JUGS #61 Holiday 3D Embellishment Challenge

Little late, but it's still Saturday. I've had some rather BIG computer problems at my house. My main computer is infected with a virus so it is in the shop for the next 10 days or so. Ethan has a laptop so I finally got that up and all hooked up so I could do some things on the computer. I'm very limited to editing programs so I actually edited my picture in "Paint". Here is my take on Kristin's 3D Holiday Embellishment Challenge for JUGS!

I added an ornament to a card for one of Ava's teachers as their Christmas gift. One card down, one more to make!

I've updated my house website too so you can see pictures of the progress. http://www.weimanhomesweethome.blogspot.com/

Hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend!

Start Each Day With WHEE!

I just love this stamp that my Mom got me, Start Each Day with Whee from Pure Innocence for My Favorite Things. Just makes you think of having fun as a little kid. This is a birthday card for a blogging friend of mine, Lynn. Hope she likes it!

I had another long evening last night doing some scrapbooking with my sister-in-law. I was organizing pictures and she was working on layouts for me. It's SOOO nice to have help! My goal is to do a little each day, even if it is only sorting through pictures or working on one layout.

Hope everyone has a wonderful "short" week! Happy Thanksgiving!

JUGS 60 - Color Challenge

Lisa came up with these fabulous colors for this week's JUGS challenge. JUGS now has over 700 followers and as a thank you we are giving away a gift to one lucky participant. We have a JustRite stamp set and a Spellbinders Impressability to offer up. So why not play along this week! Here's "my creation" for JUGS this week!

I;ve been very busy doing something for myself this week. I'm trying to get my scrapbooks caught up. My sister-in-law has offered her help so the other night we were up until past 1:00 in the morning working on my books. I could barely pull myself out of bed at 7:00 the next morning! I got very far behind with everything like that when Ethan got sick in July of 2007. I obviously put all of that on the backburner, but now I'm ready to dive in and get everything back in order and what a task it is. I'm determined though to get it finished. Wish me luck. Be sure to stop over and see the other girls creations at JUGS!

Happy 1st Birthday Kale!

Here is Kale with his "smash" cake!
This was Kale's birthday invitation. I copied off of a friend of mine....Thanks Jenny! They were so simple, yet so cute! Here's a look at the inside!

Here's the whole table, cowboy napkins too!

Instead of a big cake, my sister-in-law made her famous pettifor cakes!

< /a> Here is Kale's birthday card from Mommy and Daddy
Here is the famous banner that I made for Ethan's 4th birthday that hangs proudly in Kale's room. When Ethan saw this hanging he told our good family friend, Brick, that it said "Happy Birthday Ethan!"

The table decorated with pictures of Kale, his card, and his cakes.

Kale is showing off on his new rocking horse!

Let's just pick up the whole cake!

His new rocking horse from Mommy and Daddy.

This is the winning present! Kale loves this new ride-0n-train. It makes noise and blows balls out of the top!

Ava loves to push him around the house on his new ride-on-train!

Kale had a great birthday! He got a TON of new toys and clothes! Daddy just needs to finish up on the house so we have room for them all!

Here is Ava in her cowgirl attire!

Just Us Girls #58 - Sketch Challenge

First I have to start off by sharing my kiddos from Halloween! If this doesn't make you smile then you should probably go back to bed :-) I got a costume magazine in the mail and saw this donkey costume from Shrek and just had to have it. I have titled this picture

"My Princess and Little Ass"! Ethan would have loved this costume for sure!

Now on to "business". Pam has a wonderful sketch for you today for JUGS sketch challenge. I got to play with a new toy of mine. It's a pinwheel maker. I bought it this week when I took my Grandma, Aunt, and my Mom to a quilting store in Hannibal, MO. I'm sure I could have figured out how to make them by hand, but this little plastic gadget sure was easy to use. They came in all sizes, but I got the smallest one with the intentions of using it for this card. I really like how it turned out and now I can make fabric flowers too!

This card is for my sister-in-law's birthday which is this coming Wednesday. I used some SU patterned paper that I had and the twine is from PTI. Here is my Ava girl in her new leopard print turtleneck and sweater. She loves it so she didn't mind posing for me before we headed off to Hannibal to shop. I'm "finally" back to working just 2 days so this week was so much less stressful for me and I got a lot done around the house. It is Saturday and I'm not going to spend all day doing laundry for once! I got Ava Girl's room cleaned and we organized all of her toys yesterday. She had fun helping because she found all sorts of stuff that she didn't know she had! I think she might be a tad bit like me because she has TONS of those silly bands and she keeps them in her vanity drawer in her room and every night when she takes them off she puts them back in order and knows exactly which ones she has and where they go! Here's a picture of her drawer, not sure why blogger flipped the picture, but you get the idea!I wanted to share this picture that Ava colored too. She loves to color and spends a good majority of her days coloring, but she has started something new lately. Can you see the grid of blue that is drawn all over the horse? She takes her pictures now and draws a grid and then colors the spaces a different color. I think it is kinda neat and I don't have any idea where she learned how to do this.

That's it from me on this Saturday morn! It's hopefully going to be a pretty laid back weekend. I need to get groceries from town today, but other than that there isn't too much on the agenda. Most of the day I'll be chasing Kale around as he has discovered how to walk and we are gearing up for his birthday next weekend too! Hope all of you have a great weekend!

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 9

Welcome to the 9th week of JustRite Stampers’ Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops! I am so excited to be a part of this along with the JustRite and Just Us Girls Design Teams! JustRite has WONDERFUL stamps and their Christmas Collection is just fabulous!

Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! Don’t forget that JustRite has some Christmas stamps in their newly released CLING line of stamp sets, too -- you can find them HERE. This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team is the Just Us Girls (JUGS) challenge blog design team!
For the month of November, JustRite will be throwing in some holiday gift ideas using your JustRite stamps, so be watching for those, too, on November’s hops!

In celebration of JustRite’s 9th and 10th weeks of Christmas Blog Hops, they have a huge surprise for you -- take 25% off All JustRite Original Christmas Stamps now through November 15th, with FREE Shipping within the US! Don't forget to tell Santa!

My project features the JustRite stamp sets, "A Merry Little Christmas Set" and "Vintage Christmas Set". I LOVE this snowman. He has such a sweet face! I added a little bling with rhinestones on his coat. I layered this card to give it a lot of dimension. All of the paper is from Stampin' Up (Baja Breeze Patterned Paper and Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock). Hope this gets you inspired to create your Christmas cards.

Please stop by and visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog

JustRite Design Team:

Debbie Olson

Sharon Harnist

Heidi Blankenship

Kazan Clark

Stephanie Kraft

Barb Schram

Michele Kovack

Angela Barkhouse

Kathy Jones

Just Us Girls Design Team:

Andrea Matthews

Dana Gustafson

Kristin Bueter

Maria Levine

Kathryn Berthiaume

Lisa Kind

Pam Imholz