenge this week.  I'm getting inspired by my stamps again!

    Images and paper by  A Muse.  Ribbon? Pumpkin brads from Impress.  Prisma color markers.  

I hope you all have a good week!

A Trophy and some Craftiness... finally

We had our Awana Pinewood Derby today.  Zach spent the last week building a car for Sam and one for Charley.  Sam's was so cool... Different than any other car there, but people just didn't see the vision.

Sam's is the one with the blue head lights.  Zach cut the car in half and then stuck it together with metal posts.  It was so unique.

There's the little cutie right there waiting for his car!  They offer a prize for design and speed... Sam didn't win either prize this year, but he sure did have fun!

Here is my little Yellow and her car...

  Her car was a little strawberry... Ironic since she is allergic to them.  I had to leave a little early from the race for an appointment (eyebrow wax) and when I got home she was waiting with a glow you could see a mile away...

She won a trophy!  She didn't care that it was 2nd place, just that she won!  She got 2nd place for design.  She was beside herself!  Yeah for my girl!

So, this afternoon, I had a few moments and an urge... to use my stamps!

Don't know who I'll give it to, but It was fun to make!I love that ribbon... I think I got it at Impress.  The images and paper are from A Muse.  Ink is Versa Fine Onyx Black, I used some Fiskars & my Prisma color markers.

Then I made this one...

  I made this for my friends birthday to go with this.  Pretty cute.  The images are from the new A Muse cupcake builder set.  Those are also A Muse Twinkle stickers.  The paper is Duplex... Ink is Versa Fine Onyx black, Copic markers in this one and a little bit of Glossy Accents dimessional glue on the cherry.  It really stands out if you can see it right.  Oh yeah, and I put some Martha Stewart glitter on the "icing"...  

Have an awesome Saturday everyone!   

 

You are never gonna believe this!

My adventure started out by meeting my mom half way between my house and hers to drop off my kids...

Then, I left for Redmond to meet up with Zach... I made a pit stop at one of my favorite stores The Common Folk Company.

 Not a very good picture... Sorry about the reflection.  Here are a couple of my finds.

Little, vintage 1960's elves...

  and a handpainted one of kind original Santa.

Then I drove over the 520 bridge (yeah I took this picture while I was driving... shame on me!)

Next we got cleaned up and went here...

The EMP (Experience Music Project) in Seattle.  We were there for Zach's 10 year service party for work.  (I think he was the youngest 10 year employee there!)  On the invitation to the party it said there would be a "Renowned, Suprise band from Seattle".  It turned out to be the Presidents of the United States of America.  It was so COOL!

Yeah, that's me in the red coat with my friend Lori (her husband was also a 10 year guy) leaning against the stage while Chris Ballew, the lead singer, was like 2 feet behind us.  Can you believe it?

They sang all the classics (Peaches, Lump, Some Postman).  They came into the odience afterword and talked to people and were so nice.  They sound exactly the same in concert as they do on their CD (everyone got a copy of their greatest hits on the way out the door).  Zach got the guitarist's pick and  one of the drummers drum sticks (both Chris Ballew and the drummer, Jason Finn, autographed it).  It was an amazing night!

Not to be overshadowed by the party, I would like to say congrats to Zach.  Congrats on 10 years my man!  Thanks for all you do for us!

Dirty Dave's

If you don't live in Olympia, you probably think I am refering to my husband's disgusting friends house, but I'm not.  It's our favorite local pizza place.  It's been around FOREVER!  In fact when I was little my mom used to waitress there part time.  It is a dive... It's got all kinds of posters and old license plates on the walls.  It's really eclectic.

It's got one of those rockin' candy claw machines...  There's Georgie trying to scoop out her reward.

There is their trail of prizes...  Nothing like some stale candy and plastic garbage to entertain your children.

The best part...

Thin, crispy crust, pepperoni cooked just so the edges are crunchy...  So darn good I tell ya!  Nothing like a local favorite!